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THE MANY FACES OF...

I've been under the impression that I had exhausted all of the ideas I've ever had for PRESERVING memories.
But, since my last ANCIENT posting, I've thought of a couple more.

I got a wild hair for a Christmas present a few years ago that has brought me a lot of joy.
I entitled it "The Many Faces Of H" (my daughter, as I made the collection of her for her husband).
It is a PRESERVE of many different faces of one of your loved ones all crammed onto a page (or more if you need more room).

I know most blogs show pictures of the step by step process on how to do a project. Sorry, I only have a picture of the final project, and I'm sure you'll be able to figure out how to construct it just by looking at it.

All you need to know how to do is: go through your pictures, choose as many different faces of the same person as you wish, scan, crop, copy, and paste.  I like to import scanned pictures into Google Picasa and create a collage. There's no real trick to it, just a little time on your part is all.

Tip: mark the pages you remove the pictures from so you know where to return them after scanning,ALSO, it doesn't matter what size the picture is, because when you scan and crop, you are able to paste and re-size the picture to any size you need/want).

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  1. merelyLookingFebruary 12, 2011 at 7:46 AM

    I remember when you did this; it was so cool. You know, Finnerbin is not even a year old and he already has shown enough faces we could make a collage of him just like H's! Like mother like son! :)

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