Creative Things To Do With Vacation Photos

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While everyone loves to go on vacation, and more often than not will take many pictures so that you may remember your travels, the problem comes when you make it back home. After you show them off to your close friends and family members, what happens to them after that? 

Most of the time, these well-loved photos are placed in an online album and posted to Facebook, where they fade into the background of your online profile. But what if there was something else you could do with them?

Create A Blog

Whether you already have one or you start one after your trip, a great way to showcase your travel photos is through a blog post, or several if you prefer to break up your trip by day or place. Blogs allow you to not only post photos but tell the stories that go along with them. 

Create A Photobook

Photobooks are easily created online these days. Multiple sites exist that allow users to quickly pop their photos into pre-generated backgrounds or you can take more time and build your own if you are more creative. 

Scrapbooks can also be a good option for the DIY-inclined. Once you have your photos printed off, you can become as creative as you want. Add stickers, wording, backings and other embellishments to show off your photos and make them pop.

Either way, all you need to do is select your favourite photos and get to work!

Create Art For Your Home

While we are talking about the creation of personal art, there are several printing companies online that now make it possible for you to have your art printed on virtually anything. You can create pillows, t-shirts, magnets, mugs, among a plethora of other objects. Want something really special and unique? Photo blankets are the perfect way to display memories and make them last a lifetime.

Create Custom Stamps

Take some of your favourite pictures and, using an online service, you can create your own custom stamps are that perfectly legal to use when affixed to your letters and other mail you would like to send out.

Display Them With Foreign Currency

For the crafty at heart, you can try your hand at turning any of that extra foreign currency you brought back with you into magnets and using them to post vacation photos on your fridge. This is a great way to be able to easily switch which photos you show off when you have too many favourites.

Create Your Own Coasters

For those who are crafty, take out your mod podge and get ready! All it takes is some tiles, photos, and mod podge to create your own custom coasters, perfectly ready to hold your drinks guests and standing at the ready as an instant conversation starter. Look here for the full directions.

Create Some Wall Art

Rather than purchasing art that someone else has made, use your photos and make your own wall art! Whether it be with a blown-up photo in a nice frame or a canvas print you have created, you can rest assured that no one else will have the same art hanging in their house. 

Your pictures can be printed on a number of different surfaces, from prints or canvases to metal or wood. Each print will be a work of art that is sure to begin a conversation with your guests.

If you want to get more creative, you can always create your own frame by glueing or stapling twine to the back of an open frame using a criss-cross pattern and then using clothespins to hang a variety of smaller photos on the twine. While the photos will be unprotected, this option allows you to easily change them out often for an ever-changing look. 

This idea can also be accomplished using a large corkboard and thumbtacks. 

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