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
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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.

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