creating stickers

[kenknight]

Hi All,

Searched through the forums on creating stickers / cut paths and have tried several methods with not so good results.  If I take and create a simple idea and then use the outline tool I come up with the attached first file.  The problem is I need a cut line beyond that and other than manually tracing I haven't found a good way to get it.

 

I tried the conture tool and the problem there is I get really odd artifacts in the resulting outline.  2nd image.

I found one thread that stepped through a process that included a "Grow / Shrink" option, but couldn't find that anywhere in designer.  Also I found the 'bake appearance' button but wasn't exactly sure that that does.  Maybe in finalizes the contour process?

Any thoughts and especially pointing to an example would be extremely helpful.

Thanks,
Ken

 

 

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Ken.

To create a cut line, start by applying a wide stroke to the shape, with alignment set to ‘Outside’. Use the ‘Expand Stroke’ command to create a filled shape that mimics the stroke; the fill colour will be set to the original stroke colour and the stroke colour will be set to ‘None’, so if you swap those colours you’ll get a thin stroke separated from the original shape.

Be Happy.afdesign

[kenknight]

Oh wow!  Thanks so much.  I'll give this a shot right now.

Cheers!
Ken