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.

I love, love, love creating designs for my kids! Since they are obsessed with all things mermaids these days (we are a swimming and dive team family so this makes sense!) I decided to create a ‘stamp’ style design. Since my artistic skills aren’t amazing, I actually used the Mermaid Tails font for the splashes …

I’ll be honest, before Clay from Coastal Business Supplies reached out and offered to send me some sublimation markers – I had never heard of them. But, once the package arrived I couldn’t wait to try them out! Today I’m sharing some information and a tutorial on how to use sublimation markers. What are Sublimation …

With all this talk of Spring marketing themes and ideas yesterday, I was in the mood to create a free Spring SVG. I know that Spring may seem far off for some of you coated in snow, but it’s just about a month away! As always, a free commercial use license is included with the …

You probably already know that I’m in love with my Dymo 4XL label printer. If you aren’t familiar with them, it’s a printer that prints shipping labels on sticker paper. My favorite thing? The Dymo 4XL uses thermal paper and heat to print – so it doesn’t require ink! A few years ago when I …

Kids! I love them and have my own bunch of them (now ages 10, 11, 12, and 18)! Since the kids were little, our family has had a long running joke in our home that anytime a child gets in trouble in March that ‘the leprechaun made me do it’! Of course, I had to …

Last year, I shared a tutorial on using your Silhouette or Cricut and a scroll saw to cut out shaped blanks that you could paint or stain. (Missed it? Read it here.) I’ve been meaning to add another, and today I finally got around to it! In the first tutorial, I kept the scroll saw …

As you’re working through your tax paperwork for 2018, you might come across a blank spot on paperwork to write your EIN number. Today, we are going to take a brief look at EIN numbers and your craft business. What is an EIN Number? EIN stands for Employer Identification Number. An EIN number, also called …

Sometimes when I’m logged into crafting groups for Silhouette and Cricut owners, it seems that all I see is images asking members to identify the font of a project they found online. Today, I’m sharing some resources for you to identify fonts from a picture. 4 Ways to Identify Fonts From a Picture Font Matcherators …

I hear from craft business owners all the time that they would love to be more active on social media, but they have a hard time deciding what to post. Today, let’s look at content calendars and how they can help your craft business. What are Social Media Content Calendars? Social media content calendars are …