Design Tutorial: Carved Initials Tree Trunk in Silhouette Studio - Portrait, Cameo, Curio, Mint - by cuttingforbusiness.com

Design Tutorial: Carved Initials Tree Trunk in Silhouette Studio

Ahhh, goodbye Christmas and New Year! Silhouette and Cricut small business owners, it’s time to start thinking to Valentine’s Day. Today, I’m showing you how to create a carved initial tree trunk design with personalized initials. I think the design style is perfect for a ceramic tile, wood sign, or a card. Design Tutorial: Tree…

Design with Me: Two Color Repeating Text Designs

Design with Me: Two Color Repeating Text Designs

I’ve said it many, many times: If you want your business to stand out from others online – you should create your own designs. Why? When no one else has the same designs as you, you put your business ahead. Creating your own designs is not hard at all, so today I’m going to walk…

Tutorial: How to Make Cut Files for Silhouette Cameo or Cricut Explore with Dingbat Fonts - by cuttingforbusiness.com

Tutorial: How to Make Cut Files with Dingbat Fonts

A few days ago I downloaded The Best Sellers Font Bundle Vol IV by Font Bundles and it had several fonts with dingbats in it. (If you don’t know: A dingbat is a symbol or image included with a font. Also, some fonts are made entirely of dingbats.) Personally, I love dingbats! Why? You can use…

Design Tutorial: Text Cut Out Designs in Silhouette Studio

Design Tutorial: Text Cut Out Designs in Silhouette Studio

It’s about time for another design tutorial, don’t you think? Today, we are going to look at creating cut out text designs in Silhouette Studio. Cut out designs are easy enough for a beginning Silhouette user to create and look great on a number of products, so let’s go! Here’s a few examples of cut…

Design Tutorial: Working with Text in Silhouette Studio or Design Space by cuttingforbusiness.com

Design Tutorial: Working with Text in Silhouette Studio

I’ve said it many times before, and I’ll say it again: I think that craft businesses that create their own designs have an advantage over shops who purchase all of their designs premade. Why? It’s no secret that unique designs make you stand out. Today, we are going to look at creating text based designs….

Tutorial: How to Use iPad Pro as a Drawing Tablet in Silhouette Studio - Great for Silhouette Cameo, Curio, Mint Owners who like to draw! By cuttingforbusiness.com.

Tutorial: How to Use iPad Pro as a Drawing Tablet in Silhouette Studio

Do you draw? Do you use Silhouette Studio? Do you have a Mac computer? Do you have an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil? If you answered yes to all these – then this tutorial is for you! You can take all these things and combine them together to use your iPad Pro as a drawing…

2 Ways to Thicken Fonts in Silhouette Studio

2 Ways to Thicken Fonts in Silhouette Studio

If you know anything about me beyond the Cutting for Business blog, you know that I am a softie for good fonts. Unfortunately, some of my favorite fonts are not good for cutting designs. This is usually because they are too thin to cut and weed well. Today, let’s look at two ways to thicken…

Tutorial: How to Use Design Kits to Create Semi Custom Cut Files for Silhouette Studio or Cricut - by cuttingforbusiness.com

Tutorial: How to Create Semi Custom Designs Using Kits

One of my resolutions for 2017 on the blog is to write more posts about designing in both Silhouette Studio and Cricut Design Space. If you aren’t much of a designer – these posts are for you! Lately, I’ve been seeing a shift by designers who create cut files for Silhouette or Cricut designs. Instead…

How to Cut with 2 Silhouette Cameos at the Same Time from the Same Computer - cuttingforbusiness.com

How to Cut with 2 Silhouette Cameos at the Same Time

With the release of the Silhouette Cameo 3, I’ve had several readers asking questions about running two machines at once. As I’ve mentioned on the blog before, you’ll need Silhouette Studio Business Edition. I’ve previously written about Business Edition: What is Silhouette Studio Business Edition An Overview of the features in Silhouette Studio Business Edition…