Nearly Wordless Weds, My Girls via GIMP

I felt like playing with graphics and making a digital photo frame for some images for our girls.  First I found an image I wanted to use as a frame in The Strand Magazine from 1894:
 

ORIGINAL

ALTER IMAGE INTO FRAME

I used a white brush in GIMP to white out the text. Then I added alpha (transparency) to the layer.  Then I use the select and cut functions to remove the images and followed up with the erase brush to extend the cut around the curved areas. 
 

ADD IMAGES

Then I added images and text as layers and cropped and stacked them so the images lined up the way I wanted.  I transformed all images here into gray scale.

 ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES

Here is another one I did, from different sources.

 
Adorable, no?  I will print on photo paper add a small layer of matting and frame.