Collages

Often times, there are numerous pictures of the same person or activity such as playing in the leaves or building a snowman. I will get permission from the customer to cut the photos smaller and make a collage or place them in sequence to show the progression of the activity. More photos can be used this way.

A project might have pictures of a child for every grade they participated in school. You can use a wallet-size picture for every year, placing them in a circle around a larger baby picture or graduation picture. The larger school pictures (5x7 and 8x10's) are put into folders for other uses. Space is saved in the album and you can see how a child has changed over the years.




A collage can also be used to show the many different emotions of an individual, the growth of a flower, or the emerging of a sunrise.

Another idea I might try is sort of like a puzzle. Take a 5x7 and cut into equal, smaller squares and space a little bit apart from each other. I have seen this done with pictures on a wall so I thought it would be neat in an album. Make sure you have a negative or original before attempting this feat.