Heart and Arrow Valentine's Basket Tag 💘

JAN 14, 2025

Here's the latest with Cuttle.

• New template: Heart and Arrow Valentine’s Basket Tag
• Partnership with DualTite Adhesive at Creative Cut Supplies - use CUTTLE10 for 10% off
• Cuttle Editor Tutorial: Make a background pattern with text
• New About Us page

Heart and Arrow Valentine’s Basket Tag

Our latest template is a Heart and Arrow Valentine’s Basket Tag that you can instantly personalize by typing any name.

• The name is automatically sized and centered
• It generates a two-layer design, perfect for acrylic
• Dots on i’s are automatically connected
• The name is welded to the arrow (magic!)

Like many of our recent templates, there’s also a bulk production option.

The sample above was made with:

• 1/8 inch Matte Acrylic from Custom Made Better - use our code CUTTLE10 for 10% off
• DualTite double-sided adhesive - our newest partner! Read more below 👇

DualTite Adhesive - CUTTLE10 for 10% off

You’re probably familiar with 3M double-sided adhesive. You apply it to the back of your material before cutting, then cut, then peel and stick it onto your backer. It’s faster and cleaner than glue, and especially handy for acrylic.

(If you’re not familiar with this, I love John Kuiphoff’s video about it.)

Anyway, makers love this stuff — but it’s expensive.

Our friend David Brown, who runs the material supplier Creative Cut Supplies and also makes a ton of ornaments every season, was looking for a cheaper alternative to 3M to improve his margins.

He ended up working with a manufacturer to develop a new product — DualTite.

Federico and I have been using DualTite for the past few months and we find it works just as well as 3M, while being cheaper and available in more convenient sizes.

We partnered with David to offer Cuttle users 10% off at his store Creative Cut Supplies — use our coupon code CUTTLE10

DualTite is also available at many other laser material suppliers, so be on the lookout. If you like 3M but don’t like the price, I recommend trying it!

Thank you David for bringing this new product to market and for the coupon!

Video Tutorial: Background pattern with text

In Federico’s livestream last week, he showed how to take a shape (for example, a Heart) and fill it with a background pattern made of text.

Here’s the resulting template.

Live streams are on our Facebook Group on Thursdays at 1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET. See you there!

New About Us page

I wrote up a short About Us page.

Did you know there are just five of us on the core Cuttle team? And that we hadn’t all met each other IRL until just a few months ago, at our first team retreat?

The About Us page also includes some history and our initial motivations in creating Cuttle.

For more on Cuttle’s history, I discussed our company’s journey in my conversation with Liz Olson on Conversations Behind the Laser. That is the Audio Summit (podcast) I mentioned last week — I’ve been listening to these interviews all week and highly recommend it!

Other Improvements and Fixes 🐞

• When editing the name of an exported file, you can now use the Numpad Enter key to confirm the file name and save. Thank you JerseyMike for the bug report!

Toby Schachman