Preserve the memories of your kid’s theme parties

I am sorry for not posting anything new during the past week but I have been so busy scanning and editing/retouching some very old photos for a local client who is busy making scrapbooks of her parents that she will give as Christmas gifts to each of her 4 sisters. In total she is busy with 5 scrapbooks. A lot of work but also a joy forever.

What a wonderful way of preserving memories of your parents and your childhood. Scrapbooking can also be used to preserve all the wonderful memories of your child’s birthdays and theme parties.

It is such a pity that most party photos either stay on the hard drive of a computer after everybody had a look at it, never to be seen again by anybody except if grandparents or family from across the country visit for a day or two.

If you are like me, you take one photo after another and never look at them in a critical way by deleting the blurry or bad ones (and let’s face it, there are bad photos in every batch of photos taken at a kid’s birthday party or for that matter, at any other event). Choose the best photos or the ones that you find funny or cute and delete the rest.

This is especially important if you do not print the photos yourself but take it to a photo lab to be printed. You can waste a lot of money in this way and end up with photos that will eventually find their way into the waste bin. Turn the choosing of the photos into a family affair and let the birthday boy or girl choose a certain number of favourite photos and give the same option to other members of the family.

If you have your own computer, you can turn these photos into digital movies by using a program like Windows Movie Maker. Add captions, voice inserts and music. Burn the movies onto DVD disks to be viewed on DVD players so that the whole family can enjoy the movie. This is also a great gift for grandparents.

Photos of the birthday party can also be turned into scrapbooks – pieces of wrapping paper, ribbons and gift tags that were attached to gifts and items that were used for decorations can all be used for the scrapbook, add notations as to what foods were served, games played and the names of all the guests that attended the party.

Digital scrapbooking has also become very popular and if you have a scanner, you can scan and add many of the things mentioned above.

Digital scrapbooking is a wonderful, relaxing hobby and a way to preserve all the memories of your kid’s theme parties. If you are interested to learn more, you can download this guide that will teach you all you need to know to turn the photos of your child’s theme party into masterpieces.

Your digital scrapbook pages can also be turned into DVD’s for your birthday child to enjoy watching together with his friends or even his own children in later years.

No matter how you preserve the memories of your kid’s theme parties, the important thing is to do it!

** Credits for embellishments in the scrapbook page:
Background papers, candle and photos – my own
Curled ribbon and staples – http://www.storeide.se/gunhild/index.htm
Gel Alphabet – Marie Stones – http://www.freedigitalscrapbooking.com