How I make those wallets...and a rant for good measure
So, I'm posting a tutorial for making those picture wallets! Yay! First I must show off the new ones I made, though.They're "Animals" and "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" wallets!
Outsides:
Insides:
Yeah, I'm using the Piper one as my current wallet now. ^^
The Wallet Tutorial:
What you need:
A picture (magazine ads work well, maybe even a printed out picture about the size of a magazine page), clear packaging tape, scissors, heavy duty thread, and some clear bag (this is the wrapping of some binder paper. A plastic bag would work well too).
I'm using that picture of the girl in that magazine ad for the example here.
So, fold it over to fit a dollar bill with plenty of room (AH, I BEZ SO RICH!):
Fold over the top to make a smooth edge:
Making sure the dollar bill still will fit in there:
Now fold over the back side:
Making a crease like so:
Cut off any excess paper if needed:
How it looks so far:
Fold it in half, walletwise:
Now fold the side, making a crease:
The other side too:
This is all for the inside. Fold both of them inside, just making a crease. Unfold it:
Now comes the clear packaging tape "laminating" Leave tape all around the outside:
After you've covered the front, and back completely with tape, cut off the excess tape on the sides:
Fold the inside tabs back up again:
Start sewing up the sides:
So that it turns out like this:
Now onto the card pockets.
Cut out of the plastic about the size of your card, drivers license, or whatever. I'm using my license here because that's a pretty standard size:
About this size:
Now place the plastic down where you want your pocket to be. Then tape over the bottom of it (make sure to leave the top part untaped, lol):
Here's the example of pockets in my "Animals" one:
YOU'RE DONE! YAY! GO YOU!
Examples of other wallets that I haven't laminated or sewn yet:
Moar:
Special things to do to it:
If you have a cool front, but the way you've folded it doesn't give you a cool inside, or the inside's upside down...you can tape on another page like so, then cut and fold and tape until it looks like you want:
Haha, and here's the mess I've made. ^^
Yay! Thanks for reading my lil tutorial. Enjoy your wallet. ^^
*sigh* I'd make such a cute little housewife. I cleaned out my closet, did laundry, cleaned my room, and even made dinner last night. >.< How can people live like that? No wonder those cutesy little 50s moms went mad. I don't want to be like that. Ok, maybe half of me wants to go mad. (just to see what it's like, you know? All the amazingly in-depth people in the old times were thrown into the asylum at one point.) But that's beside the point. What happened to the feminist movement? Women are being transformed to yet another ELLE cover!! *points to last picture with ELLE cover on it* I'm not saying go out and like...smack some man just because he's a guy. I'm saying that we need more of a chance in this world. Me, par example, I want to be a musician/songwriter. Somehow the only vision of a woman singer/songwriter is with her cutesy acoustic guitar playing mellow, lovesick ballads. Why can't I have the same chance to be in a band? In a metal group? As the shredding guitarist? I know I technically have that chance, but that doesn't mean that when I tell people I'm going to be a musician/songwriter they'll vision me with some axe of a guitar shredding my fingertips away. It seems like no woman has truly crossed over some of those lines in rock and roll. I greatly admire the women of music that have done what they do well. Joni Mitchell is a wonderful example of this! She plays several instruments and beautifully. She even uses her own voice like it was an instrument of itself. I want to be like that, but in the rock world. Too high a standard? Hey, if I fail, I can always be a housewife, right? *rolls eyes* Ugh. I just want to DO what I dream. (No, I don't mean go back in time and live in Swinging London) They're just so hard to imagine, heh. I feel bad for Pattie, having to give up her career for housewifedom. I'm not knocking being a housewife, but I'm saying that I'd be desperate to do something more as well! You know, still write poetry like Sylvia Plath or something. *le sigh* Here we see the anti-swing of the feminist movement on the rise in the here and now all to just be looked at as a sex object. Whoo. >.< Great. That means if you're not attractive at all, you have no societal value.
On that happy note, I need to sleep.
And I am formulating both a poem and some macros. When I get the time, I'll materialize them, I promise. ^^
Katrina
Outsides:
Insides:
Yeah, I'm using the Piper one as my current wallet now. ^^
The Wallet Tutorial:
What you need:
A picture (magazine ads work well, maybe even a printed out picture about the size of a magazine page), clear packaging tape, scissors, heavy duty thread, and some clear bag (this is the wrapping of some binder paper. A plastic bag would work well too).
I'm using that picture of the girl in that magazine ad for the example here.
So, fold it over to fit a dollar bill with plenty of room (AH, I BEZ SO RICH!):
Fold over the top to make a smooth edge:
Making sure the dollar bill still will fit in there:
Now fold over the back side:
Making a crease like so:
Cut off any excess paper if needed:
How it looks so far:
Fold it in half, walletwise:
Now fold the side, making a crease:
The other side too:
This is all for the inside. Fold both of them inside, just making a crease. Unfold it:
Now comes the clear packaging tape "laminating" Leave tape all around the outside:
After you've covered the front, and back completely with tape, cut off the excess tape on the sides:
Fold the inside tabs back up again:
Start sewing up the sides:
So that it turns out like this:
Now onto the card pockets.
Cut out of the plastic about the size of your card, drivers license, or whatever. I'm using my license here because that's a pretty standard size:
About this size:
Now place the plastic down where you want your pocket to be. Then tape over the bottom of it (make sure to leave the top part untaped, lol):
Here's the example of pockets in my "Animals" one:
YOU'RE DONE! YAY! GO YOU!
Examples of other wallets that I haven't laminated or sewn yet:
Moar:
Special things to do to it:
If you have a cool front, but the way you've folded it doesn't give you a cool inside, or the inside's upside down...you can tape on another page like so, then cut and fold and tape until it looks like you want:
Haha, and here's the mess I've made. ^^
Yay! Thanks for reading my lil tutorial. Enjoy your wallet. ^^
*sigh* I'd make such a cute little housewife. I cleaned out my closet, did laundry, cleaned my room, and even made dinner last night. >.< How can people live like that? No wonder those cutesy little 50s moms went mad. I don't want to be like that. Ok, maybe half of me wants to go mad. (just to see what it's like, you know? All the amazingly in-depth people in the old times were thrown into the asylum at one point.) But that's beside the point. What happened to the feminist movement? Women are being transformed to yet another ELLE cover!! *points to last picture with ELLE cover on it* I'm not saying go out and like...smack some man just because he's a guy. I'm saying that we need more of a chance in this world. Me, par example, I want to be a musician/songwriter. Somehow the only vision of a woman singer/songwriter is with her cutesy acoustic guitar playing mellow, lovesick ballads. Why can't I have the same chance to be in a band? In a metal group? As the shredding guitarist? I know I technically have that chance, but that doesn't mean that when I tell people I'm going to be a musician/songwriter they'll vision me with some axe of a guitar shredding my fingertips away. It seems like no woman has truly crossed over some of those lines in rock and roll. I greatly admire the women of music that have done what they do well. Joni Mitchell is a wonderful example of this! She plays several instruments and beautifully. She even uses her own voice like it was an instrument of itself. I want to be like that, but in the rock world. Too high a standard? Hey, if I fail, I can always be a housewife, right? *rolls eyes* Ugh. I just want to DO what I dream. (No, I don't mean go back in time and live in Swinging London) They're just so hard to imagine, heh. I feel bad for Pattie, having to give up her career for housewifedom. I'm not knocking being a housewife, but I'm saying that I'd be desperate to do something more as well! You know, still write poetry like Sylvia Plath or something. *le sigh* Here we see the anti-swing of the feminist movement on the rise in the here and now all to just be looked at as a sex object. Whoo. >.< Great. That means if you're not attractive at all, you have no societal value.
On that happy note, I need to sleep.
And I am formulating both a poem and some macros. When I get the time, I'll materialize them, I promise. ^^
Katrina