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Cool Things to Do with the Pictures You Love
Photocraft: Cool Things to Do with the Pictures You Love
Amazon Price: $1.80 (as of 06/03/2012)![]()
Transform your favorite digital images and photographs into beautiful and unique keepsakes. The popularity of digital cameras has us taking more photographs than ever before, but what to do with all those pictures? PHOTOCRAFT offers over 40 simple, stylish, and affordable alternatives to stuffing prints into dusty albums. Turn photographs into vellum lampshades, quilts, folding screens, or tote bags. Channel your inner Andy Warhol and create a colorful piece of photo pop art. Decorate your home with these very personal treasures or give them as one-of-a-kind gifts. Color photographs and line illustrations accompany concise, step-by-step instructions for each project. The book also explains simple techniques such as scanning, cropping, and overprinting. A fun and highly practical book, PHOTOCRAFT will appeal to everyone who has ever discovered or taken a photograph they love.
Cool Photo Crafts
1. Kid Grid
Print your photograph onto sticker-backed photo paper, cut it into squares, attach to blocks, and voila -- homemade baby toys!
2. Happy Birthday, Baby!
Celebrate with photos of your baby -- everywhere! Print a headshot onto circular labels to add character to cups, napkins, and goody bags.
3. Fridge Fun
You can make custom magnets by printing photos onto magnet paper that goes right into your printer. Get creative and invent a funky movable landscape for your kids to play with.
4. Stuck on You
Kids who love stickers will be thrilled with personalized minis. Upload as many as 90 digital photos to moo.com, and the folks there will send you a cool pocket-size sticker book.
5. Colorful Memories
Use Kodak's EasyShare software to transform your favorite photos into coloring-book pages, then upload them to kodakgallery.com. They'll send you a custom coloring book full of family snapshots.
6. Pop Art
By applying filters and adjusting the hues of your photo in your imaging software, you can create Warhol-inspired wall collages.
7. Upward Mobility
This DIY mobile is a fresh way to display your family tree. Find the template to make it here.
8. Open Book
To make bookplate stickers, import a photo of your child into your word-processing program, add type, and print on basic labels.
9. Easy as A-B-C
Your child will be the star of this alphabet book from shutterfly.com; it includes her name, birthday, and hometown.
10. Piece Out
Upinpieces.com will turn a family photo into a puzzle packaged in an adorable canister. They'll even cut the pieces into fun shapes like flowers, stars, and butterflies.
[via Parents.com]
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poddys
Jan 11, 2012 @ 2:03 am | delete
- You have some great ideas for using your photographs here. I have a few of mine on Zazzle, they now do Jigsaw Puzzles, which is a nice idea. Usually we just view ours online, but occasionally print some to use in a frame, or create a calendar.
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TapIn2U Jul 15, 2011 @ 11:40 am | delete
- Thank you for your cool ideas. Colorful Memories is my favorite. Love the idea! I might try it with my family snapshots. Sundae ;-)
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Yourshowman
Dec 7, 2010 @ 10:07 pm | delete
- Nice lens.
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Margo_Arrowsmith
Nov 17, 2010 @ 11:42 am | delete
- I have so many photos with the grandchildren and art pictures I have taken, great ideas!
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ajgodinho Sep 30, 2010 @ 11:35 pm | delete
- These are creative and practical ideas...thanks for sharing!
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Ladydove62
Sep 27, 2010 @ 8:02 am | delete
- Thanks for sharing these great photo craft ideas.My kids just love stickers and would love having stickers of themselves. Fun Ideas!
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Pastiche
Oct 15, 2009 @ 7:24 pm | delete
- I have thousands of photos in digital and film formats. Got to start organizing them and making stuff from the images. The accordion album is a wonderful craft project. Gonna save and use that idea for the holidays.
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24websurf Oct 13, 2009 @ 11:47 pm | delete
- Great ideas! Now off to find out how to use a camera ;) Blessed! Congratulations on the pretty wings!
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