Creepy Halloween story book

How to make a creepy Halloween story book with XCS

Open XCS and insert a square. Adjust the square to the book size you want.

Insert a circle to the size you want then click copy then paste, so you have the same size for every cutout circle.

The circles might not line up exactly, so hoover over all the circles, click on align on top of the screen and click align left.

Now all the circles are aligned on the left side. You can hoover over all the circles again and right click the mouse and click group.

This way the circles can't move and will stay in place. Before clicking group, set the cut settings for each circle and also the page square.

Insert the pictures and remove the background by clicking edit image. Use the wand and click on the white spaces, so the background will be removed.

The background is removed, so you can click save, on the green button that is on the right bottom

Move the picture into the Page frame and adjust size to your liking. Click the text button on the left side of the screen and click the screen so the word *Hello* pops up.

On the top right side of the screen, you can fill out your text and under *typeface* you can choose your font.

Also set the setting for engrave and the power and speed.

Once you have that done, move you text under the image and adjust to where you want it.

You can line up 3 pages with pictures and text on one screen.

Make sure to set all the settings for the cut line/squares and engraving *Pictures/ text*.

You are ready to engrave and cut 3 pages at a time. (depending what size you want to make)

Once all the pages are engraved and cut, you can use pieces of rope, to hold the pages together. Cut them all at the same size, generous enough, so that you have space to make the knots.

Push the rope through the holes.

Make knots or double knots with the rope. Not to tight, or the pages won't be able to turn.

Now your creepy Halloween story book is finished. The end.... Mwhahahaha

Here is the layout of the pages. When you want to make the book and use the file that i downloaded, keep in mind,

that i grouped each page to make it easier for you to use. You can adjust each page as you see fit and also the images with text. You have to ungroup each page first, if you want to move things around. If you decide on doing 3 pages at a time, but don't want to lose the other pages, you can just slide the other pages to the right, off the screen, till you finish engraving/cutting 1 or more pages and then move the other pages back to the screen. It will not engrave/cut the pages that are moved to side.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial of making this fun Halloween book :-)

PS, Pictures might look a bit too big, but on the bottom of this screen there is a bar to slide it to the side. to see the whole pictures