A place to BE HAPPY!...: Make-Your-Own-Seal

Friday, August 13, 2010

Make-Your-Own-Seal

Here is a great tool I saw posted on another forum (thanks lindamac), and I knew after playing with it that this could be a really cool tool for using with the Cricut and especially conducive to cutting with vinyl. With a few strokes you can create your own "seal" and save it to your computer and then you can put it right into SCAL and cut it. You have lots of different shape, font and design options. Definitely bookmark this - I think I'll be using it a lot! (Click on the photos for a better look)

http://www.says-it.com/seal/circle.php

5 comments:

Aussie Carolyn said...: Thank you for posting this information. I can see myself using the Official Seal Maker for a lot of cards. It will save buying a lot of expensive stamps.; August 13, 2010 at 8:49 PM
7524kes said...: Excellent find! Thanks for sharing.; August 14, 2010 at 8:03 AM
Cheryl B said...: Thanks for posting this. I went and played for a while!; August 14, 2010 at 2:25 PM
beazora said...: Leslie thanks for the info.
I played with it last night.
Tried to post the image on the cricut board, but can not.; August 18, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Missjoanna said...: this is a great site i wonder if you can somehow make an inkstamp out of the you create.. i bought some avery stickers and printed some out to put on some projects im plan on selling a sale im attempting thanks again; August 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM

Have SCAL2? Trace any image with these easy steps...really it's easy!

Images with little detail work the best - images in silhouette form, just black on white.

1. download a picture on your computer - usually if you see an image you can right click right on top of the image with your mouse, and then choose "save" or "save as" rename it if necessary - you can find images on blogs (my blog here too), websites, all over. Put it in a folder on your computer where you can remember. The image should be in the form of a .jpg or .bmp. I have a separate folder for scal files (and then I categorize my images by category)...

2. open scal 2 (this only works in scal2, don't have scal2? click on the link below to get it...)

3. click on the tree symbol (looks like an apple tree) a the top of the screen

4. it will bring up a search box, now find the file you saved, by clicking BROWSE.

5. once you click it and click OK , it will appear right on the scal screen, you can size and change it as needed.

My favorite quotes

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.- Barack Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and DO GOOD.
Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or har dwork. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
"What would you do if you knew you would not fail?"
I'm not very religious, but I just like this...Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.