CCC Day 04 ❄️ Cuttable Background Papers

Do you get stuck for ideas of how to decorate the backgrounds of your greetings cards or shadow boxes?

These Christmas-themed cuttable background papers are just what you need!

Choose from three different designs (each in three sizes) to spice up your papercraft projects this festive season!

This project was part of 2022's Christmas Craft Countdown.

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Materials supply list

Here is a list of the materials that I used to make this project.

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Cricut machine
Light blue Cricut cutting mat
Coloured cardstock
Craft supplies for your shadow box, greetings cards, or whatever you want to add the cuttable background papers too!

Cuttable card backgrounds

Video tutorial

Watch the video below to see how to make this project. Keep scrolling for a written tutorial.

Written tutorial (with photos!)

Here’s how to make your very own Christmas cards using a Cricut Joy machine!

Step 1) Download the cutting file(s) & unzip the downloaded folder

Purchase the Cutting File(s)

This cutting file is available as part of the
Christmas Craft Countdown 2022 Instant Access Bundle.

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Already purchased? Access the downloads here.

Or, purchase this design individually from my SVG shop

Before you upload the SVGs to Design Space, you need to unzip the download folder that they come in.

Step 2) Upload the SVG files into Design Space

Open up Cricut Design Space and start a new Project.

Click “Upload” and then find your unzipped version of the downloaded files for this project.

Go into the “svg files” subfolder and choose your design.

Make sure you upload the file which starts svg- in the filename!!

This is how it should look after you have uploaded the file:

After uploading, the design will show in your “Recently Uploaded Images”.

Click on it and then press “Add to Canvas” to put it onto your Project.

I’ve added all three sizes of the gingerbread design so that you can see the differences.

Each of the three designs comes in three sizes: square, A2 and 5×7 inches.

Step 3) Resize the designs if needed

You may need to resize the designs to suit your project.

For example, I needed to size the square bauble and stocking design to fit inside my shadow box.

First, I measured the spaces inside my shadow box to get the size, which was 8.5 inches.

Then, I changed the design in Design Space to match.

Step 4) Cut the designs and make your projects!

As these cuttable card backgrounds are a bit ambiguous in terms of what you can do with them (so many possibilities!), I thought I’d show you one craft idea for each of the three designs.

Project 1 – Shadow box

I cut the two layers of the stocking design and glued them together.

Here’s how they look when placed together. I think the patterned paper I used is probably a bit too “busy” in the pattern – something simpler may have been better.