I love all those gorgeous sketch files available in the Silhouette shop but I would rather cut them. Today I am sharing a quick and easy dummy way of turning my sketch files into cut files so that I can use them on my cards and layouts in a fun way.
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Step 1
Open the sketch file from the library into a new document.
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Step 2
Select the image and click the offset button.
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Step 3
Select the distance you want to offset the image by, by dragging the bar to the right. You will see the offset line appear and create a wider image.
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Step 4
Drag the offset image away from the original sketch image. Select the sketch image and delete.
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Step 5
Select the offset image, right click on it and select ‘Release Compound Path’. This step releases all the lines and enables you to edit the image further.
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Step 6
See all those nasty little lines inside the red circles, by releasing the compound path I can delete those so that when I cut my image the blade won’t have to struggle with those tiny bits.
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Step 7
Once you are done deleting all the unwanted parts, select the entire image again, right click and select ‘Make Compound Path’.
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Step 8
Add as many images to your page as you want to cut, select the material you want to cut and go for it.
Once I cut my flowers out of smooth American Crafts cardstock, I coloured them with my VersaFine Clair inks and used microbeads to add some dimension to the centres of my flowers.
