In Joy Rubber Stamps Blog: Making Mosaics with Grid Papers

Making Mosaics is a fun and popular technique. I first discovered photo mosaics about 2 years ago at the Craft & Hobby Association (CHA) trade show. A company called Wish in the Wind sold papers with grid lines that helped you to make your mosaic patterns (the lines help you to keep the pictures straight!). As you can see from the samples below, even though the grid lines allow you to put a 1" square picture on a 12" x 12" page, you could insert larger pictures to vary the look of your page.

So, on the left, you can see a mosaic page that I started. You can see the grid lines in the top right corner of the page. Besides photos, you can add journaling or decorated squares called Cornerstores (also made by Wish in the Wind) with different themes (palm tree, flowers, etc.).

I really like their book, Designing Photo Mosaics because it really gave some great tips for taking photos (in preparation for making a mosaic) as well as for making your pages.

Here are some other scrapbook pages from the Wish in the Wind web site:

One tip I learned is that you can actually select several photos (with a similar color theme) to put on a page and still have the mosaic look seamless!

I also like the fact that you can make all sorts of variations, so you're not creating the same old look every time. you can use your creativity to enhance your pages!

If you make cards and not scrapbook pages, you can try these ready-to-cut card-sized mosaic sheets in 4" x 4" and 4" x 6". You can stamp your design, cut them into 1" squares and then mount them onto the papers. Here are some samples from the Wish in the Wind web site. I haven't had a chance to try the smaller size. Let me know if you have!