Marjorie from the Cricut Message Board posted an interesting project she had seen on another site and wondered if a cut file could be made for it. Here is a LINK to the project - you should click to see the lovely photo wallet made by Beverly Gerard. The directions are fairly simple and a .cut file is not needed to make this photo wallet, but it does insure that all of the pieces will be accurately cut without needing to do a lot of measuring each time you make one.
I wanted to get this posted quickly so I test cut it but did not do any stamping or embellishing. below you can see the open photo wallet - the center spots are intended for photos and the white cardstock on the flaps is for the journaling.
When the flaps are closed, the wallet looks like this - you then fold it up and slip on the belt band.
I made the file with a choice of scallops or no scallops for the wider band that is used to make the belt. I happened to have a heart on my table from another project so I just popped it on the seam for the strip.
All of the scoring and folding directions are given in the tutorial linked above. I did one thing differently - I adhered the two strips together before scoring the belt - that seemed to work better for me.
You will need to either cut the outer wallet with a trimmer and do the corner rounding (which I recommend as simpler and more accurate) or have the strip cut by the machine and then corner round since the corners fall into the uncuttable area of the mat. I put the dimensions on the tab for the first mat as a reference.
I used a Creative Memories corner rounder and sized the curve on the inner pieces accordingly. If your corner rounder cuts a different radius you may want to vary the size of the circles in the file to match your rounder.
This makes a cute little gift or favor. Many thanks to Marjorie for finding it and bringing it to my attention!
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