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Holiday GIVEAWAY by Mixbook and Exclusive Year End Photo Deals 2018

14 days until Christmas! How are those holiday projects going? 

I’m personally in the middle of working on my annual end of year tradition – making calendars for everyone in my family! If you’re a follower of my blog you might recall I have made these calendars every year for the past 7 years and now I’m going on my 8th year! I have seven households to make these calendars for, including grandparents, my brother, my sister-in-law, my aunts and my cousins. I’ve always made them with Mixbook because I love the level of customization I can achieve with Mixbook’s user-friendly software.

To help you out with your holiday projects I want to pass along an exclusive deal for Photo Book Girl readers including a great deal on Mixbook calendars! Plus you can’t miss entering our LAST GIVEAWAY of the year!

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MIXBOOK PHOTOBOOKGIRL.COM EXCLUSIVE 

50% off 12×12 Books and All Calendars
40% off all other photo books
30% off everything else!

Coupon Code: PBGDEC18

DEAL ENDS: 12/31/18, at 11:59pm PT

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ENTER MY HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!

Our LAST GIVEAWAY of the year is here! TWO lucky winners will receive either a $100.00 credit or $50.00 credit to spend on anything at Mixbook – calendars, cards, canvas prints, metal prints, acrylic prints and of course my fave – photo books! More details on how to enter that below.

Mixbook is one of my favorite companies. They have one of the most user friendly and full-featured design programs out there.

What I like:

  • Put anything just about anywhere. You can design across the center spread which gives you a lot more design options. Mixbook calendars in particular are the most customizable I’ve come across;

Mixbook promo code 2018

  • The software is very user friendly and intuitive. You don’t have to click in and out of different editing modes to customize the page unlike some other companies’ software;
  • The clip art is well-designed. I can always find something unique and fun to add to my layouts and if I can’t, I can easily load my own. This is a great feature for digital scrappers who have plenty of their own stickers and embellishments. Digital scrapbookers will also like that Mixbook offers a 12″ x 12″ photo book with several paper choices including Semi-Gloss, Pearl Finish, Premium Matte Lay Flat and Premium Lustre Lay Flat;
  • The software is online. Once I load my photos, I can work on it from my laptop, desktop etc. I’m not chained to my desk and I can work on it anywhere I have an internet connection;
  • Their pre-made themes are well designed and I’ve often picked one as a starting point for my books and calendars. I can always delete, move, resize anything in the design. It’s the best of both worlds – I don’t have to start a project from scratch and I have the ultimate flexibility to change it up;
  • Fun options like drop shadows, borders, transparency adjustments are all available;
  • Collaboration is a built-in feature. You can invite friends to upload photos and make edits to a joint project. I did a cookbook project with my friends and we had a great time doing it! I’ve been hoping to do another group project soon!
  • The flexibility in design is available in Mixbook’s cards and calendars as well. I like being able to take one of Mixbook’s fully-designed cards and then change anything to fit my needs. Check out my in-depth Mixbook card review here!
  • Paper options available for cards include cotton texture and luxe board, as well as foil cards.
  • Books come in square, landscape and portrait orientation. Portrait books are not as common but are one of my favorites to make. Below are some of the photo books I made this year. You can click here or on the photo to check out my detailed review of Mixbook photo books;

  • A new Premium Lustre Lay Flat photo book is available. It features a thick paper with a subtle sheen with page counts up to 99 pages.

If you want to check out all of my Mixbook projects throughout the years, see my Mixbook Reviews page!

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HOW TO ENTER THE PHOTO BOOK GIRL HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY SPONSORED BY MIXBOOK!

There are two (2) prizes:

Our First Place winner will receive a $100.00 gift voucher!

Our Second Place winner will receive a $50.00 gift voucher!

You have 6 possible ways to enter, but you must do the REQUIRED ENTRY for the others to count. For EACH entry, you have to COMMENT ON THIS POST below with a separate comment for EACH entry, telling me what type of entry you did.

REQUIRED ENTRY:

  • IF YOU WON, HOW WOULD YOU SPEND YOUR PRIZE? (i.e. Calendars? Photo books? Prints? Would you keep it for yourself or give gifts? It’s up to you, but I’d love to hear about your projects!) If you’re not familiar with Mixbook’s products and book themes check them out here!

OPTIONAL ENTRIES:

  • Subscribe to my newsletter (look for light blue box at top right) AND tell me in the comment below that you subscribed and the name you subscribed under (first name is fine). If you already subscribe to my newsletter, tell me in your comment and give me your name. (Please remember for it to count, you must confirm the subscription. Sorry RSS reader subscriptions don’t count);
  • “Like” me on Facebook (if you are already a fan, or become a new fan, tell me your Facebook name in the comment form);
  • “Like” Mixbook on Facebook (if you are already a fan, or become a fan, tell me your Facebook name in the comment form);
  • Give your review of any photo book/canvas company you’ve tried on the company’s main reviews page. (Click here to give a canvas print review). Click on the “Read Review” button. You’ll see a place to add your review at the bottom of each company’s page. Let me know which company you commented on by telling me in a comment in this post below. (Limit to two (2) entries using this method. Reviews given prior to the start of this Giveaway don’t count – they must be new ones please!)
  • BONUS Entry: What’s your favorite size/format photo book? (Mine’s 8.5 x 11 portrait or 10 x 10 square!)

Make sure to do the REQUIRED ENTRY or the optional entries won’t count!

This giveaway is open to anyone 18 or older. No country restrictions (so it’s international but please check if Mixbook ships to your country if you have any doubts). Void where prohibited. Void in Quebec. Entries must be received by Tuesday, December 18, 2018, 11:59pm CT and any entries not in accordance with the rules will be disqualified at our sole discretion and at the discretion of the sponsor. Winning entries will be chosen using Random.org. After compiling the results, I will announce the winners thereafter and will email the winners and post the names on my site. The winners will have 24 hours to respond or I will redraw another entry. Canadian winners may be asked to answer a skill question to be eligible, to comply with Canadian laws. Winners will be issued a credit on their Mixbook account. Credit does not expire. Shipping costs varies by location – see Mixbook’s site for details. Winners may apply value towards a higher priced item, and pay for any additional charges. You may apply any applicable promo for extra savings. Winner will be solely responsible for any taxes due on the product or prize including but not limited to sales tax, tariffs, duties and fees as well as any income tax obligations if any. Disclosure: I am an affiliate of the company. The links on these pages go to the company’s site. If you click on a link to Mixbook’s site and make a purchase, I may receive a referral fee from the company. This giveaway and post is sponsored by Mixbook. Regardless of affiliation my opinions are always my own and I always give my honest opinion.

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Best of luck to everyone – be sure to get your entries in below! Also make sure to check out all of Mixbook’s current deals here!

Comments

  3. I would love to buy some last minute gold foil cards. I have a ton of books I have to make, so much to do so little time. There matte books and layouts look amazing.

  4. I love the matte albums – I want to make some with my children’s bday images from the last year – I liked your fb page –

  5. I liked Mixbook on FB – I would love to get some calendars for family members that still love to use paper calendars, mixbook has great templates.

  6. I prefer the 8.5 x 11 portrait because I shoot a lot of full frame images opposed to instagrams style square imagery. I wouldn’t want to have to crop so many of those images.

  11. I would make a book of our photos from this year for my family. My boys love books like this! Thanks!

  16. I would create my annual photo book from the photos I take every week on Sunday of my son. He was born on Sunday and I’ve taken one of him every Sunday since. I do an annual book called Sundays with Parker, but I’m super late this year. I’d do it for me and each of the grandparents.

  20. Photo books. A year in review for my nieces and nephews. They have just discovered what a “photo album” is and that notnall pictures are on a phone. They think it’s the coolest thing to see themselves in a book. Love these little minds and their discoveries to what was so common for us.

  21. Required Entry: I would make a photobbok and give the 10×10 a try. Ive stayed with the 8.5×11 landscape size because I find I can fit my images better, whether they are portrait or landscape. It’d be either for my mom or myself…

  22. Optional, Subscription Entry: I am already a subscriber and receive your newsletters! Name is Benita

  23. I have followed your webpage since the beginning, before the kids! I create a photobook for each family vacation we take and include all the details my husband expects me to remember (ie: the campsite number, how much that museum cost, what was that great meal we had). Years later, its been at least 10 years now of making those books, I can pull a book down off the shelf and confirm all those details as well as enjoy pics of my kids growing up and the two of us growing older.

  26. I prefer the Portrait 8.5×11 photobook… just easier for me to visualize the real-life dimensions since its a very common magazine size.

  30. I love making photobooks. My son’s wedding is coming up, so it would definitely be a book of his wedding! I am subscribed to your newsletter Rivka Deutsch.

  31. My son is getting married so it would definitely be a book about his wedding. I liked you on facebook Rivka Deutsch

  32. My son is getting married so it would definitely be a book about his wedding.I liked Mixbook on facebook Rivka Deutsch

  33. My son is getting married so it would definitely be a book about his wedding. I reviewed Mixbook

  34. My favorite size is 8 and a half by 11 landscape or even bigger landscape shape. My son is getting married so it would definitely be a book about his wedding.

  38. If I win the giveaway, I’ll use the credit to *finally* put together a photobook of our daughter’s wedding: rehearsal dinner, wedding itself, the day-after brunch, and the celebration in Taiwan the following month.

  41. Favorite photobook format is 8.5 x 11 or 11 x 14 landscape. I haven’t warmed up to portrait layout — I think it’s ingrained in my mind that coffee table type books are always landscape!

    Happy Holidays!

  45. If I won I would use the credit towards keeping up the tradition of making a yearly family photo album.

  53. I would make birthday cards and greeting cards for my friends with photos from the past. I often take a photo at a gathering and then create an amazing thank you note as Mixbook allows you to make just one card. Thank you

  67. If I won the first or second prizes, I’d either make and buy our family’s 2018 “yearbook” or I’d get a nice large print made of my favorite picture of myself and my daughter. We recently moved into our new home and I’ve been wanting to get some new prints to put on the walls.

  76. My son is about to graduate so I took him to see my family in Hawaii as kind of a graduation gift. So I would make a photo book of our adventures for him.

  81. Optional, Bonus Entry, Fav Format: 8.5×11 landscape, because I find I have better photo flexibility with layouts. Most pictures I use are 2000×3000. (I would like to give 10×10 a try.)

  82. My favorite size is 8 x 11. You are able to put more pictures in or bigger sized pictures. This size is still manageable in your hands. I love the idea of the big sizes. It is just hard to look at them from your lap.

  83. I’d like to get cracking on our family’s 2017 yearbook. The 14″x17″ is ideal for my project.

  84. If I won i would spend it on photo books and printing up the tons of pictures I have taken of my kids.

  85. If I won I would create a photobook for my 5 year old grand-daughter who went to Disney this summer with her parents.

  93. My favorite photo book size is 8.5 x 11 since I try to put a whole year of different pictures in one at once.

  96. If I won the $50 voucher I’d use it for a photobook of our new granddaughter. We’d keep the photo book since we’re 700 miles away from our granddaughter and love to look at pictures of her every day. Our son texts photos several times a week for which we are thankful!

  100. My favorite size of photo book is 12×12. I’ve also used 8×8 and 8×11 for special, one-time events, but for everyday, I love 12×12 because you can get to many large photos on one page.

  101. If I won, I would 100% get a photobook!! I have maybe at least 30 books with this company!!! I have a couple made and ready to purchase!!!

  106. I would order my 2014 yearly album that I have finished creating on mixbooks website but have not yet ordered!

  108. If I win, I would definitely make a photo book of my daughters first year. Would be the perfect Christmas present to myself and would be cherished for years!

  117. I would make a set of travel photo books for myself and as a gift to the friends I vacationed with. 🙂

  122. I’ve made 16 photobooks over the past 14 years – all of them are 8.5″ x 11″ landscape. Lay flat is my favorite!

  125. If I won I think I would like to make books for my parents and my husbands parents of a recent vacation that we took together.

  136. I would make a photobook of pictures from my Mediterranean cruise this fall! It was the trip of a lifetime and I need to get the pics in a book!

  139. My favorite size really depends on the project and who it’s for. But I am really enjoying square 8×8 or 6×6 for gifts for other people!

  146. My favorite photo format is 8”x8” because the free photobook offers are usually for that size. My favorite pages are the ones where one photo is spread over two pages. I find that 8.5”x11” landscape cuts off too much at the top or bottom of the photos for such layouts. I need to check out the 8.5”x11” format.

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