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Step 2: Cut and Weed the Design

1: After you are happy with the designs, we are ready to save the project, Click on Save button on the Right Top side of the screen and provide a name to your design and click on Save button.

2: We are going to click on the Make button to start configuring our materials!

3: You are going to be able to see one mat per color of your design, remember that the colors there are for reference only, the real color is going to be the one related with the material color that you are using.

If you are just doing the first design, you should be able to see something like:

If you are also doing the second design, you should be able to see something like:

4: For the design all black (not the offset) we are going to use permanent vinyl, so we should use the following settings:

💡Tip: Make sure to check your vinyl information in order to use the right vinyl settings.

For the Colourful design, we are going to use cardstock setting, in our case since our cardstock has seasonal theme and some of them have glitter in the design, we are going to choose the following settings:

💡Tip: If your cardstock design has a lot of texture, we recommend to mirror the letter/design that you are going to cut and put the cardstock facing the texture to the mat, so you can have nice cuts on the material.

5: After the cut is done, you are going to unload the mat and remove all the elements from it! And you are going in the case of the vinyl weed each one of the letters:

In this tutorial, you are going to learn/practice the following skills:

  • Add Shapes
  • Resize Elements
  • Duplicate Elements
  • Un-group Elements
  • Upload images
  • Use acrylic Paint
  • Decoupage
  • Add Permanent viny

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