Good Saturday everyone! I was asked by a subscriber if I could share with her how to use her many stamps within the Studio software. In other words; could she make cutting files of her stamps. The answer is a happy yes. It's a bit time consuming for all of us whom own mounds of stamps but in the long run it's worth the effort if you enjoy using and color stamps. Some stamps I've colored using Photoshop and then have made these into cutting files. Other stamps I just leave them un-colored, cut them, and then color.
You will need to stamp a piece of cardstock using black ink. I stamp several stamps on one piece of cardstock and them scan them at a high resolution and save them as .png files. You can save them as .jpeg if you wish. After I do this, I save them in a folder I named "Scanned Stamps" so they will be there when I'm ready to convert them to a cutting file.
In this video I used a simple and more complex stamp to walk you through the steps of making your collection of stamps into cutting files. I hope you all find this useful and helpful along your crafty and creative ways.
Below is a screenshot of one of the stamps I colord in Photoshop and made into a cutting file. There is so much we can do with this software and it sure is some kind of crafty fun. Once I finish scanning in all o fmy stamps and have added them to my digital stamps I can save each one as a cutting file when I've done the auto traces. Isn't this exciting to know your stamps can now be put away and you will have loads of stamps right on your computer? Woohoo...for Studio software.
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| Stamp Image colored in Photoshop |
I think you are a genius!
ReplyDeleteThanks for yet another awesome tutorial.
You make it look too easy.
Thanks Debbie
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Julie
that is awesome I am definately going to give it a go, Lyn
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Fantastic...Love this info.
ReplyDeletethank you so much. this is such a neat thing to know. Now if I can just figure out how to scan I'll have it made. thank you so much for helping all of us newbies to know and understand the silouhette software. I haven't had the courage yet to download the new software but I will give it a try soon.
ReplyDeleteHi Rhandi, with the new Silhouette 3.0.343 that can only be downlaoded for the Silhouette America website; you can scan directly to Studio. Go to File, Scan, I have to use the WIA scan settings for my HP 6500 series .If I don't it crashes. The WIA works perfectly and is awesome to have in the new Studio software.
DeleteEasy to follow, good directions, can't wait to try this! Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAwesome Debbie love it. You showed another trick that I was not aware of - smiles Thanks for sharing
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Kim
Thanks for this great tut!
ReplyDeleteHi, Debbie - are there copyright issues around printing and cutting stamps? I've only used my stamps scanned in as an outline and then hand coloured.
ReplyDeleteI'm no expert on copyright issues but I thik since we own the stamps, use them for personal use and are not re-selling the images for profit what we do with them shouldn't harm the designer or artist of the stamps. The only difference is; we're using printer ink instead of ink pads and letting our cutting machines cut them out instead of getting aching hands by cutting them out by hand....lol. I think we should be good to go as long as we don't sell the images. Blessings, Debbie
DeleteThanks for your prompt reply, Debbie - much appreciated. I don't sell my cards, so I should be ok. xxx
DeleteThanks so much for your quick reply, Debbie - I don't sell my cards, so I should be ok. xxx
DeleteThank you for the video's.
ReplyDeleteHi Debbie! Can you also print that christmas mouse stamp? and then cut? thanks for all you do! You are just an inspiration!
ReplyDeleteHi nanpuddin, You can print and cut any stamp. I printed and cut all of the samples you see on my blog. These are so much fun to do. you can even cut them on sticker paper and make them stickers. How much fun we get to have with these machines. :) Hugs, Debbie
ReplyDeleteIs there any way to actually hand stamp and hand color an image on card stock, and then have the cameo cut it out? I understand scanning a stamped image to print and/or cut digitally, but then how do you line up your Rubber stamp to match so that it stamps inside the cutout in exactly the right place if you want to stamp and color by hand, the old fashioned way?
ReplyDeleteHi Sheryl, You can cut just the shape out and then use your stamp to stamp on it and color. I've only done this with printing from the printer and then hand colored them.You don't need really need to stamp it because the printer will print only the outlines of the stamp if this is what you want and then you can color it by hand like the "Christmas Mice" , "Hedge Hog" and "Birthday Cat" I did. Cutting out just the shape of the stamp will allow you to stamp the old fashioned way but for me, ink is ink and for sure the if the printer prints the color lines of the stamp we won't have to worry about lining things up perfectly. I have some dies that are made to die cut and then stamp but for me they were difficult to use. They pretty much just sit around in my craft room collecting dust.....lol. I hope I explained this well enough. I'm better with showing something than explaining. I always wondered why " Show and Tell" was one of my favorite things in school....lol Have a blessing filled day,hugs, Debbie
ReplyDeleteThank you Debbie.
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Helen