Welcome to the Advanced tutorials! If you feel very competent with most of the features in the software and are looking for some new tricks to create more complex projects then look no further! Please be patient when opening videos as their loading speed can vary depending on your computer and the size of the video. If you don’t know where to start, we have put our videos in their suggested viewing order so just start at the top and work your way down. Enjoy!
Please note that these videos may require you to install Adobe Flash Player and/or Apple Quicktime. You can find Adobe Flash Player here. You can download Quicktime from Apple here.
Keyboard Shortcuts |
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Keyboard shortcuts are a combination of keys that you press on your keyboard to make the software do a certain task. Although you can always use buttons to do the same tasks, using keyboard shortcuts can often be faster. If you have already mastered the Inspiration Studio features and are just looking for some shortcuts to speed up certain tasks, this is the perfect tutorial for you! |
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Basic Paper Lace |
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Paper Lace are intricate overlay designs that you can lay over a solid piece of cardstock for a beautiful design on your scrapbook page, cards and more.In this tutorial you will learn how to make your own paper lace quickly and easily. This lesson will teach you how to use the multiply function to fill your page with a design for paper lace. Then learn the tricks to of increasing line thickness and using WYSiWYG to save time and steps when creating the lace. |
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Advanced Paper Lace |
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Paper Lace are intricate overlay designs that you can lay over a solid piece of cardstock for a beautiful design on your scrapbook page, cards and more. In this tutorial you will learn how to create paper lace using multiple shapes in a more “random” design. |
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Make Your Own Journaling Fonts |
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Did you know that you can make your own journaling fonts in the Inspiration Studio Software? In this tutorial you will learn how to turn a favorite font into a single stroke font for journaling with our Pen Tool. Learn how to set up the font for converting to single stroke, what size to use and tricks to make the process more efficient. You will also learn how to locate the Create Font tools and which ones to use to create a custom font that can be used for engraving, embossing or writing. |
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Make a Font from Handwriting |
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Create a font uniquely your own. Use the Create Font feature of the Inspiration Studio Software to turn your own handwriting into a custom font formatted for cutting on the Inspiration Electronic cutter. The video will teach you how to first write the alphabet so that it will be easy to convert. Then learn how to scan it into the software and convert into a font using the Create Font tools. Finally, learn what might cause problems when creating a font and how to correct them. |
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Changing the Cutting Order |
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All projects cut in the order they are created which isn’t always the best order for what you are trying to do. You can change the order in which they cut so that your designs will cut more quickly, or so that they will cut better. This tutorial will show you how to change the cutting order of your design. |
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Print and Cut |
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You are all about paper and it may seem like a betrayal of the cutter to want to cut out clipart. However, there are times when only clipart will do and you want an easy way to cut it out! Scissors are so old hat when you can use electronic cutting to get great cuts. This tutorial will show you how to import your clipart in to the software and create a cutting template. You will learn how to use the Edition method of vectorization to automatically trace around the outside of the clipart for a cutting line. Finally, you will learn how to use the template to position the clipart for a great cut. After learning this technique you will be even more in love with your Pazzles cutter and it will change how you look at clipart forever! |
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Scoring Guidelines |
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Learn how to create score guidelines to help you perfectly align your titles and cutouts on a page. If you have ever glued down a title on your page only to realize afterward that it is crooked then you won’t want to miss this video! |
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Color Palette ABC’s Part 2 |
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You have already mastered the basics of the color palette but in this tutorial you will learn how to take full advantage of all the feature the color palette has to offer! The second in a two part series, this tutorial will show you how to create custom colors in your color palette using photographs. You will also learn how to create a color palette using your favorite paper line, and how you can save your own custom palette so that you can use it again and again for all of your projects! |
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Overlays Made Easy: Part 2 |
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Learn how to create beautiful overlays with word borders. This video is a continuation of the Overlays tutorial under the Building on the Basics Overlay tutorial and takes creating overlays to a whole new level! |
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Video Runtime: 16:16 |
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Make Your Own Wordbook |
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Create your own wordbook keepsake using any word you want. Wordbooks are mini albums that have letters on each page that stack together to form a word. After watching this tutorial you can make a wordbook out of any word in any font you want! Make an wordbook for your mother for mothers day, or as a coffee table piece to remember a weekend getaway. There are hundreds of ways to use wordbooks! |
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Video Runtime: 12:09 |
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