Christine Schinagl, Cutting for Business

Since 2015, Christine Schinagl has been helping crafters start and run craft businesses through her blog, Cutting for Business. As a Silhouette and Cricut crafter herself, she has a unique take on what works and what doesn't work in the craft business world. She also teaches a course on creating digital SVG designs, available at How to Design SVGs.

Design with Me is a new regular feature on Cutting for Business! Each Friday, I’ll bring you a new Silhouette Studio tutorial featuring how to design an SVG. Fall is the perfect time to break out plaid everything. So, let’s look at a Silhouette Studio Tutorial How to Create Plaid Patterns – from scratch! Silhouette …

Design with Me is a new regular feature on Cutting for Business! Each Friday, I’ll bring you a new Silhouette Studio tutorial featuring how to design an SVG. Today, let’s look at creating a fall spiral SVG. There’s a great quote in the book The Great Gatsby about Fall. Since The Great Gatsby entered the …

Design with Me is a new regular feature on Cutting for Business! Each Friday, I’ll bring you a new Silhouette Studio tutorial featuring how to design an SVG. Today, let’s look at creating a stretched letter filled pumpkin SVG. Silhouette Studio Tutorial: Stretched Letter Filled Pumpkin SVG Ahhh, smell that? That’s the smell of fall! …

Design with Me is a new regular feature on Cutting for Business! Each Friday, I’ll bring you a new Silhouette Studio tutorial featuring how to design an SVG. Today, let’s look at creating a stacked pumpkin SVG. Tutorial: Stacked Pumpkin SVG It’s almost fall! Let’s take a look at creating a stacked pumpkin cut file …

Fall is here! If you haven’t already downloaded my Fall SVG cut files, get to it. Today, I’m sharing my collection of free Fall SVG cut files for crafters. Need Fall sayings to create your own SVG designs? See my list of Fall Sayings for Crafters. 25+ Free Fall SVG Cut Files

With Fall on the way, I’ve been busy taking down my patriotic decorations and starting to put out my Fall decor. What about you? I created a Change Can Be Beautiful SVG cut file to share on the blog. I think it’s perfect for the upcoming change of seasons. You can download the free fall …

Design with Me is a new regular feature on Cutting for Business and it starts today! Each Friday, I’ll bring you a new Silhouette Studio tutorial featuring how to design an SVG. Today, we are kicking off this new feature with creating an abstract Boho Rainbow SVG. Tutorial: Abstract Boho Rainbow SVG In Silhouette Studio, …

2023 first gave us the The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and crafters went wild creating and listing Mario themed products on social media, their websites, and online marketplaces. Now, 2023 has given us Barbie. (Side note: It’s a cute movie – but not as family friendly as I expected. It’s worth putting on a cute …

I’ve talked about Etsy for years, I’ve covered Goimagine, and even a few other marketplaces that have come and gone. Now, I’m introducing you to Makerplace by Michaels. I’ll give you the basics, and a few reasons I’m hopeful. What is Makerplace by Michaels? Makerplace by Michaels is a brand new online marketplace for handmade …