Saturday, 26 September 2009

Leanne's 21st collage - framed

When Dereck and I went over to see Leanne in Wales, in May this year, I had remade her 21st collage for her. I had stuck everything down except the middle photos and once I was in Wales, then I joined everything together. Leanne then took the collage in to a framer and she collected it yesterday. This is how it now looks - framed ....

I must say, they really did a great job and I am sure it looks even better in real life.

For those of you that don't know, for Leanne's 21st I had done scrapbook albums since birth to 21 for Leanne which was a total surprise. About a week before while having lunch she came up with the suggestion that I must make a collage for her. I gave her some lame excuse that I didn't want to cut up all her baby photos and that we would scan them and just print them out on paper and I would make a collage. Little did she know that there were no baby pictures to scan as they had all been scrapped into her surprise album. Once Leanne wasn't around, I gave the albums to Dereck so that he could scan them and then once they were printed, I quickly cut them out so that she couldn't see that they had been scrapped and made the "paper" 21st collage. I must say she was very pleased with the end result and I just felt that I had cheated her a bit and decided to reprint the photos properly and do an original collage and take it to her in Wales. Because of cutting it out properly, I had space and put other pictures in that had not been in the original collage, so that was also a nice surprise for her when she saw it again.

Impressed mom signing off ....


5 comments:

Desire Fourie said...

This is stunning Michelle and I can just appreciate how much elbow grease, space engineering and creative talent went into this. I agree, real photos are just more appealling that paper copies. Leanne is a fortunate girl.
Hugs
Desire

Jose said...

Great work, I have never done a collage like this, not sure I would know where to start... thinks you had better pop over and see it in real life :)

Anonymous said...

What a fantastic idea - I wish I had enough photo's of my darling daughters to have done the same!. You are a great mom Michelle - well done!!!
Lotsa love
Carol (the other TP)

Andrea said...

It looks really good professionally framed - what a good idea and a stunning momento
xxx
A

Beryldene said...

Michelle i love your commitment! What a loabour of love - your children are so blessed!

Awesome....