How to Make Greeting Cards With Paper Cutouts

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How to Make Greeting Cards With Paper Cutouts How to Make Greeting Cards With Paper Cutouts

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Cut out whatever you'd like - moons, stars, and mountains perhaps, or simple circles, squares, and ovals. Whatever the design, it's easy to use your cutouts and a little imagination to make homemade greeting cards.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Step1
Draw or trace shapes and letters on colored construction paper or cut them from magazines.
Step2
Cut out the shapes and/or letters.
Step3
Fold a piece of construction paper in half.
Step4
Arrange the cutouts on the folded paper to determine your design.
Step5
Put rubber cement or glue on one side of the cutout shapes.
Step6
Place the shapes on the construction paper, glue-side down.
Step7
Smooth out glue bubbles and wipe off excess glue.
Step8
When shapes are secure, write a message on the inside with marker.

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on 11/22/2005 When you're making a volcano, fill a 20 ounce cup halfway full of baking soda, add vinegar and it will start bubbling and spurting out the top. To make the bubbles go slower, add laundry detergent.

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on 11/22/2005 Choose glossy, coloured pictures from old magazines and make desired cutouts from them. You can get amazing designs and shades to use as cutouts for flowers, sky, sea, etc. Your imagination is the only limit :)

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