I start by choosing the photos that would be meaningful to each of my sibs. All of these have a black and white old photo on the top and a colored one on the bottom. I also pay attention to what photos went into my Dad's altaras. My sister who got the altara with my Dad in junior high gets a photo of my Mom at the same age. I am the oldest so my photos are of Mom and Dad and I.

If the photos are vertical and I don't want to crop them I wrap the photo on to one or both sides. After the photos are mod podged in place I fill in with other ephemera. I've added a knitting label because Mom knit, fabric swatch of stitches as Mom also sewed, a calling card from high school, the article from the paper on Mom winning the bowling tournament...

I put the holy card from the funeral on the right side of all of these boxes because I put Dad's on all the left side of his. That helps these be a unit if people choose to display them side by side.

OK... back to work now on adding the little 3 dimension things... must get to work as these all need to get in the mail very soon...