Have you ever gone to the party store to buy paper goods for a party? I seem to want to take things up a notch especially for graduation and baby events. I have found myself wandering the aisles looking at all the great paper plates, napkins, cups and banners. I might even put them in my cart and then…I pull most of it back out again. It is so expensive! It also seems like I can never find the right colors of paper goods to match the graduation colors.

Have you noticed all of the chipboard shapes available? There are letters and shapes both simple and more detailed. Do you ever find one particular shape that is just begging you to buy it and turn it into something wonderful? And have you ever bought one of those shapes and spent hours painting it, or hand tracing and cutting paper to go on it? I have to admit that in the past I have passed up those fun shapes because I did not want to spend a lot of time making the project. Plus, why buy a chipboard shape when I can cut chipboard on my Inspiration?

We all love shortcuts, right? They simplify our lives and help us get things done faster. We all love finding the shortcut to the grocery store or a shortcut to cleaning the bathroom. There are dozens of shortcuts for the Inspiration Studio Software and there is a tutorial in the Craft Room video library of all the keyboard shortcuts. It also includes a PDF file of the shortcuts so that you can keep it handy and refer to it often.

If there is ONE shortcut that deserves its own tutorial it is the Move Point shortcut.

I keep finding hidden gems in the Inspiration Studio Software that make my creative process so much easier! It isn’t that I can’t do the same thing in another way. But when I discovered this shortcut, I certainly did a little happy dance! It’s what I love about our software, it isn’t too hard for a beginner but it continues to grow with me as my skills become more advanced.

Have you noticed the little button all the way at the bottom on the left side of the Inspiration Studio Workspace? It has a little padlock on it and if you hover over it with your mouse, it says Group with Transparency. Do you know what that means and if you do, are you just a bit stumped on how to use it?