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New Valentine’s background – Send a sweet card to those you love.

Photo + Card + Candy = A sweet greeting they won’t forget.

Candy Hearts Photocard

Find this new background by creating a new project and choosing the Holiday theme, and then select Valentine’s Day. Choose a layout. Insert a picture and type a message. Review, order and send a smile.

But hurry, time is running out to get them by Valentine’s.

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Category: Announcements andFeatured Feature andInspiration andProduct - Date: Monday 30 January 2012 - Comments: 1 Comment

Cheapest Photobook Printer? Searching out photo book deals?

Quality– yes. Beautiful options – yes. Several sizes and cover types – yes. Pricing – yes. Deals … Oh, yes!

Here’s the insider’s tip on where you can find our current promotions, when we generally change them and how we announce special promos.

Current Promos – We send out promo emails twice a month usually on the first and around the 15th. Our current promo is also available in the header (until you X it out) once you’re logged in and always in the footer of your bookshelf. Finally, we always post them on Facebook and Twitter – feel free to share with your friends.

Special Promos – We have sporadic weekend specials which we promote via Facebook and Twitter only. If you haven’t t Liked us or started Following us, you should.  

Psst: our first weekend promo of 2012 will be the last weekend of January.

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Category: Announcements andProduct andResources andspecial offers - Date: Friday 6 January 2012 - Comments: None

Most read photo book, photo memory, and photo-related Inkubook blog, Twitter and Facebook posts of 2011.

In the second half of 2011, Inkubook began to build its social media presence and focus on providing photo-related information to our members, followers and fans. If we found something cool about famous photographers, great photography tip and tricks, fun kid projects or interesting photo-oriented holiday crafts and ideas we wanted to share it with you. Below were our most popular blog posts and Twitter and Facebook links from the past year.

Top Read Blog Posts

Scavenger hunt & other Halloween photo ideas

http://inkubook.com/blog/?p=2621

Getting an early start on holiday gift making: calendars and cards

http://inkubook.com/blog/?p=2331

180-Day school year photo challenge

http://inkubook.com/blog/?p=2367

Have lots of photos of baby? Here are some fun baby photo book ideas

http://inkubook.com/blog/?p=2383

Big Interview? Make a portfolio photo book that does all the talking

http://inkubook.com/blog/?p=2204

Family History Book: trace back your genealogy

http://inkubook.com/blog/?p=2402

Kid Perspective: Give a kid a camera and see the world through their eyes

http://inkubook.com/blog/?p=2431

 

Top Facebook and Twitter Links

10 common mistakes in digital scrapbooking

http://scrapbookcampus.com/2011/11/10-common-mistakes-in-digital-scrapbooking/

10 more scrapbooking errors. Are you making them?

http://scrapbookcampus.com/2011/11/10-more-common-mistakes-in-digital-scrapbooking/

50 essential photography tips.

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/cameras-and-camcorders/50-essential-photography-tips-50006080/

What does a $4.3 million dollar photo look like? See it here.

http://lazarusdodge.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/landscrapes/

House for sale? Just finish a remodel? 5 tips for taking better pictures of the inside of your home.

http://www.mcpactions.com/blog/2011/12/14/5-photography-tips-for-successful-interior-design-photos/

Taking pics of your newborn? Tips for parents.

http://waukee.patch.com/blog_posts/newborn-photography-tips-for-new-parents

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Category: Announcements - Date: Tuesday 3 January 2012 - Comments: None

Blogs We Love!

Here at Inkubook, we love bloggers. They work seemingly around the clock to provide great content, a great sense of humor, great style, great pics, great tips and the list goes on. We follow all types of blogs from wedding to parenting and from crafts to photography and giveaways to savings. If you’re looking for fresh, creative and often humorous content checkout for yourself some of the blogs we love.

  • BravoBride : Wedding tips, inspiration and DIY wedding ideas.
  • Northern Cheapskate : Frugal. By Nature.
  • Mommies with Cents : Daily giveaways, hot deals, coupons & more!
  • Annie’s Art Book : An adventure in the world of art (painting, pyrography/ woodburning, scrapbooking), craft projects, many tutorials and step-by-step instructions, gourmet cooking and cake decorating from the art book of a NY mom. Visit and be inspired!
  • The Gadgeteer : Gadget reviews and news
  • Jolly Mom : Recipes | Crafts | Atlanta Mom Blogger | Brand Ambassador | Product Reviews
  • Kathy’s Scraps : Digital Scrapbooking
  • Blissfully domestic : for women who want to be true to themselves while choosing to create bliss in their homes and families.
  • Katydid & Kid : adventures in making and doing.
  • Becca Blogs : Life, marriage, foster/adoption, cooking, crafts.

If you’re a blogger and you want to be a part of our Blogs We Love page, click the blue button and provide your information, we’d love to see what you have to say.

Blogs We Love

 

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Category: Announcements andLinks andResources - Date: Friday 14 October 2011 - Comments: None

We have Chanukah card and calendar layouts!

Chanukah begins at sundown on December 20th, and so that means there’s plenty of time to get cards made, ordered and delivered — still giving you plenty of time to address, send and have your greetings arrive early even! If you’ve thought about making calendars for the special people in your life, we also have Chanukah backgrounds which can be found in the Year In Review theme within our Monthly Celebration category.

Dreidel

If you’re looking to make cards, click New on your bookshelf, select Card, click Next, then click Holiday. Christmas is the default, but if you click the right arrow for Browse Theme, Chanukah is next in the rotation [see image below]. Name your card and press Next. Upload your photos and click Finished. Once your photos are uploaded, you’ll be taken to the Editor where the Dreidel card is the default. If you click on Backgrounds, you’ll see the other Chanukah options [above image is one option]. Once you’ve settled on the card you want to make, it’ll just be another few minutes before you’re card is ready to order.

Chanukah Theme

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Category: Announcements - Date: Thursday 13 October 2011 - Comments: None

Call for Gorgeous Inkubooks! Inspire Others, Share Your Beautiful Book.

We just revamped our Photo Projects Idea Photo Project Ideas page to be a gallery of samples of books real users have created. We like the look, but need more content. We’re looking for all kinds of books like – pet, holiday, travel, scrapbook, and business and portfolio books.  Do you have a beautiful, creative book you’d like to share with our users? If so, contact us at admin@inkubook.com with the email address you use when making your Inkubooks as well as the name of your book. We’ll contact you back with a release form and get your book on our site with the next site update.

Inkubook Gallery

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Category: Announcements andResources - Date: Tuesday 4 October 2011 - Comments: None

Inkubook photo cards: New designs for holidays and occasions

You’ve asked for them. And we delivered. Inkubook released new photo card designs for major holidays, from Christmas to Halloween to Valentine’s Day and special occasions, from birth announcements to anniversary to birthday party invites.

Choose your theme

Cards take only a few minutes to make and order and only a few days to ship to you.

Halloween sample

Remember, a picture says a 1000 words and a photo card says even more.

Seasons Greetings sample

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Category: Announcements andInspiration - Date: Friday 19 August 2011 - Comments: None

Getting an early start on holiday gift making: calendars and cards

With autumn just around the corner, your schedule will start getting jam-packed with weekends of football and fall festivals, as well as homework, Halloween parties and the list goes on. So, why not get a jump start on some holiday card and gift making and lower your stress level when it comes to crunch time.

Holiday cards - easy

Photo Cards are fast and easy to make, bring a smile to the recipient’s face and aren’t just for the December holidays. Make Halloween party invitations, Thanksgiving family greetings and New Year’s wishes too.

If you’re going to make holiday cards, think about when you’ll want them to arrive at your family and friends homes, how long it’ll take you to address them and then order them 10 days before that. Have in mind the pictures you want to use – or still need to take and decide the background you want to use. Once you have the picture and background selected, you can make a beautiful card in about 10 minutes.

Photos organized by holiday

Photo calendars make a great gift. They arrive right at the end of the year and will bring smiles to Grandma’s and Great Aunt Dawn’s face each month.  If you’re planning to make a calendar whose images matches celebrations that typically occur in certain months, like Halloween for October, make the process of laying out a calendar easier by putting photos in buckets such as holidays, birthdays and other events like family reunion, vacation and playing in the snow. This type of categorization will allow you to apply pictures to the appropriate month. Other calendar themes could be a year of family fun time, baby’s first year, wedding and so on.

Layout for October

Get creative and have fun.  Like cards, remember to order early to allow for you gift wrap and deliver to the recipient – beat the rush, don’t get caught in weather delays and keep your holiday stress down.

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Category: Announcements andInspiration andTips 'n' Tricks andWeekend Projects - Date: Wednesday 17 August 2011 - Comments: None

Share Your Photobooks With Friends on Facebook or Your Blog

You’ve spent hours making your photo book. When it arrives, you’re delighted to hold it in your hands and share it with friends and loved ones. But what about your friends and loved ones far, far away? Inkubook’s Share feature lets you share your memories with anybody online using Facebook, or using your own personal blog or website. We’ve recently made some improvements to this feature that we’d like to share:

  • New Fullscreen button – the beauty of your books are no longer constrained to a little box!
  • You get to watch the book widget being built, giving you a much better idea of when it will be ready to share
  • By popular demand, sharing book widgets on your own website is back
  • Book widgets shared on Facebook work properly for people using a secured connection
  • If you change your book after you’ve shared it and want to update the book widget, you only have to wait for the pages that have changed or been added to be rebuilt

GETTING STARTED

Click the pink Share button in the bookshelf, or in the editor:

Share buttons in Inkubook bookshelf and editor

Inkubook will start building your book widget, showing you what’s going on page-by-page:

Inkubook shows your book widget as it's being built

Once it’s finished building, you can share your book with your friends:

Once the book widget is built, it's ready to share with friends

SHARING YOUR BOOK

Facebook

Click the Post on Facebook button to post your book on your wall:

Sharing a photo book on your Facebook wall

Maybe you don’t want to share your book with just everybody on Facebook – no problem! Just click the lock at the bottom of the window, and you can restrict who can see your book on your wall to just you, a few specific friends, or a group:

Setting Facebook privacy for your photo book

Your blog or website

Clicking the Post on your Blog button will copy the necessary HTML snippet to your clipboard that you’ll need to paste into your blog or website. Once you do, it’ll look something like this:

–> classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0″ id=”inkuflip” align=”middle” allowFullScreen=”true” quality=”high”>

Create your own Photobooks with Inkubook.com!

Making Changes

If you make changes to your book after you’ve shared it and you want those changes to show up on in your book widget, just click the Share button again. Inkubook will rebuild any pages that have changed, add new ones and remove deleted ones. You don’t have to re-post your book widget to Facebook or your blog again; the changes will automatically show up!

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Category: Announcements andFeatured Feature - Date: Tuesday 28 June 2011 - Comments: 2 Comments

MANAGING PHOTO PROJECTS: Introducing the Inkubook Gallery Bookshelf

The vacation photobook. The photo calendar. The baby photo book. With all of those personalized photo projects adorning the walls of your life, one thing is clear: you are a bona fide Inkubook artiste!

You just can’t live without compiling some of your most cherished memories into a beautiful collage every once in a while, can you? Well, there’s nothing wrong with that. A dazzling photo book is something that you can be proud to share, unlike your other more questionable artistic endeavors, such as karaoke singing and potholder crocheting.

So now that you have become the Picasso of the photo book world, Inkubook has decided to construct a virtual Louvre in honor of your work. We’ve cooked up a new member homepage design, the Inkubook Gallery Bookshelf, which makes it easier to navigate through and find your favorite projects.

Check out the new setup:

Photobook Gallery Bookshelf

All your projects are conveniently displayed in small thumbnail form and categorized by project type. You can find any calendar, photobook or card by simply scrolling through the easy-to-use gallery. With this view, locating, editing and ordering more copies of your favorite project is a cinch.

We noticed that more than a few of our customers had photobook projects called “My Photo Book.” Sound familiar? Another little helpful feature that we’ve added is the ability to rename your projects. Click on your project from the Gallery Bookshelf and rename your project to something more helpful.
Rename Photobook Projects

So revel in your love for Inkubook. With the Gallery Bookshelf, it’s easier and more fun than ever to make beautiful, lasting keepsakes and gifts with your digital photos. What are you waiting for? Make something gorgeous today!

Get Started Now

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Category: Announcements andFeatured Feature andTools - Date: Thursday 7 April 2011 - Comments: None