I am the absolute worst in the world at sending out Christmas cards. My daughter, The Southern Belle, and my mom make me ashamed every year that they can get this done and I cannot. I made the decision that this year I am sending out family cards in January. They go out this week. I need to let those that I love know that I am thinking of them, even if December is too nutty for me to even think of sitting down to write out cards. I have written a letter to send and while we were at the beach I forced convinced my family to go out on the jetty so that we could take pictures that I made a collage out of. I got the idea from this blog. I took one of my chalkboards and had each group write one word on the chalkboard to represent them. I love the results. My photography skills are improving a little.
Here is the one going out:
This was created using Pic Stitch
I hope you enjoy the out takes too. It really took about ten shots per group to get the shot I wanted. Full disclosure: The Southern Belle deleted most of her out takes.
I used a variety of photography apps to create the collage I plan to send out. Here are some of the attempts along with the iPad app I used.
this is a program called Collage
I loved this one, but could not get Miss Maeby in the shot.
This one was from Frame Artist.
Remember that I am cheap so the apps are all the free or 99 cent variety. There were things I liked and did not like about each of them, but my guess is that most of my problems was due to operator error.
Happy 2013 from my family.
The photos look great. I’m one of those people who enjoy sending and receiving Christmas cards. I especially love getting photos. I save them and I tell my kids someday when I’m gone you’ll have an abundence of “stuff” to go through. Your collage turned out great. It’s hard to get pets photographed together. Thanks for sharing!