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November 19, 2015 By Brandy 7 Comments

Home » Holidays » Gift Ideas » Teacher Gifts

DIY Photo Collage Canvas: A Year in Review

Filed Under: Craft Tutorials, Free Printables, Gift Ideas, Holidays, Paper Crafts, Teacher Gifts

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I’ll show you how! This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias and its advertiser.

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I'll show you how!
I take a lot of photos of our family. Maybe too many photos? Nah, there’s no such thing. With four little ones going four different directions in school plays, band, dance, piano, scouts, and after school clubs, there are many awesome moments to document! That doesn’t even include my favorite candid moments at home like the silly faces Ruby makes and the photos of the kids playing together. 2015 was a pretty fantastic year filled with memories and new adventures. I’ve been slowly printing out photo books and decided to also make a memento to hang on the wall. The kids had a great time finding themselves in the photos and talking about their favorites.

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I'll show you how!

DIY Photo Collage Canvas

I usually keep way too many photos on my phone, and if they aren’t saved on my phone they are on social media somewhere and easy to access. I made several photo collages using an app on my phone and saved them to my camera roll until I was ready to print them out.

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I'll show you how!
I have an HP Deskjet 3632 All-in-One Printer/Copier/Scanner. Since it is wireless I can easily print my collages directly from my phone or iPad. I can access the printer via my camera roll or through the All-in-One app on my phone. The smallest size it will print is 3×5″ so an 8×10 collage is an easy way to get a bunch of smaller prints all on one page.

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I'll show you how!
It was fun finding the photos that I wanted to include. I made sure to print out a large variety so that I had plenty to choose from while figuring out the placement on my canvas.

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I'll show you how!
My canvas was 12×12 so I cut out a 10″ heart out of a piece of heavy card stock. This became my base.

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I'll show you how!
Now for the fun part—it’s like a puzzle! I filled every inch of that heart with photos and wasn’t too concerned about having excess on the edges since I was going to trim that off later.

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I'll show you how!
You could leave it like this or trim the edge later on for a clean edge.

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I'll show you how!
Carefully attach the photos to the heart base. I used rubber cement because it brushes on smoothly and is photo safe, but you can use any photo adhesive glue or tape that you’d like. Make sure to get all edges and corners so that your collage lays nice and flat. You can use rubber cement to attach your heart to the canvas or spray adhesive. I chose to use spray adhesive because it was quicker.

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I'll show you how!
I turned my collage over and trimmed it to the same size and shape as the cardstock heart underneath. Then I attached it to the canvas with spray adhesive.

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I'll show you how!
I added the date with a metallic marker and my cute collage was ready to hang! If you made a smaller photo collage you could scan it using the printer and print out as many copies as you need on photo paper or cardstock to use as Christmas cards!

Make a photo collage canvas to document each year. What an amazing gallery wall that would be in your home!

A photo collage canvas  is a great way to document the highlights of the year! Make one to display in your home and another to give to a grandparent. It makes a great gift and is simple to make. You can even print the photos directly from your phone or iPad. I'll show you how!

What do you do with the photos on your phone? Do you save them to your computer? Print them out on a regular basis?

I’d love to hear what works for you!

 

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  1. huppiemama says

    November 20, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    What a simple, yet beautiful, gift idea for a family member. Thanks for sharing! #client

    Reply
  2. Rebecca says

    January 27, 2019 at 11:23 am

    I love this idea. But from the picture I can’t tell di you apply the glue to the front of the pics once you had laid them out or did you take them off one by one and glue their backs and then rearrange?

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    • Brandy says

      January 27, 2019 at 11:44 am

      Hi Rebecca! I glued them on one by one after finding the arrangement that I liked. Hoped that helps!

      Reply
  3. Chelsea says

    July 16, 2020 at 10:54 am

    Hello,

    Do the pictures lift from the canvas? Do you glue underneath the pictures and onto or just underneath? I love this idea for my moms 50th birthday 🙂

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      July 16, 2020 at 6:17 pm

      Hi Chelsea! The photos don’t lift. They are all glued on. What a fun idea for a 50th birthday!

      Reply
  4. Bethany says

    February 6, 2022 at 3:43 pm

    How many pictures did you use to make the canvas?

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      February 6, 2022 at 6:51 pm

      Hi! Probably 30 or so!

      Reply

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