Exploring Fill Feature in Silhouette Studio

Hello everyone. I promised my friends that I would more of silhouette studio videos. So today let's explore the fill feature in SDS. I have used the designer version as that's what I have and I highly recommend that is you can afford it and can find a discount to go for this as it opens up so many more fun features like opening svg files, cool sketch option and the knife and eraser and ruler. Without much adieu here is video



 

The Silhouette Cameo - Opening the Box

Yeah! My cameo is here.
Love it.
Had to make a video of course!
Remember if you want new images if your studio is already installed you can go to file - preferences - advanced and then click on reinstate the initial 51 designs and you get cool additional images

I need to mention one great great resource other than  the blog and yahoo group  is the silhouette Message board formed by some members http://s15.zetaboards.com/Silhouette_Plus/index/
Do join in there.
Also there is a blog hop going on So do drop by http://www.thebugbytes.com/2011/10/fall-halloween-blog-hop.html and leave comments to enter giveaway. Do play and post your link to your project in the linky.
A sneak peak

Papercraft Weekend Challenge September 1st week

I love the challenges by Allison and Caroline at http://papercraftweekendchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-sketch-challenge.html

This was the sketch

and I was so excited to start playing  lol that my eyes just missed seeing the card sketch. But I guess they'll forgive me! Anyway of course I used my silhouette. I designed and waited for my son to come from school to bring my printed sheet and stuff downstairs so that I could cut and glue. That dear boy! Anyway it was pretty late by the time I finished and took the pic. So sorry for the quality of the picture. Here is the card I made

 A close up of the main shape

 The paper/pattern is from oscraps moonrise digital kit. The words/sentiment is my own - what I came -up with looking at the mixer! Just a text on circle path! The font is one of the free fonts - Cold Coffee!
The screenshot of the silhouette screen

do join the challenge! It is fun!


 

My Copic Adventure

Hello
This is Pam @ The Bug Bytes and I am a guest designer today at Sassylady.
I am now fascinated with copics and Wow with silhouette and digital stamps ooh what fun. Some tracing , tweaking and lo behold the stamp gets cuts out so beautifully.
So here is my 1st copic adventure. I am rather pleased with how it turned out.
I am in love with both silhouette and copics. My only grouse is after being used to a large canvas ie in watercolor paper the size 15 x 30 - the real estate for coloring has grown teeny :)

The stamp used here is a free digital stamp from http://bodilsscrappeverden.blogspot.com/

The view of the silhouette studio window

As you can see I added 2 images to color just in case.  Note that the image is cut off  above the ankles.

Nope I did not do the cutting - the image came that way. After coloring and mounting the image onto the label background I decided that it needed something so yep I added some grass cut out by hand ;).

and tucked her missing parts under the grass lol. The whites on image are from gel pen

The button was a just a plain old pastel yellow button but I jazzed it up (or down) with copics - red around the rim or lip and gray under the lip and white gel pen. Looks coordinated now doesn't it?

I first saw embellishing the envelope at LorraineB's http://cardcreationsbylorraine.blogspot.com about a year back and since then I have started to add borders to envelope. I also like to take it one step further and add a border to the inside of the card as well and also bring a bit of something out to the envelope front.

Here is one more view

Here's the inside of the card

Hope you liked the card.

Glitch in the Silhouette studio software

I have the new silhouette deisgner studio and found a glitch. My old GSD files cannot be moved in the MY LIBRARY from one folder to another. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
I had a slight problem with the print and cut being about half an inch off after the silhouette made a noise and started cutting elsewhere. I tried switching off and moving the carriage back and forth (as advised by silhouette) and calibrating. Also contacted them by email and they sent me an fix - a file - and this fixed the problem. I have to start making videos soon :)

Never Ending Card!

 Did I tell you that my son was fascinated by stars and he wanted another star card. He wanted it on a never ending card! I made the card on my gypsy long ago in my thebugbytes blog using 3 birds - images ie straight from the nest and the card was featured in their blog. You can check that out at this link - http://www.thebugbytes.com/2010/04/never-ending-card-using-straight-from.html . There is a video there as well to show how I assembled it

Just 1 pic of this

So I decided to do a svg file as well for just the base with no embellishments (file under svg file tab - top menu in the blog). My son wanted it blue and with stars - just that.
But before I post the pics the template/instruction to assemble can be seen from these two images

and

So here is a glimpse of the simple simple card I made using the silhouette (silhouette - just the base file is also available ). Looking at this my elder son wants one too but not blue and not with stars but with saxophone images!

1st turn

2nd turn

Now in the next turn  I could have split the images like in my 3 birds version so that half of image does not show through but I wanted the smile to peek through so next turn

and the next turn brings us back to the 1st image. Hope you make one of these cards. You need a big envelope though as my card was the size 8 x 8 :)

Stars and Heartborder

My son so loves stars now on his cards. So when I was making some thought why not make an svg file . I also played with heart border - I was inspired by watching a crafting video. The files can be found under svg file tab. I like to keep that sorted and if you want to make something it is easy to go to one download page. Please do leave comments if you like the files and also would love it so much if you can share your projects. I will soon have my never ending card svg file out (gypsy file is already available at thebugbytes) today or tomorrow.
Here are pics of the files

Celebrate with a Bouquet

Hi
The project for today is a card I call celebrate with bouquet. The image is a bouquet from dover greetings and the sentiment is celebrate. The whole card was cut with silhouette machine. This is such a lovely die cut machine especially for print and cut. It cuts only 8 1/2 x 11 papers though. Just wish they would come up with a 12 x 12 one. I use this machine rather than my knk machine for print and cut as this has an optical sensor which makes it so easy to print and cut as when you send the design to the printer with registration marks (it has 3 registration marks) it cuts so well  even if it cuts only size upto 8 1/2 x 11 but this will do most of the times as anyway most printers unless it is large format only prints this size max. (KNK machine and black cat machines have laser sensor which also works great but takes just a little more time as you have to to align the marks yourself using the laser)

I have used silhouette as it is easier but you can use your printer to print the dover image or any other image you like and any die cut machine and adapt for this card. For e.g you can just use any cardstock instead of printing one and use scallop design from one of cricut cartridge and use your DS or gypsy or craftroom for adjusting width and height and also maybe a different font. I just used the silhouette and for the image the lovely one form dover greetings book. I just love this book for card making. If you want to layer the butterfly and the bee as I have done then you have to print 2 and use your scissors if you don't have silhouette but I did lots of node editing and cropping to get the machine to cut.

Here is a screenshot of the silhouette studio file . I opened up 3 versions of the file so that I can fit and move images in the active cut area. Else you have to print and then cut it immediately and then send another to print and so on. If you open multiple windows then you print each in one shot and then make sure you open the right window for each and send to silhouette to detect and cut ( very important else you will have wrong cuts).

I cut all except for envelope base using the white cardstock (the walmart ones are so great for this) . Then I assembled the card using pop dart and glue(ATG gun)and glue dots. I used 2 flower eyelets which I luckily had in same blue color as the background paper for inside of the card on the sentiment . Once can always enhance the lighter colors with copic or embossing but in this case I didn't have to do that.

Here is the card and envelope

I have added stickles - fruit punch and diamond as I love glitter. I stacked the bee with one layer of pop dots while the butterfly has 2 layers to raise it up further.

I added some doodling with black markers too on the card and envelope.
The inside of the card with the 2 flower eyelets on the label . I further added bling to the eyelets.

So here's the card and envelope once again

Hope you enjoyed the project. You will see more as I keep playing with dover book and silhouette machine. They sing such a great Duet together!