I received a credit towards Shutterfly to create my book for this project. All opinions are my own.
One of the items on my ever present “to do” list is to create photo books from our various trips, holidays and other life events! My son is now over 3 years old and I realized I hadn’t created an “official” baby book for him yet, despite it being on my to do list for years (yes, years)! I have now changed the name of this list to my “someday to do list” and it also includes digitizing our wedding photos and creating a nice wedding album, but that’s a story for another day!
If one of your goals this year is to keep better track of your photos and memories from special occasions, I have a great solution! Shutterfly has a new service called Make My Book, which I was able to try out recently. It’s a great time saver and can help you cross one more thing off your to-do list as well!
I used the Make My Book feature to create a book for Carter’s first year! It was a great relief to finally have my book completed, and it was very convenient to do using this service.
It’s super easy to do. Just upload your photos as you normally would on Shutterfly, then go to Photo Books and choose Make My Book. Then, select the photos you want in your book and the theme and they will create the book for you! It was really quick, too! Mine took only about 12 hours to get back to me completed, although they say it can take 3 business days. Plus, you can try it and make sure you like the book before you are charged! And really, that’s it unless you decide you want to add anything to it after the fact! You can even make special request and check off if you want them to pick the best photos from your group. For example, I requested the photos to go in a certain order.
To be honest, I did go back and make some changes after the fact, such as adding some clip art and personalized text that I wanted. But, it still saved me tons of time to make my book, and it would have been just as nice without my extra personalizing.
Here’s a few of the pages from my book!
I love the way my book turned out and my son enjoyed looking at all his baby photos and pointing himself out on every page! It really is nice to have all these memories in a book we can look at for a long time to come!
If you’re looking to save some time and organize your photos into a book this year, why not give Shutterfly’s Make My Book service a try? If you try it out, let me know how you like it!
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