OK so i figured it out. you guys are really going to face palm when you hear this. I was working with black and white strokes with no fill and that actually was my problem. i though for some reason that the white area was actually white instead of being empty/nothing. So the raise/lower section was ...

Hello all, I am super new to Inkscape, like 48 hours new, with no experience with anything similar other that Paint, so I hope my question isn't too dumb. I am having an impossible time with moving one of two objects/images on top of the other. Here is what I am trying to accomplish; I first created...