3d Papercut Alphabets Fully Customisable by Using Free Software

I'll show you how to make a any lettering out of paper letters.

You can make 3d letters of your choice of font, size, color, thickness. The difficulty depends on mainly the font, if you select straight block fonts like i does it is very easy to make yourself and your children will be happy to help you.

You can simply hang them up as decoration or make fridge magnets or paste on canvas or cardboard to make interesting displays. They make a great gift.

The software i used to make them are freely available and very easy to use but if you want to save the trouble you can find download the templates from following link and jump to step 5, rest all Lets begin!

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4250881

Supplies

1) Card stock paper

2) Art or craft knife

3) Cutting Board

4) Glu

Choose the Font

It all start with asking yourself what you want to make. Once you know go to any free fonts website and download the font you want.

TIP: If you are new to paper cutting start with straight box shaped fonts with minimum curves. Avoid italic and handwriting

I have downloaded mine from

https://www.urbanfonts.com/

i used this font

https://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/AmarilloUSAF.font

Install the font on your laptop/PC. On windows lift click on font file and select "Install for all Users".

Inkscape

It is a open source vector graphics editing software. It is great that you are familiar with this name, if not no worries, you don't need to learn a new software just use these shortkeys and you are done

Download the software here

https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-0.92.4/

Install and launch

Select 'Create and edit Text Objetcs(F8)'

Type the letters you want to print one at a time.

on right hand side select the font you installed earlier and fond size '200'.

Select 'Edit paths by nodes(F2)' on left hand side toolbar.

Click 'Convert selected object to path(Cntrl+Shift+C)'

go to File on home bar and save as inkscape SVG(*.svg) file

Thats all