A New Way to Use Old Snapshots

If you’re same me, you hit hundreds of photographs movement in envelopes. Pictures from date parties, weddings, kinsfolk gatherings, anniversaries, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas. You hit already place the prizewinning snapshots into albums and these are leftovers. You don’t poverty to intercommunicate them away, but you also don’t undergo what to do with them.

Instead of letting your snapshots verify up expanse and advance to the muddle in your home, ingest them to attain collages (at a outlay of inferior than $10 each) that you crapper provide as Christmastime gifts to kinsfolk and friends. Here’s how:

1. Assess your assemblage of pictures. Do you hit individual dozen of your relative or momentous other? Your parents? Your children? Grandparents? A friend? A loved pet? Decide which mortal would same to obtain these pictures and cypher them into groups accordingly.

2. Buy a represent inclose with render (either 5×7 or 8×10) for apiece image you are feat to make. Department stores sometimes hit income on represent frames, and you crapper ofttimes acquire a fit inclose for $5 or less.

3. Cut a artefact of essay (use cardstock, 24# essay or reddened cardboard) to correct the filler of the inaugural on the represent frame.

4. Cut discover the scenery of the pictures, leaving meet the grouping (or pets). Cut discover sufficiency pictures to counterbalance the artefact of paper.

5. Arrange the cut-out pictures on the paper. Mix and correct and experiment. Try placing the pictures at assorted angles.

6. After you hit an intent of how you would same to hold the pictures, cement them to the paper. (Check the adjudge to attain trusty that you crapper ingest the cement with photographs.) Cover the whole artefact of essay with pictures.

7. When the cement is dry, append the essay into the frame.

Collages are not exclusive a beatific artefact to ingest your older snapshots, but the recipients also module love them for eld to become as a primary and lost gift.

© 2003 LeAnn R. Ralph

About The Author

LeAnn R. Ralph is a worker illustrator in Wisconsin, is the application of the river Regional Writer (the quarterly business of the river Regional Writers’ Assoc.) and is the communicator of the book: Christmastime In Dairyland (True Stories From a river Farm) (August 2003; change paperback) http://ruralroute2.com

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