Summer is here and it’s time to have some fun! Don’t let it pass you by without capturing the memories in a gorgeous photo book or two. Now is the time to get summer started right. Turn those photos from Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, graduations and the kids games into a lasting summer photo book keepsake.
Order your book by Sunday, June 28, 2009 using coupon code SUMMER09 and get 25% off.
Offer cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion. Coupon code may be used one time per customer. Good for one photo book.
Now share your pics with friends, fans & family and express your photo book creativity at the same time. If you use Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, Gather or other social networking sites, you can now share your Inkubook photo books online. Feel free to browse through the photo books posted by some of our fans on Facebook to see how they look. Are you a blogger? Inkubook photo book widgets work great with WordPress, TypePad and Blogger. Jazz-up your next post with a fun, interactive mini-version of your book that readers can flip through right on your blog.
The bloggers at Barefoot Mommies, named one of the 50 most influential Mom Blogs by Nielsen Online, recently posted a photo book widget on their site - check it out for yourself. They think the new widget sharing feature rocks. We want to know what you think. Flip-through this book made by some Inkubook fans having a fun time at a recent Coldplay concert. Thanks for sharing guys - looks like you had awesome seats!
It’s easy to make and share your photo book widget. From your Inkubook homepage or book editor page, simply click the pink SHARE button and follow the directions. It only takes a minute or so to create. When it’s done click the GET & SHARE button to choose from several different sharing methods, including social network pages, blogs, email or embedding it into any website. Give it a try and tell us what you think!
They did it! You did it! And you couldn’t be more proud. There are few moments in life that make us more proud than watching our kids, family or friends graduate. Show your pride in a photo book gift featuring graduation day photos or make a memory book with all those old school pictures from kindergarten to the senior prom. You will love making it and your grad will cherish it for years to come. Choose from hundreds of stylish backgrounds, including our new graduation photo book theme or upload your own custom pages. Your books will arrive in 7-10 business days.
Order your book at regular price by Friday, June 5, 2009 using the coupon code INKUGRAD09 and get a second copy of the same book for 50% off.
*Offer cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion. Coupon code may be used one time per customer.
It’s too late to make a photo book for mom but it’s not too late to order her an Inkubook gift card. Photo book gift cards make great gifts for moms who love to make digital scrapbooks & photo books. Just order online and you can have it sent electronically or print it out and put it in a card. It doesn’t get much easier than that.
We see hundreds of wickedly creative drop-dead gorgeous photo books every day at Inkubook. Lately we’ve noticed by the number of personalized wedding guest books being made that wedding season must be coming soon. One wedding guest book that really caught our attention was one created by the blogger of Budget Savvy Bride.
With permission from her talented Franklin, TN-based photographer Evin Photography, the Budget Savvy Bride used several gorgeous photos from her engagement shoot to create a custom-designed wedding guest book on Inkubook. The finished book was amazing. This bride-to-be definitely has style. She opted for a non-lined design allowing her guests to write messages freely throughout the book. Flip through her Inkubook photo book widget below to get some ideas for your own wedding guest book or pass it along to a friend on Facebook or MySpace who might be getting married this year. Just click the “Get Widget” button and follow the directions.
You’ve worked hard for your money and we think you deserve to keep more of it. So, for a limited time, regardless of income, everyone qualifies for the 28% photo book savings bracket at Inkubook. All you have to do is make a drop-dead gorgeous photo book or online digital scrapbook and order by Friday, April 17, 2009. That’s it. No complicated forms to fill out. No receipts to dig up. We’ll even let you order up to ten copies of your book at the discounted price. Now that’s a sweet deduction.
Just enter coupon code INKUTAX09 during checkout to claim your deduction. You deserve it.
Note: Offer cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion. Coupon may be used one time per customer for up to ten copies of the same book. You may not file an extension to get the 28% discount past the April 17, 2009, deadline.
For those of you who have been pregnant or have lived with someone pregnant, you’re likely aware of the “nesting instinct” that sets in just before baby arrives. This instinct causes many women to make cleaning, shopping and organizing top priorities. At 39 weeks pregnant, I had cleaned everything, bought all that I could, and organized and reorganized every nook and cranny in the house. When there was nothing left to do, I came up with something … getting a jump-start on baby’s first photo book.
Baby photo books made at Inkubook are printed on 100 lb. archival-quality
silk paper, which means they will stand up to years of enjoyment.
When my first daughter was born two years ago, I made a baby photo book outlining our trip to the hospital, her birth, our time at the hospital, her first car ride and the first 72 hours at home, including her first bath on the kitchen counter. I finally got around to making that book when she was about 8 months old. I wish I had made that photo book sooner, when the events were fresher in my sleep-deprived mind.
This time would be different. This time, I had experience and a little inspiration from Laura, the professional organizer, mom of three and blogger of OrgJunkie on my side. Having made a baby photo book like this before, I already knew what sort of pictures I wanted to include. So, I logged on to Inkubook.com, and started the Simple Square baby photo book. The 8.5 square soft cover book fits nicely on a bookshelf and coffee table and in the diaper bag. I chose the Baby’s 1st Year theme. And in my super-organization state-of-mind, I began to lay out the photo book and write in some of the text I know I’ll want.
Photos you might want to include in your baby photo book:
- Mommy’s belly before and at hospital
- Cord cutting, hospital bath, bracelet
- Mommy, daddy, sibling, grandparents w/baby
- “Birth day” cake
- Car ride home
- First 72 hours at home - feeding, changing, napping, bath
After baby girl arrives and is finally taking a nap longer than 20 minutes, I’ll be able to upload all of the photos and place them in the book, share it with family and friends through Inkubook’s Invite Friends feature and order the photo book before she wakes for her next feeding. How’s that for organized?
Spring might not have officially sprung yet, but it’s not far off. Soon it will be time for gardening, soccer, baseball, Mother’s Day and graduation parties - all fantastic photo book-worthy occasions. At Inkubook, we’ve been busy getting ready for the spring photo book season by making several improvements, including enhancements like deleting photos from your photo gallery, working with text in your photo book, new photo book backgrounds & layouts and more.
To help launch you into spring, Inkubook has a sweet BOGO offer to share with you: Buy one photo book of any size or page count and get a second copy of the same photo book free! With savings of up to $69.95, now is a great time to make a drop-dead gorgeous photo book. Make one as a gift and keep one for yourself!
Don’t miss out. This offer ends St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2009. Just enter coupon code SPRINGBOGO during checkout to save some serious green! Offer cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion. Coupon code may be used one time per customer for one photo book.
Enhance your rugged travel photos with the
backgrounds from the Outdoor Adventure theme.
If you like outdoor activities like hiking, mountain biking, camping or fishing, you’re probably really looking forward to spring about now. It’s the time of year when the boat, sport and travel shows come to town and we’ve all had enough of the cold. As you gear up for spring it might just be the perfect time to break out the photos from last year’s camping trip and make a great travel and adventure themed photo book.
When we first started creating themes and collections of backgrounds for Inkubooks, we thought we had all our bases covered. We had a variety of family themes, kid themes, and travel themes, not to mention the more practical themes such as cookbook, business book, and portfolio. Then someone on the Inkubook team said, “Where’s the manly outdoors theme? You know…the one for people who like to hike and camp and stuff like that?” That’s when we realized that we’d overlooked the outdoor enthusiasts in the crowd, and we decided we’d better correct that situation PDQ.
Swatches from the Outdoor Adventure Theme
Hence the Outdoor Adventure theme was born. All of the backgrounds in this collection are clean and simple, so your photos can do the talking. This theme is inspired by the types of trail signs you might see in a state or national park and the color scheme runs toward the colors you’d find when shopping for gear at an outdoor outfitter: foresty green, earthy sand, and fiery orange (although it’s not quite fiery enough to be called blaze orange).
If your vacations and weekend getaways are about roughing it with a tent, an outdoor shower, and a camp stove instead of a down comforter, a whirlpool garden tub, and a five-star restaurant, this theme is for you. Look for it in the Travel category when you start a new book. (And if you prefer a more luxurious vacation, you might want to check into our other travel themes.)
A family cookbook can include favorite recipes,
family photos, and colorful backgrounds.
Almost every family has a collection of recipes that are staples either for nightly dinners or for special occassions. For example, a birthday in our family can’t pass without homemade deep dark chocolate cake with dark chocolate frosting. And even without all the recipes that have been passed down through the generations, there are new favorites that enter the rotation all the time, and it’s high time they were all collected in one place.
While it would be perfectly adequate to use Inkubook to create a cookbook that uses plain white on each of the pages, we thought it would be a little more exciting to design some attractive backgrounds to help set off recipes and photos. Whether you include photos of the family members who contributed the recipes, of the people who claim the recipes as their favorite dishes of all time, or of the prepared dishes themselves, having photos in your cookbook will make it more personal and visually interesting, and our backgrounds can enhance that.
Backgrounds from the Cookbook Collection
Backgrounds from the Fundraiser Cookbook Collection
Backgrounds from the Tailgating Cookbook Collection
We didn’t stop with only one collection of backgrounds, though, because we know that cookbooks can serve different purposes. First we have the collection that is simply called Cookbook. There’s no particular theme in this one other than it provides a nice splash of color to the pages. For a cookbook in which you want to divide the recipes according to main ingredient or type of dish, as when you make a cookbook to sell to raise money for a service organization or charity, we have the Fundraiser Cookbook collection. It features a series of attractive solid backgrounds that have just the hint of an image in the corners. Last, but certainly not least, is the Tailgating Cookbook collection, which features elements common to tailgating parties, picnics, and barbecues. Photos from your favorite sporting events and recipes that travel well in a cooler or without refrigeration will look great in a cookbook adorned with these backgrounds.
As always, we think you shouldn’t let us limit your creativity in making your cookbook. There’s no reason you can’t use backgrounds from all these collections in one book. Simply start by picking one of these themes from the Cookbook category when you start a new book, then use the Get More Backgrounds button to add other backgrounds to your gallery.
