Hello.
I know, it’s the day after Valentine’s. I guess I’m giving you ideas for next year, or even Mother’s Day. I saw this on Pinterest (which is where I usually come up with stuff because I’m just not smart enough to come up with it on my own) and knew I could draw this and recreate it.
It’s a CD picture holder purse:
Here is the side view, in which girl child said, “How are you going to put anything in this? It will fall out.”
When you open it up, you have a cool double picture frame:
In the original project, you use those cd envelopes with the round opening, but I liked ovals better. And I added some hearts. The beauty is you can delete them if you don’t want them and make a circle, square, or even a lightning bolt if you want.
Yes, those are my spawns. {Edit: Guess I need to clarify that the one on the right is a boy. His hair was a little long in this picture, but he’s all boy}
When you pull the little insert out, it looks like this. Not as pretty because you can see the fold overs on the frame. That could have easily been solved with a square of black paper, but this is me and I’m lazy. When you stick the pictures back in, the problem is solved.
When I took the pictures for this post, I had not fully glued the pictures down because I was still manipulating them so they were in the frame without sticking out of those little cut out hearts I added.
The pictures need to be cut to 3 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches
While I can’t add all the little goodies I used to decorate in the file, you can pick those babies up at www.letteringdelights.com. It was Sheri McCulley’s new valentine set with flowers, letters, keys and hearts and all sorts of good stuff.
But here is the file you need to make one of these.
And here is the website where you can find the tutorial I used to base my file on and to help you put all the stuff together.
I’m not sure why my pictures are showing up with the gray tint because they aren’t that way when I processed them, but when I uploaded them, they had that gray tinge to them. Oh well.
Machine used: Zing
Software: MTC (by the way, have you downloaded the new update? You can just drop .svg files into the program instead of importing them. This is huge for me because I’m a Mac girl and I can open the finder (same as Windows Explorer in Windows) and drag the files I want right into MTC (running under Parallels and Windows 7 in Coherence mode).
paper: world win cut mates and Joann brand
P.S. Sorry if you saw this post a little early and wondered where it went. Apparently I can’t type because I meant to schedule it for the 15th (which is when it’s supposed to go up) and I put the wrong date in.
Until next month…
Oh I love this. I need to make one. Thank you.
PS …it is after VLentine’s day!
I love this. I need to make one of these. Thanks
PS …it is past Valentine’s day!
My bad. This is supposed to post this coming Friday. I put the wrong date in.
I love this project and will make one for my daughter!!! Thanks so much for sharing the idea you found and BTW, many of us have to find ideas somewhere 🙂
thanks so much
OMGoodness…ADORABLE! Love the paper choice, the font, embellies….and we finally get to see your beautiful kids!! Not as they’re running away from the camera shot! btw, I did loved the suspense of “what do they look like…are their faces deformed and hidious? do they not wipe their noses??” LOL They are GORGEOUS!!! 5 stars my dear…for the awesome project as well as producing beautiful children! Ü
aww thanks Kathy!
O I can’t thank u enuf 4 sharing the file. I need to make 2 of these. One for my 2 grandchildren and one for my girls. TY and yours is beautiful and I love the colors u choze
O yeah and 2 very beautiful girls.
thanks… the one with the baseball hat is a boy
LOL!!
Yes, thanks for sharing the file!
What a great idea! It would make a great gift anytime for one of the “girls” either family or friend. Thanks so much for sharing. Love my Zing and MTC.
lovely project!! girls are sweet too. would make a great Mother’s day project.
Thanks… the one on the right is a boy. His hair was long in this picture.
this is definitely on my list for next year….tfs
Great job! I’ll have to put this on my list of to-do projects. The grandparents would love this! Your kids are such cuties. Girl child looks so sweet and Boy child has the greatest smile ever 🙂
Love this purse. What a great idea for Mother’s Day. Too bad there isn’t a wallet
like that for Father’s Day. It is always so difficult to find masculine things. Anyway thanks for sharing the files. I appreciate it.
Thanks. I did the wallet last year. I think it’s in the June 2012 section.
This is really cute. Love the way you decorated it as well. Thanks for sharing the file.
Your daughter and son are adorable! Great project, too! I love the color combination.
I love this project! I am not able to figure out how to design things on my own, and I don’t feel the least bit bad about it, therefore, I thank you for your file.
These will be fun to make!
Very cute!
Love everything about this project. Your paper and color choices, the design itself and the little heart cut-outs. Thank you very much for sharing your files. Must make these as gifts for the grandmothers.
What a lovely project. Thank you so much for the file.
So cute!!! I want to make one, but am I the only one who, when I open the file in MTC gets a blank?
You’re on the delete tab. There are 3 pages in the file. I had to delete the goodies
Very nice and so pretty!
love the purse idea…great project!!!!
This is fabulous! Going to see if I can make a few of these for friends and family, they are a lovely idea. Your kids are pretty cute too 🙂
This is a very nice. Looking forward to making a few of these.
You have good looking children. Thanks for sharing this awesome project!
LOVE this! Thanks for the file. Went to the site you linked to – could not find an actual tutorial though? Will I be able to easily figure out how to put it together just from the file?
BTW GORGEOUS kids!
did you click on the link? If not, here’s a direct one to it.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22292267/CD-Envelope-5-5-x-5-5-Pocket-Purse-Album
I don’t belong to scribd, so I just took notes on how to make it and the sizes I needed.
Thank you for sharing the file.
What a great project, Deb…thanks for sharing it. Your children are beautiful!
this is so cute, can think of some great ways to use it. didn’t download the first time and after reading Sandy’s post on MTC forum I decided I need to snag it. think i am going to put picture of myself in them for my 2 little GD’s for their room. don’t see them as much as I would like and this will remind them how much I love them when they look at it! thanks for a great project.
Thanx for sharing, lovely family photo portraits Have a great day best wishes Val
What a beautiful gift! I love your color selection as well.
Thanks so much for sharing such a special project. I love that you have given us so much detail on how to create our own!
GREAT project, I love it. Does not have to be Valentine to make this project. Abolutely adorable.
Very cool project, Deb! I love how much depth you create with all your projects. I really REALLY like that font, BTW! (Huge font geek)
thanks for a great idea