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Outlining Text - A Quick How-To

Outlining Text - A Quick How-To

Hi Everyone - - it's Mandy again from Sugar Bee Crafts (it's awesome over there - go ahead and check it out!)

I want to show you a quick solution to a problem I was having..... I was making a shirt with iron-on vinyl (which we all LOVE!) with my Silhouette Cameo and I wanted to use the center of the letters as a place for fabric. So what I needed was an outline of the letters, if that makes sense. I tried making a smaller version of the letter, but doing that doesn't line up well because of all the angles (unless it's the letter "o"). And I played around and came up with a solution...

I have never really used the drawing features, but there's one that looks like a figure 8 with sharp angles (I pointed to it in the picture below) - you click on it and it will let you draw lines, all around, until you double click back on your starting point. So I clicked a start point, then clicked in a corner of the letter, then clicked in another corner of the letter, etc, working my way around as it played connect the dots. And so I made my own outline inside of the letter:

And then, a friendly reminder - - ALWAYS FLIP YOUR HEAT TRANSFER VINYL before cutting!! Thank me later for that one :)

Here's how it turned out after being cut and weeded - see how the middle of the letters on "KICKS" is open:

That allowed me to sew in some fabric for a little more fun - - see - the silver is the iron-on heat transfer - so fun!!

Jul 24th 2012 ExpressionsVinyl-Ambassador

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