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{Valentine Photo Backdrop} Getting Creative

I am the first to admit that I get that jealous twinge when seeing all the fabulous home studios on Pinterest, or posted on Facebook by photographer friends. The pristine white walls, gorgeous wood floors, light that I could only dream of. Let’s face it, most of us don’t have those perfect spaces to shoot in (we personally live in a 900 sq. ft duplex, so the studio ain’t going to happen). This post today is about making do with what you have, being a little creative and ending up with a fun, homemade Valentine card for your little one to hand out in school…

A month or so ago I was inspired by this Valentine’s card on Pinterest, I thought it was too cute and would be perfect for Z’s first Valentine’s day as a big boy in Kindergarten :-) I just had to put my own creative touch on it.

First I bought glitter paper from Micheal’s (any craft store should have it), then commissioned my very patient husband to cut out dozens of hearts in various sizes. I used a great barn wood floor backdrop from the wonderful Lemondrop Stop that I already had, and adhered the hearts with non-permanent sticky dots (I did it to look like curtains)

this is how it looked when finished-

As you can see from this image- we don’t have a large living room, but I just hung the backdrop from my cheap backdrop stand, and positioned it in the tiny space by the dining table so my subject was facing the window (I’ll even admit I was lazy and didn’t use my reflector).

And voila! these are some of my final images for the card-

Then I added the script to the image for the front of the card, did a quick design with images on the back, and had them printed at Black River Imaging in a 5X7 press card (with pearl finish and rounded corners).
Here is the final Valentine’s Day card! *** mini rainbow lollipops from Amazon. Looks like a happy Kindergartner! ;-)

Tags: creating a photo backdrop, do it yourself home studio, glitter hearts, indoor photos, kindergarten valentine ideas, lollipop photos, natural light inside, rainbow lollipops, santa barbara photographer, valentine heart backdrop, valentine's day card idea

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