Silhouette UK: Finishing touches to wrapping presents

Hi everyone. It's Verity here from Pretty Little Button bringing you another project. Today I've created a some glitter stickers using the Glitter Sticker sheets from SIlhouette to add as a finishing touch to a wrapped present. It certainly looks better then using sellotape all the time!

Finishing touches to wrapping presents - Glitter stickers detail:

To start, decide on the shape of your sticker - I kept it simple by using a circle for the base shape. Decided on the design elements you want to add to your sticker. I add 'For you' and two presents from the design store and positioned them as seen below.

In order for the circle line to not overlap the presents I select the presents and circle, and pressed 'Subtract all' in the modify window.

I then decided I wanted another line within the circle - I tried internal offset, but this also did internal offset within the presents. Instead I used the arc tool. This worked out perfectly.

Now I had the sticker design complete, I added an offset to the group design - this will be the cut line for the stickers. I kept the cut line red and the lines of the design black. This will make it easy when your come to cutting your stickers later on.

Make sure you have your print & registration marks loaded into your design space. For ease, I used the replicate tool to duplicate by sticker horizontally and vertically.

To ensure my stickers were evenly space apart I used the spacing option in the transform window, and spaced these out evenly both horizontally and vertically.

When I was happy with the layout, I printed this out on to a Glitter sticker sheet from SIlhouette and loaded the printed version onto my cutting mat.

Here is where the coloured cut lines come in handy. In the send to machine window, select the 'Line' action by tab. As you can see below, I have three line colours. As I set my offset lines to red and the red lines are the only lines I am interested in cutting, I can untick the black lines.

Now when the machine cuts the file, it will only cut my red offset lines around the stickers. Remember to do a test cut for the material before your send the whole design to cut. If you are struggling within your machine registering your registration marks, make sure your blade area is well lit. You may find it easier to manual align your blade over the top of the right top black square and ask the software to manual register the mat.