Keeping the Keepsakes Collage

I was inspired by a recent episode of Home by Novogratz that featured a cool collage of children’s artwork in a family basement redesign. The collage was the amazing work of Jan Eleni, in which the pieces of artwork were shrunk, hand-cut, neatly arranged, and then framed. I thought it was only right that I give this project a try. Instead of a collage of my children’s artwork, I made a collage of my past design projects to display in my home office.

THE TAKE AWAY: For those of you who don’t have the heart to throw out a single piece of your kid’s artwork, and really want to show it off instead of tucking it away in a keepsake box, this is the perfect project. You can “shrink” your artwork by scanning it (some home printers come with scanners), scale down the images to your desired size (this can be done in a word processing program or photo editor), print the images at home or professionally, cut them out, paste them onto a piece of large poster board, frame, and enjoy.