I’ve always been a hoarder of every drawing. Even as a child, I saved my drawings and carefully dated them, somehow knowing that these simple pieces of paper would mean something to me someday.

Years later, as my own daughter grew, I found myself doing the same thing, filling boxes with her scribbles, paintings, and little creations. As an artist, I couldn’t bring myself to throw them away, but I also didn’t want them tucked away in storage where they would rarely be seen.

As she grew, I watched her drawings grow with her. Her first stick figures turned into potato people, her first cats, the shapes that became pictures, and each stage captured a little piece of who she was at that age. It reminded me how quickly childhood changes and how with every new stage, the one before it becomes a bittersweet memory.

So I began turning those little pieces of paper into art for our walls. I wanted to see her progression and be reminded of what her littler hands once created.

I made my first custom canvas collage from her artwork, bringing years of her creativity together into one piece we could see and enjoy every day.

And that’s how Little Papers Collage came about: turning childhood memories into art you can see, enjoy, and keep forever.