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Border Bits – a new free dingbat font

September 5, 2013 by Kay

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I am proud to introduce another dingbat font designed for diecutters, at least that’s how it started. Silhouette Studio, Microsoft Word and even Photoshop are among the programs that can wrap text on a path but can’t wrap objects … or so it seems. Simply put your objects in a font – problem solved. So here’s my collection of little shapes that repeat or combine to make fun borders and, for the most part, lend themselves to wrapping along a path. Hope you’ll have as much fun with it as I have.

Download Border Bits here and make my day by leaving a comment. This font is free for personal or commercial use but not for resale or sharing on other sites, please. Pinning or otherwise pointing people to this blog page is a great way to say thanks. I’d also love to see creative ways you use this font.

How to make a doily with Border Bits with thanks to Gisela!

For a video on how to use this font and text to path in Silhouette Studio see this post.

And here’s a video on how to use this font and text on path in Inkscape

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Quick video on using transparent tiles in Silh Studio
Adding thumbnails to your .studio files on a Mac

Comments

  1. Deanna says

    October 6, 2013 at 12:17 pm

    Thank you so much! Looks like a lot of fun!!

  2. j says

    October 11, 2013 at 6:19 am

    ty!

  3. Sara Morales Ancic says

    October 11, 2013 at 1:01 pm

    I can’t wait to try this out! Thank you so much for sharing!

  4. Susibi says

    October 12, 2013 at 5:19 pm

    Thanks for all your hard work!

  5. Sharon Lones says

    October 22, 2013 at 7:41 pm

    Thank you so much for all of your wonderful help – know that it is appreciated

  6. maia says

    October 23, 2013 at 10:04 am

    this is awesome! glad to have found you!

  7. Joanne says

    October 23, 2013 at 12:21 pm

    Thank you for sharing. Hopefully I can use these and soon.

  8. Cheryl Wright says

    October 24, 2013 at 6:11 pm

    Wonderful! Thanks so much!!!

  9. Vivi Fitzgerald says

    October 25, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    Thanks a bunch!

  10. Pamela McGillin says

    October 27, 2013 at 3:09 pm

    Thanks so much Kay. I have a project which I wish to start & two of these “border bits” are exactly what I need.

  11. gale says

    November 3, 2013 at 5:54 pm

    thank you!

  12. Amy P. says

    November 5, 2013 at 10:38 pm

    Thank you for teaching me so much! I found you through your “Tracing Without Tears” YouTube videos, based on lots of recommendations from lots of fellow learners on Facebook. I can’t wait to look some more through your blog!

  13. Paula Gale says

    November 13, 2013 at 8:47 pm

    Hi Kay

    I haven’t been to download this before now, so wanted to thank you so very much for the time and effort you invested into creating this for us to use… I also appreciated the link to Gisela’s blog to see what she created – so that was a great help, thank you.

    I know you are a very busy lady – but wanted to say how much I miss having no posts from you – even though you will be busy doing lots of other interesting things (hopefully), It always makes me giddy to see that you have posted something new on your blog – I especially appreciated the series you did on the Silhouette Software ‘Tracing without tears’ – I credit you and that series for providing me with the information that lead to the proverbial penny finally dropping – as my husband likes to say ‘everyday’s a school day’ lol… you certainly taught me a great deal about my SIlhouette Designer Edition software. Thank you for that…

    kind regards, and thanks once again for the dingat you’ve created especially for us users, to overcome something that cannot easily and already be done within the software…

    Paula x x x

  14. Nettte says

    November 15, 2013 at 12:02 pm

    Wow, thank you for sharing this lovely and incredibly useful font.

  15. Johna says

    November 22, 2013 at 5:43 am

    thank you so much!! these are fantastic!

  16. Janice says

    November 23, 2013 at 7:06 pm

    Thiese Border Bits are so much fun, Thank you! I’ll try them soon.

  17. Cindy says

    December 7, 2013 at 11:24 am

    Thank you!!! You are talented!!

  18. Lisa Chin says

    December 11, 2013 at 12:18 pm

    I LOVE your videos and all you do and I have recommended them to my friends who are Silhouette users too. Thank you so much for sharing. I have learned so much from you!

  19. Katheryn Thames says

    December 11, 2013 at 1:08 pm

    I love the way you teach, Kay!

  20. Ruby says

    December 11, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you for your generosity of all the freebies you offer. Wishing you warm wishes for Christmas and a Happy and healthy New Year.

  21. Ann Clack says

    December 11, 2013 at 1:55 pm

    thank you so much!

  22. kimvickery says

    December 11, 2013 at 1:56 pm

    Thanks so much- love your your tube too

  23. Jenny says

    December 11, 2013 at 2:28 pm

    Kay, I can’t thank you enough for the AWESOME information you share with the Silhouette community. You are so very gracious to do so. I’ve learned so much from your video tutorials…just about anything you do I’ve learned. I just love, love, love getting updates stating you have created a new tutorial and/or font. You are one in a million! I think I’m your #1 fan!!! 🙂

  24. Amber says

    December 11, 2013 at 3:51 pm

    This is so awesome! I have pinned it, liked it and left a comment but that doesn’t even begin to show you how thankful I am. What an awesome gift. Thank you so much for sharing! 🙂

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