![]() Or you can get 40% off all heat transfer if you already own a Silhouette machine. I will show you the actual tutorial for the pennant tomorrow.ĭon’t have a Silhouette machine? Now through today only you can purchase the new Silhouette Cameo and a Heat Transfer Starter Kit for $269.99 using the code “IHEARTIC”. Then move your letters over to cut the rest.Īnd there you have your cut out letters to then trace onto felt to make the personalized pennant. If you just move your letters inside the 12” x 12” area it will just cut those. You will have to cut out your letters on two separate sheets of 12” x 12” paper. Now the Austin doesn’t fit in a 12” x 12” space.Ĩ. Once spaced correctly I deleted the pennant lines and changed the paper size back to 12” x 12”. Then I adjusted the font larger to space it on my pennant.Ĩ. Next I changed my paper size to a 12” x 30” and drew two lines in the shape of the pennant so I could get the gist of the spacing on my felt banner. I deleted my copied Austin so I just had the red cut out. Now I could go back in and trace the middle part of the A but it was just as easy to use the “line” function to trace the little triangle and then move it to my cut out Austin and group them together.ħ. As you can see everything was traced but the inside of the “A”. Then I was able to remove the trace from the copied font from Open Office.Ħ. Then I clicked “select trace area” and made a square around the entire Austin. Then in my Silhouette studio program I clicked the “trace” button. ![]() Next I used my snipping tool and snipped the entire word and pasted it into my Silhouette Studio program.ĥ. Click once on the font to change the shape to the pennant shape.Ĥ. I changed the paper size in Open Office Writer to 12” x 30” and then used the Fontworks (a.k.a “Word Art” function in Microsoft Word) feature to spell out “Austin” and make it stretched to look like a pennant.ģ. I ended up downloading the Varsity Regular font from and designing the actual stretched lettering in Open Office Writer but Microsoft Word has the same stretch type feature in their Word Art function.Ģ. So today I want to show you how to use the trace function in the Silhouette Studio program to cut out virtually any image on the internet.ġ. But never fear when there is a will, there is a way. How to create Word Art in Microsoft Word, save it as an SVG and import it into Silhouette Studio Designer Edition. Unfortunately the Silhouette Studio program has yet to have a way to stretch letters. Word Art to SVG for Silhouette Studio Designer Edition 05:30. ![]() I wanted to make a pennant banner using the varsity type letters that looked stretched mimicking the Pottery Barn Kids one that is sold for $52. This will go through the steps of taking an image and tracing it to be able to cut it out in your Silhouette studio program. Save this for future reference by pinning the image below.If you have a Silhouette machine and haven’t quite figured out how to trace objects or shapes you find on the internet then this tutorial is for you. If you have questions feel free to post below or on the Facebook group too! I would love to see what you are creating with your Silhouette machines! Feel free to post on my Facebook group at The more familiar you become with the software, the more comfortable you will be with your Silhouette and tackling future projects. Is that a lot? When you list it, yes! But, you use so many tools in the software without even knowing you are actually “using tools”. Page Setup Panel – Tab 3 – Registration Marks So often you use more things in the Silhouette Software than you realize. This is great practice for using the tools in the Silhouette Studio software. While you may not make the exact same tags, you can choose your own design and complete the same steps above. Position the designs on the page between the registration marks and not in the cross-hatched areas. Then click on the Page Setup Panel – Tab 3 and turn the registration marks on. Open the Page Setup Panel, set the Media Size to Printer. Check out this Print and Cut Basics blog post on how to set it up step-by-step or my video course HERE. The more you do it, the more comfortable you will get with it and the software.įor all print and cut projects, I follow the same steps and use all the defaults for the best results. ![]() Repeat these steps if you have different designs you want to use. Now, you have a custom tag that could be printed, then sketched, and cut around. Make a copy of the tag and pull it off to the left side for safe keeping. In this case, the outer tag line and the inside tag circle a the top. Another way to select multiple objects at once is to click on the 1st object, hold the Shift key down and click on the next object.
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