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 enjoys teaching other crafters how to create digital SVG designs, available through the Design with Me series.

Let’s talk about customers bringing you their own blank products to embellish with your Silhouette or Cricut. A few examples: Your customer purchases and gives you 10 blank water bottles to add vinyl to for their children’s sports team, a customer provides a shirt for you to add a heat transfer vinyl design to, or …

Today, I’m showing you a little known feature in Facebook to try on your Silhouette Cameo or Cricut small business page. The feature is called a Preferred Page Audience. It allows you to tell Facebook what kind of audience is best for your page. When Facebook knows what kind of audience they should show your …

Have you ever shopped at Font Bundles? If you are a crafter, Font Bundles, and their sister site, Design Bundles, should be bookmarked on your devices. What is Font Bundles & Design Bundles? Both Font Bundles and Design Bundles are online marketplaces for digital products. Font Bundles sells fonts, while Design Bundles sells SVG files, sublimation …

At some point in your business, you are likely to have a customer that provides you the incorrect shipping address. For example, they have recently moved and accidentally chose their old house address when placing an order. What’s a seller to do? There’s no “right” answer, but I’m happy to share how I handle this …

July definitely didn’t end how I wanted it to with a huge internet outage in my area! Luckily, everything is back to normal now. Let’s look back at what an awesome month it was: Free Coffee Time SVG for Silhouette or Cricut Where to Buy Blank Dog Shirts for Crafting Why It’s Important to Set …

Great news: The internet at our house should be back up and running by the end of the day. More great news: I’ve got a free bus driver SVG for you today. We love our children’s bus driver – so I made him a shirt with all this internet-free time I’ve had lately. Bus drivers …

Have you ever noticed that so many of the back to school and teacher cut files are designed for elementary school teachers? What about the college professors and the trade school instructors? Today, I’m sharing a more sophisticated back to school professor SVG – and it is true – teaching does create all other professions. …

Back to school is just around the corner, and I recently created a free crayon box monogram SVG – perfect for the first day or school! If monograms aren’t your thing, substitute the monogram for the grade of the child or the grade that the teacher teaches and put it on a sign. As always, …

Earlier in the week I had to update my old laptop because it was well – not working! My new Macbook is pretty standard looking, so I grabbed a new snap on cover from Amazon. I love to surround myself with positive thoughts, so I whipped up a decal for my new computer and I’m …