{"id":77463,"date":"2022-10-13T06:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T10:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=77463"},"modified":"2022-10-13T06:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T10:23:36","slug":"sweet-tips-easy-cutouts-plus-a-freebie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/sweet-tips-easy-cutouts-plus-a-freebie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Tips: Easy Cutouts plus a freebie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy mid-October everyone I&#8217;m back on the blog with a sweet tip all about cutouts. Or rather creating text, shapes and more to look like those paper cut files that everyone loves so much. Our amazing Sugarbabe Mary creates stunning layouts, there&#8217;s no doubt about that, but lately people have been wondering about her awesome cutouts on her pages. If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with what I&#8217;m talking about then just browse her <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppecommunity.com\/gallery\/showgallery.php?cat=500&amp;ppuser=117\">gallery<\/a><\/strong> for a bit of inspiration before I get into my spiel. lol<\/p>\n<p>Whether she&#8217;s creating a spooky and fun title like this page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppecommunity.com\/gallery\/showphoto.php?photo=693697&amp;title=jal&amp;cat=516\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary01.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary01-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary01-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or if she&#8217;s using autumn leaves as her cutout inspiration like this page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppecommunity.com\/gallery\/showphoto.php?photo=692169&amp;title=fd&amp;cat=500\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary02.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary02-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary02-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary02-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary02-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>everyone wants to know how she does it! Would you like to know an easy way to do it?! Instead of going to the source, I wanted to attempt to find a way to recreate the look that would be both easy and time-saving for myself. You know I love time-saving when I&#8217;m scrapbooking, in fact, I wrote a blog post about that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/sweet-tips-speed-up-your-scrapping-routine\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> too. I opened Photoshop and surprisingly it was super easy for me to recreate so I wanted to share my method with you all. Before I share I searched the tutorials and did find a post about cutouts that wasn&#8217;t quite what I wanted, but it may help someone else, so <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/tutorials\/index.php\/2013\/01\/three-methods-for-creating-cut-outs-on-your-layouts\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> is that article.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s jump in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First I started by typing out my title. I made it super big to fill up the page. Bigger space is going to give you lots of room &#8220;inside&#8221; the cutout for clipping patterns or photos.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-77477 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01-typetool.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01-typetool.png 770w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01-typetool-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01-typetool-768x311.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01-typetool-600x243.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Then I used the effects to add a stroke. The stroke was set to &#8220;inside&#8221; position and at a size of 25px in white.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-addstroke-1024x413.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-addstroke-1024x413.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-addstroke-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-addstroke-768x310.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-addstroke-600x242.png 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-addstroke.png 1322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>From here you can go ahead and add your drop shadow to your liking. Mary uses inside shadows I saw, but for mine I went with drop shadows at 45 degree angle with 15px distance, 3px spread &amp; 25px size.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-optionalshadow-1024x413.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-optionalshadow-1024x413.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-optionalshadow-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-optionalshadow-768x309.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-optionalshadow-600x242.png 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-optionalshadow.png 1303w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>That&#8217;s your basic cutout. You can clip a paper to your text like this:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-clippapers-1024x409.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-clippapers-1024x409.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-clippapers-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-clippapers-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-clippapers-600x240.png 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-clippapers.png 1297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Or clip one big photo to your text.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/06-clipphotos-1024x374.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/06-clipphotos-1024x374.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/06-clipphotos-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/06-clipphotos-768x281.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/06-clipphotos-600x219.png 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/06-clipphotos.png 1291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>If you want to get fancy, you&#8217;d type each letter on it&#8217;s own layer so that you can mix &amp; match patterns and photos. Arranging your letters how you see fit. OR if you want the true cutfile look where it&#8217;s just a white stroke, then you could use the Blending Options and drop your fill opacity to 0%.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/04-blendoptions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/04-blendoptions.png 799w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/04-blendoptions-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/04-blendoptions-768x495.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/04-blendoptions-600x387.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s really just that easy in Photoshop, or a program capable of the basics I listed with stroke, drop shadows and clipping masks. I created a cute little autumn inspired page using these tips and placed my title letters on separate layers. I added the stroke&amp;drop shadow then clipped different pattern papers to each letter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssd_blogtips_cutouts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssd_blogtips_cutouts.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssd_blogtips_cutouts-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssd_blogtips_cutouts-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssd_blogtips_cutouts-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssd_blogtips_cutouts-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can apply these effects to shapes, elements that are already in the kit, text, papers and more to create a ton of different looks for your pages. Since I made my own .asl style to use for future pages I create. I wanted to share it with you all here too. Just click to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/xvyyxpx7oahvxgm\/kfk-freebie-cutoutstyles-2022.zip?dl=0\">DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/strong> and you&#8217;ll get a .asl file for Photoshop &amp; Photoshop Elements with 2 styles for you. One with the cutout style to clip photos and papers to and one with the &#8220;knockout&#8221; look like a traditional cutfile. Enjoy. Hopefully this tip helped you. Let me know what else you want to see me cover!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy mid-October everyone I&#8217;m back on the blog with a sweet tip all about cutouts. Or rather creating text, shapes and more to look like those paper cut files that everyone loves so much. 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