I need help with this svg!

[Team_mom]

Ok, so I made an svg, but I need help to get it to cut right. I tried doing the union thing, tried combining. What I want is for the mother to overlap the boxes it's in, but to make sure it cuts as one piece. I hope I am explaining this right. The way it looks right now, the "A", the "M" the "t" and the "h" will be cut off at the boxe lines. How do I do this? If I click on union it makes them go away which I don't want to do. Please help!

[Team_mom]

tile_a mother.svg

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[HeatherM]

Are you cutting this with one color of vinyl? If you are then your best option would be to make a mat of the letters and weld that to the squares. Then select the words and the background and Path/exclusion. If you are using paper and want/are willing to use 2 colors, you could cut it separate and add the letters on the top with or without the matted background.

BTW you need to Path/Union on any of your letters that are touching, none of them are welded. If you are going to use Path/Union on the background you are also going to have to select both rectangles and use Path/Exclusion first.

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[Team_mom]

I am cutting with one color vinyl. How do you make a "mat" of the letters? Sorry, I've never done this before. Whay do I want to do path/exclusion for the background? I'm a little confused. I'm not worried about the saying on the inside, the only thing I am having a problem with is the "A Mother" overlapping the squares and cutting off parts of the letters. When I weld it, it looks like this......It cuts off the bottom of the letters

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[talanhart]

Try this file. I offset the path of the letters instead of stroking them.

[Team_mom]

Talanhart, what you did was perfect, but I am still COMPLETELY lost on how you did this. Could you please give me a step-by-step so I know for the future?

Thank you so much for all of your help!

[talanhart]

When I opened the file, the "A Mother" was stroked or outlined in Black. I removed the Stroke and offset the path of just those letters .020" and then filled that with Black. I also did a Union on the th and er and also the letters that needed it in hearts forever. From there, you just select everything filled in Black and do a Path Union. I did this in Illustrator. It might be a little different in Ink.

[Team_mom]

Does anyone use CorelDraw? My husband just got it for me. He says I will be able to do a lot more in that than inkscape, but I have NO idea how to do some of the simplest things, like removing the circle after putting text on it. In corel there is no,path/obect to path. It's kind of foreign to me but if I can do a lot more in it i would love to learn it. Also, is Illustrator very user friendly?

[Team_mom]

Oh yeah, THANK YOU talanhart for helping me! I still don't understand how you did it lol, but thank you for getting me a copy that can cut:)

[talanhart]

If Corel Draw is like Illustrator, you need to look under the fonts menu to convert the fonts to outlines or paths. In Illustrator its called Create outlines. In Corel I think its create curves. Make sure you have your text selected before creating paths or curves.