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04.14.04 NAC last updated: January 14, 2010
Photo Greetings
For Picture Perfect Cards!
Everyone loves a photo. With the ease and low cost of digital photography and copying, you can easily make one photo card or a batch.
In the photo gift card class participants learn to make a photo card with a pull off magnet (not pictured below) and an pocket card with a photo on a stand. Click the thumbnails for larger versions of sample cards.
As seen in Suite 101 online magazine--the easiest photo card to create follows a simple formula:
1. rectangular card front
2. photo at top layered onto patterned paper
3. quote or message stamp sticker at the bottom
These two cards follow the basic formula, but look very different because of the colors, papers, and word sticker versus stamped quote..
Both cards used photo prints leftover from scrapping that were cropped to fit a card.
Remember to continue the print paper on the inside as shown at below. Click to enlarge.
Use a similar formula or other layout design to make photo tags that can go on cards or other projects:
Same formula applied here to a square card.
Click thumbnail image at right to see this card used later on a scrapbook page
Photo corner punches add a nice touch to these cards too.
More tags that have strayed slightly from the formula--these are just as easy and fun to create. Tags work well for those photo scraps you may have too.
There are scads of great tools out there today to make digital photo cards. I selected a 4" by 10" blank file in PhotoShop
Elements and then used digital elements to build a card that will fit into a standard business size envelope. I found some 4" by 10" photo paper and envelopes on sale at the office supply store that were perfect for this format. If there was no sale, it would have been less expensive to go with my ordinal plan of buying 8.5" by 11" photo paper and printing 3 at a time on one sheet. You can find business size envelopes in great colors and textures too.
Another option I want to try...just create a 4" by 5" digital collage and matte it onto a traditional card stock card base.
