How to easily communicate options

Hello,

I am studying how to write instructions in English and I need help in a somewhat challenging situation (at least for me) ...

A book has some illustrations of animals. Each of them should be cut out from the page, so they have thin lines that are used as cut lines.

However, the user/reader can choose between cutting only the contour of the animal or cutting it together with a tab: all illustrations include this small tab, such as a base under the legs of a bear, for example. The tab is already there, in case the user decides not to paste the figure on a surface (like for a collage, for example), but to fold the tab and use the illustration as a standing paper doll.

The challenge is to find the easiest way to inform the user/reader that by cutting, you can simply ignore the tabs if you do not want to use them (and cut the illustrations as if the tabs were not there). An additional problem is that most users do not use the tabs, so these tabs are not even the most relevant feature.

So, the simplest solutions I came up with are:

1) In the header of the page, "Cut the illustrations with or without the tabs." [or "their tabs"?]

2) Next to an arrow pointing to the dashed fold line of the tab (the dashed fold line is the "border" between the animal and its tab), "Cut the fold line if you do not need the tab". [or "don't need"?]

Are these sentences correct? Are they clear? Did I totally miss a natural way of communicating this message?

I hope I have at least managed to describe my doubt!