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Featured Courses
Screen Printing with Rust
Learn how to screen print with rust and create soulful, organic designs on fabric—using nothing but rust, time, and your creative intuition.
Rust Dyeing on Fabric
Explore the quiet alchemy of rust dyeing—a slow, intuitive process where fabric transforms through time, touch, and the elemental beauty of decay.
Design 2 Cut Masterclass
In-depth online course for electronic cutting machines. Learn to design files and then cut them using your machine
Design 2 Cut Bootcamp
3 day recorded boot camp immersion into using the electronic cutting machines.
Design 2 Cut Introduction to Inkscape
A free introductory course on Inkscape's basic functions and how to use them with your electronic cutting machine.
Design 2 Cut Inkscape Shape Tools
Learn to use Inkscape's shape tools to create simple stencils and more complicated designs to cut with your cutting machine.
Design 2 Cut Inkscape Drawing Tools
In this course you will learn to use Inkscape's drawing tools--the pencil tool and the pen tool to create one of a kind designs for your cutting machine.
Design 2 Cut Inkscape Eraser Tool
In this course you will learn to use Inkscape's eraser tools to create organic and textural drawing using the technique of negative drawing.
Design 2 Cut Silhouette Trace Bitmap
In this course you will learn to use Silhouette Cameo Design Studio software to convert hand drawn and clip art images to files that can be used with the Silhouette Cameo cutting machine.