SHAPE COLLAGE IDEAS HOW TO

In about half an hour, my DIY heart shaped photo collage was done and ready to hang.

If you want to frame this display without glass, you’d probably want to use an adhesive runner all around the edges of each photo. Turns out masking tape was a better choice, because once all the photos were adhered down I realized I wanted to adjust the placement of a few – that was easy to do with masking tape.īecause I knew I’d have the display behind glass/plexi in a frame, I didn’t worry about making sure the photos were completely adhered down. I’d originally planned to use glue dots instead of masking tape, but I couldn’t find any. I just pulled up each photo gently and slid the masking tape beneath it so I didn’t mess up the entire arrangement each time I taped a photo down.

Once I liked the arrangement, I use a little roll of masking tape to tape each photo in place. I started by just arranging and re-arranging my photos on the poster board backing until I created a heart shaped collage.

For the background of the photo collage, I just used a piece of white poster board cut to the frame size (20×20).

Using thing plexi keeps the frames very lightweight, but if you want real glass, you’ll want to look elsewhere. The seller promptly sent replacement plexi. The larger size frames come with very thin plexiglass instead of real glass in them, and the first one I ordered had a chip in the plexiglass. I think the quality is good for the money, but be aware that they are not super high quality. They are MUCH cheaper than large frames anywhere else.

I ordered my frame from Art To Frames on Amazon.

(I love Persnickety Prints because they never fade, even when displayed in direct sunlight!) I ordered my photos from Persnickety Prints and chose the 3×4 retro polaroid option.

I printed my photos as “polaroids” to mimic the look of the original print.

If you’re using exclusively phone photos, try running them all through the same instagram filter. Since there were all from different occasions and had lots of different colors, I used the same photoshop action on each one to give them all the same feel.

I used a combination of phone photos and photos from my camera.

SHAPE COLLAGE IDEAS HOW TO

I love how it turned out!Ĭlick here for lots more photo craft and photo gift ideas! How to make a heart shaped photo collage

I went back through photos from the past year or so and picked out ones that had at least two of our family members together to combine into this collage. My version is 20×20, so my $40 cost is about a quarter of their cost.) (Minted sells these prints in 16×16 for $135 framed or 24×24 for $212. It turned out to be a very easy project that would make a great gift. With just a little work, I was able to recreate this heart shaped photo collage for about $40. It’s probably not news to any of you that I wasn’t too interested in spending $200 on one framed print. I found this heart photo collage art print available from Minted and thought it would be a great way to get some of my photos off my phone and up on my wall, but I’m a cheapskate. One of my goals recently has been to take more photos of our family, and then print more of them out.

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