You may have noticed that sometimes you want to use the negative space on your die cuts on a layout, craft or as a stencil for painting, embossing, screen printing, etc.
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A giant source of public domain SVG files
Finding art that is legal to use can be frustrating, but here’s a tool for images you can know are OK for just about any purpose. The Open Clipart Library is a repository of SVG files started by the folks that develop Inkscape.
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More on using the Paint Bucket in Inkscape
Update: Please watch the Paint Bucket Basic video here if you haven’t already Wow, the response to the first video has been overwhelming, literally. I am approaching my bandwidth limit at screencast and am looking for a different way to host the tutorials.
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New Technique for Making Piecing Patterns in Inkscape
Update: these pre-youtube videos have finally lost their homes on the net. My latest videos on the Paint Bucket Technique are here: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/coeIYveKJL Did you know you can use the Paint Bucket tool in Inkscape to trace a bitmap piece by piece?
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Free Valentine .scut files at ScrappingTable.com
Update: These files are no longer free. I found a great source for free .scut files and information about Sure-Cuts-A-Lot software. Check out ScrappingTable.com for many great Valentine cuttables like the basket shown below.
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The Craft of Extraction: Just like beer brewing, control is key
Any one of the more than 7,000 craft breweries in the United States will tell you one of two things: their art is a science, or their science is an art. The answer may depend on the brewer’s personal approach, but the combination of experience, process, precise measurements and intuition is exactly what is needed to create a great beer. Likewise, the cannabis industry has its own master brewer: the
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Instant font slideshow in Mac OSX (Leopard & later)
Compared to the PC side, there is a dearth of font viewing software for Macs. In particular, none of the freebies and few of the for-pay font utilities I have found allow you to view uninstalled fonts.
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60 Free Vector Packs and how to use them
From Smashing Magazine comes this awesome listing of some of the best free vector packs available.
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Hand sketch fill with Cricut markers
As a follow up to the last video tutorial, this time we start with the filled in text and alter it using an Inkscape filter to give it a more hand sketched look. For those of you who are familiar with Illustrator, this gives a somewhat similar effect to the Scribble Tool.
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A new font from old shapes
YourFonts.com isn’t free anymore, but back in 2009 when it was, I created a dingbat font of punch shapes to share with you.
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