by Sandy McCauley | Jun 21, 2008 | Skewing
Ten things that can cause skewing on a Klic-N-Kut.
(1) Pinch wheels are too loose.
(2) One pinch wheel is a lot tighter than the other.
(3) Pinch wheels are too close together.
(4) One or both pinch wheels are over the smooth part of the grit shaft.
(5) Cut speed is too fast for the material being cut
(6) Blade is too long (thus digging into mat).
(7) Mat is too thin for the cutter.
(8) Something is interfering with the movement of the mat during cutting.
(9) Bad or damaged pinch wheel.
(10) Grit shaft was damaged during shipping (FedEx and UPS treat the boxes horribly).
by Sandy McCauley | Jun 21, 2008 | Overcut, Trailing Blade
Here’s a chart to remind you of the settings for Overcut and Trailing Blade on a Klic-N-Kut. Remember that if you need to find it again, simply go to my list of Labels on the right side and click on either Overcut or Trailing Blade from the alphabetized list and this blog will appear in the search.
by Sandy McCauley | Jun 21, 2008 | File Folders - Designing, Filet Round Corner, Free Videos, Round Corner
Thanks to Sandi at the Klic-N-Kut Yahoo group for asking about rounding corners in making a file folder. This is a GREAT quickie video topic! Check it out:
MakingaFileFolder
PS… check out my weather at the bottom of the blog… now you know why I’m indoors a lot right now! 113 degrees and 2 percent humidity… that’s living in the desert! 😛
by Sandy McCauley | Jun 20, 2008 | Free Videos, Print and Cut
I had a customer contact me with questions on controlling what gets printed in a Print and Cut project. This is a GREAT question and a video was the best way to show you several options that you have. In this case (and it’s a VERY common case with scrapbookers), the project is a tag with lettering and the lettering is to be printed and the tag is to be cut. Note that I created the following video in KNK Studio GE, but the same color selection methods apply to regular KNK Studio AND to Design Master. Let me know if you have any questions about what you see.
ColorSelectioninaPrintandCut
by Sandy McCauley | Jun 16, 2008 | Word
Today I have a mixed bag of goodies, so I’ll just share it all in one post.
(1) Check out:
http://www.freeze.com/ (click on Clip Art on the right side). This site has some great clipart for auto-tracing. Be sure to select .bmp before saving and then the images should readily import into KNK Studio’s Scan and Trace Wizard.
(2) Also check out:
http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/It has logos for thousands of products in .ai or .eps format… ready to download, import, and cut! While I couldn’t find all of my favorites (no Phoenix Suns, for example), it’s definitely worth a search to see if the logo you would like to use might be there just waiting for you to download!
(3) Lynn G discovered something quite cool! You can copy/paste your images from KNK Studio directly into Word for printing! The reverse cut and print method might be a bit easier with Word since the printing aspect in KNK Studio can sometimes be a bit confusing! Or perhaps you just want to design some images to include in a document you’re writing. Whatever the application, it’s just a matter of copying and pasting to instantly get your images into Word (or other Windows applications). Also, in case you missed it in the User Manual, you can also copy/paste your Word Art creations from Word into KNK Studio and they are ready-to-cut images.
(4) Last and certainly NOT least, I want to share a beautiful cut from one of my long-time Internet friend, Madeleine, who combined four files into a fabulous design that she then cut from heavy black paper. Thank you, Madeleine, for allowing me to share this with all of you! If this doesn’t motivate you to start cutting, nothing will! 🙂
