Freebie File - Swoopin' Sea Gull
Sorry about not putting out a Freebie in a while but we've been busy making tutorials and creating more Palz. Well here's a Swoopin' Sea Gull looking for friends and/or food. I think we have what he's looking for but you'll have to help choose his dish. His possible buddies can be found in our "Under the Sea" Palz We're going to be adding new Sea Palz this week so keep coming back to see what is new.
See all of our Under the Sea Palz
This download contains the AI-SVG-SCAL-WPC-DXF-GSD-PDF. If you missed previous Freebies you can find them HERE and they are only 1 dollar! Once we come out with another freebie file this one will be replaced so get it while you can.
Sure Cuts A Lot - Shapes Property Window Explained
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We received an email asking us about how to create a shadow effect in SCAL and decided to just do a whole tutorial explaining the features of the Shape Property Box.
This tutorial will explain the Shape Property Box, that allows the SCAL users to add shadow or black out text. This box also allows us to be more precise and even weld items together, and all done using the Sure Cuts A Lot program.
Creating Circular Text in Inkscape
Sometimes you would like to create circular text to cut in SCAL or any other cutting devices. Sure Cuts A Lot can't do this with out the file being an SVG, because there isn't an option for this. We've all seen it before in Microsoft Word where you can have Circular Text or an Arch of text. Well, in this tutorial we will demonstrate how to do this in Inkscape so you can import it into SCAL.
We modified this idea from Kay at http://cleversomeday.wordpress.com/ which is a great place for inkscape and Sure Cuts A Lot software knowledge.
Below is Her Video Explaining: Once you have the Circular Pattern Cut, How to Apply it to a Page. The video is from Kay from CleverSomeday Explains how to apply this.
Welding in Inkscape - Text to Text & Text to Object
This video tutorial will demonstrate how to weld text letters together. You will also be able to apply this method to weld the text to an object just like you see below (welding text the baseball glove). We received an email asking us "How do you weld in Inkscape?" They wanted to attach the "Text" to a Glove. After watching this tutorial you should be able to do something like this. Although sometimes things like this are easier to do in Sure Cuts A Lot, there are some benefits to doing this in Inkscape.
Benefits to using inkscape rather than SCAL are:
- If you plan on using sharing this, the people you share with don't need that font installed
- Inkscape is easier to manage/design the look you want
- Once imported in the SCAL you can resize everything proportionally.
Drawbacks are:
- If you import the SVG into SCAL you won't be able to edit the text
Create a Simple Flower in Inkscape to use in SCAL
The Photo Below is what we will be creating in this tutorial.
Floppin' Fish - Freebie
Flopper the Fish Download
This was an old Freebie but you can purchase him in our Dollar Downloads
"Well we ain't no Red Lobster but we make a Mean Fish!"
Freebie File - Busy Bee
The Busy Bee file comes in the following format AI-DXF-GSD-SVG-SCAL-PDF-WPC
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Here's another freebie file we made. This is a paper piecing of a Busy Bee, because we've been busy putting together McScrappy's Farm & BarnYard Palz. On the farm you will find a variety of animals with great names. You can buy them individually or buy the set and save money.
Inkscape Tutorial: Using Outline View to Modify Your Cut
Last week we got an email saying the following:
- Hey guys! Big fan of SCAL myself. So far I haven't had any problems cutting anything, but today I designed a gift bag, and it has fat lines that are being double cut. I'll attach my original jpg file. The lines are one pixel wide in the file original, but they fatten up when I trace the bitmap and make it a svg in Inkscape. I can't find a way around those fat lines. Never had this happen before. I don't know if this is a common problem or if I am just stupid. Maybe you could make a tutorial about it... Thanks!
So we decided to make a tutorial based on this. Click the Photo Below to Work along with Us
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