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Playing with Instagrams (free card download + tutorial)

Playing with Instagrams (free card download + tutorial)

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If you shoot with your phone, and especially if you use Instagram, chances are you have a slew of veritable masterpieces floating out there in pixel land. I know many of us memory keepers are including them more in more in our various methods: scrapbooks, Project Life albums, card projects, gift tags—the list goes on and on.

Today I have a very simple 3 x 4 layered card template designed to let you feature a favorite Instagram (or two, or a dozen). The template includes the Instagram logo plus a tag line using a free font called League Gothic.

Samples

These simple cards can be printed onto photo paper (or cardstock—see image below—for a cool look) and included in any memory keeping or card project.

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Have fun playing with your photos!

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Download CZ_3x4PhotoCard

Using a 3 x 4 photo card layered template from Cathy Zielske on Vimeo.

LEARN MORE: Check out my Vimeo channel for a series of step-by-step videos on digital and digital-to-hybrid scrapbooking using Photoshop Elements.

CZ DESIGN DIGITALS: Visit Designer Digitals to see more of my digital scrapbooking collection.

 

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Comments

  1. Cara S says

    Thanks very much Cathy. I’m about to go interstate for the weekend and have decided not to lug my DSLR with me so I think there will be quite a few iPhone pics to deal with when I get home.

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  5. poppystamps says

    Thanks Cathy I love it! Followed along with the tutorial and printed one out. I have PSE5 and I tried doing the sizing of the photo where you showed click on image hold and drag up to the top where the file name is but my version does not show the file names at the top of my screen. Any idea where that section is or how I get it to show up there?

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  7. Diane says

    Thank you so much! I have been using Instagram more with the Phoneography Project and this will be perfect for my PL. You rock!

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  10. Lori P. says

    YES, YES, YES! This is what I have been looking for, the thing I have been looking for but just not finding it and then you “give” it to us today. Thank you! I am going with my daughter, so-in-law and grandson (from a different daughter) to the Wizard World Comic Con in Chicago next week. What? A Comic Con? I know… I have celebrated to many anniversaries of my 29th birthday and I am going? Yep! My daughter and I went to it when she was just out of High School (2004 & 2005) and we had a blast! Do I read comic’s? Not really but she does. So I am putting together a little 6 x 6 scrapbook for my grandson while we are there. That way he will have something to show his parents when he gets back. I wanted it to be all put together and not have to wait. So I have borrowed my Mother’s Picture Maker Printer, so with my laptop and your wonderful template it will go together (along will all the goodies we pick up) much faster! YES, YES, YES! Thank you Cathy!

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  11. Sarah says

    Read your post over at Ali’s and the last photo of you and Aidan with your eyes closed simply made me tear up! I love your witty and honesty writing. Thanks for sharing.

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  14. Ruth G says

    Thanks for the heads up about the font – it’s fabulous and the template is wonderful, too! What a great way to house those square photos!!! Thanks so much for sharing and inspiring!

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  18. Laura says

    Thank you so much for the download and the tutorial! Awesome! I also just want you to know how much I love and appreciate love your “realness” factor! It’s so refreshing. 🙂

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  19. Christine says

    I was reading some ideas from Elsie (beautiful mess) on fun ways to get your pics off your phone/computer and on display. One idea was a cute box on a living room table with printed Instagram pics. These cards would be perfect to have out for visitors to flip through.

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  20. kim smart says

    just want to say “thank you” for this!! it’s just perfect and i love that it has such a nice “clean” look to it!! you’re awesome. just sayin’

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  24. bdaiss says

    YOU ROCK! I was just lamenting my poor boring square photos with a blank card behind them in my PL album. Guess I’ll be doing some reprinting! Thanks a million Cathy!

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  25. Isabel says

    Thank you Cathy for the download and the tutorial! We can use this card for so many projects. Love your guest post on Ali´s blog.

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  26. Laura says

    Yay! I was contemplating getting caught up on a couple of weeks of PL without huge enthusiasm, but this sweet little template will make it more fun. Thank you! 🙂

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  28. Billie says

    Cathy, question about camera phones please…I am ready to upgrade my phone and the most important thing to me is that it has a great camera. I am trying to decide between an Iphone5 and a Galaxy4…what do you suggest? I know you are all about the Apple products; can you tell me if the Iphone takes good action shots? (ie sports) The phone I am trading in gave me blurred shots when I tried to shoot action at my son’s basketball or football games. Can you zoom in at all with the Iphone? I have been trying to read thru online reviews but there are so many and each says they are better than the last. Thank you for your time!

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  30. Barbara says

    Thank You Cathy! I’ve been wanting to make something like this but just haven’t taken the time. You are awesome!!

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  33. Claire says

    Hi Cathy! Thanks so much for this! Question: is it possible to edit the text? If so, how would I go about doing that?

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  36. dawn says

    Thank you Cathy, LOVE THIS MINI!! Your post at Ali’s was so awesome to read, thanks for sharing and inspiring us with your words and just by being YOU!! SHINE ON GIRL!!

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  43. Michelle H says

    Thank you for yet another great template and video tutorial to go with it! You teach me soooo much. I appreciate it. Your design style is wonderful–crisp and clear and your tutorials are the same….so great to watch you do it in the tutorial and then be able to (successfully!!) go right into making my own. YAY!! Thanks!!

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  44. Maureen says

    Thank you Cathy! I have 2 of those little easels that I picked up on clearance at Michaels over a year ago and have been putting off designing a template similar to the one you gave us today! I now have my 2 little easels on our fireplace mantle with 2 little cards on them (and I made a dozen more cards to be swapped for them too!) Your template is awesome!! Thank you for sharing it with us!

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  45. Melissainsc says

    This is wonderful! Just right for the hundreds of instagrm photos I took during the BPC Phone Photography class (also awesome). Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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  48. Tess C says

    Gosh, I just love it when you do tutorials. I become more and more proficient with my PE11 everyday.

    Thanks!

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  51. Deb @ PaperTurtle says

    Thanks so much for the free download, Cathy. I finally got the chance to play with it and I just love it. Nice clean design and the template was so easy to use and customize. Yay! So fun!

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