November 5, 2013 - Newsletter

This month's meeting:

We had a lot of fun at our November meeting.  Jackie brought a project to show the group and explained how she took the October lessons we learned from Cathy using the Subtract feature to help her complete her Christmas Advent calendar.

She used it to design a template to cut out the paper to go on each drawer on the calendar.  Something that would have taken hours to produce by hand but once she created the template in Silhouette.  Now she has a template she can use again and again.

Group Lesson:

Cathy saw a card in a popular card magazine and used it to inspire her create a similar card using the Silhouette. She then turned it into a lesson for the group to use the Weld Tool, Replicate and Mirror images functions to create these cute cards.

She walked the group through the steps to create very cute cards and gift tags.  A handout of the step-by-step instructions was distributed to the group for future reference.

It could be used to create someone's initials, other words like 'Love' for Valentine's Day, a son or daughter's name. The possibilities are endless on using this feature to create custom cutout word cards.

Our Next meeting:

Our next meeting will be help on Monday, December 3rd from 11am-1pm and Belinda will teach the group how to import digital papers into Silhouette and ways to use them with shapes and fill pattern in preparation for her Print and Cut lessons. Remember, beginners to advanced Silhouette users are welcome.