Assigning cutting and drawing lines in Canvas

In ScanNCut Canvas when you choose your colour properties, there are options to choose cut lines and draw lines for your projects.

You can see here that the photo top left shows the scollop shape selected and the photo top right shows that I have assigned a cut line to it.

The photo bottom left shows the words are selected and the photo bottom right shows that I have assigned a draw line to it.

In the next lot of photos you can see that when I put the design into the ScanNCut machine the shapes shows up in black and the words which had a draw line assigned to them show up in blue.

Click on the photo to see it in full size with annotations.

I was able to put the pen in and choose draw on the machine and it only drew the two words and stopped, I then put the blade in and chose cut and it cut the two shapes.

This is such a handy feature to have so give it a try and let me know how you get on.

#canvas #cut #draw #scanncut

Videos

Hi

Just a reminder that this weeks video for Sunday 20th April will be for the simple pop out inserts. You can refer to my blog post dated 12th April below if you want to see what I show you how to make in the tutorial.

I am trying to record my videos a week in advance now wherever possible, so I have an idea for the next one scheduled to be posted on Sunday 27th April I am thinking word books like these, what do you think?

Let me know if it is something that you would be interested in and I will record it this week for posting Sunday 27th April.

Also do you have anything specific you would like to know or learn if so let me know and I will see if I know how to do it and make a video for you.

Thanks

#scanncut #wordbook #cards #scanncut #craft #canvas

Cutting Rubber Stamp Material

Someone asked me recently if I had tried cutting stamp material with my ScanNCut and I haven’t. I do own some Pazzles green and blue stamp material but to be honest Ive only cut the green sheet once and it was to use as a rhinestone template, so not for rubber stamping at all.

I looked at the cutting guide which Gentleman crafter and Mel Heaton have put together and it had a recommendation for leather with deep cut blade set at 5 and pressure at 5 so I thought I would use that as my starting point.

Pazzles stamp media is available in both green and blue and from memory you use both the green is thiner and the blue slightly thicker.

I cut the green with the deep cut blade 5, pressure 5, speed 5 and only one cut.

I cut the blue with deep cut blade 7, pressure 5, speed 5 and again only one cut.

I wanted to cut a foam cushion layer that was about 3mm wider but the seem allowance option was greyed out.

So I layered the green on top of the blue and then scanned it through the machine so that I could cut a 3mm outset layer for the cushioning. The foam I cut with the regular blade 12, pressure 7 , speed 5 and one cut.

I realised after that if I had unified the shape on the ScanNCut I would have been able to add the outset seem allowance without having to scan the shape back through the machine. The reason it was in separate parts is because the outside of the circle doesn’t touch anything. Well thats what I think anyway.

To cut the Stamp media with a Pazzles Inspiration the suggested settings were blade 3 , pressure 35 and 3 cuts. So the ScanNCut was far easier.

I designed this little monogram stamp in Canvas the complete size is 1.63 x 1.63.

I used the Calgary Medium Italic font for the letter which I made in reverse and I think it’s turned out great and my daughter loves it as it’s for her.

Here’s a picture of the stamp material and foam as I cut it.

Here’s our first stampings and we think it’s turned out great.

#monogram #scanncut #scanncut #stampmaterial