Faux Die-cut Cards

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THE LITTLE CRAFTY THING

Stickers aren’t just for kids. There are tons of ways to use them in your crafts to!

From: Crafting With Stickers, Carol Scheffler, 2004

Materials:

Cardstocks: dark blue, white

Coordinating floral and border stickers

Green leaf-printed paper

Paper adhesive

Rectangular card

 

Tools:

Craft scissors

Paper cutter

Pen

Ruler

 

Instructions:

1. Measure card width. Measure to that dimension from bottom front of card along length and mark on both sides.
2. Open card. Cut off top front at marks, making bottom front square. Apply floral stickers onto extended top of inside.
3. Trim around top edge of floral stickers, creating faux die-cut edge.
4. Cut green paper to size of card front. Adhere paper onto card front.
5. Cut blue cardstock into square 1” smaller than paper.
6. Center and adhere onto green paper.
7. Cut white cardstock into square 1/4” smaller than blue.
8. Write message on white cardstock. Center and adhere message onto blue cardstock.
9. Apply border onto bottom of white square.

 

A die-cut is an item (usually paper but occasionally fabric, wood, metal, or plastic) cut with a die-cutting tool into a specific shape. Stickers are usually cut into the shape of whatever they represent; for example, a tulip sticker is cut into a tulip shape. These shapes are fun to emphasize by placing them so that they are partially offset on the edge of a card or scrapbook page.