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Pasteboard

An engine-agnostic style recipe: a wide hero, proof shots across subjects, and a portable prompt.

cut-paper collage

1 hero · 3 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of Pasteboard cut-paper collage — built from layered torn and scissor-cut construction-paper shapes with fibrous deckle edges, each piece casting a soft realistic paper drop shadow so layers float just above one another; accented with matte masking-tape tabs, small bright ink-pad rubber stamps, fine black ballpoint pen annotation lines and tiny dashed perforation marks, {palette}, set on warm cream notebook paper with a faint regular grey dot grid, flat overhead studio lighting, matte and tactile, full-bleed composition filling the frame

Slot recipes

hero — {subject} as a large full-bleed cut-paper collage, the subject built from bold layered torn-paper shapes filling the whole frame, soft stacked paper shadows, a few masking-tape tabs and bright ink-pad stamps scattered at the edges, warm cream dot-grid paper showing through small gaps, {palette}

feature — {subject} as a focused cut-paper collage vignette, three or four clearly layered paper shapes with visible torn fibrous edges and soft drop shadows, one or two bright ink-pad stamps and a strip of masking tape, fine pen annotation lines, on cream dot-grid paper, {palette}

avatar — {subject} as a compact head-and-shoulders cut-paper collage portrait, tightly cropped and centered, layered torn-paper features with soft paper shadows, a single masking-tape tab, minimal pen-line detailing, cream paper ground, {palette}

empty-state — a single small cut-paper motif drifting on a mostly open warm cream dot-grid notebook page, one torn-paper shape with a soft shadow, one bright ink-pad stamp and a short dashed pen line, calm and airy, {palette}

illustration — {subject} as a busy hand-assembled cut-paper collage scene, many overlapping torn and scissor-cut paper shapes layered into depth, soft paper shadows throughout, masking-tape tabs, several bright ink-pad stamps, pen annotation lines and dashed perforation marks, cream dot-grid paper between elements, {palette}

cut-papercollagepaper-crafttorn-edgesstationery

Credits · in the lineage of

Cut-paper construction collageTraditionscissor-cut layered paper

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences — credit is given to the artists and traditions it draws on, not a claim of authorship.

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· Build the subject from distinct layered paper cutouts; let every layer cast a soft, believable paper drop shadow so depth reads as stacked stationery.
· Keep edges fibrous and hand-torn or crisply scissor-cut — the deckle texture is the signature.
· Use bright stamp-color paper (coral, honey, sky, mint, lilac) over a warm cream ground; keep ink-pad stamp marks dark and small.
· Add a few craft tells — matte masking-tape tabs, fine ballpoint pen annotation lines, tiny dashed perforation marks — as accents, not clutter.
· Let a faint grey dot grid show through the cream paper background in the gaps between shapes.
· Light the scene flat and overhead so it reads matte and tactile, like a page photographed from above.

Don't

· Do not render any text, words, labels, or captions inside the image.
· Do not use gloss, plastic sheen, 3D bevels, neon glow, or smooth airbrushed digital gradients.
· Do not make edges look like clean hard-edged flat vector — they must read as torn or cut paper.
· Do not go dark or muddy; the palette stays bright and the paper ground stays warm cream.
· Do not pile on so many stamps and tape strips that the subject is lost; craft tells are accents.
· Do not leave dead empty margins — the collage fills the frame edge to edge.

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Apply Pasteboard to any UI language and swap the palette — the preview takes this style's hero image.

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