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Photo-Transfer Tote Bag

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Rescue your favorite photographs from shoe boxes and other dark hiding places with clever photo crafts.

Who says your favorite photo has to be on the wall or in a frame? Make your tote bag one of a kind by embellishing it with a memorable image.

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Bottle-Cap Magnets and Thumbtacks

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How to Make Bottle-Cap Magnets and Thumbtacks

A homey take on the traditional locket, bottle caps inset with small pictures can be used as thumbtacks or magnets.

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Photo Flip Book

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Moms-to-be can watch their growing bellies blossom with a fun flip book. To best capture the progress, bellies should always be shot in profile and done on the same day each week. Write the week of pregnancy on a sticky note and place it on your stomach. 

Stack the prints in sequential order and keep adding more, using binder clips to hold them together. 

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Ribbon Frame

Ribbon Frame

Here's a Good Thing you can use on your scrapbook pages, on cards, or even to embellish a photo mat.

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Generations Album

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Pick your favorite family photos, download our cover design, and glue it to a plain album with removable pages for a beautiful collection of memories.

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Photograph Jewelry

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Jewelry embellished with baby photos is sure to charm any new mother or grandmother. Give photographs of the children a sepia tone, then dangle them from a charm bracelet or pendant necklace.

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Instant Photo Album

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If you're the type who lets photos languish in a drawer, why not bind them into instant mini photo albums as soon as you get them in your hands?

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Photo Montage

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Special family photos stack up as playful wall art. Arrange same-size vertical snapshots in a grid using removable double-sided tape.

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Picture Pillow

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Transfer your favorite photos onto a washable pillowcase for a beautiful keepsake.

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Photo Tin

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Add a memorable black-and-white photograph to a small metal tin with a glass lid (available at crafts stores in assorted sizes) to always keep a familiar face around the office.

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Photo Tray

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Enhance household objects, such as a vintage vanity tray, with copies of family photos. A glazier can cut a piece of glass to fit inside the tray to protect the image.

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Spiral Photo Arrangement

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To create a quiet corner of variously sized black-and-white pictures, have photos mounted in frames of the same color or design. Two or three pictures identical in size can be matted together. Hang the frames in a loose spiral pattern with your favorite picture at the center.

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Punched-Paper Ornaments

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Use loop-shaped craft punches to create handmade photo frame ornaments to hang from your tree or give as a gift.

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Pet Stationery Set

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Convert pictures of pets and other animals to black and white and amplify the contrast using computer software. Cut out shapes and glue to cards for a memorable stationery set.

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Photo Party Tags

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Using photo-editing software, you can take your favorite snapshots of birthday or anniversary celebrants and transform them into party decorations, gift tags, and favors.

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Photo Centerpiece

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How to Make a Photo Centerpiece

Create a glowing photo centerpiece with black-and-white photos, three hinged photo frames, and votive candles.

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