Silhouette Blog: FREE Shape of the Week

This week's shape is somewhat of a hybrid, meaning the shapes that make up the girl are regular cut shapes, and the grass is a sketch shape designed to be used with the Silhouette sketch pens. It's kind of fun to mix the two. I used it today to create a paper doll valentine...

Doesn't the sketch shape look cute with the two colors? To achieve that look, I first, opened the shape in Silhouette studio and ungrouped it by clicking the ungroup icon in the bottom left corner. Then, I moved all of the shapes except for the grass off to the side.

Then, with the grass shape selected, I clicked ungroup again. This ungrouped the heart shapes from the stems and grass.

You'll notice that I also decreased the size of my page to reflect the size of the piece of cardstock I wanted to sketch on. To do this I opened the page settings window and entered the dimensions 4.25 x 6.25. {Doing this ensures that your sketch design will be sketched exactly where you have placed it on your page in Silhouette studio.}

Next, I duplicated the shapes and placed them where I wanted them sketched on my cardstock. Because I first wanted to sketch only the grass with the green sketch pen, I had to tell Silhouette studio not to sketch the hearts. To do this I selected the hearts, opened the Cut Style window and selected no cut.

Then I opened the Silhouette Cut Settings window, selected Silhouette Sketch pen from the menu, replaced the blade in my CAMEO with a green sketch pen, and clicked Cut in Silhouette studio.

{An important thing to mention here.. if you are sketching a shape in multiple colors, to ensure that all of the pieces line up, be sure that you do not unload the mat between sketches. }

Once the grass was sketched, I went back to Silhouette studio, selected the grass shape, opened the Cut Style window and selected no cut.

Then, I selected the hearts, opened the Cut Style window and selected Cut from the menu.

Then I went back to the Silhouette Cut Settings window, made sure that Silhouette Sketch Pen was still selected, replaced the green sketch pen in my CAMEO with a red one, and clicked Cut in Silhouette studio.

Voila... a multiple color sketched shape. Love it!

A fun little trick I'm really liking right now with the sketch pens is... once the shape is sketched you can get a soft, watercolor look if you go over the lines with a wet paint brush. An easy peasy step to change up your sketch pen projects.

So, now what does this have to do with a new Silhouette product? Well, if you're a fan of the Silhouette sketch pens, you are going to LOVE the new 24 pack of sketchpens. It's got a rainbow array of fun new colors! Yay!

Happy sketching!

*as each new product goes live and is available for purchase, I will post updates, so stay tuned!