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I have wanted to make this book since Addie was born and have just not found the time not gotten around to doing it. You can imagine how excited I was when we opened this!
My sister-in-law is the queen at photo books.
There are tons of different sites that you can use, or you could make one at home printing out photos and making a flip book with construction paper, but Blurb is my sister-in-laws current favorite:
“I’ve used lots of different book sites, but made this latest one on Blurb. It’s a little higher-end bookmaking site, designed more for people who actually want to write/design, publish and even sell their own books. It’s not any more expensive than other sites, but gives you a little more control over the page layouts.
I’d had the idea of making an ABC book for a long time, but most sites wouldn’t let me make the alphabet letters bigger than the rest of the text. It’s also hard to find ones where you can put text on top of a full-bleed photo, which I like.
So, I’m a fan of Blurb at the moment. The thing about these sites is that they tend to evolve and leap-frog each other, so I try to check them all out every once in a while to see what’s new. Blurb just added a new feature that’s pretty cool. It’s a widget you can add to your FB page to let other people view the book online.” (This widget is what’s allowing us to share part of the book at the start of this post)
But the other great thing about this widget and sharing the book, if you did spend the time to make a book and shared it with your family (you can set who can actually views it) then they have the option of purchasing themselves (you don’t need to buy for each member of your family). I love this feature!
So often I make a something that everyone else loves and wants a copy of, but we would be in the poor house if I bought them for everyone! And just to be clear, this book is around $20 not $500 (Currently Blurb does not have an option that limits the purchasing of a book when sharing it online, you can make it private for certain viewers and you can set the price. You also can see who has purchased it, you just can’t stop them from buying it when they view it.) We figured you would REALLY have to love our kids to want to spend $500 on them!
Love the design of it, love that it’s under $20, love all the options!
You can use it to make a photo book to introduce your kids to out of town relatives and friends, to teach “ABC’s”, different foods, truly so many possibilities! Just takes a little time (which I KNOW we are so short on) but who knows where you might carve out a few hours minutes – goodness knows the recipient will love ya for this gift!! I think we read ours everyday!!
Enjoy and happy photo book making!!
(Disclosure: I have no affiliation with Blurb.
This is a sample of the actual book we were given from the girls’ fabulous Aunt.)
I usually give a photo book of my daughter to her godmother every Christmas. It covers the entire year.
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thanks for clarification about the price! i was immediately relieved, b/c when i saw the $500, i thought “no way would she post about something like this!!!” thanks for sharing another great find. just love your suggestions!
wish you were in chicago! have you ever thought about having co-sites with “local” regional favorites? i would love to be a part of it! :-)
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I am thinking of using blurb to print out my blog.
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I absolutely DIG this cute little creation! I’m going to make one for my friends baby shower, GREAT idea!!!!
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YAY…Love it!!!
ok…one more project that you have inspired!!
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Love this book! I’m totally going to copy this idea. Love love.
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Lovely gift! I’m planning to make a family history book so I’ve been looking at some book sites but I hadn’t seen Blurb before… thanks for the recommendation!
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I have tried number of different photo sites and keep hearing about blurb I think I will check it out and make ABC book for my girls! Or make a photo book for Mother’s day.
Thanks!
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That is so great. I want to make one now,
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Has anyone tried the Creative Memories Storybooks? The nice thing with CM is you don’t have to be online to use the program. Hands down they have the best choices for templates – and you can pretty much do whatever you want on your pages. They have alpha sets – so you can do large alphabet letters…and SO much more. I’m happy to share more info (via a free online webinar or a short you tube video to see what it is al about). They do make the most meaningful gifts! Feel free to email me gretchencm@gmail.com if you’d like more info.
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What a great project and a great price! My head is kinda spinning with the possibilities!
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