Free Online Photography Course: Learn How To Take Professional Family Portraits

November 9, 2013
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Learn How To Take Professional Family Portraits for FREE! How perfect a class is this for the holiday season? Whether your getting ready to take family portraits for Christmas cards or just want to have some nice new photos for picture frames at home, you can wow everyone with professional quality pictures! Craftsy, one of my favorite online craft sites, is offering a FREE online course in family portrait photography with an hour and a half of video instruction.

free photography course

Learning how to take family portraits is great for crafting and DIY projects, and perfect for the special canvas print offers I post frequently. Just make sure you don’t forget to include the fur kids in the pictures!

There’s no strings attached…to access the free lessons, you just signup here and get started on your computer, tablet, smartphone or other device. You can pause and restart lessons any time, learn on your own schedule, and leave questions as messages for the instructor or other students. They’ve got other free courses in everything from baking to quilting, as well as full-length courses you can pay to join if you like. I took the knitting course a while back and really learned a lot! Visit Craftsy here to learn more and get started.

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Creative Photo Book Gift Ideas + 2 Ways To Save!

November 6, 2013
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make a dog book

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. 

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FREE 8X10 Photo Collage Print with Walgreen’s Promo Code ($4.49 value)

October 31, 2013
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free photo collage

I know everyone is snapping loads of super cute Halloween photos of the fur babies, human kiddos and party festivities and here’s a cool freebie to snag if you’ve got a Walgreen’s store location near you. Just upload your favorite digital photos (up to 20) to the Walgreen’s Photo Center online and create a FREE 8X10 photo collage print.  They’ve got a great selection of colors and you can add a title above or below your photo, so get creative and have some fun!

If you’ve got one really great image, you can choose to just print that as an 8X10 instead, but be sure to do it by 11/2 when the offer ends! Use Walgreens Promo Code BOOCOLLAGE at checkout and choose the Pick Up In-Store option to avoid paying shipping. You can have your free photo collage ready in about an hour. Click HERE for more Walgreen’s Photo Deals!

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Hurry & Snag 50% OFF Photo Books w/ New Shutterfly Promo Code!

October 30, 2013
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shutterfly photo books

I LOVE making photo books and can’t wait to head on over to Shutterfly for this special deal with 50% off 11×14, 12×12, 10×10, 8×11 and 8×8 photo books! You don’t need any design or computer skills to create a really cool one, since they have hundreds of free templates, color schemes and tools to make it so easy. You just upload your favorite pet and family photos…or food photos if you want to make a cookbook instead, and then it’s simply a matter of adding texts and captions where/if you want. I was really impressed with this one that I made for Woof Woof Papa last year for Christmas!

Daisy photo book from Shutterfly

Photo books are a really great way to turn digital photos into a gift or keepsake and you can’t do much better than 50% OFF!  Just head on over to Shutterfly.com and be sure to use promo code PUMPKIN when you order by 11/3. It’s totally free to use their online tools to start working on your own creation, so there’s nothing to lose if you want to check it out!

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Have a Happy and Mobile Halloween with Blurb Photo App!

October 25, 2013
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Are you ready for a mobile Halloween this year? As much as Halloween is supposed to be about “scary,” in reality, it’s a lot about “cute.” It’s about kids AND fur kids in costume, creative pumpkin art, and way too much sugar for everyone involved. Halloween is a holiday of sights and sounds. It’s also about Instagram and TwitPics!

You’ll be taking photos and video that you’ll want to share that very night, but also keep forever. And, since you’ll likely be busy greeting trick-or-treaters, putting on costumes, and rationing candy, you need an easy way to capture the night’s events. That’s where Blurb mobile comes in.

Blurb mobile is an app for the iPhone and iPad that lets you create sharable online stories—and turn those stories into beautiful 7×7 inch books. What’s a story exactly? Well, in the Blurb mobile world, it’s a sequence of photos and other media you capture on your phone. It can tell a very literal story—with beginning, middle, and end—or it can be a collection of photos.

Just take photos and video with the app, or import them from your camera roll (including those saved Instagram photos on your phone). You can add captions to your photos too. You can even record your little monsters saying “trick or treat,” and attach the audio track to your photo.

Want a printed version of your story? Of course you do. Blurb’s Small Square books start at $12.99 for a 20-page softcover, and shipping is just $3.99. So, whether you lean toward the scary or the cute or some awesome combination of the two—share your stories on Halloween night on your favorite social media sites with Blurb mobile. And then in a few weeks, get a beautifully bound photo book that you can look at for many Halloweens to come.

Have a happy and mobile Halloween!

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