A couple of months ago, I did a video interview for Silhouette for their Mint. It's now up on my YouTube channel. Check it out here or the embedded video below.
In the video I mention that anyone can be an artist with the Silhouette Mint. It's so true! I volunteer as a youth leader for 8-12 year old girls in our congregation. We meet twice a month to talk about spiritual doctrine, learn new skills, socialize and do fun activities. As a learning activity, I taught them about the design process and had them come up with their own stamp designs. I was so impressed with the skill and focus of each of these girls! A few of them had me help them with their word art. I was a little reluctant to do that because I wanted them to have full ownership, so I made them trace and add their own personal touches to do that.
This was perhaps one of my favorite activities as their leader. Seeing them thoughtfully come up with a design, draft and draw it out was so satisfying. For best results when making your own stamps:
Use the brightest paper you can find. Premium laser paper is smooth and solid white.
Scan your work at 300 DPI or snap a photo under natural light.
Adjust your image to make your blacks blacker and your whites whiter. I adjust in my photos setting, or use your favorite image editor.
Open into Silhouette Mint software & make!
If you'd like to get your own Mint, now is definitely the time!! Right now they're only $49.99 (down from $129.99)!!! That's a steal. With Christmas around the corner, I think it's a no-brainer.
In the video I mention that anyone can be an artist with the Silhouette Mint. It's so true! I volunteer as a youth leader for 8-12 year old girls in our congregation. We meet twice a month to talk about spiritual doctrine, learn new skills, socialize and do fun activities. As a learning activity, I taught them about the design process and had them come up with their own stamp designs. I was so impressed with the skill and focus of each of these girls! A few of them had me help them with their word art. I was a little reluctant to do that because I wanted them to have full ownership, so I made them trace and add their own personal touches to do that.
This was perhaps one of my favorite activities as their leader. Seeing them thoughtfully come up with a design, draft and draw it out was so satisfying. For best results when making your own stamps: