Hello there!
I hope that you all are keeping safe from the snow, and hopefully ready to welcome Spring (let’s hope it arrives soon!!!)
It is time for a new entry for the Silhouette Savvy Series. This time I wanted to refresh a past tutorial, and maybe give you a new way to create a new image by combining cut files.
This time, I will use the HO HO Holidays cut file (It is a Christmas cut file!) to create a newer image. So let’s get started:
- i chose to work with the star shape, and the flower/firework image of the cut file. After tracing and isolating the images (just click here to be taken to the tutorial that will show you how to trace and isolate an image); the flower/firework was copied a few times, the images were then placed so that it resembled a star full of this image.
- Once the images are in place, proceed to weld the image together (click here to be taken to the tutorial that shows how to weld images on the Silhouette software).
- Now using the outer edge of the star shape on the cut file, simply size it to fit over the welded flower/firework images.
- Use the mouse to highlight both images.
- Go to the modify window, and chose the command “CROP”. Remember to make sure the welded image has been converted into a “compound path” – this can be achieved by simply highlighting the entire image, right click on the mouse, and choosing “Compound Path”
This is what the new image will look like after the two cut files were combined by using the crop function.
- Highlight the image, right click, and chose create a compound path of this image. This is what the Silhouette will cut – a star made up of the flower/firework image-.
- For this project, i added the outline of the star a second time. Simply enlarge the image (just click on the image, and dragged your mouse until your liking), then highlight both images, go to the Nest window, and chose center. Both images will be centered to each other.
Now you are ready to cut the images. Just chose your medium, and send to the Silhouette to cut. Here is few highlights of how this cut out was used:
Before welding the images, I copied them onto a new file in the silhouette software, and use the flower/firework image to cut the outline in various papers from the Oh My Heart collection.
This project transformed as it was being formed, and i chose to back the image with a light green paper from the Take Me Away collection, a bit of machine stitching secures the pieces together.
I had already scrapped the first picture of this series of my niece jumping on her bed for my album. This layout is going in her album! To frame the picture, I picked pieces from the Oh My Heart and TaKe me Away collections to frame the picture.
To balance, and ground the page, a strip of paper from the collection was added to the bottom of the page, and a small cluster was then created at one of the corners of the collection. All the journal was added around the star edge. Here is the final layout:
I love the colour in this page, and even though the initial cut out image was covered with the colour shapes, it can still be seen as a shadow of the shapes.
As always let me know if you have any questions on how this came together. I am always a comment away.
See you all soon!
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