Craft Edge

Here is what I have so far. I would like to have the rectangles with the text attached to the page instead of being entirely cut out. Thanks sooo much for the help.

Ok, now that it is 1 AM for me, I am going to stop but I have one more question. When I cut my design, I would like to have the writing punched out but still attached to the page; not entirely punched out. What am I doing wrong? I tried layering a square on top of everything, sending to back so I co...

I was able to get it to look like it would work by looking at the preview but before I could finish SCAL continuously shuts down when I click on path back minus front. Any ideas? I have tried restarting the computer, reinstalling the update but nothing has worked.

Thanks for your response. I am fairly new with SCAL so I am not quite sure how to get the first part of your insructions to work. Path back minus front is grayed out after I type in my letters. How can I activate it?

I have spent hours trying to get a page cut similar to the one I am attaching. I just can't seem to get the letters to attach to the rest of the page so they are not cut out. I had it working at one point but did some adjusting and lost it. I wasn't thinking so of course I didn't save it.

Thanks for your response. I did forget to mention I am using SCAL.

I am trying to cut text I have put inside a rectangle and would like to have the text attached to the rectangle so it is attached to the sheet. I have tried welding but doesn't seem to work.

Where do i find path/exclude?

I am quite new at this, but I have designed a page I would like to cut but seem to not having layers, groups, welding or something done correctly. Can someone please help? I have also created one in inkscape but can only import the border lines.