Fussy Cutting Designs For Your Handmade Cards

Fussy cutting designs is a popular technique for paper crafters where you cut out specific images or patterns from your paper. For me, it can sometimes be a love-hate relationship. When you have dies that coordinate with your stamps or paper, cutting out images can be super quick and easy. But then sometimes you have images that don’t have a coordinating die for easy cutting, which means it’s time to fussy cut. Fussy cutting designs may seem like tedious work, but with the few tips I have to share with you today, you’ll learn that it’s not so bad and can be a little relaxing!

Four handmade cards for a card making project to teach about fussy cutting designs from the To Market Designer Series Paper. All cards have a farmers market theme to them.

The paper that we are going to fussy cut today is Stampin’ Up! To Market Designer Series Paper. This farmers market-themed paper has veggies, flowers, and baskets that are easy fussy cutting designs to assemble together to create fun focal images for your handmade cards. This card making project includes very little stamping because we’re letting the fun papers do all the work!

Fussy Cutting Designs Video Tutorial

Join me as I share my tips for easy fussy cutting! Then, let’s design a quick and easy card you can make, and I’ll inspire you with 7 more card ideas I made. Fussy cutting designs from Designer Series Paper is such an easy way to create beautiful handmade cards without needing a lot of supplies. Cutting these images for the focal images of our cards means we don’t need a lot of different stamps and ink colors.

CLICK HERE for my full supply list to make these To Market Fussy Cut cards.

*The products used in this project were available for purchase while filming the video and/or writing this post. If something does not show in the list it is no longer available.

To Market Fussy Cut Card Details

As promised in the video tutorial, here are pictures and measurements for all 8 of the To Market Designer Series Paper cards I shared. To make these, all of the flowers and baskets were fussy cut. I did use the coordinating Market Goodness Dies to cut out the vegetables, although they would be just as easy to fussy cut if you don’t have the dies.

Thank you card with fussy cut flowers and a basket to make a focal image.
  • Blackberry Bliss: 3 3/8″ x 4 5/8″
  • DSP: 3 1/4″ x 4 1/2″
  • Basic White: 1 5/8″ x 1 1/4″
Thank you card with fussy cut flowers and a basket to make a focal image.
  • Pecan Pie: 3 3/8″ x 4 5/8″
  • DSP: 3 1/4″ x 4 1/2″
Thank you card with a fussy cut bouquet of flowers for a focal image.
  • Garden Green: 3 5/8″ x 4 7/8″
  • DSP: 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″
  • Basic White: 3 1/2″ x 1 1/4″

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You will love creating with our eight different card templates, perfect for all levels of crafters! Keep it simple, or step it up – you decide!

Handmade thank you card with two bunches of carrots for a focal image.
  • Garden Green: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″ and 3 1/8″ 4 3/8″
  • DSP: 3 3/4″ x 5″ and 3″ x 4 1/4″
  • Basic White: 3″ x 1 1/4″
An any occasion card with a large basket of veggies for a focal image.
  • Basic White: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″ and 3″ x 5/8″
  • DSP: 3 3/4″ x 5″ and 3″ x 3″
  • Pecan Pie: 3 1/8″ x 3 1/8″
An any occasion card designed with tomatoes on vines printed paper.
  • Garden Green: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″
  • DSP: 3 3/4″ x 5″ and 4 1/4″ x 3″
  • Real Red: 4 3/8″ x 3 1/8″
A handmade card with the sentiment "hello" and a basket filled with veggies as a focal image.
  • DSP: 5 1/2″ x 1 1/2″
A handmade card with the sentiment "hello" and stamped vegetables for a focal image.
  • Blackberry Bliss: 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″
  • Basic White: 3 3/4″ x 5″

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