Giveaway: Shutterfly $25 Gift Cards

All of my husband’s family – aunts, uncles, cousins – created a scrapbook for his grandparents for Christmas a couple of years ago. It turned out great, and it made his grandma cry.

Last year I made calendars for all the family, and it’s been neat to see them proudly displayed all year!

I would LOVE to win this prize! Thanks for another fabulous contest

Great giveaway! My favorite photo gifts are the collages and photo books from photo sites.

The first Mother’s & Father’s Days after my son was born, I gathered various pictures of him over his first few mos of life. I bought several collage picture frames on sale at Michael’s and filled them with pictures of his hands/feet/etc and with each grandparent. That was their Mother’s/Father’s day gift that first year and they loved it. They enjoyed that each frame was personalized with pictures of themselves and the baby. Now he is almost two and I guess I need to update their frames. =)

I’ve created a calendar with pictures from a trip my mom and I went on together.

I recently made my SO a photo book of pictures from our recent trip to Italy.

I made a photo memory book for each of my kids to help them remember our time living overseas. Shutterfly is great–we love them!

For my mom’s birthday last year I made her a book of all of her grandkids and for Christmas I made her a calendar with pictures of the whole extended family.

I also made my husband a calendar with pictures of our two kids.

I used Shutterfly’s photo book service to create a Birth Story book for my youngest son. I included all the most special pictures from just before his birth and while we were at the birthing center and used them to illustrate the story. It is a treasure to me, and I hope that one day it will make a special momento for him.

For my husband’s first Father’s Day I bought a ribbon picture board and placed our son’s pictures on it. This gave my husband something to smile at while he worked in his office.

I recently created 2 photo books with our digital pictures. It was the greatest thing and took much less time than scrapbooking. I think that I’ll do this more often in the future!

I created a photo book for my husband of our son’s first year of life using Shutterfly’s easy-as-pie site. It’s been a very treasured gift!

We created photo albums of our wedding for our parents.

I love Shutterfly and would love this prize! I made grandkid calendars on Shutterfly for both sets of grandparents last year. They loved them! I am starting to use the photo books for everyday pictures. That’s the best gift for me since it is so much easier and faster than scrapbooking!

For the first and second year of my son’s life I have made photo books for his grandmas. They are so fun and an easy way to share favorite photos that we have taking through the years. It’s kind of become a tradition. I think I will do one for every year!

I LOVE Shutterfly! We’ve been using this site for our Christmas cards the past few years. Their templates are really cute, plus you can use a collage template…takes the pressure off of having to have one IT photo of the family. Great giveaway!

I made a photo book of my son’s second birthday party. It was a great way to remember who was there and what he did.

I love to make collages to give to the grandparents. It puts tons of the cutest pictures you take of your kids all on one page so they can enjoy them all at one time. My aunt & mom love making the books too & those turn out great to show others.

I created two grandparent books for both sets of parents one Christmas. They both commented that they loved them and carried them to show off to family and friends often. Plan to do again since it’s been over a year.
Hope to win the gift card!

My husband and I created a photo jewelry box for my Mother-In-law at Shutterfly. She wasn’t able to see her grandchildren as often as she would have liked to. But now, every day when she puts on or takes off her jewelry, she gets to see them. She has told us it is the best gift she ever received.

I made travel coffee mugs for friends for Christmas a couple years ago. I just bought inexpensive travel mugs that were made with transparent plastic on the outside, with a piece of paper with a design on the inside, showing through. I took that piece of paper out and replaced it with a scrapbook-like piece filled with pictures. They loved them!

I made a scrapbook of our pictures to Disney and gave to my husband and the grandparents. They all loved it!

Count it as a gift to ourselves, I guess. For our wedding, I took pictures of myself and my husband together during our relations, cut them in fun shapes, and put them into a small scrapbook. We set out the acid free pens and the book at our wedding and used that as our guest book. It was so fun to read through it and see what pages people used to leave their messages and why – and it’s something we cherish much more than the typical straight line across name, address, comment ones that we saw in stores.

I made stamps with my daughter’s picture for mine and my husband’s grandmothers.
They loved them.

We dressed our twin boys in onesies with a picture of their big sister that said, “We’re with her” when they were born. Even though it wasn’t a direct gift to her, she thought it was wonderful to have TWO babies that were HERS!

Every year, my husband’s family has been gathering in Florida for a week. As a thank you, I started making photobooks using everyone’s pictures to create a scrapbook of our week.

My favorite shutterfly gift is a photo book that I created for my parents about our 2 week trip to Europe. I would love to win this gift card to put towards the next photo book.

A calendar for the Grandma’s of course – they loved it!

every christmas I make calendars for the grandmas and I make sure that each grandkid is in the spotlight for their birthday month. I write in their birthdays so the grandmas don’t forget

My hubby is a huge car freak and this past year he’s had every problem possible with his cars mods. So I made a collage of his best and worst times with is car.He loved it!

we are making a christmas card collage this year and a gift card would be a super big help!

Times are tight this year. I plan on giving family members photos that I’ve taken this year. Our 10th anniversary is next month I’d love to put together an album just for my hubby.

I was able to make a photo book of all my husband’s favorite pictures from our wedding and honeymoon that relatives and friends sent to us. They were more candid than a lot of our other photos. He and I both loved the way that it turned out.

I made my Mom a photobook for her birthday. She and my daughter had just been to Korea, so it was perfect for her. It had lots of pics from their special trip!

I have made photobooks of my daughters homecoming from Korea when she was 8 months old, yearly calendars of all of our family members who are scattered across the USA and mouse pads, mugs well you can tell I love photos!!
Thanks for the chance to win

Sue
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I love photo gifts and Shutterfly! My favorite photo gifts to make are custom calendars. It is so much fun for my mom and grandma to be able to see their grandbabies all year long even though we live 700 miles away.

I scrapbooked a picture of my DH for his 30th bday and surrounded it with 30 things I love about him. I’ve got a Shutterfly Share Site and I love it! Love to win a gift card!

I made a photobook for my husband for father’s day. It has pictures of her and pictures of them together. He cried when he got it. i plan on doing this annualy, i think.

We had a lot of great summer photos this year of my daughter at family gatherings on both sides – Fourth of July, amusement park, sweet corn festival, etc. I made “fun in the summer sun” photo books from the pictures which will be Christmas presents for her grandma and her godfather. I can’t wait to see the reaction!

I made my grandparents a scrapbook of our family trip to South America for their 50th wedding anniversary!

I took some old decorative photos with frames, from thrift stores and modge podged some photos onto them.

When my daughter was born two years ago we started a tradition in my family for Christmas. My sister-in-laws get our digital pictures together and make a calendar for nana and papa. They always love it!

We have made the photo ornaments using a picture of our kids and given them to Grandparents – they loved it!

My mom & I took a Mother’s Day trip to Maine this year and I used Shutterfly to create a 7×7 photo book of the adventure. I actually just gave it to her this morning. She loved it! The clarity of the printing was beautiful and it’s something she can display all the time and enjoy.

Last Christmas my sister-in-law and I put together a Shutterfly calendar of the 5 grandkids for our in-laws. They loved the calendar and even brought it up to their cottage with them this summer.

My best photo gift was a scrapbook I made for my Dad for his birthday, thanking him for all the sacrifices he has made for us.

My mother in law gets behind on her albums which frustrates her, so we have provided her a special album for our son and continually bring her more pictures to add to it for her. That way she can enjoy the memories, but never has to have the stress of keeping it up.

I made a couple of collages of our wedding pictures for both of our mothers. They both loved them!

Since my son was born, I have given my Dad a picture book and put new pics in as I order new ones!

my mom is driving up to visit my gramma (who’s almost 90), so I bought a frame and am blowing up a picture of my daughter on her first birthday in her dress!

I love the options for the picture books that Shutterfly has. I made one for our wedding and one for a recent trip. I have also made multiple calendars for my husband’s family.

We have used Shutterfly alot. I have made for my mother and mother in law a photobook of all our pets and called “My Grandfurbabies”. I have also made a photobook for my husband’s trip to cover the NHL All Star Game. And just recently we made up a big photobook for our friends of all the pictures at their wedding we took and a copy of the best man speech my husband gave.

I made a calendar on Shutterfly last year for my mom – filled with pictures of her granddaughter. She loved it!!!

I have made photo books of the kids for my husband and my mother in law. They both love theirs and even though it has been a couple of years, they still look at them and cherish them all the time.

Last year, I made a photo calendar for my mother-in-law so she can always remember EVERYONE’s birthdays now that her family is growing!!

i created a photobook for my father-in-law. he hasn’t quite figured out how to print out pictures yet from his digital pictures. so we got him a book so he can show off his grandsons!

We love to make photo books for all our relatives!

For my hubby’s birthday, I took a scrapbook frame and cut and “pasted” a few pictures of our family. He loved it! (I had bought it on clearance at Meijer years ago.)

For my friend’s 30th surprise birthday party, I coordinated multiple friends’ pictures and memories, then another friend put it together in an 8×8 album. She was really surprised and loved it.

For Christmas last year I bought the grandmothers digital photo keychains and downloaded pictures of the kids and grandkids (as well as the granddog.) This way they can share their family pictures with friends and update the pictures right from the computer. They were a hit everyone wanted one.

2 years ago I had asked family members from my side and husband’s side to collect photos for me for a special project that I was doing. THey all thought it was something with the family history research that I was doing, but they were wrong. I had surprised my husband’s 85 year old grandmother and grandfather with a photo calendar of them when they were young, married, their kids and grandkids…they loved it and the other calendars that I had made for my husband’s cousins and aunt/uncle and parents included some of the same photos but with their immediate family members too. The whole family had cried that Christmas morning, not of sadness, but of joy and last Christmas (2 days before), my husband’s grandfather had passed away and everytime that we visit his grandmother in OH, she still talks about that calendar that I had made and has it proudly displayed on her desk with her favorite photo of her husband fishing while they were on vacation during their early years:)

On my side of the family, I had made a photo calendar for my grandma and grandpa both 75 years old (in September 2006, my grandmother had a severe stroke that left her unable to talk or be mobile, but my grandpa goes to see her 4 times a day in the nursing home and takes little time for himself, anyway, I surprised him with this special gift, knowing that he was lonely at home and could use a pick me up)…he cried when he opened it and said thank you and gave the best hug that I had ever received from him. I could tell that even though he didn’t want any gifts that Christmas, he was grateful that I had thought of them and still cherishs it to this day.

I made a coffee mug for my father-in-law with a picture of him with our last child. I ordered it and shipped it to him directly and he receivedc it for Father’s day!

I made a photo book for my mother in law and finally she loved one of my gifts. My father in law said she cried when she saw it!

I use Shutterfly frequently and usually create photo gifts to give during the holidays. In the past I had a set of coasters made up for my parents that featured pictures of all of their children & their families. They are a great conversation piece!

I also gave my husband a desk organizer with a beautiful picture of our children. It brings a smile to his face throughout the work day!

I’ve created posters that show how my children have grown during their first year. Shutterfly helps me choose, edit, and design something that is a great keepsake.

And most recently, I compiled all of our summer photos into a photo book. I look at it every day and remember all those happy memories!

I make my son a birthday book each year from shutterfly. He loves to “read” them.

I took the photos from our Paris honeymoon and made a photo book ofr my husband.

Every Christmas we make a collage of pictures from our kids year and give one to each Grandparent. They love them. It also lets them compare how each child has grown throughout the years. This would be great for that.

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I’ve made photobooks. I made one for my parents after I got married, and I just made one for my daughter’s first birthday.

I’ve never used Shutterfly but would love to try it out!

I made a 60th anniversary book mini book for my parents.

I love shutterfly’s photo books. I can usually save my coke rewards and get on free through them. It is a great way to make grandparents excited and give a frugal gift!!

I would love to win this! Anyone with a baby knows how much we moms spend on pictures a month lol

I made a coffee mug for my grandma. It had my 3 girls on it and I said “My Little Punks” on it, because that is what she call my gilrs! LOL I know but that’s my grandma. My family loved it!

I have made several Photo Books for family. I made one filled with Wedding Photos and gave that as a Thank You gift to my in-laws and my Mum overseas. Then, this summer, I made another photo book filled with our Fourth of July Day to my friend who came down from Oklahoma.

I love to use shutterfly when making photo gifts

I created a photobook for my son’s first year and it is such a time saver.

I put together a collage that incorporated 30 year old pictures of my husband and I with our parents – and ironicaly similiar pictures of our parents today with our own child.

Last year I made my mom a scrapbook for Mother’s Day from me and my 2 sisters. It was so cool and she was crying before she even opened it!

I have created a photo book of my son’s first year. I plan to buy one for myself and one for his birthmom. (My mother has also said to count her in!)

I could use this gc so much! My photo book is 101 pages (the most they will allow) and is over $100!!

Pick me, pick me!

For an anniversary gift for my husband, I creadted a book. I wrote a poem for each year we had been married that included what happened during that year and included lots of pictures for each year. It was really neat and very special!!

I love Shutterfly! I’ve made 4 memory books there and 1 calendar for my parents as a Christmas present (full of pics of their adorable grandson). My favorite project though was the Halloween Storybook I made of my son’s last Halloween (pumpkin carving to the harvest party we attended). Everyone loves it and my son is so excited to have a book of “him” on his bookshelf:)

My favorite thing was a deck of playing cards for my hubby – he loved them!!

I’m also working on an ABC photo book for my best friends little boys – I hope they enjoy it!!

I made a coffee mug with my son’s picture on it.

I made photo books for my husbands family filled with photos of him and his brother growing up… everyone loved them!

One of my favorite fellow coworkers took another job and at her going away party we took tons of pictures. I later made them into a beautiful scrapbook full of sweet notes from everyone who worked with her. She loved it!

I love shutterfly and have used them for years. I have made purses, shirts, pendants, key chains, photo books, note cards, calendars etc. Everyone is always wondering what the next special holiday gift will be. Here is a link to a 8×8 photo scrapbook I did for my daughter with her 2007 layouts. (All pages were digitally scrapped.)
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I love Shutterfly. The last item I created there was a photobook full of photos from our wedding. It turned out really great and is a fun piece that makes it easy to get a feel for our wedding without having to go through hundreds of photos in an album!

This Christmas I’m planning on putting together another photobook for my Grandma full of photos of all six of her grandchildren throughout the years. She’s going to love it!

I’ve made coasters for Grandparents and great-grandparents. A Fun surprise. And every year I make my sister (a college student) a day planner with her nieces on it. She loves it!

I made a mouse pad with my son’s picture on it and I’m currently working on a photo book that recaps my pregnancy and his birth. Could really use the gift card to purchase that! Thanks!

I love their collage Christmas cards!! Then you do not have to agonize over choosing one photo

I made an ABC photobook of my son for his great-grandparents. They loved it! In fact, they show it off wherever they go. They’re so cute!

Made a memory book of my husband’s boat trip down the Mississippi (bunch of crazy guys!) and we’re currently making a scrapbook for my mom in remembrance of my father who recently passed away from cancer.

I absolutely love Shutterfly! I used their services last year for the first time. I created my photo Christmas cards, and made photo books and calendars for gifts for grandparents. They all turned out beautifully. We were very impressed with the quality. I will definitely be using Shutterfly again this Christmas!

My son was just born a little over six weeks ago and we had tons and tons of pictures! I made a photo book of his birth, hospital stay and first days. Even though I was exhausted, it made me feel like we had something concrete to remember him by.

I made a wonderful birthday gift for my daughter. She is 4 years old and really loves cards. I used the Shutterfly card feature to make a game of Go Fish. The front of the cards are all a picture of her fishing and it says, “Go Fish”. The other side are random pictures of her (2 of each) in order to be a match. She LOVES this gift. I have also used it to give as birthday presents to other children of her age (if you have enough pictures of them).

My all time favorite Shutterfly gift was an 8×8 photo book. The book itself isn’t what was so great, it was the content within it. Our chuch (during Easter season) has an activity called, “Journey through the Cross” where you go through the same ’stations’ that Jesus went through. I took my 3 year old daughter and nephew and explained everything in ‘kid’ terms. Lots of pictures were taken and I made the photo book of this experience with the Easter story included inside. Every Easter we pull out the book and remember the event at church and the event many, many years ago.

For Mother’s Day, I had tote bags made for my mom and my mother-in-law. The tote bags were personalized and you could insert a photo in a pocket on the front. I created a collage photo of all the grandchildren for each grandmother and added it to the tote bag. Both Grandmas loved the bags. I can also create updated pictures every year so the Grandmas can change them out.

I have made 2 photobooks with shutterfly – and I share all of my photos with our out-of-state family and friends through shutterfly.
My first shutterfly book was for our 2nd Wedding Anniversary. It was the story of “us”. This year we adopted our son so I’ve made him a book titled “The story of Nickolas joining our family.” I LOVE shutterfly and use it for everything I can.

I made an ‘Everyday Life’ photo book for my husband for Father’s Day. The Everyday Life book is an album with premade templates where you just drop in photos and add journaling about your everyday life. My hubby loves it and looks at it often. It was a great way to document our life at that point in time being the parents of two young kids b/c even in 6 months are lives will be different and a few of the photos will be ‘outdated’ b/c we’re not in that particular stage any longer. Thanks for letting us have the chance of winning this great prize!

I created a calendar that features the photos of family members who were celebrating birthdays and anniversaries for each month.

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After my grandmother passed away, I used Shutterfly to make a photbook of the few pictures I had of her and my sons. I sent it to my grandfather so that he could share in those special memories.

My sister and I put together a collage of pictures of our family to celebrate our parents’ anniversary.

I made a calendar with my girls pictures from each month of the previous year. I gave it to grandparents so they could remember what the girls looked like just one short year ago. They loved it!!

I made a baby photo book & my 2 year old loves to look at it every night. I have an ABC photo book that I have ready to buy but dont have the $ to do it just yet. Would love to win this so I can get that book too.

I made a great photobook of the day my daughter Sophia was born & our stay in the hospital & bringing her home – after showing it to some family members they now all want copies. =)

Last year me & my husband made a “family tree” collage frame for my grandmother. He cut out a large tree shape out of wood, cut out openings for the pictures & stained the wood. Then we added various family photos..starting with a family portrait when my grandma was an infant…all the way to present. She loved it!

We made a photo book like a comic (entirely on own and not templates) on Shutterfly (which is our favorite) for our kid last year and give it as Christmas gifts to our parents. It’s the most read book in the house.

A calender with our son’s every month’s photo up to he’s 1. A gift for my parents.

I made a photo book on shutterfly of my daughter and one of her friends . I had taken the two of them to the beach for spring break..in addition to the pics, I included journaling with each photo as well as a story recap at the end so we would always remember the special memories we made.

My daughter and I created a photobook for my husband – it was all about Daddy and how much he means to us. It is a great treasure of his at work.

I am a huge scrapbooker, and with new technology these photo books are awesome. I am being frugal this year and doing handmade Christmas presents, so to win this would be the best gift to myself!!! I can make a few photobooks for gifts. Thanks for such a GREAT giveaway.

I made fridge magnets for my mom and MIL so they can think of my daughter every day!

I recently made a family year in review book for my husband & I’s anniversary, and it came out just beautiful. Shutterfly is great!

I have created so many beautiful gifts using Shutterfly. Every year we create a “year in review” book about my son to give out as Christmas gifts. I have also created collages for my sons friends with their pictures.

My family gathers every year for thanksgiving and we are starting to get to be large 26-35 people attend. Family members take turns hosting and every year I make a scrapbook page with the group picture for everyone’s book. My mom & made them together and she has passed away, but this book is a treasure for every family member.

I made photo books for my mom and MIL from my daughter’s point of view. I will be giving it to them for Christmas this year.

I make a yearly photobook for each of my very young children highlighting the special things that went on throughout the year. Trips, holidays, birthdays, etc. that they probably won’t remember as they grow. They love to flip through them and point themselves out in all of the pictures and I look forward to the books becoming keepsakes as they grow.

I have created a photobook for my niece, who is now 4 months old. It captures all the photo of her from day one till recently.

I love to make photo books and calendars with photos of my kids! My parents and grandparent especially love these gifts.

With 4 boys under age 4, I have plenty of photos that I’d love to organize! Thanks!

I have made photo books for my sister in law, and one for my son. His was a story about him. He still loves it!

FINALLY there is an easy way to make calendars and such, years ago my family loved when I made them calendars, but YIKES all the time it used to take to make them. Now thanks to all these great websites and a click of the button you have wonderful gifts!!!

I made a photo book last year for my parents for Christmas all about their visit to see us in the summer, highlighting my son. They loved it so much my mom even cried, so I already made another one for this year!

Last Christmas I created a “Year in Review” photo book for each set of grandparents using Shutterfly. It was so easy to make them and everyone LOVED their photo books. I’m already beginning to sort my online photos in order to start this year’s photo books soon.

I made a calendar for my husband to take to the desert with him when he served in Kuwait for a year. Everyday month he lived the year previous, looking toward the day he would return. We also sent him an album during his tour. From those pictures, I have a charm bracelett w/ my kids pictures and a silver camel to always remind me of my husband’s sacrifice to our great country, U.S.A.

The last several years I used my timeshare to take my parents and my nieces on vacation. Last year I made a photobook of our vacation pictures and gave it to my parents for Christmas. They just loved it!
Tammy from NC

I made a calendar for my mom last Christmas and she LOVES it! I put obscure holidays in the day boxes and quotes under the pictures to make it interesting.

For my first Valentine’s Day with my then-boyfriend now-husband, I made him a modge podge photo frame, with clippings from different pictures, magazines, quotes, etc. that represented our relationship.

I created a photo book for my sister about our Summer vacation on the Oregon Coast. It’s for Christmas so she hasn’t seen it yet…but I’m pretty sure she’s going to LOVE it!!!!

I love Shutterfly. I made a book recently of our summer vacations. The kids “read” it all the time. What a great way to keep memories alive.

I made a mug for my Dad with a picture of him and my daughter on it. The picture only appears when the liquid is hot! It’s a nice way to have his morning cup of coffee!!

Oh my goodness, I’ve created so many great photo gifts over the years, but my current favorite is a photo book from Shutterfly. We filled it with pictures of our daughter. This Christmas I plan to give each of the grandparents a customized book with pictures of my daughter’s first year. You just really can’t go wrong with a gift like that.

I love to scrapbook, but haven’t for a while with two little ones there’s not much time. I’d like to do an album for my sister in law for Christmas, she’s never seen the two little ones.

I create a calendar every Christmas for my grandparents with all their kids/grandkids/greatgrandkids photos. They love them! I’ve also done several photo books for other people, along with some for me I LOVE shutterfly they are great!

Last summer I made coasters of my daughters first year. I went to Home Depot and purchased white 4*4 tiles, felt pads, and epoxy. I placed the pictures on the tiles, dripped epoxy over them, and after they dried, stuck the felt pad on the back. It has been over a year and I get comments on these all of the time!

I recently made a couple of photo books of my girls. One of them was a Dora the Explorer book. I know the girls will love them. I am saving the Dora book for Christmas.

I made a scrapbook (photo book) for my mother-in-law. She does not have any extended family left, and I wanted to give her a “time line” piece she could remember her life with them. Unfortunately, I had to give her a partial gift because I did not know of something like “Shutterfly”.

Thank you to everyone else who has made a book or even one piece to show love to another person. I don’t think any of us understand or how much these things mean to another person.

Last year I made two family albums. one for my side of the family and one for my husbands. I started at our parents wedding day and went forward – using about 200 pictures in each album. It was quite a large project. I kept an album of each one for ourselves, and then gave the correct album to each of our parents.

I made a photobook of our two DD for my DH for fathers day and he loved it. He still cries when he looks at it.

I made a phote book for my husband for our Ann. It featured a trip to AZ we had just shared….a good time. He loved the book and the thoughts I put into it.

I made a photobook for my parents, featuring pictures of my twin toddlers, then only 6 months old. My dad treasured it before he passed away. I love the ability to create these sorts of gifts!

I have made a photo collage of my son. It turned out so much cuter than I imagined. I also made a photo book of pictures from his first year and recieved it in the mail just yesterday. I took it to work today and eveyone thinks it is adorable. I am going to save money for Christmas to try to make photo books of my son for the family.

For Christmas last year I got my hubby a deck of cards with a pic of our kids on them. They were a big hit!

My husband supervises a graphic design team. He spends a lot of time at the computer. Therefore, we made him a mouse pad with photos and framed a bunch of photos for him.

My brother and I made a DVD picture slide show for my Mom and Dad’s 35th anniversary. We had pictures of them from middle school all the way up to today and used their favorite songs and songs from their wedding as background music. They said it was the best present they ever received!

A few years ago, I took all of the artwork that my brothers and I had done as children, and took digital pictures and made scans of the drawings. I then created a photobook for my parents. This way my parents can remember all of artwork, without having boxes and boxes gathering dust in the attic.

Photo Christmas cards are the best! It lets you keep everyone you don’t keep in enough touch with to see how the kids are growing.

i made a photo book for my parents of our two week trip to Europe.
sarah_sherman@verizon.net

Before visiting my mom in the ICU I made a photo album with every single friend and family member. When I gave it to her I prayed for the love of all those relationships to give her strength in her intense challenge. I was so shocked recently (ten years after giving it to her) when she mentioned that it was the greatest treasure she owns. For anyone who is thinking of taking the time to preserve some special memories, I can say from experience it might bring more than a smile to someone!

We’ve made photo books, coffee mugs, baby announcements, Christmas cards and photo albums from our digital pictures. Shutterfly is one of my 2 favorite sites!

My husband loves the photo collages I have framed from our visits to various state and national parks.

I made a Shutterfly photo book for my husband’s first father’s day. It turned out even better than I expected, and he says it’s one of the best gifts he’s ever gotten.

I love giving photo books as gifts to my daughter’s friends to have as a keepsake from special play dates, family get togethers, and holidays!

I love making photobooks of our trips to visit family members. I make an extra copy for the grandparents and they love it!
I’ve also made a photo collage for my brother’s birthday gift. It made a great piece of art in his rather sparse apartment.

My family has made several shutterfly albums, and gifts. We’ve commemorated holidays and special experiences with books, prints, and calendars.

I have created several different photo gifts but the one that has gotten the most compliments are the photo handbags that I designed with my twins boys’ photos for my mom, my aunt and myself. Many people think they are store brought bags but are really blown away when they realize they are my real children. You can put a different photo on each side and they are great everyday tote bags. My mom and I have basically worn ours out because they make a bigger statement then any designer bag we have ever carried.

I made some adorable notecards with a close-up picture of my (then) 4-month old daughter. I used them as thank-you cards for Christmas. I thought they turned out great!

I made a photobook for my mom’s birthday. The pictures and captions chronicled her relationship with my 1 yr. old daughter. It was inexpensive and it made her cry (in a good way!). I only wish I had ordered another copy for my daughter!

Oh yea this is great. I could make a digital scrapbook of me and my hubby’s anniversary. He bought me this gorgeous diamond necklace from http://www.idonowidont.com and then we went to a football game. (Ladies I suggest you tell your man to pick you up something nice from this site btw!)

I took a lot of photos and want to make a special scrapbook for my husband so this would be great.