how to make a pinterest collage

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 (clockwise from top-left)

Pinterest is great. For just about everything. Whenever you need inspiration for crafts, blog design, fonts, birthday parties, fashion, etc.  Pinterest can help you out! It's so much fun to just scroll through oodles and oodles of inspiring images and then collect your favorites into boards.

It's also a lot of fun to share these bits of inspiration! Lots of bloggers will occasionally do posts of their favorite pins. I personally like to do these in addition to craft posts. For example, when I did my series on travel journaling.

Today I'll be showing you how you can make a simple collage to showcase your pins.

First, open up Pinterest and scroll through your boards, opening each pin in a new tab. Then, click on each image to see if it leads you to the original source. It's really important to credit your sources, so if the post you are taken to is something like "10 ideas for blahblahblah" and is a collection of posts from different websites, make sure you click on the original source. Close out of any images whose sources you can't find. For the remaining ones, go back to the Pinterest window.

Now, go through each image, right-click, and select "Save Image As...". It helps to make a separate folder for these images because having them floating around in your desktop makes your computer really cluttered!

Once you're done, open up another tab and head to Picmonkey.com. If you have never used it before, it's a photo editing website that you can use to edit photos, design graphics, and put together collages. So once you're there, go ahead and click "collage".

You'll be taken to an interface where you can drag and drop photos that you have uploaded to arrange your collage. I always like to make the background transparent because that way it blends with the background of your blog/website. You can also zoom in on photos and use pre-made layouts.

Once you're done just click save at the top of the page and head to your blog to upload it.

Now you'll need to link up the pictures. Put something along the lines of what I put at the top of this post:

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 (clockwise from top-left), or

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 (left to right, top to bottom), or

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (clockwise from top-right)

at the top or bottom of the collage. 

NOTE: If your photos aren't arranged in a way that you can describe in a few words, then you might have to upload your made collage in Picmonkey, this time in "edit" mode, and add a number to the corner of each photo.

Then, for each picture, go to the corresponding Pinterest tab, copy the link that you found (remember, it might take some clicking to find the original source), and go back to the post editing page. Highlight the first number and click "Link" at the top of the screen (for Blogger). Paste the link, and then do this for each of the remaining photos.

All done! Now you can share your favorite pins with your readers. I hope you enjoyed this post and if you have any questions feel free to comment below.

craft space/desk inspiration

Hello!

Today I have collected some craft space/desk inspiration from Pinterest. Your craft area is the place where you get to be creative and find your personal style, so shouldn't it reflect that? Shouldn't it be an inspiring place to be? Whether you have a small corner of your room for crafting or an entire room dedicated to art, you can always improve it. I hope these pictures inspire you! I know that I only get into my "Okay, time to clean up this place" mood after I've looked at inspiring pictures ;)

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   The picture on the left has so much bright, happy color. I love how all of the supplies are on display and the string of inspiration underneath the shelf.
   The picture on the right is super stylish. It's also a trestle table, but decorated very differently. Gold + Black + White + Wood = <3

 Sources // 1, 2

   The picture on the left is a great example of how some good organization can help you make the most of a tiny space. One of these portable carts is great to have if your desk doesn't have enough storage or if you work in different places throughout your house.
   In the second picture, I love how the walls and floors are white. This gives a clean look to the space and allows the fabric and colorful supplies to stand out.

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   The first picture is another example of how to make use of a small space. If you have a spare closet, there's lots you can do to make it workable. I love how the designers even utilized the door space to create extra storage.
   This is another desk area that I love because of all the colors. The inspiration board decorates the wall and the cute stationery across the whole desk really ties it together.

That's all for today's "Pinspiration"! I hope you guys enjoyed it. Isn't Pinterest great?

Thanks for reading!