Hybrid Cutouts

Hey all!  Polly Jewelle here with a hybrid tutorial for you.  Cutouts on digital pages are all the rage right now. Seeing that paper peeking through a cutout always brings I smile to my face.  I love taking trends I see in digi and using them in my hybrid projects.   Lets make a card that uses these cutouts!

1.  In Photoshop create your card including a shape that you would like to make into a cutout.  Keep all layers accessible.  For my card I used Just Be Paper Pack and Just Be Elements by Amy Wolff Designs.

2.  Create an 8.5 x 11 document to place your card pieces on.

3.  Back on your original card, select the item that you wish to turn into a cutout.  Press control + left click on the layer so that you have marching ants around your item.

Now select the paper layer that you want the item to be cut from.  Hit delete.  You have a newly formed cutout! {I’ve turned off my butterfly layer to see the cutout} I had multiple layers of papers so I repeated this process until I had “cut down” to the paper I wanted to peek through.

4.  From here you can move your separate layers over to your 8.5 x 11 document and print.

 

5.  Assemble the layers of your card.  To add a bit more dimension to my card I adhered my butterfly to the cutout spot and folded it’s wings inward so the paper below could be seen.

Enjoy your newly made cutout card!  Be sure and try this with all kinds of shapes, then link us up in the Hybrid Projects Gallery so that we can see what you have made!

~Jewelle (aka mrspotts)