Creating Embossing Folder Plate Stencil Shapes in Silhouette Studio
  • Ursula Smith
  • August 7, 2023
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NOTE: this is one of the posts where it is much better to watch the video 😉 Hi Friends! I’ve made lots of videos using cutouts that I’ve cut on my digital cutter. I’ve made masks and stencils and cutouts that I layered together to make my own embossing plates, but it occurred to me…

Tips on Papers I use for Digital Cutting including Stampin Up Thick
  • Ursula Smith
  • June 30, 2023
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Hello friends! Today I’m going to talk about the papers that I’m currently using for digital cutting. I was planning/probably still will do a video on using Stampin Up die cuts with their cardstock to create embossing plates. I was playing around with that concept with my mom when I was visiting her and played…

Foiling Laser Printed Images on Printed Backgrounds
  • Ursula Smith
  • April 13, 2023
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Hello Friends! Today I’m going to explain how to do a foil print onto a colorful background that you do not want also foiled. My first step is to create a background either directly in Photoshop or more often, I will paint or spray etc and then scan it into the computer and bring it…

Hack for Changing Angle of Clone Stamp
  • Ursula Smith
  • April 1, 2022
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Hello Photoshop friends! I was trying to modify an image I took on a recent trip to Ireland. My photos all were taken on my Android phone and I didn’t realize that the aspect ratio was going to be a problem. I wanted to make some greeting cards from some of the pictures but they…

Stencil Leftovers and Transfer Tape and Glue
  • Ursula Smith
  • March 15, 2022
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Here’s a quick video on how I glue down itty bitty pieces from the leftovers from cutting out a stencil on my Silhouette Curio. This works bets when the cutting mat is still sticky and holds onto the cutout pieces when you lift off the stencil. Then you can use transfer tape to pick up…

Distress Ink over Prints and Stencil Cleanup
  • Ursula Smith
  • March 15, 2022
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Hello everyone! In this quick experiment, I take Tim Holtz Distress Oxide and plain Distress Inks on top of an image I printed on my inkjet printer. I have lots of prints laying around- some are tests for rubber stamp ideas, some are just prints I haven’t gotten around to using. In this case I…

Gnome 3D Paper Embossing Plate
  • Ursula Smith
  • February 23, 2022
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  I’ve posted before on making your own embossing plates to emboss paper, sometimes using Yupo Paper, sometimes with a 3D printed plate, and sometimes using paint mediums. I have other posts on using paper cutouts using the accucut machine, but this time I wanted to emboss using the Sizzix Big Shot. And I wanted…

Silhouette Studio is Still Freaking Crashing (and how I fixed it)
  • Ursula Smith
  • January 14, 2022
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Hi everyone! Happy 2022!! So as you can tell by some of my posts, I have a Silhouette machine- right now a Curio. I use the software, Silhouette Studio quite a lot because for the things I want to do I find it easier and quicker than Inkscape or Illustrator. But using it on my…