I can sense the love! Your cards are wonderful.
Just another card to share, this one I made for my wife. Was hoping to make a fancy pop up card (a la’ LovePop cards style-check them out if you haven’t seen them, they are amazing.)
Anyways, I ended up kinda copying their front cover from one card and finding a design for the inside. The red sections are cut out with red felt glued between the layers. Also played around with engraving card stock a bit and I like how it turned it. Kindla a light caramel gold colored engrave.
I tried slowing the speed down to 200 and lowering the power, but didn’t notice much reduction in the corner rounding burns. They aren’t bad in any case.
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Beautiful! The rose cards look professional!
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Simply gorgeous!
Really nice!
WoW - They really do look professional (or better) like @Jules said! What do you use to hold down the cardstock (protect movement from air assist)?
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Thanks for the inspiration!
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Thanks!
I just taped around the edges of the paper with painters tape, keeping most of it on the crumb tray and about 1/8" on the cardstock. It’s been working really well for me. One of the pics in the first post show the tape.
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how did you get it to just cut out the lines and not engrave the entire image? The only setting I can get paper/and adding artwork to work on is engrave, not cut?
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Hmm, I just uploaded my artwork as SVG files. In illustrator or whatever vector software you are using you set the lines to have a stroke, but no fill. Glowforge sets strokes as cut by defualt and fills as engrave. However, if you upload a SVG file with fill, in the Glowforge interface where you adjust the power/speed settings for each element, if you hit the little dropdown arrow/chevron, there is an option called “Convert to cut” or “Convert to Engrave” that should allow you to switch between cutting the outline and engraving…
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I’ve had great results so far with the hold-down pins on cardstock cuts—though making sure to manage cut order well because the fan can ruin even the best of well-secured-paper-edge plans.
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wow nice job question where i can get the svg
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Reminder - per our guidelines, it’s against forum rules to ask for free design files.
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My favorite rule! That’s a rule I adopted in a Facebook group
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Here is my “oh,no, Sunday.Nothing is open” SEKLEMA board for paper… $4.00 11" x 14" x .050 acrylic + transfer paper tape (low tack) i had on hand…
Worked great even with fan on.
Your wife did great work 
Nevermind
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Just got my Seklema mat so I am itching to do some cards. Thank you everyone for the setting suggestions