Monday, February 14, 2011

Happy Valentine’s Day! – Nashville, TN Children’s Photographer

Posted in Holiday, Personal

Happy Valentine’s Day! My children will be handing out Valentine’s at school this week and I wanted to do something quick and easy, yet sweet and personalized. I thought I’d share this quick idea that worked pretty well- at least, I think so!

Step One: Take a quick snapshot of your child(ren) from above, and have them hold one arm up, fist clenched. (I told my son to pretend he was holding a sword and my daughter to pretend she was holding a princess wand- hey, do what works, right?)

Step Two (Optional): Open up your digital file in a photo editing software and type a message on the photo. If you don’t have photoshop, you can use gimp (a free software program with many similar capabilities of photoshop), or a program such as Picnik, which is very user-friendly. If you don’t want to deal with this step, just take a sharpie and write a message by hand on top of the photos after they are printed.

Our message says “I’m a sucker for you, friend! Happy Valentine’s Day. Love, (child’s name)” Get it? Sucker for you. Heh.

Step Three: Get your photos printed at your favorite lab.

Step Four: Use a hole punch (I used a 1/8″ punch) and make holes at the very top and bottom of the fist.

Step Five: Thread a sucker/lollipop in between the two holes, and voila! Quick, easy, and cute personalized valentine card:)

Did you make Valentines this year? I’d love to see!!

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andrea - February 15, 2011 - 3:12 am

Excellent! Thanks for the Mpix tip. I just got on their mailing list. Oh, and it’s settled then: Heather and I are going to come and live with you and be W&M’s older siblings. (So you’re gonna need to stock up on Cap’n Crunch Crunch Berries cereal please.)

mary crow - February 14, 2011 - 6:46 pm

How creative!! And cute too!

Heather - February 14, 2011 - 4:17 pm

Susan, can I come live at your house and be your kid? And Andrea, I followed Susan’s recommendation and Mpix does a fabulous job!

Susan - February 14, 2011 - 2:30 pm

Andrea, I waited until the last minute to make these, so I just used Costco. They have an option to turn off “auto-correct” for printing, which I forgot to do on one batch, and BOY can you tell a difference! I think they turned out fine for this purpose- I wasn’t looking to enlarge these photos and hang them in my home. However, if you’re looking for a good lab to use, I highly recommend MPix.com- they are a consumer lab that is a sister company to a pro lab, and they have excellent, consistent results. Reasonable pricing, too- get on their mailing list for notifications of sales, free shipping, etc.

andrea - February 14, 2011 - 2:22 pm

Susan, this is remarkable! It really looks like they’re holding the suckers. Quick question about photo labs. Do you use a generic lab like CVS or Walgreens, or do you have a favorite “fancy” lab in Nashville? I’m wary of using CVS-type places because I assume the photos will turn out like crap. But then I’m afraid of fancy labs because I assume they’ll be too expensive. The result is that I never print out photos, and I’d like to.

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