Have you run out of ideas for Mother’s Day gifts? Blurb Books offers a great solution. The company’s bookmaking website allows you to create your own personalized books. Use them for Mother’s Day, birthdays, Christmas presents, wedding gifts or make one for yourself! The website makes it incredibly easy for anyone to create their own works of art. Customize photo or wedding books, cookbooks, notebooks, or even business books with one of three bookmaking options.
Choose Bookify online and make your book in a matter of minutes. Blurb’s easy to follow steps make it a breeze; simply pick your size, style, and pictures and Blurb will do the rest. You can upload pictures from seven different places including your computer and your Facebook profile. Choose Auto Create and Blurb will place your photos in the book from oldest to newest. Or decide on the order yourself and simply drag and drop the pictures into place!
I don’t like to download anything onto my computer unnecessarily and I’m very picky about what I do download, but Blurb’s BookSmart downloadable bookmaking software is safe and secure. It downloads in seconds and allows you to add a little extra personalization to your book. You can easily design templates, change fonts styles and colours and arrange pictures and text to your own liking.
Blurb’s last option gives you full creative control. Create your book with PDF files and upload it to Blurb when you’re done. I created my book using the BookSmart download and it worked like a charm. The program’s easy to follow steps were very helpful and I loved the fact that it let me save my work so that I could work around a fussy or hungry baby. Best of all, even if you do forget to save, there is an auto-save feature that automatically saves your work as you create it so that you will never have to have that sinking feeling that comes from working for hours and then losing it all due to a power outage or your toddler hitting the power button!
I didn’t know how some of my pictures would print, but Blurb has even thought of that! If your picture is too big or will look distorted once it has printed, Blurb will notify you with a small exclamation mark and correct it to the appropriate size. All in all, this was an amazing (and easy) tool to unleash my creative side.
If you want to have a chance to see how easy creating with Blurb Books truly is, today is your lucky day! Blurb is offering one lucky Mommy Kat and Kids reader a $50 gift certificate to create their own personalized book. To enter, just leave a comment about what type of book you would create with Blurb!
Create a book for yourself, your kids or your family and friends at http://www.blurb.com/. Prices start at just $ 3.95 for an eBook or $5.95 for a printed version, so the books are affordable for any budget. Now you can easily create a timeless, personal keepsake that will remain a treasured item for your family for decades.
I would make a wedding gift for my sister with this book!
I would making a baby first year photobook
I’d create a Travel photo book.
Thanks.
I have actually created a black and white text book at Blurb and would love to use the gift certificate to print more copies.
I would create a summer travel book
i would make a book of my kids and i and how my life has progressed in the last five years
I would make a travel book for the places that my kids have travelled so far
for my daughters and me
One that includes all the “Journeys of The Zoo”. Thanks for the chance.
I would love to make a wedding album
I’d create an Easter Blurb book for my daughter!
I’d love to make a book about our summer holidays. Thanks!
I would probably make a book of our recent vacation.
I would love to make a family history book as a gift to my family members … maybe it would give me new motivation to get my genealogy work updated and more “together”
I would make a book of my niece to give to my mom
probably of my parents since it was just their 65th wedding anniversary
ontariohappychick at gmail dot com
I’d like to finally have a book of my wedding photos (6 years later!)
I would do a vacation book for this summer. Thanks so much for the awesome giveaway
Renee
fattybumpkins at yahoo dot com
I would love to make a book of significant dates
Fan R.
teddyoutready2(at)gmail(dot)com
I would love to create a book for me and my Husband’s upcoming Anniversary!
I would create a travel book
thanks
flower_child_23(at)hotmail(dot)com
I would make a book for my 10th wedding anniversary (Sept 2012) for DH with pictures from when we met up to the present! Would be an amazing gift for him (he’s very sentimental).
I’d like to create a book called Sisters and Brothers.
I’d love to make a book of my boys for my Mom
I would make a recipe book
We’re going to Disney World soon so I’d make a book of our trip.
i would create a summer book
tcogbill at live dot com
Maybe a Baby one for my brother and sis in law.
i would make a 2011 year recap of the kids pictures
I’d make a family book. As far back as I could find.
I think I would make a vacation book
Since I’ve been married I’ve had 22 pets, and I’d like to make a book of all of them.
I would like to make a book with photos of my kids from the last year. Thanks for the chance to win!
mrsmchappell at gmail dot com
I’d love to do a baby’s first year for each of my boys.
I would create a Celebration of Life memoir of my mother-in-law for my husband and his family.
I’d love to make a book out of my blog…and have my blog on ‘paper!”
A book about my two girls growing up
these are so cute and cost friendly…. very nice
I would create a travel book
I would create a family one for my mom.