How to Make Cutouts

Stop wasting your money on expensive cutouts for scrapbooking and don't waste your time with a fancy cutting machine. You can easily make cutouts for your scrapbook pages on your own at home. Create any shape you need for any theme using just a few simple household items and some leftover scrapbook paper.

Things You'll Need

• Pencil Cookie Cutters, various Chipboard Scissors, straight/decorative Patterned paper, scraps Glue stick

Instructions

1. Use a pencil to trace around cookie cutters onto chipboard. You can use any sort of chipboard, including the back of a cereal box. If you don't have access to chipboard, thin cardboard will also work.

2. Cut out the shapes using straight-edged scissors or use decorative scissors for an attractive edge on your cutouts.

3. Trace the cutouts onto patterned paper that is large enough to fit and then cut out the paper using the same scissors you used for the cutouts.

4. Glue patterned paper scraps onto the chipboard cutouts using a glue stick. You can also use a different double-sided adhesive if you choose.

5. Allow the glue to dry completely before attaching to your scrapbook pages.

References

• Embellishing with Chipboard