Letter Photo Mosaic

Surprise! I've done an earlier post today.   I was a bit more organised today and got my craft done earlier than usual.

It's this:

(Click to enlarge)

A photographic letter collage.

The letters themselves weren't created by me, they were found on Flickr, created by Leo Reynolds, who generously lets you copy them (Some Rights Reserved). I copied and saved each letter and then put them together in this format using bighugelabs.  (This is a free mosaic maker but you need to register to use it).  You could also compile your message/name in Word or other word processing programs.

I found the information about creating this whilst bloghopping today.  The site I found it on was this one, Under the Table and Dreaming.

I'm liking the idea of making all kinds of words, and the letters are so creative.  It's the kind of thing you could do yourself, photographing letters in the environment.

It's quite time consuming to create the mosaic but also

..with gift making potential too! :-)

Thanks for looking and for any comments you may leave,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave

Back to Germany

I haven't quite finished showing you all my holiday photos yet.  Hope you don't mind me showing you this mosaic that I made of some of the other things we saw and did during our last week's stay in Germany:

(Click mosaic to enlarge)

It's the first time I have used the free mosaic builder at BigHugeLabs.com and I have to say it was very easy.  The only problem I find with these mosaics is because they use square format they can cut off parts of your photos that you don't want them to - for example the giant teddy's head on photo 25.  I still like the idea of a compilation mosaic though, as they are great for putting a themed collection together.

Today I also finished off that picture that I started the other day, the Radiohead video inspired one.  I added some blue & white soft pastel over the newspaper type:

.and I ironed both of the robots that I had downloaded a while back (see this previous post) onto my son's t-shirt (this is just one of them, my son is wearing the other)

...and here's proof that my younger son was happy to wear a couple of the badges that I made yesterday :-) :

Thanks for reading,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave

Florescent Animals

Have you got your sunglasses ready?  These pictures are very bright! (and I enhanced the brightness a teeny bit too)

I saw these images on a child's tshirt in a charity shop and fell in love with them! They are all made with squares (and a circle for the eyes) and coloured in the brightest of bright florescent colours.

'Florescent colours are in' so the Martha Stewart blog said the other day so what better excuse to start using them?

Kids would love to have a go too!

Sorry if the colouring isn't the best, the florescent pens I have have a chiseled tip, which makes it a bit tricky to colour in the squares.

I think they are fun (and will be showing some more complicated animals later).  They would look great on cards or a picture mosaic using florescent paper.

As it was Joshua's birthday today, we went out for the day:

We went to Snibson, a science park with a steam railway, near Leicester.

It was lots of fun! (and the kids enjoyed it too!)

qwiksave