How To Scrapbook

Scrapbooking Die Cuts

There are a variety of methods to help you produce very good-looking scrapbooking titles with scrapbooking alphabet letters, rub-ons, alphabet stamps, stickers and scrapbooking die cuts.

A die cut is is, as you would expect, a cut out design of card or paper. The die part refers to the tool that is used to cut out the shape. These are made in specific shapes and used in a die cutting machine.

You can buy pre made sheets of die cuts at your local craft store and off the internet. These are precut and just need to be pressed out of the sheet. There are also numerous places on the internet where you can get scrapbooking downloads of die cut pattern sheets for free, all ready to be printed on your color printer and then cutout with scissors or a craft knife.

You will no doubt realise that you can make your own cutouts by drawing, colouring your design and cutting out as you would the downloaded patterns.

Using a personal die cut machine is a great way to enhance your scrapbooking page layouts, manufacturers are constantly offering new die cartridges. You canCricut Die Cut even find “indie art” cartridges that offer shapes of guitars, skulls, hand grenades and all those other difficult to find shapes that are perfect for your particular scrapbooks.

Many of the cartridges is come in a variety of fonts for letters and so many shapes. This means that with these cartridges you don’t need to fumble with awkward and difficult to use stencils, cutting your paper by hand and coming up with imperfect shapes and papers. You will also be able to cut a large assortment of letters in a variety of fonts for all of your scrapbook sayings.

You can use scrapbook die cuts to frame photos, journal on, and/or reinforce the theme of the page. Another scrapbooking technique is to spice up the die cuts. If the edges are irregular after you push out a diecut just run around the edge with the backside of a dining knife or your thumb nail. Existing die cuts can be used as a pattern to make some more diecuts from, frame a photo or as a stencil to cut out some shapes. Basic shapes that may suit many themes include flower, camera, sun, butterfly, or star diecuts.

You could try using small die cuts to attach together on your page layout as a school scrapbooking border rather than just something you write or draw on the page.

It's possible also to download free backgrounds of all types, die-cuts, holiday stuff etc. There are some wonderful die cut cards with many different styles of openings, bags and boxes as well as exclusive 3D die cuts that you can use for all kinds of themes.

If your children are really good at music, then how about using musical notes or die cuts of their favorite instrument as part of a school page border. You might also try using small die cuts to attach together on your page layout as a school scrapbooking border rather than just something you write or draw on the page.

 

 



 

 
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