Making Hearts In Silhouette Studio

I have a tutorial for you today, one in my Electronic Cutting Machine series sharing some things that I've leant using the Silhouette Cameo.

One of the best things about the Silhouette machines is that you get so much flexibility and creative freedom even with the free basic Silhouette Studio software. I know you can buy lots of lovely hearts in the online Silhouette shop but I do like a bit of making things for myself!

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So if you do too how about trying this...

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To start you need to draw an ellipse, I've made my workspace mat the same size as my card blank to give me an idea of the size I want the heart to be.

Then copy and paste the ellipse and select both ellipses and use the align tool and align centre to line up the two shapes. I then deselected the left-hand ellipse and moved the right one a smidgen (technical term) to the right.

The next step is to slightly rotate each ellipse, the left one to the left and right to the right then select both of them and weld them into one shape.

You can see the heart starting to take shape. Now you need to select the Edit Points tool and start to move the points until you are happy with the shape.

 I started with the bottom point of the heart, I moved the points then smoothed the line using the path nodes (the grey points that appear either side of the main point when you select it).

I then change any of the other points on the heart and the line paths until I like the look of the heart.

There you have it, a heart, ready to cut in Silhouette Studio. There are different ways to draw hearts, you could try drawing one freehand with the Draw Freehand tool or you could use the method above but use a circle as your starting shape instead of two ellipses. So have fun, play around and see what you can come up with!

Catch you later.

Kim