I've been enjoying videos by The Louisiana Hobby Guy. He does lots of nice tutorials on Lightburn, and he has a calming presence.

He did a video in 2023 on Creating a Halloween Tea Light with nothing but text and shapes in Lightburn! and I followed along with the design.

He called it a ten minute design, and I can see that for a subsequent project...

-Lightburn file

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The steps:

• Create a rectangle 3"x5" (or whatever you want), this is the frame.
• Create the inner part with Tools->offset shapes
  • direction inward
  • Offset difference ~0.47"

• Select the inner and outer rectangles and group them. Arrange->Group -

• Download a halloween font. I used Freaky Halloween

• Create text in Lightburn. Select your font. In the Freaky Halloween font the letter 'J' creates a bat. But many other options exist!

• Now you can duplicate the bat, resize it, rotate it, do what you want! -

• Put the bats into the center part of your rectangle. Move and resize them to make yourself happy! You do need to make sure you have overlap with the frame.

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• Select all of the shapes, frame and bats, and do a union.

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• Cut the rest of the pieces. They are in the -Lightburn file and in the video.

I used LED Tea lights.