Digital Die Cutting with Sandy McCauley
Let me teach you to love your cutter!
Purpose of I Love KNK.com
This web site provides support, comparisons, videos, drivers, test settings, and other information related to the StarCraft SOLO, Skycut and Klic-N-Kut digital die cutters, as well as various cutter software programs.If you are just now learning about cutters, check out the Skycut demo videos. These are amazing cutters!
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Need some inspiration? Check out the Team KNK blog where talented KNK owners present never-before-published creations made with their cutters.
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Papers and Pixels
I Love the Erase Tool in MTC!
Reason #20: Erase Tool Reason #21: Inverse Erase Tool These are two more reasons to check out Make The Cut software! The ability to simply drag the mouse to erase parts of a vector image and, equally handy, to add to a vector image provide easy modifications to your...
And the winner is….
Andrea!!! Congratulations, Andrea! My random number generator picked Lucky 13 and you were the 13th poster! You have won the $25 gift certificate to KNK USA and VDBC's quarterly membership! Thanks to everyone who posted comments yesterday! And thanks to Chris for...
Win a $25 GC and a Subscription to VDBC!!!
To celebrate this 4th Anniversary of www.visualdesignsbychris.com, Chris is offering a membership to her current Quarterly Membership Club and I'm offering a $25 Gift Certificate to KNK USA! For more information about the QMC you can see some details here. The winner...
Going Wireless!
A big announcement came from KNK USA today! At the end of October, the first Bluetooth KNK's will begin shipping! I cannot count the number of times customers have asked me if there would ever be a wireless Klic-N-Kut and I always responded, "I doubt it." Alas, I was...
Closing Open Shapes
One question that I occasionally get from a customer is what to do when closed shapes are not actually closed. Sometimes, it's a case of just two nodes not being connected. Other times, it can be dozens of gaps on a single shape. In both KNK Studio and in...
Designing a Stencil Edge Card
Free videos today to teach you how to make a stencil-edged card, such as the one I made above. There are other variations on this card and I want to thank the various members of the MTC Forum who shared their ideas. I liked Liz Ackerman's because I immediately saw how...
7 Reasons to LOVE Make-The-Cut’s Tracing Function!
It's been months and months since I posted about the 25 reasons to look into buying Make-The-Cut (MTC). Thus today, I'm catching up a bit by posting more reasons, all of them related to the auto-tracing functionality and why I prefer it over that in KNK or ACS...
Creating an Inset for a Shaped Greeting Card
Carol B contacted me asking for help with designing what I'm going to call a "shaped inset". The original file was a onesie-shaped greeting card and she wanted to have a separate shape cut that would contain text for the inside of the card. She wanted it to be the...
Adorable Easter Carrot Box by Kris Kutz!
Stellar Stationery is now selling their cutting files under the name Kris Kutz and I will continue to host these files here in my store: Cutting Files by Kris Kutz This latest one is SO incredibly cute and is a great value based on the detail of this project! Note the...
Team KNK is Back!
Team KNK is back on line again! Be sure to check out the LATEST KNK projects above! Here are some direct links to these projects: Advent Calendar by Deb Christmas Cupcake Wrappers by Judy Paper Angels by Judy Santa Plate and Joy Card by Nancy Be sure to check Team KNK...