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 15^th. 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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Let grandma and grandpa know they are loved with each passing month by creating a calendar of messages from your little ones. Have your children write messages and draw pictures saying things like happy birthday, Happy Valentines’ Day or simple messages like “Hi”, “I love you” and “I can’t wait to see you this summer”. If your kids are very young, you can write the messages and have them color them in. When you have 12 messages complete, take a picture of your child holding up each one. Consider changing outfits to match the season or switching locations. Then, upload the photos and build a calendar.

When you use Inkubook you can choose seasonal and holiday backgrounds to correspond with the months or you can choose all white or black for a sleek look and allow the images to stand on their own. Have the kids help with the calendar design and make it a gift from everyone.

Grandma and grandpa will smile and feel loved each time they flip the page of their very special gift.

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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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Maybe it’s the word “labor”, but Labor Day makes me think of babies. They’re soft and cuddly and usually smell pretty sweet and they tend to be the focus of a lot of the pictures many of us take. Therefore, they make the perfect subjects for photo books.

Every Month of My Life

If you’re creative and have solid Photoshop skills you can create custom designs like in the image above. This baby book captures one photo a month, each month, of the baby’s first two years of life (that way it’s at least a 20 page book). The caption on every page is a song title and a CD was made to accompany the book when gifted to the grandparents.

The book below covers a shorter, but messier time period. This book is all about baby’s first foods. Each page is dedicated to a newly introduced food and captures baby’s reaction upon tasting. This book used a background provided in Inkubook’s cookbook theme and works great in this baby book (I like green beans too).

Baby Foodie

Inkubook has several backgrounds for baby-themed books, see some design options below. Our backgrounds even include  journal page options, so you can jot down the vital statistics and a few interesting memories about your prince or princess.

We also have pregnancy memory backgrounds, birth announcements and more. If you have pictures, we’ll help you find inspiration. And maybe over the long holiday weekend, you’ll have some time to create something beautiful.

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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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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:

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.

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!

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Some people are just on top of everything. They’re always on time, never miss deadlines, and they have no concept of what it means to procrastinate. You know them well. We’re talking about that friend from college who always prepared weeks in advance for the big exam, and was cool as a cucumber the night before while you and everybody else ran around like chickens with your heads cut off. Or what about that perfect colleague who always seems to turn around projects so much quicker than you? Don’t they just make you want to hurl?! Yuck!

Fortunately for you, we may have just the solution to all of your punctuality woes: a personalized photo calendar from Inkubook. You’ll be giving that old goody-two-shoes in your life a real run for their money after you start using your new calendar. Or if you are reading this post Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes, you can get a photo calendar for yourself to make sure you stay on time in the new year.

We’ve got some great calendar ideas that will work for anyone:

• The Lovers Calendar: When you’re in love, there’s nothing that compares to spending time with that special person. You can take your favorite photo memories of you and your sweetie and use them to create a calendar that will make you smile every day of the year.

• The Resolution Calendar: We all start the new year in pretty much the same fashion: setting goals that we intend to reach before the year ends. With your own images or pictures of others, you could use your calendar as a constant reminder of the things you want to achieve in 2011.

• The Family and Friends Calendar: You’ve got so many special people in your life, and keeping up with all their birthdays, anniversaries, and special events can be quite daunting. To make sure you don’t forget anyone, you could place images on the months of big events that help you remember everything that’s going on with your loved ones.

Calendars start at just $24.95. Now that’s a very small price to pay for being on top of things for a whole year, right? With the holiday season right around the corner, you can make one and gift one and save 40%. Check out more details about our calendars here.

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While it might be a little early to look ahead to next year, it’s never too early to start working on a personalized photo calendar. At 19×13.5 inches, the Super Big Calendar can hold more than 100 of your favorite photos. We have updated templates for 2010 so you can get a jump on making one of the most popular holiday gifts of the season.

Make your Super Big Calendar by October 31, 2009 and enjoy complimentary standard ground shipping to U.S. addresses (or $8.99 off any other shipping method). Just enter code SHIPCAL10 during checkout. (Code may be used once per customer. Not valid with any other offer or promotion).

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