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 Cinco de Mayo next week, I took one of my guilty pleasures (chips and any dip!) and put them into a Salsa, Queso, and Guac Oh My SVG Cut File. Download the free SVG below in the green box. But, take a look at my SVG license first. Looking to create for Cinco de …

With Cinco de Mayo just around the corner, I figured I’d leave you with a list of Cinco de Mayo sayings for crafters to use with their Silhouette, Cricut, Glowforge, or other craft machine. These sayings can be used on t-shirts, cards, signs, tumblers, social media captions, and advertising. When is Cinco de Mayo? Cinco …

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 …