Travel Photo Collage

My friend Dan collects license plates, he has some really cool vintage plates in his collection. When we went to the Brass Armadillo last month I saw a cool Colorado plate from 1975. I thought it would be neat to get a few vintage plates while we live in Wyoming. Dan surprised me and mailed me a vintage Wyoming and Colorado plate! After I got them I thought to myself,"Now what do I do with them?" I decided that I would use them as inspiration to make a photo frame collage wall in my staircase. (On the only wall that didn't have anything yet.) I decided to design these two travel related collages on Photoshop...
Collage 1 - Pictures Traveling to California / April 2011
I had two 12x12 picture frames to use in my photo collage. I designed these as 12x12 prints.

Collage 2 - Traveling back to Ohio - July 2011

Only problem with that was, I can't print them out on a 8x11 piece of paper. I knew 8x8 prints would be to small. I just printed the pictures from the collage individual and then cut them out. Why I never thought to do something like this sooner is beyond me. Duh....

Then I put them back together like a puzzle...Then you just place it in the frame and it looks like just like the 12x12 collage....

This picture should give you an idea of where my travel collage is in my hallway...

In the center of the collage, I decided to add two pictures of Cody and I from his graduation weekend. I figured the whole reason I had all the travel pictures is because of him joining the Air Force, so it seemed fitting. The large photos are Mt. Rushmore and The Arch in St. Louis.I may add a few more frames above/below the 12x12 frames. I like that I was able to do this in just a few hours. It's nice to feel like I accomplished a decorating project!!!

You can see the rest of the staircase {HERE}