The purpose of the Pinterest Challenge is to inspire you to actually create something from all of those pins you’ve carefully curated (hoarded?) on to all your boards.
But this month, the challenge turned out to be trying to actually find the tutorial and it’s template from the pin.
I have seen this pin
quite a bit, and I eventually decided to pin it to my Birthday board. I am very careful to actually vet my pins by clicking through them to make sure they don’t lead to spam, dead links or just something completely useless before I save them.
This one was super tricky. A lot of the versions of this pin are just the one image, “uploaded by user” that lead exactly nowhere. Some lead to websites that feature round ups of cards, some with and some without attribution to the creator.
Eventually I found a pin that lead to the actual owner of the content – it belongs to Martha Stewart. I scanned the page, it matched, and I pinned it. I figured I was all set.
And then last month a relative had a birthday coming up and I thought I’d create that birthday banner card. It seemed cute and easy and that’s exactly what I was in the mood for.
Turns out the pin I saved that leads Martha’s website goes to a video tutorial on the birthday banner card creation. And in the video, they mention a template for cutting out the banner. But there is no link for that template. Searching Martha’s website turns up a link with a matching photo in the Templates section, but that’s just a slideshow of supposed templates available, but they weren’t there for downloading.
More searching on Pinterest turned up more versions of the pin that lead to other parts of the Martha Stewart website, but I never did find the template.
Not a big deal in the scheme of crafting, since I can always make my own. But super frustrating in terms of using Pinterest as a place to save content, and kinda ugly for the Martha Stewart web team, since you’d think they’d want you to be able to actually make their crafts, especially with their paper you could buy on their website, right?
I decided if I was going to make my own banner template, that I’d go completely off course and create something different.
And so I did.
Essentially I made a mini version of a banner cut file I have in my Etsy shop, and then used the concept of stringing it inside the card from the original pin.
I’m super happy with the result, so we’ll call this dead end of Pinterest Pins a positive challenge, since it inspired me to make something else.
A Happy Birthday Banner Card is such a great idea. It’s super cute and can be personalized.
Oh! SO Cute! I love this, it’s creative and gives a card a little more pizzazz!
That turned out cute! I know what you mean about not being able to find what you are looking for. And I have had problems with the Martha Stewart site before, too. But sometimes you end up with something you like even better, because you know what it took to get there!
Blimey! You did go on a proper pinterest quest didn’t you?!
I find those dead end pins so frustrating and the image search thing can help sometimes but other times you just go round in circles don’t you?
I love how you card ended up – perfect!
Good job on resolving the Martha Stewart Pinterest issue! Your banner is just as nice.
It is very frustrating when pins lead to dead end links, but you totally turned it around and made a fabulous cut file! I’m sure a lot of people will be happy that you did this 🙂 Pinned.
So cute! I love this! We have to try this at our next birthday party.
Such a cute birthday idea! My daughter’s birthday was yesterday. I should’ve made something like this for her.
Sounds like you went to a lot of work for this one! But it paid off- turned out really cute!
Love how personal it is to create your own card! Thank you for sharing the file. I will definitely use it. Pinned!
Very cute! This challenge is so inspiring, I love checking things off my mental craft project to-do list!