First you find set up your design file in Silhoutte Studio.  Here I have used an original design by, Lisa Faber, you can find it under Mermaid Life in our file section.  As you can see she has an example of a possible color scheme on the side.

 You will then click on the Line Color Tool.  Looks like a sideway rainbow.

Okay…. So I tried this. It did not work.  The file would not allow me to Ungroup so that I could highlight what I wanted to color.  So you see sometimes you have to cry, pout, give up.. nope.  You have to try something else cos’ there has to be a way… I am a newbie in this! I mostly do cardstock and cards.  So lets learn this together… Okay.  Let’s click our undo arrow to get back to our original screen.

Okay… So I highlighted the file and right mouse clicked and chose – Make Compound Path.  Then I clicked on the paint bucket. So far so good.  I highlighted the word Mermaid.

Okay we are onto something here… I chose Purple. Now notice the inside of the “e”, “d”, and a couple of swirls are filled in.  Because I Made a Compound Path I need to click on the inside of each and click on another color – I chose white.

 Alright then.  Not great color choices but this is just an example.  Now on to the next step.

 Click on Cut Settings – it’s the little pen looking Icon.  Notice Standard is click ------ at this point you need to click on ADVANCED….

All right lets wrap this up…

You’ve clicked on the pen icon.  You’ve clicked Advanced.  Notice the color choices are now in little boxes – make sure the Fill Color is highlighted (oops failed to make a an ugly blue circle on it!!! Also note you can change your Material options, here vinyl is chosen.  I have the one color square highlighted because it here you can add a PAUSE between color cut/sketch --- you right click right on the square and an ADD Pause option will appear and you click on it.  And you would do this on every color (except the white in this particular file because we just want that blank)

Well folks this is as clear as I can make this.  As for me I think it would be easier to separate and line up my vinyl/cardstock by color on my screen and mat then print.  But that’s just me!!!  HOWEVER this would be a fantastic way to do a sketch…. The end.