Photo corners, make it yourself?

Hi there!
I was wondering if anyone have tried to make your own photo corners or photo mounts for your scrapbooking projects? If you have, do you have any tips or tricks to share? I like to produce as much as possible of my own scrapbooking supplies , but I haven't figure out how to make photo corners/ mounts...

All comments and suggestions are welcome!

Cheers! / Tovie

I use to have a pattern for making photo corners. It's actually pretty easy to do. I'll look around and see if I can find it. If I can I'll photo it and send you directions.

If you have a square punch, punch the paper, then cut it in half. Now you have a triangle you can use as a photo corner/mount. If you want the ones that look more like an L, trim the square in half and then cut it by hand. OR, if you have nesting square punches, you can cut one square inside another, cut them apart on a diagonal, and voila! Hope this helps!

I make my own all the time. Here are some ways that I do it:

*Use a pre-made photo corner (especially a chipboard one) as a template and trace and cut out.

*Cut out a frame (here is a tutorial: http://craftyscrappermom.blogspot.com/2008/09/make-frame-from-patterned-paper.html) and then cut the corners diagonally from that, then you'll have the open-centered corner. This will work with any frame. I have also done it with those Making Memories leather frames.

* Cut out a square and then cut it in half diagonally. This is really neat if you then go over the edge with decorative scissors.

For this page, I cut the corners in the corners of the righthand side from a MM leather frame.

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Good luck

Stampin' up has a Photo Corner Punch!!!

and then there is the ribbon wrap trick. Simply wrap a ribbon around the edge and tape to the back. Great way to use up ribbon scraps.

see brown photo corners below


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By Gelidy Gelato

I like making my photo corners out of some of my pp..transparencies are cool...chipboards..you can also stamp the photo corners ..just cut a piece of either chipboard or something that has some weight to it..into your desired shape photo corner *triangle or what not* and stamp it on desired ink color...and stamp the photo edges..pretty much just use your imagination..anything goes!!! hope that helped!!

Love to make my own but really like the chipboard corners so those I'll alter to my liking.
The paper photo corners...I just figured it out 1 day cuz my creative juices were flowing now I'm good on corners, at least the paper one's. I seen a corner punch and realized I make that corner from paper myself so I have already saved $$$ by not having to buy the punch.

Oh, that would be great!
Also, thanks a lot for the good advice, I definitely give it a go!
I really liked the ribbon wrap trick by "Gelidy Gelato", so easy and so... brilliant!

Thanks a lot!

Cheers! / Tovie

I have a photo corner punch that allows you to mat the photo and have decorative corners to slide the photo into.

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But sometimes you can just take a square piece of paper and cut it on the diagonal each way and then you hve photo corners

On this lo I cut mats from a double sided paper, turned down the corners over the corners of the photo and added a brad to hold it down

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Make strips of paper 1/2" to 3/4" wide. Use your dcorative scissors on one edge. Fold both sides so that there is a point on the non-decorative edge and trim the extra sides on the back so they don't show below the decorative edge. Use a double sided tape to hold the bck together and to mound to your scrapbook page. Makes any size you need with what ever paper and edge you want.

Okay, this may/may not work since I don't use many photo corners, but what about cutting off the corners of a cheap white envelope (try junk mail envelopes!) and then color/decorate them with markers, etc.?

^^ Or even better, glitter/Stickles!

I bought a die cut sheet stack one time and it had some different shape squares. after reading this thread I have now figured out what to do with them... I am goign to cut them in half and use them as pic corners.

For this LO, I made my own photo corners out of doilies (yes, these ones were acid-free). First cut the doilie in half. (Or any light weight paper could be used. Most cardstock will be too thick since a few folds are required.)

Then fold the straight edge down toward the curved side. If you want you can fold beyond the curved side. The farther down your fold goes, the smaller the photo corner will be.

With the folded side facing up (curved side toward the back), and the new fold at the top, fold in the paper airplane fold so that the straight edges meet each other in the center and the ends are now pointing down.

When you turn the paper over, there is your photo corner. Only that little curved section should sit above the photo. All the rest can be secured behind it.

That sounds a lot more complicated than it is. Hope it makes sense.

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