The other day I generated a bunch of shapes for frames. Those are nice, but I still needed a way to crop my pictures in the same shape. Easy enough to do it they are "round", as I have a circle cutter. But what about other shapes, like the labels?
I decided to play around with SCAL and Inkscape, and see if I could come up with a way to crop my photos accurately and make the matching frames, in some different shapes. In this way, I could quickly turn out some professional, yet unique scrapbook pages.
NOTE: THESE FILES ARE SET TO WORK WITH 12x12 or 12x24 mat, not for the 6x12. CRICUT EXPRESSION only. On smaller cricut, you could do two at a time. But you would waste your paper you cut the photo mat out of.
I created two files, one to crop the photos, the other to make the frame. I added a tiny square in the same locations on both inkscape/svg files to make them both "resize" to the same size in Sure Cuts A Lot. Please don't delete them, or you will find your photos and frames won't line up. To use the file, set library size to 11.5 inches. Make sure your scal CURSOR is in the upper left hand corner of your scal mat. Then import the file with the word photo in it. PUT YOUR BACKGROUND PAPER for your page on the mat. Cut the Photo file. This will leave you with outlines of where the photos will go on the completed page.
Now remove the inside of the cuts.
Carefully put your photos under the mat so that they will be cropped the way you want them to be.
Remove the background paper mat, leaving on the photos.
Cut the file with photo in it again. You will be left with the "cropped" photos. Remove your photos and put your MAT color paper on the cricut mat.
Make sure your scal CURSOR is in the upper left hand corner of your scal mat on screen. Then import the file and cut the file without the word photo in it. This will cut your mats. Because we don't want to waste paper, glue your mats on top of the background paper that you cut the photo mat out of. It won't matter, as the frames will cover the holes left from the photos.
Glue your cropped pictures into the frames. Add embellishments. Instant scrapbook page! Cropped pictures within matching frames.
I created this for the shape you see in the pictures.
Use to crop your photos
photo_frame_labels_test_photos.svg
http://www.mediafire.com/?mq4izn5amuzUse to make matching photo frames
http://www.mediafire.com/?jvzyf0nny22photo_frame_labels_test.svg
Also for this shape
Use to crop your photos
photo_frame_labels_test__photos_set_2.svg
http://www.mediafire.com/?ezmmzzzynelUse to make matching photo frames
photo_frame_labels_test_set_2.svg
http://www.mediafire.com/?tywgwqd2gj2TIPS:
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE 12x12 or larger mat
Make sure cursor is in upper left corner of scal virtual on screen mat before importing the files
Make sure library size is set to 11.5 inches
Make sure you load mat in the same way each time...use the arrow to make sure you don't put it in upside down when you go to crop the photos.
