Silhouette Portrait giveaway ahead, stick around until the end!
It’s the second best time of the year. Silhouette Designer Edition is on sale for 40% off with code CUTEFOX! I use the special Designer Edition features, pretty much every time I open up my Silhouette Studio software. Today I’m going to show you how you can use custom fill patterns, an option only available in Designer Edition.
My niece is having her ‘Golden Birthday’ this year. Her birthday is on the 9th of the month, and she is turning 9 years old. She asked if I would design her a shirt with gold, pink, and hearts. Using the fill pattern options, I was able to create a proof of the shirt, so I could make sure it was perfect before I cut a thing.
First I’ll show you the proof that I created, then I’ll walk you through using your own fill patterns.
Cute shirt right? There are 9 different hearts, since she is turning 9 years old. All of the heart designs came from the Silhouette store. The shirt came from Target, and was the same style as this but it was short sleeves. I was only able to find a long sleeve shirt image online, so I went with that. The first step to creating your proof is to open the image in Silhouette and place your design on top, in the location you want it. Now I’ll walk you through using the fill patterns.
Using your Own Fill Patterns in Silhouette Studio Designer Edition
- Find or create an image you want to use for your fill pattern and save it to your computer. I found an image of pink glitter, to represent my pink glitter vinyl.
- Open up the Library in Silhouette Studio and go to the My Patterns folder.
- Drag your image(pink glitter) into Silhouette Studio and drop it in the My Patterns folder.
- To use your pattern, open the Fill Pattern Window.
- Scroll all the way to the bottom and find the My pattern section. Your image should be right there. Now you can use it to fill objects, like I filled the hearts.
Designer Edition also includes advanced options for pattern filling including: mirror patterns, rotate, scale, pan the pattern around within the filled image, and adjust the pattern’s level of transparency. I haven’t played with these options yet, I’m excited to use them more in the future.
Once you have your proof all designed, you can take a screen shot to save your image as a JPG file. I use a software called FastStone Capture to take my screen shots. If you hit Ctrl+Prt Scr it allows you to draw a box around what you want to capture. That way you don’t have to crop out any extra stuff later.
I got the go ahead on the shirt, so I cut out my heat transfer vinyl and made my niece her birthday shirt. Here’s her whole outfit completed.
My niece loves it, and I love that I was able to make her happy for her birthday.
Silhouette Designer edition has tons of features only available in the upgraded version. My favorite is the ability to use SVG files. It really opens up the possibilities to use your own files and files available on the internet. That feature alone is worth the cost of the software. Especially when it is 40% off! You can find the sale at http://www.silhouetteamerica.com/designer and make sure you use code CUTEFOX to get your discount.
Silhouette has some great deals on bundles too, if you haven’t purchased a machine yet. The bundle comes with Designer Edition and some fun glitter sketch pins.
Now for the giveaway. I’m giving away a Silhouette Portrait to one lucky person! The winner of the giveaway will be announced on February 10, so don’t miss your chance to enter. Good luck everyone!
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I love creating anything with vinyl. I’m addicted.
I would do so much with this, it is so versatile! My daughter and I really enjoy making T-Shirts and this would be an awesome way to vamp up our tee’s!!
I would do so much with this, it is so versatile! My daughter and I really enjoy making T-Shirts and this would be an awesome way to vamp up our tee’s!!
I would love to create an awesome mantel piece of vinyl words on a wood board!
I would make vinyl signs and cute shirts.
I would make vinyl signs and cute shirts.
This would be great for making the grandkids shirts and for me scrapbooking. Love it!
This would be sooooooooooo much fun!
Scrapbooking items.
I’d love to make my own cards. I also would like to make vinyl clings for decorating my windows and walls
I love Word Art! I need to finish my family birthday board. The circles I bought are small and would look better on the silhouette not handwritten! Thanks for you showing me another reason I’m saving for the Silhouette! ♡
I’m so impressed with all of the things a Silhouette machine can do! It’s just amazing. I think the first things I will do is make signs and do glass etching.
For the most part I will be using the Silhouette for scrapbooking. I have sooooo wanted one of these! Especially since I can use SVG cut with them! Crossing my fingers and wishing upon a star!
Glass etching! Scrapbooking, making homemade cards, garlands, vinyls for decor! angelgenius27(at)yahoo(dot)com
I’d like to make some framed art, and shirts for my daughter!
Liza C.
Customized t-shirts for my girl scout troop for camping!
I want to start with blocks and signs and move onto cards and scrapbooking.
I want to do some cute subway art with vinyl
I would like to make wall decals for granddaughter’s bedroom, labels for my spice jars, scrapbooking project and so much more. This would keep me busy all year long. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway!
I’d love to make wall art out of vinyl for my grandkid’s rooms.
I want to make some Easter favor boxes for my Easter egg hunt
Wow, your work is awesome! The giveaway, too!! 🙂 thanks for the chance to win, I follow you on bloglovin. Wow, I can’t even imagine the possibilities I would have with it….
I’d make something with glitter HTV
I love the idea of making shirts with this! How much fun would that be????
I’d definitely give the vinyl a try
I have a ton of vinyl projects on my list as well as some glass etching that I’d like to do.
boylaneely at hotmail dot com
im excited to make cards!
I want to make some wall art.
rounder9834 @yahoo.com
I’d love to use it to make stencils for art journalling!
I’d love to make birthday decorations!
I would gift it to my wife to make decorations and cards.
I would be excited to make cards with the Silhouette!
I’m excited about making…everything! Lol. Cards, gift boxes, vinyl on wood and clothing. I have vinyled all of my containers in the kitchen. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination!
I would mostly like to do my years worth of scrapbooking. But I also enjoy making cards.
wendishifflette at yahoo dot com
SO many projects I’d like to start! I definitely want to make some book quote decals
vinyl for the wall
Scrapbooking. i’d like to make a family photo album.
I’d use it for notecards!
i would love to make valentines day cards!
I want to make awesome cards.
Graduation decorations!!
I like how you can make shirts with this.
I would make holiday and birthday tshirts for my grandkids.
Scrapbooking goods,shirts and decorations!
I would love to decorate clothing with this.
i would love to make my grand daughter a tee shirt
My step daughter loves doing crafts with me…..we would do so much with this from using it for making scrapbook stuff, to making decorated t shirts to using it for quilting stuff…all sorts of stuff.
Hit send too soon….. My step daughter is 17 now and she’s quite talented and creative with stuff like this so I know she would absolutely love playing around with it….. I’d also like to make some vinyl decals for the cars and for our walls and gosh, there are just so many things we could do with it, it’s hard to list everything, we would be so happy to win this. Thanks so much for having this giveaway and the chance to win!
I would lmake tees for my kids at school for earth day.
I’d like to use this for all sorts of crafts with the kids – presents for their grandmas especially!
Homemade cards or stockings!
Amanda Joy Harris
That is so cute! I’m envisioning some matching shirts for family photos.
I would make some tshirts for my son, and a jacket for spring. I would also make a Family Rules sign!
I would love to use it to cuten-up my sewing room storage!
Holly Storm-Burge
I would love to make banners and cards!
stephanie ann
I would love to make party decorations and cards!
I am most excited to make tumblers and shirts for christmas pictures.
I would love to create my daughters birthday invites for her big day next month…
This seems like it would be awesome for making so many different crafting projects! I love the tshirt ideas and I think it would also be great in so many other applications–I’d love to use it to make signs, cards and maybe even to make focal squares for quilting projects. mary987 (at) hotmail (dot) com
I’d use this for card making and scrapbooking!
Nancy
allibrary (at) aol (dot) com
I love ANYTHING vinyl!
This would be great to decorate clothing! like patches! i love it
I would like to start with vinyl wall decals for my grandchildren’s bedrooms, and their cloths
I would love to make kitchen labels with my silhouette!