I am not a crafty person.
Scrapbooking? I did that once.
Printing photos and sticking them in a plain ol’ album? I’m not so great at that either. I did that until E was about 4 months old. And now she’s almost 2 and a half.
Good news for people like me, there are Shutterfly Photo Books. Making a photo book on Shutterfly is the answer to all of my problems.
Well, not all of them. My jeans still are fitting a bit tight. And there still aren’t enough hours in the day….
BUT! These books make my life easier and I get to stare at photos of my cute kids in a great book format that we can cherish for years to come.
I’ve used other photo sites to create photo books in the past, and I gotta say, Shutterfly’s books are great quality. The pages are heavy-duty and I can tell it will hold up to a lot of page turning. Which is a very, very good thing.
I also love all the options that they have on their site. You can create a simple paperback book all the way up to a padded-cover album. That would make a great wedding album.
Another great thing? These make fantastic gifts. And it is as simple as adding 3 to your cart instead of one. Bam. Christmas shopping for the grandparents? DONE. Shutterfly is always running specials too, if you get on their email list, you’re sure to get a buy one get one free coupon code, or a code for free shipping.
This time around, I was going to try something different and create a recipe book with all of our family favorites. It is still on my to-do list as I think it would be a great keepsake to pass down to my daughter. However, we recently had this cute little addition to our family that I can’t get enough of so I decided to do a photobook with the millions of pictures I have of little N.
Shutterfly now lets you upload photos straight from Instagram and if you’re hooked on Instagram like I am, this is something to be excited about.
I took full advantage of this feature with THREE pages of instagram photos. I finished off my book with these photos and I just love the way it looks and how you can see all of his different expressions on one page.
Have I mentioned how easy they are to make? Drag. Drop. Add text. Or don’t. Add pages to the end. Add pages to the middle.
Change fonts. Change the color of the font. Change the layout. Change the style. It is all super easy to do and you’re sure to end up with a product that you absolutely love. I have photo books for my kids, obviously, but I also have one with our wedding pictures, one with photos from our honeymoon, I even used one as a guest book for our wedding! I did some pictures, some quotes that are special to us, and then there were blank pages for people to sign and offer words of wisdom. I love it and am so happy I went that way for my guest book.
Want to win one?
Disclosure: I was provided with a free photo book compliments of Shutterfly. All opinions are my own (as always!) and I was not compensated for a positive review.
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I would use it for all the pretty food pictures I’ve been taking – make like a coffee table book
I love Shutterfly. I’ve used it to print all of my pictures of my baby. I haven’t ordered a photo book though and would use it for her pictures of course!
The first year in our new locale and new home prior to my husband’s first deployment!
I would use it for my honeymoon album!
I have made books before and I love them too. I have been wanting to make a book from a vacation my husband and I had in Italy.
I would send it to my stepmom – she makes a photo book of my daughter every year.
A recipe book is a neat idea – but I probably would make a vacation book out of it.
My girlfriend and I create a photobook every 6-12 months to document our life together.
I love the albums! I need to make a wedding album for my mother-in-law – 3 years later, she still doesn’t have one… Love the Instagram feature!
I would love to make a recipe and Olivia book!
My parent’s anniversary is coming up & I’d love to give them a book full of pics from their past years1
I would use it to make a baby book because like you, I started one for my son, but then life happened, and it has never been finished.
You book turned out so cute!! We actually have a number of these, and I’ve been tempted to do the recipe one as well. What fun!
Your book is so cute! I love it! We just got our wedding pictures so we will be putting together books for our parents soon. I really hope I win!!!
i would use it for documenting our summer vacation!
I would probably use mine as an engagement album.
I would use it for my wedding album!
I would make a wedding photo album book!
As a busy mom, this is the only way my child’s life will ever be recorded! I’d love to win the opportunity to make a photo book!
I would use it as an anniversary gift for my husband
30th bday cruise pics!
Try to get caught up on my kiddos photos!!
I would make it a family album, filled with kids, hubby and I, and all the things we like to do – which on my part would include a few recipes that we love
For family pictures. With all the digital images I take with the camera these days, I hardly print out hard copies and that’s so sad. It’ll be nice to have a photo book filled with family pictures of activities we did.
It’ll make a nice gift for the Grandparents as well.
I would use my photo book for my daughter and her dance competitions
Great giveaway! I always make a photo book for the grandparents for Christmas gifts. I have 3 scrapbooks, 1 for each child, that are all unfinished. And my oldest is 6 years old. Yeah, just a little behind on that!
I would use the Shutterfly photo book to make a keepsake album: pics of my new grandson!
I would use this to capture the memories from 2012!
Every year I make a photobook to chronical the ‘year in pics’!! Love it!
I LOVE shutterfly books. With 4 kids, scrapbooking is out of the question, but they loving looking through family photos. I try to make “birthday books” for each kid. They get one book for each age.
Nephews and dogs.
I would make a little album of wedding photos. We got married a year ago and had lots printed, but no photo book!
I am behind on photos of the kids.
I’ve used Shutterfly for years and watched them expand their options. It’s a great photo web site!
I would make a book of my son’s 1st birthday.
Pictures from the vacations my husband and I have taken together. He’s away from home and he’d love a photobook to remember the great times we’ve spent together.
i would use it for mothers day!
I’d make a book about my new son!
i would use it for my 2012 christmas photos!
I would use it to put together a bunch of family photos for my parents birthdays. I know they are missing my sister and me since we both moved out last year
I would make a family one…thank you!
I don’t have any kids yet, but my best friend is expecting her first baby in June. I would definitely fill this with her cute baby bump photos (and some when he’s born) and give it to her as a present.