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How to Make Greeting Cards With Paper Cutouts

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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.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  1. Step 1

    Draw or trace shapes and letters on colored construction paper or cut them from magazines.

  2. Step 2

    Cut out the shapes and/or letters.

  3. Step 3

    Fold a piece of construction paper in half.

  4. Step 4

    Arrange the cutouts on the folded paper to determine your design.

  5. Step 5

    Put rubber cement or glue on one side of the cutout shapes.

  6. Step 6

    Place the shapes on the construction paper, glue-side down.

  7. Step 7

    Smooth out glue bubbles and wipe off excess glue.

  8. Step 8

    When shapes are secure, write a message on the inside with marker.

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MrsPerrin said

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on 3/23/2009 Super.

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on 11/25/2008 Great idea. Seems handcrafted items went out of style for a long time. It's good to see the basic techniques coming back!

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Anonymous said

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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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