Book of the Week: Photocraft: Cool Things to Do with the Pictures You Love
I selected the decor8 book of the week, Photocraft: Cool Things to Do with the Pictures You Love, based on a personal need. Like you, I have billions of digital images and although I enjoy uploading them to my Flickr account and sharing them with others, I haven't dedicated the time to actually print them out and do something with them. Relate?
My husband Thorsten took this photo in the apple orchard behind our home where there's this tiny patch of green with what seems like thousands of dandelions. Most of us have long admired these delicate white puffs because as children, we'd blow them just to watch the seeds dance in the blue sky and drift off into the horizon. Looks like this one was about to take that same journey. I'd like to turn it into a huge canvas for my dining room wall. What do you think? Where do you go to turn a photo into a large canvas? I've seen a ton of places online offering this service, but I'd love to hear from someone that has actually tried one with good results. Anyone?
As we mature, and time is no longer spent running through fields amongst flowers, capturing a moment is key because we don't know when we'll have the opportunity to repeat the magic. Outside of desktop wallpaper, photos in frames, or the latest craze, photos clipped on DIY lines, I haven't explored alternate creative ways to display photos as much as I should. So I started to look into this a bit and fell upon Photocraft displayed proudly at Barnes and Noble last week. I grabbed it, scanned every page, and quickly found 1, 2, 3...6 projects that I totally imagined taking on. And they're amazingly easy, any idiot can do it. Big plus.
One of the projects in the book, creating jewel box photo art, is actually demonstrated by Photojojo on their website in a quick and easy video how to. I love this project because you can purchase brand new jewel cases in bulk (my husband swears by eBay as the best source. Search: jewel cases. Or shop Circuit City or Best Buy, but they'll cost a lot more). You can find cases that are as thick as your typical music CDs, or you can find the slim ones, meant for CDR's. You don't have to take apart your music CDs, in fact I don't suggest it because more likely than not, your cases will have scratches and you want only those that are in perfect shape.
Hop on over to Photojojo and watch how it's done.
Now you can take your photos to the next level -- off of your computer and onto your walls -- in a less traditional, and totally modern, way. For more cool projects from Photocraft, purchase the book here on Amazon for only $13. Photojojo sells lots of neat things that will help you use your photos as art, so browse their website while you're at it, like their photo block kit shown above.
Have fun!
(images from amazon + photojojo)