I wanted to take the time to write a full tutorial that highlights some of our strongest features of Silhouette Studio® and Mint Studio™. I recently got married and am still in the full fledged honeymoon stage and love crafting with my wedding photos. I certain wish that I would have had the Mint when I sent out my hymeneals thank you cards concluding leap because it would have been so fun to postage our faces all over our envelopes!

So allow'due south go started. Mint Studio™ has some really fun filters that you can use to turn a photo into a postage stamp, but if you are looking to manipulate your image to get in exactly how you lot want it, you can use your Silhouette Studio® in conjunction with Mint Studio™ to do but that.

Pace I: Preparing the Pattern

1. Open up upwardly Silhouette Studio® and drag in your prototype that you desire to plough into a stamp.

2. I but wanted a portion of the image to be turned into a stamp, specifically the image constrained inside of the red circle below.

three. Highlight a circle and your photograph and click on the Modify window. Cull the "Crop" option. This will delete all of the areas of shapes obscured by other shapes. Our photo is at present a perfect circle. Oh, Silhouette Studio®, how I love you!

4. If you lot oasis't used the trace function in Silhouette Studio®, prepared to be amazed! Select the Trace window, so choose "Select Trace Expanse" to highlight the epitome you would like to trace. Once it is highlighted, you can accommodate the filters, threshold, and calibration. The surface area that is highlighted yellow will be traced. In one case y'all are satisfied with your traced surface area, click "Trace."

v. Red lines will at present appear over your paradigm where it was traced.

6. Delete your original epitome to reveal only your trace lines. Y'all tin can then choose the make full color and line color of your prototype to become a preview of what your stamp volition look like! If you lot want to delete pocket-size details you don't desire to keep in your design, apply the Eraser tool.

seven. Play around with adding text, shapes, designs, etc., to make your stamp completely custom.

8. Yous tin even double-click on your text and drag it on top of a shape to allow the text to bend to the path. Sentry this video to find out more most how to curve text in Silhouette Studio®.

9. Save your Silhouette Studio® file.

Step Two: Press Your Postage

1. Open up your pattern in Mint Studio™ and resize it to the stamp size of your choosing.

2. By clicking "Send to Mint," Mint Studio™ will automatically flip your image and prepare the file to be printed!

iii. Unwrap your stamp sheet from its packaging. DO Non remove the plastic layer covering the safety.

4. Insert the stamp sheet through the back slot of the Mint pointer showtime. Y'all will experience the stamp catch inside the car.

5. In Mint Studio™,  click "First Mint" and watch the magic happen. Pull out your stamp once it has finished press.

6. Get together your cake by sliding the top into identify.

7. Remove the lid from the block. Pull off the brownish protective sheet to reveal the adhesive mat.

8. Take your 3D relief in hand, peel off the plastic, and remove the cardboard surrounding it. There are perforated lines beyond the cardboard that help make removing the postage stamp easier.

9. The back of your 3D relief is coated with a pasty adhesive for easy application. Stick your stamp to the interchangeable base.

ten. Using Mint Inks, utilise ink straight to the stamp. The inner reservoir on the stamps will absorb the ink only where the stamp is printed. Using this method of applying the ink directly to the stamp, the colour goes only where you lot place information technology. After you apply the ink, wait 5–7 minutes earlier stamping.

eleven. The starting time couple of times yous use your stamp, the blueprint will be blurry. The excess ink but needs to be stamped off. Use a fleck piece of paper and stamp repeatedly. When the excess ink blots off, your stamp volition exist crisp and clear.

12. Don't forget to stamp the stamp label to put on your cake so that yous tin tell which stamp is which.

13. You tin can stamp 50+ times with your custom postage before the postage needs to be reinked.

How fun is that? I can see custom photo stamps used on Save the Dates, wedding invitations, birthday party stationery, favors—my mind is spinning. This is a full game changer, and the possibilities are countless with the Mint!

If you lot want to play around with our complimentary Mint Studio™ Software earlier you purchase a Mint auto, you can download that here!

What photo are you going to turn into a stamp?!