Unlock the support roller by putting the lever in the up position. Note: Make sure the vinyl is coming off the back side of the roll. The vinyl should be on the right side of the machine. Place the roll of vinyl on the two rollers on the back of the machine stand. Turn on machine switch, which is on the left side of the machine. If you cut the image of tinkerbell whole out of vellum and peice the other shapes on top it will be lovely! That way the wings will be vellum.Make sure Sure Cuts a Lot is already open. Do the setps listed above in the post to make them an SVG file then import in in to SCAL to cut. After everthing is arranged on the page flatten the layers and use the magic wand tool to select every peice by clicking on the background (white) then go under the ajust menu and pick hue/saturation/lightness and pull the slider so the peices are black. Make sure when you arrange the peieces you spread them out accorss the page so there is plenty of space for you to lay ou the diffrent colors of paper you will cut. Do this for each part of her except the wings. Go back to the original pic, use the magic wand to select her dress, copy and paste it into the new doc. Copy and paste tinkerbell in the new doc. Use the magic wand tool to select tinkerbell.
Open a new document 6″x12″ 72 dpi will be fine.
OK cloetzu, here goes… First I want to say that that image is copyright protected so don’t share the file or Disney may have your butt in a sling LOL but I’m here to teach so here is how to do it: Open the file in Paint shop or Photoshop. Thanks for sitting through this long post. I’m gonna cut a bunch of these for my kids classes, they had a ball decorating these and it will be so much easier than cutting them by hand! Honestly, I can’t wait to make some myself!
Have fun and if you have trouble leave me a comment and I’ll see what I can do…feel free to comment if you are successful too…I like the success stories!
I you have a multi-colored image you can use a graphics program like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro to separate everything with the “magic Wand” tool first then cut and paste them in a new document before opening it in inkscape…I think you can even do that in inksape but I haven’t tried (if it ain’t broke why fix it!). Yay! There it is just like magic! resize as needed.
Open SCAL, click"file" then "import SVG" and select your file. * this is important, you don’t open a svg file in SCAL you need to choose “import”.
A window appears, click update and you see your graphic, click OK then "x" Click “OK” and close the box by clicking the “x” in the upper right hand corner. In the “Path” menu choose “Trace bitmap” Click "path" then "trace bitmap"Ī box pops up, click update, and you will hopefully see your graphic. open the file in Inkscape, select the mask.Ĭlick the arrow in the upper left column, then click on your graphic. Find a file you want to convert (simple is best like a coloring book page or png file with a transparent background). Yes, I’m a total square…OK I’m off the soapbox ? This is for personal use only, otherwise I would just give you the files I made but that would be uncool since these freebies promote the designers business and drive traffic to their blogs. The files still belong to the original creator, that means you cannot share them or sell them without permission. Don’t forget to leave some love if you download, a simple thanks will do and it is sure to make her day! Halloween mask freebie by Merdith FenwickĪ note about converting files. They are a freebie from Digi-Designer Meredith Fenwick and you can grab them on her blog here. Here are the free png mask files I used for this project. Here is what my 4 year old daughter made with what I cut: Ooh-La-La, a fancy mask! You will need Sure Cuts a Lot (SCAL) Software, a Cricut and a free program called Inkscape for this tutorail. Don’t worry, I did not forget my non SCAL/Cricut readers you can do this project “old school” with paper and scissors and you digi-scrappers can play as well!. Expect to say “duh!” before this post is over. Not that I don’t LOVE the emails, I thought it would be easier to explain it here with pictures because it is so easy. Huh? OK we are getting a bit techie today but I swear this is easy! I get many emails form my fabulous blog readers on how to convert jpg and png files to svg files so they can cut them on the Cricut.