In this tutorial you will learn how to create your own filled shape designs using my easy to follow step-by-step system. You can even download a copy of my cheat sheet to use when designing:
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Love it! Thanks Erica, you make it so easy.
Yay! Thanks, Susan!
I love this, but I can’t get the SVG Form for designing cheat sheet to download
I just tested it and seems to be working. Maybe try one more time and let me know if still having problems.
I just tried to download the SVG cheat sheet as well, and couldn’t get it to work. Just opens in Internet Explorer as a blank page…
Which version – the SVG version? If so, go ahead and double click on the “blank page” when it opens and see if it then opens in Inkscape. The cheat sheet is off to the side so it may look like a blank page when it opens in your browser but you should see it once you get it open in Inkscape. If you still have problems, send me an email and I can help but I just tested it and it’s working for me.
It didn’t work that way either, but I figured it out! I just right clicked on it in my download folder, and it gave me the option to open with Inkscape! Thanks a bunch.
Oh awesome – good job!
I wanted to use this image but make it larger than the mat. When I try to intersect my rectangle and this image, it gives me the error that one of the objects is not a path and cannot perform boolean operation. Is there something I need to do to the unicorn image or am I doing something else wrong?
Hi there! So you are using the pre-made version of the unicorn heart? Are you doing it all one color? If so, I would select the entire design and hit ctrl + shift + g a few times to ensure it’s ungrouped. Then, go to Path > Union. Then you can place your rectangles and do the intersection over each section. Let me know if you have any problems.
That worked great! Thanks. I also played around with it in design space and was able to slice it after selecting the whole thing and hitting weld first- not sure why that worked but it did. I also restarted my computer and design space because the slice feature wasn’t working for me on any project and I think that helped too. Thanks, again!
Perfect! You’re very welcome.
Hello Erica, in this tutorial you were moving pretty fast for me to follow… But I notice you kept on clicking on ‘Path’ then to ‘Stroke to path’ … what were you doing? what is stroke to path?
Hi there! So the Stroke to Path is what you need to do to convert any line or outline you create to a path before you export. So in this case, we used the pencil tool to create the swirls and then need to convert them all to a path before saving using Path > Stroke to Path.
got ya! thanks!
The fill cheat sheet is not working for me for some reason.
Emailed you with a link to try 🙂
can I get this link also, I can’t get the files to open, everything is blank
The file may look blank because the cheat sheet is to the right of the page. Open it in Inkscape and see if you still don’t see it. If not, send me and email and I’ll make sure you get it.
I have tried Erica, but there is nothing there to load, my system says the page is blank even for saving
I’ll send you a link via email.
Hi Erica,
I am having such trouble after creating my fish silhouette …it won’t export to design space as it says it’s invalid…help, please!
Help…..I followed all the directions as best as I thought but I am getting an error message “The chosen area to be exported is invalid”…what could I be doing wrong?
Are you saving as a SVG? Can you send us an email with the file and a screenshot of your entire screen when you get the error? [email protected]