What makes you choose a photo for photo greeting cards?  There seem to be lots of occasions for which, looking back, I realize that I’d forgotten to bring the camera or (I sincerely hope I’m not the only one who has done this) actually did bring the camera, carried it around all day, and never once remembered to take a picture!  The most extreme case of all (please don’t tell anyone I did something so empty-headed) was when I was snapping away while my visiting relatives posed, only to discover later that there was no film in the camera and no photos to mail to them.  Mortified?  Believe it!

So, what can you do with all the photos you do have, besides (if you’re organized) putting them in albums or (if you’re me) putting them in boxes until you “find time” to organize them?  With birthday photos, I’m thinking you could make a neat collage, something along the lines of those “school days” frames where you install the child’s school photo from each grade, with their high school graduation photo in the middle.  No reason you couldn’t do that at home with birthday photos, right?

With more than one child in the family, you could do a wildly immense collage, and throw in some photos of the old folks from their childhood birthdays.  (Got any old photos at your house with someone seated atop a pony?)  By the way, making a collage is a great way to save and display photo Christmas cards, whether for yourself or as a gift for someone else.

One way to treasure, save, share and display your favorite photos is to have them made into photo cards.  It’s so easy now to upload or scan photos for the face of your photo cards, made to say whatever you want inside of them (for instance as birthday cards or birthday party invitations), or to be blank inside for multi-purpose note cards.  Let your imagination run free and think of all the photo ops you have seized and how the resultant photos would make great thank you cards, anniversary cards, get well cards, and definitely some cool welcome cards or congratulations cards!  The possibilities are endless when it comes to photo cards!

Birthday photos might be the one type of picture we have the most of.  On every birthday we seem to take the same poses: big birthday grin over decorated cake, blowing out the candles on said cake, and face smeared with frosting from said cake.  So it makes sense that birthday photos would be a good resource for fashioning photo greeting cards.

Making photo greeting cards from birthday photos could be a practical way to share a favorite and memorable birthday photo.  You probably see greeting cards of cute kids in greeting card stores, costing a big chunk per card, and you don’t even know those children!  Why not choose to put a face you love on the face of your thank you cards, birthday cards or note cards?  Picture engagement party invitations with birthday-cake-smeared photos of the future bride and groom.  Even adult birthday photos make nifty birthday photo greeting cards for like-aged friends, not to mention splendid photo invitations for birthday parties, retirement parties and award ceremonies.  If you go through your old photos, you may find one that would make creative and amusing get well cards or thinking of you cards.

Just looking through your old birthday photos could lead you on a pleasant trip down memory lane.  Using the birthday photos to create unique and clever photo greeting cards will give your good wishes stand-out attention.