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Shutterfly allows you to easily create a digital scrapbook by using your digital pictures and their templates. Most of the time when I scrapbook, I create my entire pages from scratch. However, sometimes I want to create a gift album or I don’t have time to spend hours creating pages. That’s when I turn to Shutterfly.
Shutterfly Digital Scrapbook
The first time I used Shutterfly, I used their templates and dropped in the pictures from a trip my husband and I took to Miami (alone). It took me about 2 hours from beginning to end. That included decided which pictures to use, fixing them up in iPhoto, uploading and putting them into the Shutterfly templates.
Here is a short video I created to show you the Shutterfly book I created.
Shutterfly is not only for making scrapbooks, you can make so much more. A few examples are:
Holiday Cards
Thank You Cards
Birthday Party Invitations
Birthday Party Tip
A really fun idea for kid’s birthday parties is to take a picture of the guest with the birthday child and the present they brought. Create a thank you card with the picture and the guest has a great memento from the party and you remember the present each guest brought.
disclosure: I received free product in exchange for this post. I paid for the Shutterfly book that I discussed in this review. All opinions are my own.
Shutterfly Giveaway
I also received 3 Shutterfly codes to share with my readers. To enter, leave me a comment below about your experience with Shutterfly and Tweet about this post using my Twitter name, @ScrappinMichele. If you have not used Shutterfly, let me know what your first project with Shutterfly will be. I will pick 3 random winners.
The giveaway will end on September 2, 2010 at 11:00 pm ET. You will have 24 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen.
kim.hormone-colored
August 22, 2010
I would love to win a code. I haven't used Shutterfly, but want to make a memory book for my son's bar mitzvah. A cousin did this with Shutterfly- she left every other page blank so family and friends could write comments to the boy of honor. I'd love to create this kind of keepsake for my son.
Chris
August 24, 2010
I currently use shutterfly for my prints, but would love to put together an easy album!
Danielle
August 26, 2010
Creating a Shutterfly scrapbook has been on my to do list for a long time! Thanks for the chance to receive a code. I just tweeted the giveaway too!
Stefanie
September 14, 2010
I haven't used Shutterfly for creating a scrapbook, but I have created digital scrapbooks before. I love the ease and flexibility of creating digital scrapbooks, and the fact that you can create one quickly enough to send out, makes them invaluable at times.
I have created both birthday invitations, and birth announcements using digital scrapbook software, and with printing, is still cheaper, and more personal, than a store bought card.