$9.99
90th birthday photo collage: ninety years, nine hundred photos
Ninety years is nearly a century of history: a childhood most of us only know from books, a lifetime of work and love, and a family tree that has kept on growing. A 90th birthday photo collage cut to the number 90 holds up to 1,075 photos on a 60 × 40″ print. That's room for every generation to be in the picture together, perhaps for the very first time.
90 years, 900 photos
Ten photos for every year makes 900, which fits a 60 × 40″ landscape print, our biggest, with each photo a little over three-quarters of an inch across. It's a mosaic of nearly a century. For bigger photos, use fewer: 180 photos, two for every year, come out about two inches each.
What to put in it
- The oldest surviving photos, however small or faded
- Their parents and grandparents, if any photos survive
- Every generation: children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren
- Big family gatherings, weddings and christenings
- A photo of a handwritten recipe card or letter in their writing
- A new photo of them with the youngest member of the family
Words for under the number
- Happy 90th Birthday Grandma
- Ninety years of love
- A life of love, nine decades long
- Four generations love you
- Ninety, and still our favourite
Collect the photos together
A 90th is often the one time the whole family is in one place. Ask everyone to bring their albums, and spend an hour photographing pages with your phones. The stories that come out while you do it are worth as much as the collage.
Questions
The oldest photos are tiny and faded. Will they work?
Yes. Each photo only fills a small part of the print, so even a tiny, faded print looks right at collage size, and its age is part of its charm. Photograph it in daylight, without flash, to avoid glare.
Can it really hold four generations?
Easily. With up to 1,075 photos on a 60 × 40″ print, there's space for every child, grandchild and great-grandchild, many times over.
What do I get?
A Canva template with the 90 already cut and every photo space placed, for $9.99. It downloads instantly; you open it in a free Canva account, drop in your photos, type your words and print it anywhere.