How to sell silhouette designs on etsy
How to Prepare SVG Files to Sell (Silhouette Studio) - How to Make and Sell SVG Files on Etsy
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hey everybody tanya from shooting star
svg back
and today i am going to go through how
to test your svg files
in silhouette studio before selling them
on etsy
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and also getting any feedback as well on
what you would like to see so i did
create this video today and the next one
that is about to show up for cricut
um based off of some feedback from
somebody on my facebook group so if you
haven't done that
go on over to facebook join my group i'm
trying to develop a community of
like-minded individuals who'd like to
make passive income
through selling digital downloads
whether that be on essie or other
platforms
so i went ahead and posted on one of the
groups i'm a part of for people to go
ahead
and shoot me some of their designs
keep in mind i have no idea what these
are going to turn out to be like
and i also have a few test files that i
created in inkscape really quickly just
to show you some differences
that are very critical when creating
your files okay especially when you're
getting into more intricate layered
designs
where people are going to have to be
making crazy cuts
so i'm i have silhouette open right now
and i have these test files
open so i have used
um this is the hello wedding font okay
um this text here is going to show up
fine because i have this font loaded in
my program
if somebody does not have this hello
wedding font loaded into their program
this will not show up at all if it is
not converted to a path you will see
that in the qriket video
this text is not unionized or welded as
it's called
here in silhouette studio as well as
cricut
and this is unionized so when you go to
send for the machine
you can see that the non-unionized path
and let me just zoom in there is going
to cut out pieces of your letters which
you do not want
whereas the unionized piece will cut out
a smooth
cut okay so this can sometimes be named
different things depending on what
program you're using
um generally i will see union uh weld
union and weld are the two things that i
normally see
so depending on what program you're
using you want to make sure that you're
welding your text to make sure
um that is a smooth cut or else you're
going to have some pretty angry
customers
okay um let me go back to
the files here i can close out of this
one now
and this one i just wanted to show you
um what
different things look like okay so i
just did two circles here
these two are overlapped i did not do a
subtract
these two are unionized so that i welded
them together
and these two i just created a
difference or a subtract
between the two and added on a duplicate
so i did not lose the shape
now when i click on send for this one
you'll see that the unionized one will
cut out in one
shape the difference with a duplicate
will actually
separate the shapes which is probably
what we're going for if we're layering
and if you take that away you can see
that you can cut them both out
separately
and this overlap without a subtract are
the two shapes that are going to cut out
if you drag this one out here it's not
taking anything away from that
background
okay so that could be a problem you
really have to think about these things
when you're designing your files
okay so i purchased from about six shops
so what i'm gonna do is i'm going to
um pause the video and i'm going to open
up all the files and we're going to go
through each one
so i'll be right back the first file
that i have
open is from donkey creek designs and
they've been on etsy since 2018 and have
made over 11 000 sales which is
fantastic
and if you go down here they do have a
bunch of different
sublimation files and some digital
cutting designs as well
so i had gone through and purchased this
autumn vibes svg here and
one other one i'm not going to scroll
around to go and try to find it
but um you can see these files look very
clean that she has
very good branding her legos here um you
know things
things that nature i'm not going to go
through all that right now but here's
the first file i'm just going to click
on it
i'm going to click on ungroup and see
what happens okay so when i ungroup it i
get
both and then let me see if i can pull
this away if she subtracted it she did
not
okay so this will be interesting i will
say normally when i do
an overlay i will take this
and i will subtract it from this
background
so i'm gonna send this and we're gonna
see what it looks like like this
and then i'm gonna see if it makes any
difference i don't think it will
oh boy that's not good okay
so this file would irritate me
um purchasing because i have to do a
little bit work here
alright um it looks like her text is
welded so that's good
but because she did not subtract from
that back design
um you got to do a little bit of work
right
so to do that i have to take this and
select this and i have to click on
subtract all that's going to keep
the wording here on top and it's not
going to make that disappear
now when i click send i should get a
clean cut through on both
yeah okay there we go so that's what i
need um this one would be a little bit
tough to cut on the machine
um some of these lines are very thin but
overall um not too bad i would just say
that um
you might want to go back and edit this
file to do that because when people
layer
normally what they do and i'll post a
video
up above about layering is they'll
create like two squares here
and separate the designs and then cut
and then they'll lay um
they'll they'll line those the squares
up together so
overall good shot um that would not work
for me on the silhouette
uh because i had to put a little work in
but um
aside from that everything else looks
very clean
so this is the second file from the same
shop
and i'm just going to go ahead and
ungroup and see what happens there i
presume i'll be able to pull this
out okay so you can see when i pull this
out the lines are actually subtracted so
this one
should be okay let's see what happens
when i click on send
yep totally gorge okay so she did the
right thing here
by subtracting the pumpkin outline from
that leopard text so this one would cut
beautifully i'd be able to put my
my squares here my registration mark
says sometimes i like to call them
and i'd be i'd be good to go so um that
is definitely what you want to do when
you're doing something a little bit more
intricate like that
the next files i purchased
were from damsel in digital this is a
fairly new shop
with only a few listings up
so i'm going to go ahead and just show
you
what those files look like okay i'm
going to close out of here
and right off the jump i can tell that
she probably is not working on the right
size artboard you can see the width and
height is eight and a half by eleven
ish um so if i could recommend anything
it would be to change artboard to twelve
by twelve because that's what we're
cutting from when we're using these
machines
um it looks like this is a compound path
because i cannot ungroup any of the text
so if i click on send hopefully
everything is welded
it is unfortunately i have to change my
um artboard size but uh
everything here is welded beautiful so
that's what we like to see
i'm just going to click on send here you
can see the same issue with the artboard
so i do recommend getting a larger
artboard if possible
and just from looking at this it looks
like everything is welded
very well so this will work great
good job okay
now we're going to get into some designs
by
hello jolie and this is
a pretty newest shop 2019 okay
31 uh listings in total looks like
there's a mix of sublimation
and svg so we'll go ahead and see how
these are gonna send out
this is a pretty intricate layered uh
svg design
um again eight and a half by eleven
artboard what's happening here
i'm going to make this bigger if i can
give you any advice make sure your
artboards
just match up with the what people are
going to be using because this can be
frustrating
um at least for me if i click on ungroup
okay let's see what's going on here okay
so okay
okay i'm liking this it looks like
she compound path
all of the colors that go together let's
see if all the blacks go together oh
boom this is good okay so when i click
on send this should all cut separately
i'm not worried about this
oh yeah that's beautiful that's what we
love to see ooh boom boom boom
phenom uh you know the good thing about
that is this should open up
very great in the cricket software
uh great job not a lot of people do that
um wow yeah boom boom
let's see if i can ungroup that further
uh
i can't yeah that was a great job okay
so that was a
fantastic job on the a meowaka
listing and i wouldn't have any issues
cutting that
now this boss lady listing let's see if
we got the same thing going on here i'm
gonna ungroup
i'm gonna drag the black okay this is
just completely straight up layered
so this probably wouldn't cause too many
issues let's see what it looks like when
i click on send
only because um you put straight color
behind it right
so when you zoom in here it's not really
cutting anything that it's not supposed
to cut
so i would say that that's okay um
the good thing about it too is that when
you take this away
it's also cutting i guess the gold you
don't really need that gold under
lady but aside from that this is another
fantastic job
uh you can also take this and you can do
the subtract all
function i'm sorry if you guys can hear
my kids in the background they're
high on sugar um
if you move it then that's what you'll
get right
so you could you could do something like
that too just keep that in mind
um but again it's another good uh
good go on that one good job
the next one that i'm gonna go through
is from uh iseta rose and it's a
she has a fairly new shop
and this has some embroidery some
svgs and some digital downloads so still
building that shop up
i thought this was kind of a cute file
so i got stuff that's already ungrouped
okay i can see here that there could be
some issues but we'll
go ahead and click on send and see what
that looks like
so i'm gonna tell you what right now
this fish
fishy fishy is going to be stupid hard
to cut
um because there's so many details in
there
um the other thing too is you want to
make sure that that i
is subtract do that subtract all
function here where the line is
or you're going to have a cut right
through your letters okay um so people
aren't catching this before they go cut
that's going to be an issue
we're going to run into the same thing
when we go over this in qriket design
space so
um keep that in mind other than that
everything else is welded and it looks
good so
great job i would just make sure that
this uh these lines are
are situated the way that they need to
be so okay cool i'm gonna close out of
that one good job
now this is an svg that i'm a little bit
nervous about
there's a lot going on here i'm gonna
click on it
uh i'm gonna click on ungroup and see
what happens i'm nervous
oh god there's so much
we got a white background a border
of very split up lemon
i'm never gonna ever cut that little
piece out there unless i'm making a
pretty big sign
but you know what i think this is gonna
work so let's go ahead and click on send
yeah man everything will cut out and uh
everything will look good some of these
lines are so tiny though i don't know
how i'd feel about cutting those out my
machine
i guess if it was like really big
then it might work out well um
but yeah this would work i just am try i
i always try to be conscious when i'm
creating something i don't make anything
too thin because it's a pain in the butt
to weed you're pulling always pulling
something up but yeah this is a good
this will work good job
um
and that one was by lilac and pine
designs who has been on
since uh 2020 and has a bunch of
different
uh designs up here that all look very
good so keep up the good work
um yeah that's awesome you did a really
good job
and then the next person i have is
madison made designs
and um i don't think i'm nervous about
this one i feel pretty good um
she has uh this is her design bundle
shop she has a lot of good stuff here a
lot of cute cute stuff
um i looked through earlier um but this
was the one she suggested i purchased so
i did
when i click on this um golly gracious
when i ungrip it
it is everywhere um
that's fine i'm just going to click and
see how it stands i'm i'm not going to
worry too much about the ungrouping
i will say some of these lines are a
little thin and it would be a pain in
the butt to uh
to cut but this this this this will work
this will work
i will say that silhouette studio is a
lot easier to use when opening up svg
files so y'all are probably going to
hear me grow and grown a little bit more
when we go through uh cricut design
space stuff
okay so yep this will work really well
so um
i'm impressed ladies this was all really
really good work so
um keep it up um the only you know the
only few things here and there that you
could you do to work on your files so
you just have to be a little bit
cognizant of
um but you know we got six shops here
all in different stages of their sales
and um yeah that's a really really
really good job
so i'm going to go ahead and sign off on
this video
i will post the cricut design space
link up above and you all can see me go
through
that we'll call it part two i suppose
and and if you need anything or have any
questions feel free
to comment below or go over to facebook
and
ask the question whatever you so desire
hopefully this helped y'all out with
what is good and what is not good
when creating designs so i'll catch you
on the next video
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