A SILHOUETTE CAMEO TUTORIAL | QUICK & EASY CHRISTMAS CARDS AND TAGS

When you look at the image closely you will see that it has filled in the blank spaces.

Click on the image, selecting the outside of the shape (which will be a solid square) and move it down on the screen. This will separate the images as you see below. Select the image with the words and delete it. You do not need this piece any more. The solid square piece is going to become the back of your card.


With the solid square image selected, move it down a few clicks to overlap it onto the front of the card. Select both images, right click and select Weld. If the images are not overlapped enough, the images will not weld, so make the red line between the images disappears..




Select that green square and click on the Scale Tool located at the top of the Toolbar. Using the Custom Scale option, adjust it to 95.0%.


As you can see, this makes the green square just slightly smaller than the card front so that you don't have to worry about any paper overlapping or showing when you go to layer the papers.


You are now ready to cut and assemble your cards. Just remember to move the green square off of the cutting mat area while you cut the card base. As you can see, I used plain white cardstock to create the card base and then used a mostly solid patterned paper so that the image would show up nicely. I used this same technique to create a couple of gift tags as well.


I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and that you find it useful during these last few fun and festive, but definitely hectic, days before Christmas!


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Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by and visited during the hop!!!