Photo Confetti Tutortial

 Here is the Photo-confetti Picture Tutorial (finally!)

(Click here to see my original version)

What you will need:

144 photos cropped down to 1" x 1"

(I print mine on Epson Premier Art Matte Scrapbook paper)

3/4" circle hole punch

12" x 12" piece of card stock

mini glue dots adhesive

12" x 12" frame

ruler

pencil

art eraser

Start by making a mark at .5 inches then every inch after that at the top of your page.

  Repeat on each edge of your paper.

Using your pencil marks, line up the ruler and mark off a grid.

(You can save a little time and just make tick marks at every inch,

but this may not be as accurate as the grid.)

 (below:  just making tick marks) 

Erase the lines leaving the intersection marks.  This is where you will place your photos.

Now, add your photos using mini glue dots adhesive.  My photos are a collection of photos of my family from my parents childhood to today.  I try to mix up the older photos with the newer ones.  Also, I try to mix up up the photos so there is a portrait next to a group photo...make it visually pleasing.

Another item I added was an identifying tag at the bottom right corner.

Ours says "Earley Family Est. 1959."

Ta-da!! Here is the finished product!

It looks great on a photo stand or hanging on the wall.

I'd love to see your version!

Smiles!!!

Linking to:

American Crafter Auditions

iVillage

Wow!  I'm blown away!  iVillage chose one of my post to share on their website along with several other cute craft ideas.  Go check it out!

http://www.ivillage.com/mark-your-kids-milestones-12-easy-diy-ideas-bookmark-it/6-b-258439

smiles!

Thanks So Much

Last week, I was honored when  a couple of very talented ladies featured some of my projects on their awesome sites.
Why don't you go check out what they've been up to?

On Friday, Staci at Craftify It showcased some of my cake balls.

 also on Friday

Mary at Lil Bit of Us featured my Framed Photo Confetti

   On Tuesday 

Stephanie at Under the Table and Dreaming also featured the Framed Photo Confetti     

AND finally, on Saturday

Ashley at No Apologies featured The Blackberry Vine as one of her new favorite blogs...sweet!

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Thanks again to everyone for recognizing me and my efforts! 

You made my week!

Smiles!!!

Framed Photo Confetti

I just love Darcy Miller from Martha Stewart Weddings. She is so talented and clever! I happened to see the episode where she was sharing

her scrapboxes with Martha. SO AMAZING!!!

One in particular caught me eye...The Framed Photo Confetti Box.

http://www.marthastewart.com/photogallery/family-history-in-the-making-darcys-frames-and-scrapboxes?lpgStart=1&currentslide=14&currentChapter=1#ms-global-breadcrumbs

Well I didn't have any photo confetti, but I have lots of pictures and a photo printer. I didn't do a step-by-step of this as I wasn't blogging yet, but will do one as I'm going to recreate the above picture for both of my brothers. (Not really worried about spoiling the surprise for them...they're not exactly craft/food blog followers! )

Basically, this is what I did:

I made a file folder on my computer with a special label just for these pictures.

Then I went through folders I had already created for each of my family members, copying the pictures of them that I wanted to use and transferring them to the above mentioned folder. (I tried to be sure there were an equal number of pictures of all the siblings...if you have children, you know how this goes...lots of pictures of first child, some of 2nd child and, well, the 3rd child has the fewest.) This one has 120 pictures. I took each picture, transferred it to a Print Shop program, cropped and resized to about 7/8" square.

The page was full of tiny black & white photos of my sweet family.

Then I made my own "confetti" by punching out each picture with a 3/4 circle punch. On a 12 x 12 piece of heavy white cardstock, I lightly lined out a grid in pencil. I erased the lines except for the "+" where the lines intersected. With mini glue dots I randomly added each photo. I also created a little label that I also printed with the photo that said "Earley Family, Est. 1959" I added it to the left corner, close to a picture of my paretns at their wedding. Since I didn't have any scrapboxes or shadow boxes on hand, I used a 12 X 12 frame I got 1/2 off at hobby lobby. It worked great!

I made this for my parents as a late 51st Wedding Anniversary gift. They seemed to really like it!

I can't wait to make more!!

My first attemt to link to one of these...bear with me if I make a mess of it...