Hi friends! I’m excited to share a sweet card and a fun tutorial that I did for Lori Whitlock a few years back. I'll show you how to use the knife tool
to make a Silhouette design your own.
I wanted to make a thank you card with dogs that resembled my pups, Maisy and Reeci. I love Lori Whitlock’s cute Dog Cutting File but one of my dogs had a shorter tail and the other had shorter ears. So, here's what I did to fix this. It's easy to do!
First, I pulled up the dog shape I wanted to use. I resized and
ungrouped all of the pieces and slid the shapes that I didn’t want to
use right away over to the side.![Screen Shot 2013-07-19 at 1.48.28 PM](https://www.loriwhitlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-19-at-1.48.28-PM.png)
Next, I highlighted my dog and duplicated the shape. Since one
of my dogs is smaller, I resized one, and flipped her around so that
they weren’t facing the same way.
![Screen Shot 2013-07-19 at 1.51.51 PM](https://www.loriwhitlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-19-at-1.51.51-PM.png)
Before I cut my shapes, I zoomed in on them so that I could see the cut lines better.
![Screen Shot 2013-07-19 at 1.52.01 PM](https://www.loriwhitlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-19-at-1.52.01-PM.png)
I used the knife tool along the left hand tool bar. I clicked
on the line to start my cut and then clicked on the line where I wanted
my cut to end (notice the first dog’s tail).
![Screen Shot 2013-07-19 at 1.52.21 PM](https://www.loriwhitlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-19-at-1.52.21-PM.png)
I did the same step for cutting the second dog’s ears to make them shorter.
Once the cut line was created, I used the ‘move tool’ (top arrow) and then clicked on the pieces to move them off to the slide.
![Screen Shot 2013-07-19 at 1.58.28 PM](https://www.loriwhitlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-19-at-1.58.28-PM.png)
The photo below shows where I have used the knife tool to cut
one dog’s tail and the other dog’s ears to make them look like my
adorable pups 🙂
![Screen Shot 2013-07-19 at 1.59.11 PM](https://www.loriwhitlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-19-at-1.59.11-PM.png)
Since I don’t want my dogs’ tail and ears to be square, I used
the “edit point” (second arrow with dots) tool to round these areas out.
If you click this tool, you can pull your points around into the shape
you want.
![Screen Shot 2013-07-19 at 2.02.59 PM](https://www.loriwhitlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-19-at-2.02.59-PM.png)
This shot shows how one of the ears has been rounded.
![Screen Shot 2013-07-19 at 2.04.05 PM](https://www.loriwhitlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-19-at-2.04.05-PM.png)
Here is the final way my sweet dogs looked before I cut them out…
![Screen Shot 2013-07-19 at 2.04.51 PM](https://www.loriwhitlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-19-at-2.04.51-PM.png)
And here is the card I created with my new shapes!
![10](https://www.loriwhitlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/101.jpg)
![11](https://www.loriwhitlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/111.jpg)
Lori Whitlock cutting files used on this project:
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