Family Proclamation Photo Book Tutorial

My Mom has raved about our next blogger Kristin for a while now.

And with good reason.  She shares lots of unique and creative ideas for visiting teaching

on her blog See Me Visit Teach!

I have asked her to share her idea for a Family Proclamation Photo Book

that we can make for ourselves AND share with the women we visit this month!
I also thought it would be a great lead-in to our Family Proclamation Photo Walk which starts tomorrow...

Hello! I'm Kristin from SeeMeVT, a blog that shares creative ideas for sharing the Relief Society visiting teaching message each month. This photo book is a fun project to put together as a family, that combines meaningful family photos with the words in the family proclamation. 

I created a pdf file (that you can download here) that has individual phrases from the proclamation. After printing onto transparencies, cutting, and combining with correlating photographs, you can slide your project into a 36-photo album like the one I purchased from Wal-Mart for $1.00.

There are plenty of pages to layer the text over photos, and also to have some pages with just text (like the photo above), if the photos are too busy to layer words over.

It definitely works best if the photos have a light-colored background.

You can, however, still see the text on a little dark or slightly busy photos. Some of my transparencies stay put without any trouble, and some needed a little dab of tacky glue to keep them from sliding - depending on where I placed them on my photos.

I love breaking up the proclamation into small bites like this, to really think about each part and what it means. My children love seeing it alongside our photos. It's meaningful in a delightful way. 

Make sure you buy the transparencies that are meant for your printer - whether inkjet, laser or copy machine - and follow printing directions on the package. You could also print on cardstock and make a little paper album. 

One last thing - I made a duplicate of this quote: "Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities." It is printed all together in one place, and then printed as separate words on the last page, in case you want to use a separate photo for each principle mentioned.

Hope this is a fun project for you and your families!

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Thank you so much, Kristin!

You can read more insights on Family with Cocoa at Chocolate On My Cranium.

And please join us tomorrow to link-up your favorite photos that are either inspired by the Family Proclamation or that illustrate some concept taught in The Family Proclamation.

I will be posting mine tomorrow too...

But now, I think it's time to give out a few party favors for our first week of comments and link-ups!  Drum roll, please...

The winner of these sterling silver hoop earrings 

from Crafty Jules is:

Comment/link-up #75

Jaime of Welcome to the Madness

(Does she look familiar?)

and

The winner of an 11x14 print of this orchard photo
by Carrie Stroud Photography (*click here to go to her Etsy shop!) is:  


Comment/Link-up #30
Surviving a Family of Nine





You can read her link-ups here and here.


Congratulations to the winners of these party favors.
Please contact me directly with your mailing address.


And keep participating by blogging, commenting, and linking up to win more prizes this week.