Hi
Just a reminder that this weeks video for Sunday 20th April will be for the simple pop out inserts. You can refer to my blog post dated 12th April below if you want to see what I show you how to make in the tutorial.
I am trying to record my videos a week in advance now wherever possible, so I have an idea for the next one scheduled to be posted on Sunday 27th April I am thinking word books like these, what do you think?
Let me know if it is something that you would be interested in and I will record it this week for posting Sunday 27th April.
Also do you have anything specific you would like to know or learn if so let me know and I will see if I know how to do it and make a video for you.
Thanks
So last night I found a link to the Scrapbook Soup website scrapbook Soup and Julie Fei-Fan Balzer was showing some pop out cards she cut using the ScanNCut. She had printed out her designs and scanned them through the machine to make a cutting file. I thought I would show you in next weeks video how to make simple pop outs using Canvas so no need to print and scan.
Here is a little peek at some Ive made. So what do you think is anyone interested in this type of card? I will post the video tutorial on Sunday 20th April.
In the video which I’ve now recorded but haven’t processed yet I show you how to make the pop out in landscape but this afternoon I’ve had a little time and created one using the butterfly that is a pre installed project shape on Canvas and made it into a portrait orientation.
So for my blog subscribers you should get notification hopefully of this post update and I am including a link to the download file for anyone who wants it.
Here’s how it looked in canvas and how it looked once I had cut it.
Here’s the link to the cutting file.
Here is the video
When is a circle not a circle? when its a scollop. Sorry!
When I first registered for canvas I didn’t think much of it, after having used Inkscape and Silhouette Studio which have far more functions and options, I felt canvas was very limited.
But I have to say after playing with it now for a few weeks and posting my videos on youtube I can see that it does have a bit more about it than I first thought. Its not just a conversion tool for converting SVG files into ScanNCut files.
Yes I would love more functions and there may well be hidden things I have not found yet but today I decided to play around with circles again. In the screen shot below you will see all the different shapes I was able to make from a humble circle, all these were made just by using the weld, divide, remove overlap, and subtract icons that are in the software.
I was able to make great toppers and cards Ive coloured them in so that hopefully you can see them better and don’t forget we can make these any size we like which is the beauty of having an electronic cutting machine.
So have a play if you click some buttons and things don’t turn out as you were expecting hit the undo button, that is my favourite button in most software. See what you can make try different shapes let me know how you get on.
The two designs top right would cut in several small parts but if you then place those inside another circle you can get yet another shape. So many options to play around with.
Here they are cut out I reduced them in size to just under 3 inches, not sure what to do with them yet I may make them into a little gift set.
