Okay folks, can you believe it's almost Halloween? You know what happens immediately after Halloween right (and sometimes even before)? The stores perform a quick change over, pushing all the Halloween stuff to the clearance aisle and start hauling out everything tinsel, red and green. In Photobookland, Halloween also signals for me to get my creative holiday projects underway, … [Read more...]
Custom Photo Card FREEBIE Roundup! Plus Photo Book Girl’s Must Read Guide to Photo Cards
Can you believe it's almost "that" time of year again? I don't know what brings thoughts of the holidays to the forefront in your house, but this year, Photo Book Toddler (I have to graduate Photo Book Baby to Photo Book Toddler now that there's a new addition to the family!) made sure to get a head start on his letter to Santa. I kid you not - he's had it all written up and … [Read more...]
Best Deals on Custom Photo Cards 2014
I've been busy making the rounds to the various photo book and photo card companies checking out the latest designs for the 2014 holidays. I love checking out what's new and what's trending! However, the focus of this post is on getting a deal - which we all love right? So, I got to researching and I created a brand new handy dandy comparison chart showing the card prices … [Read more...]
Make Your Own Custom Birthday Cards and Stationery
Whenever a spot a great deal on custom cards (or sometimes even a freebie), I stock up and make my own stationery or birthday cards to have on hand. While writing this post, I took a quick peek at the cards my son received for his 2nd birthday last year and they ranged anywhere from $.99 to $4.99 - with majority of them around $3.00. If you make a custom card, a single one is … [Read more...]
Happy Lunar New Year – The Year of the Horse
Happy Lunar New Year! For the first time I made cards celebrating Chinese New Year featuring my favorite little guy, Photo Book Baby. Although I don't think that sending new year's cards is quite as common in countries that celebrate the lunar new year (in the way that we send Christmas cards) several of the photo book companies that also print cards are now offering … [Read more...]
Custom Photo Cards Roundup Valentine’s, Mother’s Day and More
We just took down our Christmas tree and our holiday decorations this past week. I know it's probably a bit on the later side, but Photo Book Baby really enjoyed his first tree and he was still asking us to light it up every day. Just last night while I was making dinner, he asked his father to pick him up and walk him over to one of the upper kitchen cabinets. He said, "What's … [Read more...]
10 FREE Holiday Cards from Mixbook & How to Create that Vintage Look For Your Photos
Camera phones have been a huge game changer in making it more convenient to take photos and in how we post-process them as well. If you use Instagram or a similar mobile phone app to alter your photos - yes my friend - you are post-processing. Did you know you were so fancy? Post-processing is just photography lingo for making edits to an original image like brightening or … [Read more...]
Photo Book Girl’s Top Tips for Planning a Pirate Birthday Party – Part 1
Okay, I don't know how it happened, but Photo Book Baby's 2nd birthday party was supposed to be a low key affair. Just our families alone would make the guest list about 35 people, but add a sprinkling of a few friends and their kids and all of a sudden you've got a packed house. Luckily we had great weather so we could make use of our outdoor space, and it was nice to be … [Read more...]
