Another thing that keeps tripping me up is welding a circle (a ring) to text. You select both the circle and the text and "Make Compound."(top right in photo above). Or maybe you just want the words cut out of the circle, well that is how Make Compound Path works. you can separate the shapes and cut them out of different color paper/vinyl etc. Say you layer two shapes, like the circle with Happy New Year in it. When you Weld shapes together, they will become one - but sometimes little things like the dot over the letter i in Silhouette are left out of the welding, so you need to drag a box around everything and Group them together so they stay together. All the overlapping lines disappear and you're left with a nice single "path". Once all the letters are overlapping, drag a box to select everything and select Weld from the Object/Modify menu. If you use the arrow keys and not the mouse then you don't risk accidentally moving the letters up and down. You want to "nudge" the letters closer together so they overlap. Now each letter can be selected individually. Type your text, in this case it's "Silhouette", and then Ungroup.
When you're working with text it's nice to have each word cut in one piece, it makes weeding and transferring much easier, and just looks smoother. Here is a cool and very practical use of the Weld tool, and a good example of why you sometimes need to use Weld and Group together. In the screenshot above, take a look at the work "Silhouette".
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