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A gorgeous idea for your next dinner party or special occasion: make these simple papercut place cards from little white book.  (Note: no templates are provided, but you could easily make your own using clipart or your own simple designs.)

Not sure which tutorial to try out next? The Folding Trees Tutorial Reviews are here to make your decision easier. For each review, we make a project based an online tutorial and report back on the difficulty, costs and time involved, plus any handy hints we developed along the way. 

The template for the lovely lotus blossom pop-up card that we featured on Folding Trees last year went MIA, but I e-mailed the designer and now it’s back! I decided to celebrate by attempting one of these cards myself. Here’s my review of the process:

In progress

Cutting the template pieces:

Finished piece

 The finished card, open:

And from the side:

Notes on this tutorial

The template comes on 2 pages. Unfortunately it’s designed for 11.7″ long paper, so for folks with letter-sized or A4 paper, the template is slightly too long and a couple of edges will be cut off. I didn’t realise this, so I had too draw the missing bits back onto my printouts by eye before cutting them out. You can avoid this by making sure “Shrink to Printable Area” is selected in Adobe Reader when you go to print.

Level of difficulty

Time

Cost

Link

The original tutorial is available here.

Elsa Mora from The Heart of Papercuts has written a tutorial on how to follow papercuts with a free pdf practice page, to help those who are new to the art of papercutting. Don’t forget to check out Elsa’s Etsy Store to see her paper cut patterns for sale. [via CRAFT]