How do I love thee, let me count the ways-----my Cameo of course!

More ways my Cameo Digital Cutter is aiding my pottery work
The software Designer Edition enabled me to quickly make a template following the excellent advice from today's edition of Ceramic Daily    Liz Zlot Summerfield shared her great technique for getting a slab foot just right and I love the shape of her plate.  Using my Silhouette Cameo Software and my favorite Dollar Tree Foam (which now comes in larger size), I was able to quickly create the templates needed to make perfect feet for plates every time.  The software has such nifty tools, ---first I used a tool I hadn't had occasion to use before,  I created an oval then copied it and rotated it to be vertical clicked both of them-- used the alignment tools to center them

Then used the select all, went to the Modify window and for the first time I was able to use the Divide tool which cut all the bits into separate elements.  You can see the parts I wanted for my plate shape in green here:

Then I spliced 1 and 1/2 sheets of my foam together so I could get the 12x12" size I wanted, and then let my silhouette Cameo cut out the green shape as a template for the plate.  

Then having the overall template (green), I went back to the software, made a smaller version in yellow again, using the cernter/middle alignment tools and offset another one in the middle to get the pattern for the foot and a perfect placement template.  All this took less time than to write up this entry in my blog.