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.

Have you heard about Threads? Maybe you are already on the Threads app? Let’s take a look at it today. What is Threads? Several months ago, the Threads app was released by Meta – the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Threads is a newer social media platform, and is in direct competition to …

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. Want to know a secret? I like designs that I can create quickly and easily. Honestly, I don’t want to sit for hours working on a design. …

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. My favorite cold weather activity when I was a kid was building snowmen. Of course, I rolled the snow into a ball, added rocks for eyes and …

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. Let’s talk snow. Whether you love it or hate it, snow is coming for much of the country. Today, let’s create one-of-a-kind snowflakes. Silhouette Studio Tutorial: Snowflakes …

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. Let’s talk Halloween! Today, we are going to do a quick tutorial to create watercolor jack-o-lanterns. Silhouette Studio Tutorial: Watercolor Jack-o-Lantern Faces These jack ‘o lanterns are …

I was browsing Etsy a week or so, and I saw the Make an Offer button on an Etsy listing. And, yesterday, I got the official email about Etsy adding a Make an Offer button to select listings. Today, let’s look at the new Make an Offer Tool. How to Use the Make an Offer …

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! …