February 9, 2012

Show Off Your Photos With Shutterfly

I’m a big fan of Shutterfly’s photo products, and they have a ton of great gift ideas for everyone on your list.

FOR KIDS: Shutterfly’s CenterStage books are liquid gold in terms of “wow” factor and easy as pie on your part. Choose from one of Shutterfly’s 6 books featuring characters such as Dora, Diego and Sesame Street, upload a picture of your kid and a handful of facts and voila! – a personalized book staring your little munchkin. The books are $40, but are full color and include an average of 38 pages. But be warned – you’ll be rereading those 38 pages a lot. Kids love to see themselves in the story!

FOR GRANDPARENTS: Get your grandparents up to date with a reusable shopping bag that shows off the grandkids at the same time. Whether they’ll use it for groceries or the library, at farmer’s market or day trips to the beach, choose from 14 different photo layouts to create the perfect tote for their activities.

FOR DAD: I love the modern look and no-hassel approach to these desk plaques. No frame, no fuss – just a simple and easy way to display a favorite photo. You can choose from 3 different sizes and single or multi-photo layouts. You can even add backgrounds and print the photos in color, black & white or sepia tones. Perfect for dad’s desk at home or at work.

FOR YOU: Treat yourself to your favorite family photo turned into a beautiful canvas or acrylic print. Canvas immediately elevates an ordinary picture to fine art status while the acrylic prints provide a sleek, modern touch to your favorite photo. Get those prints out of a stuffy album and up on the wall! Both formats offer a variety of sizes, backgrounds, single and multi-picture layouts and the option of adding text.

Visit Shutterfly.com to check out all their holiday photo gifts.

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Note: MWS was not paid for this review. Shutterfly did provide some product samples.

Put Your Kid on CenterStage with Shutterfly

Let your child be the star with Shutterfly’s CenterStage book series that features your child in a full-color, 35-50 page book where your kid gets to star with characters like Big Bird, Diego, Dora or SpongeBob. Each of the book choices includes an engaging storyline, your child’s face on nearly every page of the book, and other fun facts like their birthday and hometown.

Each CenterStage book is a snap to make – just upload a picture of your child, type in the needed details to personalize the story, add a dedication and order! There are books geared for younger kids (1-3 year olds) up to 8-year-olds. At $39.99 the books aren’t cheap, but remember that each book is 35-50 pages long and features your child throughout the story. My son was enthralled to see himself going on adventures and solving problems alongside Diego. I know we’ll be rereading this book again and again.

There’s still time to order a CenterStage book before the holidays. Order now at Shutterfly.com.  Use coupon code SHIP50 for free shipping on orders over $50.

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Disclaimer: Shutterfly allowed me to make a CenterStage book for this review.

Holiday Cards from Shutterfly, Plus Coupon Code

Image and video hosting by TinyPicWhile we live in an increasingly digital world, it’s still means something to get a custom holiday card from your family and close friends. I usually admire the wonderful photo cards my friends and family send, because I usually never have my act together enough to send them out. I would have had an excuse this year, since we hve a new baby and all -  but thanks to Shutterfly.com, my cards are already mailed out.

It definitely helped that we were treated to a photo session in Mid-October at the Plaza, courtesy of the Hot Moms Club and Shutterfly. Photographer Michael Weschler took our photos and was very patient with my mischevious 5 year old and 2 1/2 year old. Picking a great Hanukkah card on Shutterfly.com was a no-brainer.  All I had to do was pick a photo that I liked, choose a card template and the text. The cards were gorgeous, delivered quickly to us and I love hearing the ooh and ahhs they generated. And for a mom with a newborn at home, it was done so painlessly. Shutterfly will even mail it for you, for an additional fee per card.

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Click here to see a selection of custom holiday cards.

If you haven’t had time to do your cards yet,  it’s not too late — just check out Shutterfly’s Holiday Shipping Guidelines to find your deadline.

There’s a special sale going on until December 1st — check their Special Offers page. The site is offering 50% on some products, 30% off on cards and free shipping with code: SHIP25.

Thank you to Shutterfly and the Hot Moms Club for providing a photo shoot and holiday cards to facilitate this review. All opinions expressed are my own.

Creating Shutterfly Albums is my new favorite pasttime

I am obsessed with photos, albums, archiving it all, and figuring out the best ways to organize it all. I have scrapbooked both traditionally and digitally, have created your good-old regular photo books, and have made online photo books. But recently, I got to try out Shutterfly’s new Simple Path — an amazing and simple way to make a beautiful, organized photo book in minutes. (Literally!)

When I first saw this on Shutterfly’s website, I thought to myself, “how are they going to know how to order my photos and which ones are most important?” But somehow, the site knew, and it organized my photos in the right order (by date) and grouped together (with like photos). The whole process literally took about 10 minutes. I uploaded my photos (about 4 minutes), allowed the program to place them in the book (30 seconds or less), decided on the style of pages (1 minute), and then swapped around a couple pictures and added captions (5 minutes). How simple is that?! The book was ordered and received in record time (a couple of days) and we were all super impressed! High quality photos with bright, vivid colors, a hard, glossy cover customized to my liking (as well as the spine)… it all came together easily to create an awesome product that my whole family is enjoying.

Please, take a few minutes and check out the new Simple Path feature and quickly finish up all of those albums you have been meaning to do for years. You will feel so good when you are done! (One less thing to do, and a beautiful new photo book on your shelf to admire!)

Check out Shutterfly’s special offers, which currently includes a buy one, get one 50% off on photo books. (Offers change all the time, though, so jump when you see a good one!)

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