Give a Truly Personal Gift This Holiday Using Your Favorite Pet & People Photos

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Give Something Personal This Holiday Season! If you have a digital camera-whether it’s your smart phone or your DSLR-chances are you have a lot of wonderful photos of the people and pets in your life. And there’s a pretty big chance that if you do, those photos haven’t seen the light of day since you first took them, posted them to Facebook, or picked that new wallpaper for your smartphone or computer.

Now, imagine those photos in a book, given as a gift. Wouldn’t you look like the best most thoughtful person ever? Yeah, you pretty much would. And with Blurb‘s easy, custom books, you can make a photo gift book that’s both personal and extremely polished.

personalized gift book

You can use your Facebook photos, Instagram photos, or photos on your computer. You can design your own book, or have it automatically created with the Blurb Designer Collection templates. All these tools are designed to run right in your web browser, letting you make a book in as little as ten minutes, and they start at just $12.99.

A real book. One you can hold, share, and pass on. Plus it’s so easily customized that you can create different versions for different people. Just swap in a few new photos, change the text, and re-order. Looking to make something a little bigger, like a family history book? Yeah, Blurb has ways to do that too.

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Of course, this is a custom gift, so you don’t want to be last minute about it. Even though you can order up until December 19, ordering early is always better (and a bit cheaper too).

So, get started on making a beautiful gift book now: Blurb

Cool Gift Idea: Create a Personalized Chicken Soup for the Soul Book

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Are you a fan of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series or know someone who is? Well, Blurb just came out with a special line of the books that you can personalize for yourself or as a gift for someone special!

Personalized Chicken Soup for The Soul Books

Not only do you get to choose from five different story themes (from “Christmas Stories” to “Giving thanks”), you can personalize it in ways you just can’t with a conventional book. As the title suggests, these are stories meant to comfort, heal and inspire the soul.

make chicken soup soul book

Your custom Chicken Soup for the Soul book will truly be a book especially for the recipient because the book is printed with their name on the cover. And it’s truly from you because your name is printed on the cover as the giver. You can even include an inscription inside the book and on the back cover. Even add a photo to the back.

There are other nice options to choose from, like the type of cover you’d like and the type of paper. It takes just about five minutes to make it a truly custom book. And chances are, it’s something they’ll love forever. And a 60-page book starts at just $24.95.

There’s a quick video here: Chicken Soup for the Soul that shows you how to fill in all the info using a simple online tool. The books are all done by Blurb, so you know the quality is going to be great and your gift is sure to be unique!

Creative Photo Book Gift Ideas + 2 Ways To Save!

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There are a lot of gifts you could give this holiday season, but when it comes to something really meaningful, there’s nothing quite like the gift of a book you’ve made yourself. But before you start having visions of gluing and sewing together pages, check out the Blurb Gift Center and see how easy it is to make an original holiday gift this year!

Getting inspired with the Blurb Gift Center

Blurb lets you make seriously beautiful books using their free tools. Just add photos and text, choose your options (like paper and cover type), and then order. Of course, you do have to decide just what kind of book you want to make. But relax, because they have put together the cool Blurb Gift Center to give you lots of ideas:

  • Since “pets are the new kids” you could make a beautiful gift book for your favorite pet parents.
  • If you’ve got a genealogy buff in the family, there’s the Blurb Family History Book.
  • For those with newborns (or those that know someone with a newborn), a Blurb Baby Book might be just the thing.
  • And if you’re the kind of person who keeps getting asked for copies of your recipes, think about making a Blurb Food Book.
  • This holiday season, make your gift recipients feel really special by making them something special. There really is a book for everyone.

2 Ways to Save: 

Save 20% when you spend $40 or more on print books at Blurb
When you use the coupon code: MORESAVINGS

Valid through November 11, 2013 (11:59 p.m. local time). Valid for printed books only. A 20% discount is applied toward your product total with a minimum order of $40. Maximum discount is USD $100 or CAD $100 off product total. 

Save $25 when you spend $100 or more on print books at Blurb
When you use the coupon code: EARLYSAVINGS

Valid through November 11, 2013 (11:59 p.m. local time). Valid for printed books only. A $25 discount is applied toward your product total with a minimum order of $100. 

Get a Head Start on Creative Holiday Gifts with 20% OFF Blurb Photo Books

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If you’re already thinking about what kinds of unique and personalized gifts you can get started on for the holidays, you’ll want to check out Blurb photo books. As a longtime fan & customer, Blurb continues to wow me each year with how easy they make it to create your own high quality custom book.

You can check out Blurb’s new 2013 Gift Guide to find inspiration and ideas beyond the standard photo album…the possibilities are endless! I love the ABC children’s book on page 6 and the cookbooks on page 7. The Gift Guide is also an instruction guide for how to make a beautiful Blurb book gift for anyone in your life.

Get a head start on your Holiday gifts by creating your own Blurb book and save 20% through 10/7 with Blurb Promo Code EARLYBIRD20.

15% OFF Blurb Photo Books for Friends & Family

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promo code deal for Blurb photo book

It’s time to start thinking about stashing away some thoughtful gifts for family and friends you’ll be seeing over Thanksgiving, and at holiday gatherings. You could use Blurb to make a small book for each of those relatives or good friends you want to say thank you to this Thanksgiving or snag some thoughtful and personalized holiday gifts.

A photo book is a fun and creative gift that everyone loves to receive. Using your favorite family, pet and vacation photos, captions and even recipes, you can create your books now and save time & money later! Blurb makes book making simple and from now through 9/9, get 15% off with the Blurb Promo Code: TAKE15.

This offer is good for 15% off your product total up to a max discount of $150 USD, CAD & AUD. Each code may only be used once per user and on books made by you. Offer expires at 11.59pm (local time) on September 9th, 2013. Offer may not be used in conjunction with any other offers, volume discounts or retroactively applied to any previous orders. Blurb 15% Off until September 9 with code: TAKE15