Today Inkubook announced a partnership to become the official photo book provider of the NFL Alumni, Inc. Indianapolis Chapter. Under the agreement, Alumni members, family and friends will use Inkubook to create photo books commemorating special events, including the organization’s charitable golf tournament. These photo books will be made available for sale to benefit the chapter’s mission “Caring for Kids.”

NFL Alumni Indy Chapter captures the memories of the
2008 Charity Golf Classic in a gorgeous
Ultimate Portrait Inkubook photo book.

“We look forward to working with Inkubook to capture the memories of our events in photo book keepsakes that will help us raise money for some great charities including the Super Bowl XLVI Legacy Fund, Tony Dungy’s All-Pro Dad and Peyton Manning’s Peyback Foundation,” said Barry Krauss, president of the Indianapolis Chapter of NFL Alumni, Inc.

“We’re pleased to add the NFL Alumni, Inc. Indy Chapter to our inaugural group of partners,” said Inkubook General Manager Ken Kratz. “The collaborative nature of Inkubook, as well as our flexible partnership program, makes it the perfect option for any organization that relies on group events to drive fundraising.”

You don’t even have to be a former pro football player to join the team. If you would like to make a gorgeous photo book and help out the NFL Alumni, Inc. Indy Chapter in its mission of “Caring for Kids” at the same time visit http://inkubook.com/NFL-Alumni-Indy to learn more.

Well, it’s here, that part of winter that’s blisteringly cold and inhospitable. The time of year when it seems like going outdoors should be outlawed. One day the temperatures might be relatively mild, but the next is outrageously frigid. This is the type of weather that’s best for staying warm with a nice indoor activity.

Snow day memories can last forever in a gorgeous
winter-themed Inkubook photo book.

Call us predictable, but we’re going to give you a suggestion for an indoor activity, and you can probably guess what it is. When you’re snowbound (or just trapped inside because it’s significantly below freezing outside), it’s a good time to work on a photo book. With our collections of Winter and Contemporary Christmas backgrounds, you can pretend to be enjoying the seasonably cold temperatures without actually setting foot outside.

It’s a perfect time to organize your photos from the holidays and put them in a photo book adorned with our Contemporary Christmas backgrounds. As you can see from the swatches, the Contemporary Christmas theme says Christmas, but it does it by updating the look of traditional pine green and candy-cane red. The green is a little more muted and the red has more of a cranberry hue. Trees and ornaments have modern shapes and designs. If you prefer something a little more traditional, we still have the regular Christmas theme that includes more classic colors and patterns.

Inkubook Contemporary Christmas Theme

While it might be too cold to go sledding, ice skating, or snowman-building right now, it’s a good time to remember the last winter adventure you had by building a book with some frosty backgrounds. Designed with images and colors that evoke memories clear, crisp days full of sunshine and snow, the Winter theme looks adorable when framing photos of people joyously playing in the snow.

Inkubook Winter Theme

If the last thing you want to do is be faced with the imagery that makes you think of winter, don’t fear. We still have all the backgrounds that are reminiscent of warmer time, such as the Summer and Family Beach Vacation themes. You can turn your heat up to 88, put on a pair of shorts, sip a refreshing glass of iced tea, and focus on the history of last summer instead of the history of last month.

Holiday season 2008 is in the near distant past, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start thinking about what kind of special gift you might make for someone in 2009. In case you haven’t already thought about taking all your old traditional photos and putting them into a photo book, or in case you think it would be too difficult, it might be time for you to think about it a little more. Inkubook member Dick Fey made three books for his children and wrote us to say how pleased he was with them, so we asked Dick if he’d let us tell everyone a little about his experiences with Inkubook.

Dick is a semi-retired business ownder from Leawood, Kansas, which is a suburb of Kansas City. His plan had been to make DVD videos of old 8mm film for his children as a Christmas present. He sent many rolls of 30-year-old film to a company for professional transfer to digital format, and he also scanned lots of pictures himself. Then he made a video slide show and put it on DVDs. Once he got that part done he thought he was finished with his gift. Then he found Inkubook. Here’s what he had to say:

“I’d never heard of you, but your website looked interesting, so I decided to play with it a little. It was perfect timing, since I already had all the pictures readily available. I thought that perhaps having a ‘coffee table book’ of the pictures would be a perfect addition to the gift pack. I’d never made a picture book before–in fact I didn’t even know the technology existed. I found the website very easy to comprehend and use, and had a good time doing it.

Dick Fey and his children with their books.

“Initially I was concerned about quality; buying over the Internet when you can’t actually touch or feel the product is difficult, at least for me. I was pleasantly surprised when I began to receive the books. They were better than I had expected. Even pictures that Inkubook had marked as questionable came out OK.

“We gave our children the books for Christmas, and, boy, were they thrilled! I think the immediate gratification of the photo book was even more important to them than the videos.”

So whether you’re in the market for a good mid-winter activity to keep you busy or you want to get started on a present for holiday season 2009, think about scanning some of those old photos and putting them in a modern and attractive photo book. Dick Fey is happy he did, and you will be, too.