Cutting Digital Files With a Silhouette Cameo

Many of you have requested that I show how to cut out digital printables with a Silhouette. So, as I started working with the new Kelly Bang's printable set "Flowers of the Field", I went ahead and created this video to show you how to import, cut, and manipulate digital files using the Silhouette software. All the materials I used are listed below!
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[@paperblessings7338]

I have listened to so many tutorials for the Silhouette....yours was the best and easiest to understand. God definitely works within you! You’re a wonderful instructor! Tfs.

[@ScrappyWife]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the kind comment!

[@gaylehodgins7063]

This is simply LIFE CHANGING!!!!! I can't thank you enough! I just cut an entire kit and am thrilled.

[@ScrappyWife]

Yay!!!! It really is a pretty big deal when you finally get it figured out!

[@theglamqueenskingdom5105]

“You don’t have to toil or run yourself into the ground.” This statement was a confirmation for me today. Thanks for sharing... ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ScrappyWife]

🙌🏻It was something I needed to hear. I recorded this last week and ended up taking this entire week off. I was definitely looking for my worth in the wrong places. Glad this helped you today friend!

[@JessaCrownedByJesus]

This page is simple but so meaningful! Love it!

[@ScrappyWife]

It's a message that hit close to home for me!

[@messybiblecleanheart5342]

Thank you for combining the use of the printables with the entry.

[@ScrappyWife]

No problem 😊

[@lizahernandez950]

I need those papers in my life. So pretty! Love how you used those in your bible.

[@ScrappyWife]

Thanks Lisa! And I agree...I kind of want them as wallpaper in my house 😂

[@lizahernandez950]

ScrappyWife oh wallpaper would be amazing!

[@lisadawn7882]

Love this so much. Beautiful 😍

[@ScrappyWife]

Thank you so much!!

[@gaylehodgins7063]

This is fantastic! Thank you so much!

[@ScrappyWife]

You are very welcome!!

[@ardellakoskinen5359]

Lovely page!

[@ScrappyWife]

Thanks so much! I love the simplicity 💕

[@jeanlaguerre7543]

Great video and well done. Very useful. Thank you so much.

[@ScrappyWife]

Glad it was helpful!

[@maryjanerendon3997]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@ScrappyWife]

I’m so glad it was helpful!

[@jeaninepippin7612]

I so love how that turned out🥰😍

[@ScrappyWife]

Thanks so much Jeanine! Sometimes simple really feels the best :)

[@carolhodges9899]

This tutorial was quite helpful. Thank you for doing this. I bought a Silhouette a few months ago on a great sale but still haven’t taken it out of the box. I bought it mostly for all the printables I’d been purchasing. It still seems overwhelming, even after watching this. I guess I imagined that, as expensive as these machines are, it would be simpler and intuitive. I thought I’d download the images, send them to the Silhouette, hit print and cut, and be done. Not sure I have the patience to do all the manipulating, delete all these little bits, and so on. Another step that seems to be missing for me is what happens after you’ve manipulated the images? Do you print it to your regular printer then place the code on the Silhouette mat and then ask it to cut? How do you know how to line it up? Sorry for all the questions. I’ve never used one and I’m basically old school, so it’s hard to learn something new, especially when it’s electronic and something I didn’t grow up knowing how to do! Lol! I love the layout you created with your images. I have to admit, though, I cringed when you cut the image in half! Awesome message you shared in this one, too. Saving this one to view again later!

[@ScrappyWife]

Those are great questions. Yes, once you have your images all set like you like them, you print to your printer first. There are registration marks that print on the paper that makes the Silhouette then read where to cut, if that makes sense. So you print, place on the mat (generally in the upper left corner) and then load it into the Silhouette and hit cut!

[@carolhodges9899]

ScrappyWife, awesome, thanks so much!! That makes perfect sense now!

[@emileysteinbruegge3171]

Love this! I would love to see how you did this with cricut but I don't see the link - maybe I am just missing it? Would you mind to send me the link?

[@ScrappyWife]

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[@Dot0729]

Hi. Great tutorial!!! I was able to follow along but when I hit the trace outter edge, it looks exactly like your but when I open the offset it gives me the offset on the entire image... just one big square. I am just wondering what I am doing wrong.

[@ScrappyWife]

You most likely did not gave the outlines selected, but the whole boxed image. Try again and before hitting offset, double check that you have the traced image selected and not the original image. Hope that makes sense!

[@sallypenning]

I love this tutorial. I never think to use my silhouette with my Bible journaling. Do you find that the color bleeds easily on the clear stickers? I have trouble with that. I love following you. Sally Penning

[@ScrappyWife]

Are you talking about if you add water to the clear stickers? In that case, yes. Those will bleed right off if they get wet after printing on an inkjet printer.

[@samlanger1332]

I was able to do this the first time with my stickers, but now the offset will not work. It offsets around the entire page instead of individual pictures. Is there some way around this? What am I doing wrong?

[@ScrappyWife]

My guess is that you have the wrong piece selected. When you are doing the offset, you have to first create cut lines around the images, then make sure it is the cut lines you have selected and not the images before creating the offset.

[@judyelliott3858]

When I get to the offset panel, it offsets the whole page, not individual elements. Up to there I have gotten the same results you have but it just won't offset the elements. What could I be doing wrong?

[@ScrappyWife]

My guess is that most likely you do not have the outline picture chosen, but the main picture. Make sure you click on the outline, the rectangle should appear smaller than if it were around the whole page.

[@samlanger1332]

I have the same problem!

[@puddytatpurr]

I'm being dumb, I expect (you may have said this; I was trying to listen over a five year old lol) does the silhouette print AND cut then? If not, how do you get it in exactly the right place on the mat?

[@kriss7137]

The Silhouette sends it to your home printer. The registration marks also print, and the Silhouette "reads" those marks to make the cuts in the proper place.

[@ScrappyWife]

Not a dumb question! The silhouette does not print. You send your files to be printed on your home printer. The registration marks make it so the Silhouette knows where to cut.

[@annsmith5625]

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[@ScrappyWife]

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