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How To Add a QR Code to Yearly Interview

by Vanessa Brady on 2 April 2013 in Kids, Tutorial with 8 Comments

How to add a QR code to your kid's yearly interview! - A Tried & True ProjectYou know how they say time flies when you’re having fun? Well, we must be having a blast over here because more than a year has flown by and it’s time to update you all on Jack’s yearly interviews.

You may remember me posting about his 3 year interview last year. We decided to add a QR Code on the sheet so that anyone could scan the code and be taken to the audio file of his interview. Writing this post has taken so long because I keep on listening to his adorable little voice! You want to see what I mean?

Listen to Jack’s 4 Year Interview right here! (You can hear just how crazy he is about superheroes!)

Listen to your kid's voice during their yearly interview with a QR code. | A Tried & True ProjectFor his second interview, we kept the questions exactly the same and only changed the format of the page slightly. It’s not easy squeezing in 12 pictures, 20 questions/answers, a title and QR code on one page! Jack looks so big in these pictures, it just breaks my heart. Quite a few of you wanted to know if I could give more detailed instructions on how to add a QR Code to any scrapbook page. Don’t worry, it’s really easy…

How to Add a QR Code to a Yearly Interview

Yearly Interview with QR Code

1. Interview and record your kid. I used most of my questions from Reaves, Party of 4, with a few extra superhero ones thrown in for fun. (Don’t forget, you can always buy the original 20 Questions book from Nicole. It’s just lovely!)

Upload audio file to either your website, YouTube or Dropbox. I uploaded to my personal website because it was the easiest and I wanted to have complete control over it but I’m sure there are other options that would work as well.

How to add a QR Code to a page

2. Find a QR generator website. I’ve used QRstuff.com for two years now and haven’t had any problems but I’m betting they’re all essentially the same. Enter information on the website (steps 1& 2 in above picture) and download your code (step 3).

Yearly Interview - Spread3. All you have to do now is incorporate the code into your page. If you are using some sort of digital editor (I used Photoshop), insert the downloaded jpeg file where ever you see fit. You could also just print out the QR code on a separate paper, cut out, and glue or tape onto an existing scrapbook page.

See? Totally easy. Now you’ll always be able to scan the code with your phone and hear your kid’s sweet little voice!

Jack’s Yearly Interview

by Vanessa Brady on 11 April 2012 in Kids, Tutorial with 19 Comments

I saw the loveliest of ideas over at Reaves, Party of Four, a yearly interview of 20 Questions for your kids. So cute, right? Jack turned three at the end of last year so it was perfect timing.

We decided to take it one step further and actually record his interview so that we could have the audio of his crazy cute little voice. Jim works at a video/audio production house so it was a real treat for Jack to be able to go to “Papa’s Work” and being able to sit in the recording booth.

I’ve listed to it dozens of times already and hearing how sweet and little he sounds always brings tears to my eyes. I can’t imagine listing to it when he’s graduating from high school…open the floodgates!

Jim actually came up with the idea of adding a QR code so that we could just scan the page to hear Jack’s interview. I added a picture from each month of the previous year so that I can remember how sweet he was when he’s a sweaty teenager! :D

If you’re thinking of doing an annual interview, I highly suggest recording it and adding a QR code to your page layout. It’s pretty simple.

You’ll just have to record your interview (using your computer or phone if you don’t have access to a Jim), upload the audio file to the internet and use a free online QR code generator (I liked QR Stuff) to make the code image that points to the file. Once you save the image to your computer, you can add it to any layout you want and then anyone with a smart phone and a QR app can listen. Then, 10 years from now, we can be sappy sobbing mothers together!

Here’s Jack’s interview if your curious. I think it’s crazy cute but I’m a bit partial. :)

Jack’s 3 Year Audio Interview

 
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