Not all stamps have to be placed in an album to be interesting to view.

A possibility for the use of stamps might be an ethnicity grouping. A person can glue stamps from the countries of their ethnicity on a board in a frame. So, for example, a person might be Swedish, Belgian, German, French and Italian. Stamps proportional to their ethnic mix are then grouped to represent their heritage.

Another use of stamps is to use stamps to make a picture on a postcard. Here is an example of this sort of stamp art: