Stand Out Gift Wrapping

January 16, 2015 By Pam

Following on from last week’s post where I shared the set of Stand Up Numbers, here’s the Stand Up Alphabet File, that I promised.

These are great to personalize gift wrap or a gift box or whatever else you can think of. Line up the letters you need in a Circle, square or any other shape you have in your library. Then cut them on the machine and decorate your packages.

How I did it

Open the Alphabet file. Select the letters that you need, one by one by holding down the Shift key to group them together.
Copy (CTRL C). Open a new page/tab in the Silhouette Software and paste (CTRL V) onto the new blank page.
Arrange each letter using the Alignment tools. I also use the arrow keys to nudge the letters together until I’m happy with the spacing.
Draw or Select a shape from your library to fit around your word. Line it all up and Cut.

Working on a separate page gives you more room to move the letters around and leaves the original Alphabet file intact for next time. You can save the new word file too, to use again later.

Here’s a bird’s eye view of the present I tizzied up. You can see that I backed the cut out with a contrast paper which really makes it pop!

I made my own glitter card stock by sticking a glitter book covering material (like contact) onto plain white card stock. Then I ran it through the machine using the textured card stock settings on double cut (I didn’t unload the machine, but could see that it hadn’t quite cut through so I re cut it again (that did the trick.)

You’ll probably see some more silver glittery projects from me in coming posts – this only used a fraction of the meter long roll!

The Files.

Here’s the free Silhouette Studio Cutting File for Version 3 (Tested in this version)

Here’s the free Silhouette Studio Cutting File for Version 2

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Comments

Leny Guerra says

January 16, 2015 at 9:13 am

Thanks, thanks, Kisses
- Pam says
  
  January 16, 2015 at 7:44 pm
  
  My pleasure Leny.
Cheryle says

January 16, 2015 at 9:32 am

Thank you so much! I love this stand up alphabet.
- Pam says
  
  January 16, 2015 at 7:44 pm
  
  Glad you like it Cheryle.
j says

January 16, 2015 at 6:29 pm

thank you!
- Pam says
  
  January 16, 2015 at 7:45 pm
  
  As always – my pleasure J.
Linda says

January 16, 2015 at 6:44 pm

Thank you Pam for the file and how to use it. xx
- Pam says
  
  January 16, 2015 at 7:46 pm
  
  Hope you get a chance to use the file sometime Linda. 🙂
Sarah says

January 17, 2015 at 1:58 am

Thank you for sharing. I am anxious to try these soon.
- Pam says
  
  January 18, 2015 at 11:10 am
  
  Glad you like the file Sarah 🙂 i Love to see pics of what my reader make with my files….
Diamantin says

January 17, 2015 at 3:52 am

Very nice. 🙂
- Pam says
  
  January 18, 2015 at 11:12 am
  
  Thanks Diamantin, glad you like it 🙂
Dana says

January 17, 2015 at 10:02 am

Thank you so much! I love the letters and numbers. They’re perfect for a card I’m planning.
- Pam says
  
  January 18, 2015 at 11:13 am
  
  thanks Dana, I ‘d love to see a pic of your card 🙂
Emily @ Two Purple Couches says

January 28, 2015 at 9:43 pm

Awww, I love this idea!! So cute & fun for any gift-giving occasion! Thanks for linking up to Creative Spark last week. Hope you’ll party with us again this week 🙂
- Pam says
  
  January 29, 2015 at 5:42 pm
  
  thanks Emily.
Candace says

January 29, 2015 at 8:39 am

Thanks for the great file and tutorial! I love it!
Glad you linked up!
- Pam says
  
  January 29, 2015 at 5:41 pm
  
  Thanks for visiting Candace 🙂
Dolly says

May 5, 2015 at 10:28 pm

Thanks! I don’t have the DE yet so it’s swell of you to do the files up for us! 😀
Angelia Ulrich says

May 22, 2015 at 11:19 pm

Thanks so much, Pam! I found your tut on the Silhouette School. I’m new to the Cameo. My question is what is the difference between version 2 & 3? What happened to version 1? I’m eager to try this! I REALLY love that you post your responses to the comments. So many don’t & so to us the questions are left unanswered. Angelia who has just subscribed 🙂
- Pam says
  
  May 23, 2015 at 8:10 am
  
  Hi Angelia,
  Thanks for your kind words and for subscribing 🙂
  The versions of the software are just named with a new number when Silhouette does upgrades. I just keep updating when a new version comes out. Mostly it’s just bug fixes etc.
  However, back in 2014 they did a really big upgrade that included lots of new design features too. Unfortunately, it was very buggy and people had a lot of trouble with the new software version. Many people that had upgraded had so much trouble with various issues (that they hadn’t had before) that they demanded that Silhouette allow them to revert back to the previous version of the software (V2.9.45).
  It’s been over a year now and Silhouette have sorted out the issues, (I have no trouble with the updated version,) but some are reluctant to change over from the old version which they know and love which is why I offer both V3 files and the V2 files.
  As you’re new at this I expect that you’ve downloaded the latest version of the software. In that case just download my V3 files and ignore the V2 files.
  
  Enjoy your Machine, It really is fantastic as is the software 🙂
  Hope this helps
  Cheers
  Pam
moni says

August 10, 2015 at 1:36 am

Thank you so much! How a great help for beginners like me!