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Paper Frames for Instagram Photos – Free Digital Cutting Files & Free Digital Stamps

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I recently acquired a new toy – a Silhouette Cameo cutting machine. This is the first cutting machine I have owned, and it is awesome! I love being able to make paper cutouts of my own designs. After doing some test shapes, I designed these five square picture frames with the idea that I could add them to print-outs of my Instagram photos before pasting them into my journal or on a card. I think they turned out pretty sweet!

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These are great for art journaling, scrapbooking, or making your own cards or photo album. The main idea behind these is to use them specifically for Instagram photos, or square format photos taken with a mobile camera app, but you can use these to frame anything square, or even use them as part of an abstract collage.

I am pasting mine into my smash journal. I made these 4″x4″ and they are very cute.

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If you would like to try out these square frames, you can download them for free (for personal use!) – click here.

The download includes the five frame designs in the following formats: Silhouette Studio (.studio), PDF, DXF, SVG, and PNG. If you like to do digital scrapbooking, you can use the PNG’s as digital stamps! Enjoy!

**PLEASE let me know if there is anything wrong with the files, and I will do my best to fix!**

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Journaling from Prompts: Perspective

There are times when all I want to do is sit down and doodle, or glue things, or make something, but I am at a loss for a clear idea or vision. At these times, it definitely helps to have some kind of restriction or problem to solve to get your creativity going. Recently, I found this great list of simple prompts at Daisy Yellow, and I’ve started making little collages in my Smash journal based on each one.

The first prompt is Perspective. In the prompt, she offers a photo of a fence for inspiration. I used the imagery of the fence and some of the colors in the picture to make my own interpretation:

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I don’t put dates on many things in this journal, but here I noticed I dated this one last September! I can’t believe it’s been that long!