Weekend Freebie - Flip Flop
Well, Spring Break has passed and summer is approaching (at least in the northern hemisphere.) This weekend's Freebie file is Flip Flops in the format of DXF-GSD-WPC-SVG-SCUT. This should go well with our pervious freebie file of the Palm Tree and Beach!
Our current project that we are working on this week will be McScrappyz Farm Animals. We already have some animals up and ready for download. If you're waiting for a BarnYard Palz CD to download it should be available soon. If you would like to get notified when we have new paper piecings follow us on TWITTER
Weekend Freebie - Little Lady Bug
All right so this weeks freebie file is of a Lady Bug. This is a paper piecing and like always everything is separated into color already for you. The file formats are as follows AI-DXF-WPC-GSD-SVG-SCUT-PDF.
(Just Click Photo to Begin Download)
Color Tracing with Inkscape
This is a tutorial for beginners. We will break apart this eagle by color so you will be able to possibly paper piece this using the Sure Cuts A Lot software.
What you will need for this tutorial.
- Inkscape from www.inkscape.org
- Download the eagle photo (if you want to work along side the video) - Just click the Photo Below
- Sure Cuts A Lot - If you would like to cut your separated files.
Click this Photo to Download
This is our end goal in breaking apart these colors. This technique works well with well defined areas and boarder images. The higher the quality of image the better the results.
Weekend Freebie - Little Lamb
Weekend Freebie - Zebra
Now in DXF-SCAL-SVG-WPC-GSD
Well, here is this weekend's freebie. It's a 3 piece set of a Zebra available in DXF-SCAL-SVG-WPC-GSD format. Just click the Photo to begin the Download. The only colors needed are white and black. Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube Channel and Check out our ScrappyPalz with our New Zoo Collection Available in Download and CD!
Tutorial: Sizing Correctly in SCAL using multiple SVG files
Happy April Fools Days! When we first got SCAL we were wondering how are we going to save paper on cutting a pattern that has multi colors that needed to be cut. Well this technique that the video goes though should help you with this. The video goes though two different ways to accomplish the same goal. We know that there are other methods out there, but these two work just fine.
The reason for this tutorial is because when you import items into SCAL it isn't a 1 to 1 ratio. Meaning you will have to resize each SVG file as a whole to match all the pieces up.
This video will go over:
- Saving your SVG files based on Color
- Importing them into SCAL
- Sizing them up proportionaly so that all pieces are the correct size based on your original SVG file
What we do is we separate the files by color and we have one that is saved with everything with all parts and pieces on that file. We save it as BearALL.svg.
We then stretch out the BearALL.svg in scal to the size we want. Then we import each colored SVG (ie BearBrown.svg) and we size up the head to match the BearALL.svg.
We do this for all the colored pieces. Another way to do proportioning on separated SVG files is...
You can place a small Star (keep it the same size) somewhere on each of your seperated SVG file. That Star allows you to match up each file to the correct porportion once you have imported all of your Color Separated SVG files into SCAL.
Once you have everything the way you want I would SAVE the project because you can delete what you are not wanting to cut, and then to get all your pieces back just go to File> Open Project