A few months ago I decided to get some of my instagram photos printed out. I really like having physical copies of my photos rather than just looking at them on a screen. However I also don’t want to just leave these photos lying in a box. So here are some ideas I came up with for fun things to do with the prints.
BOOKMARKS
I’ve only just recently got into the habit of using a bookmark rather than dog-earing the page. However I really don’t have any proper ‘bookmarks’ and usually just use train tickets or leaflets or sweetie wrappers. Anything I have to hand basically. Which now includes my box of photos.
BUSINESS CARDS
Maybe its just me but business cards are boring. Its just a bit of card with information on it. Now if I ever need to give someone my blog url they will get a photo of my cat or one of my dogs as well. I wonder who the lucky person will be that gets the photo of my dog peeing on a sandcastle.
MINI PHOTO ALBUM
There are websites that will print your instagram photos in a little book for you. But I’ve found its much cheaper just to make your own. Book binding sounds really complicated at first but its actually really simple and cheap. I will do a full post in the next few weeks showing you how to make this.
MINI POLAROIDS
It might just be my 90s nostalgia talking but I love polariods. Instead of buying an expensive camera try making these instead. They are so easy. All you have to do is cut a piece of card a quarter of an inch bigger than your photo on three sides. Make the bottom about half an inch bigger. Glue the photo onto the card and voilà polariods!
The Paper Kind 
35 responses to “4 Ideas For Instagram Photos”
What a great idea!
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Thank you!!!!
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🙂
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This is really amazing 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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The Mini Polaroid idea is one I probably would’ve never thought of!
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And its so simple!!! Literally took me about 30 seconds to make.
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Genius!
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🙂
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Great ideas! I love the mini photo album idea. I’ve been meaning to do something like that from all my travels.
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That could be really cool. Have one little album for every place you’ve visited!
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Love these ideas! I especially like the mini Polaroids and binding them into a mini album. I can’t wait to see your post about that 🙂
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Thanks! That post should be up at the start of next month!
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Love the business card idea! I’ve always wanted to have some made up, but I’ve never been happy with the templates out there.
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Yeah, I’ve never been able to find a design I liked.
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Business Cards, great idea 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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… Like the polaroids; Picasa have a polaroid effect as one of their edits.
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Oooh does it. I haven’t used Picasa in ages, will need to have a look at that.
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Clever stuff! Love the business card idea.
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Thank you 🙂
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I love the business card idea! Very creative and much more effective than trying to get them to spell your website (or name) correctly, which usually ends up in the awkward, “Just let me write it out.”
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Yup! Much easier that way. You could also print QR codes on the back. A person could just scan it with their phone and be directed straight to your website.
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I love all these ideas, especially the business cards! Cant wait to see your post on book binding, I’ve always wanted to be able to do that.
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Thank you! Hopefully you will see how ridiculously easy it is!
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book binding post will be a good one!
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I hope so! I haven’t actually written it yet!
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Oooh these are great. I’m very interested in book binding. I have so many photos to print and no idea what to do once I have them.
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Thanks 🙂 The book binding is loads of fun!
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I love the idea of using photos as bookmarks! I’m looking forward to reading about book binding 😀
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Thank you!!!
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Thanks 🙂
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Lovely ideas. I would like to learn book binding. Waiting for your post…
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I really should go work on that post… Its going up next week… or the week after. I can’t remember :S
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