Cute Handbag

2nd project was the Handbag card, it was a combination of working with Inkscape, vinil-cutting and Heat-pressing. The main purpose of this project was to learn to opatate and use the Vinil-cutter and the Heat press.

The vinil-cutter reads pdf format and detects either lines or fillings that you have, in Inkscape you can define the cutting lines by setting them to 0,02 mm in thickness. you can also convert pixel images to bitmap images that the Vinil-cutter can read, or you can have it filled with no lines. finally you can save your file to the pdf format for the Vinil-cutter to read.

Using Inkscape magic

Here I used the tool Trace bitmap to convert the image to manageable image, and then separated the image into two parts for two different colors. After That I smoothed some parts out by editing the paths of the nodes using Edit Nodes tool

Cutting and Heat pressing

Because I´m Heat-pressing the image into fabric I need to flip the image (done in Inkscape) so I can then lay it down facing the right way after cutting it.