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.

With the launch of The Super Mario Brothers Movie recently, I thought it would be a great time to talk about making and selling Super Mario Brothers products in your craft business. Can You Legally Make and Sell Super Mario Brothers Products? You cannot make and sell Super Mario Brothers products without a license/permission from …

In the last article, I gave you some ideas on how to use Dall-E 2 in your craft business. Now that you’ve got your head wrapped around how Dall-E 2 works, I wanted to show you around CF Spark. What is CF Spark? Our friends over at Creative Fabrica have put together their own AI …

A few weeks ago, I published a series on using ChatGPT in your craft business. After completing the series, a reader asked me if I had ever used AI image creation programs – like Dall-E 2. I’ll be honest, in the months that I was researching ChatGPT, I did play around with a few different …

I designed a really popular Christmas tree icon SVG cut file around the holidays. So, I decided to create a similar one for Easter, this time in the shape of an Easter bunny filled with Easter and Spring icons. Rather than add text to it, I thought I would leave that up to you. You …

With Spring arriving, I’m in total warmer weather and flowers everywhere mode! What about you? After I took down my St. Patrick’s Day decorations, I got to work on a few new SVG cut files to share here on Cutting for Business. Today’s free Spring SVG ‘Bloom Without Competing’ is a great message to everyone: …

After reading my first two articles on ChatGPT (10 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Craft Business and 9 More Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Craft Business), I hope you are excited to start using it for your craft business. Today, I’m sharing a list of 100+ ChatGPT prompts for craft businesses. What I …

A few days ago, I shared an article, 10 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Craft Business. If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, go back and read it. It gives you a good introduction of how to use ChatGPT in your craft business. The article also talks about ChatGPT’s limitations and …

ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm in the last few months. I’ve been playing with it for a while now and I am finally confident to write an article about it. I recently took some time to explore some of the ways to use ChatGPT in your craft business. What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is …

Having been raised just outside of Chicago, Illinois, St. Patrick’s Day is a pretty big deal. The city of Chicago dyes the Chicago River green, there are numerous parades, and everyone dresses in green and goes out. In Florida, St. Patrick’s Day is a much smaller event: The bars and local restaurants have St. Patrick’s …