Interlocking Photo Display

Like giving photos as gifts?  Finding frames a little boring?  Scrapbooks: done it?  Try making this super fun interlocking photo display instead!!  Inspired by posts from Photojojo and Made By Joel, I made two sets to give two of my best friends (practically sisters) for their birthdays.

I made one circle set and one square set.  Although after playing with them, a set with both shapes, and perhaps other shapes would be equally as fun!

I strayed a little bit from the tutorial, and had my pictures printed at walmart instead of on cardstock with my own printer.  After cutting my photos I glued them onto the front and back of a piece of poster board that was also cut into the same shape as the photos.  Next I laminated them with contact paper, and then cut 3/4 inch slots into them.

Of course once I finished the sets, I needed something to put them in!  So I made boxes with 12 inch cardstock from this tutorial.

Then the boxes needed some jazzing up.  With this tutorial from The Frugal Crafter as inspiration, I made some impostor baker's twine with size 10 crochet thread, some pretty sharpies, and a piece of scrap poster board to wrap the thread around.

I think they turned out very well, and most importantly my friends liked them!

(On a different note, these winter days are not making my photos happy... I recently scrapped an entire blog post because the photos were embarrassingly bad.  When I find some time [that's funny] I need to make myself a light box or something!!  Has anyone made one for taking pictures?  Any advice?)