Oh shoot! Camera Matchbox

Earlier this year, my trusty rusty camera started behaving not-so-trustfully.  Finally, a couple months ago, it stopped turning on at all.  I’ve sent it in for repairs, and got it back- almost fixed.  I’ll have to call and send it back again.  But, in the meantime, I’ve borrowed my mom’s camera a few times- once for several weeks.

This last time I returned it to my mom, I included a little gift of thanks.  I wanted to create something cute, clever and camera-related.  And I did just that!

Check out my camera matchbox!  Its designed to match my mom’s camera.  Its almost exactly the same size.  I used my punches, a circle cutter (for the larger ones), dimensionals and 1/4″ basic black grosgrain ribbon.

camera matchbox 1 by you.

The back of the camera with my kids’ photo in the “viewfinder screen” holding a thank you poster.

camera matchbox 2 by you.

The camera opens up like a matchbox, revealing dark chocolate kisses and a strip of photos.

camera matchbox 3 by you.

camera matchbox 4 by you.

This project uses Basic Black, Basic Grey and Going Gray, all of which you can find in the Neutrals assortment of card stock.

punch- 3-4 inch circle