I am so so so excited about this October giveaway! As a recent bride and now a newlywed I understand the importance of preserving images and keeping all of your photos organized. I also love to blog and have considered putting all of my posts in a book. Someday we’ll have kids and I’ll want bound books of my photos of them. For our wedding, we created a guest book with our photos printed in it and left blank pages for our guests to sign. I wish we’d had a vendor that could print the photos on the page and create lines for our guests to sign the book.
I have found the perfect place to do all of these things; http://www.blurb.com/. The folks at Blurb contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I’d be willing to host a giveaway for their products. After looking through the website and creating a huge list of books I’d like to create for myself and for gifts, I immediately agreed!
Blurb is a creative book publishing platform that enables anyone to produce their own bookstore quality book. Blurb’s BookSmart software is free to download at http://www.blurb.com/ and includes a huge variety of professionally designed layouts. Relatively new is the option to produce an ImageWrap hardcover book. This prints your cover image directly onto the book for a matte, sophisticated (and durable) finish. You can still have the options of softcover and hardcover with dust jacket. Books start at $12.95 for a 7×7” softcover book. Other sizes include 10×8”, 8×10” and 13×11”. Looking for some inspiration? Check out the books in Blurb’s Bookstore at www.blurb.com/bookstore.
It’s free to create the book and the prices for the purchase of the book vary depending on your choice of size.
I’m so excited to be able to offer a giveaway for 5 readers! I will be giving away five (5) $54.95 bookmaking codes that will be redeemable for a book you produce using Blurb.
Here’s how it works:
Leave me a comment saying you’d like to be entered, then email me a photo that you would like to use as the cover of your book. I will simply select the five photos that I like best and award those five readers with bookmaking credits from Blurb. {This will definitely be hard for me!}
To announce the winners, I will share the five winning photos and runners up (with permission) on my blog. The photos do not have to be professional quality. They just have to be a photo that you took yourself.
I hope you’re all interested in playing! If you are a winner, I will email the code for Blurb to you. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 7, 2008.
Email your photos to me at erakin11 {at} hotmail {dot} com.
OMG this is by far the best giveaway EVER…and SO SO SO SO nice of you to do!! Now I need to find some photos…
Blue-Eyed Bride…I would love to be entered and will email my photo now! Thank u so much!
I would love to win! I have been wanting to make one of these books for a while.
just looked at that site…i LOVE those books!!! e-mailing you a picture now. 🙂
pariskae (at) gmail (dot) com
I would love to win the Blurb book!!! I love those!!!
How wonderful of you to offer this! I absolutely would like to be entered! I will e-mail the photo as soon as possible! Thanks Erin! 🙂
This would be PERFECT for my honeymoon and wedding pics!! I would love to be entered.. I will email you!
I would like to be entered — am emailing you a photo right now! 🙂
How exciting! I would love to use a Blurb book for my guest book! Thanks for doing this, Erin! 🙂
Definitely want to be entered in this giveaway! I’ll email the photo in a couple of days (gotta get home and get settled first. We’ve got a long day of travel tomorrow!). Thanks for doing this!!!!
Oh my gosh, what fun! I will have to find my favorite photo and email it to you! Please enter me, I’m so excited about this giveaway!
How fun! Please enter me in the contest.
Thank you!
Alison
What an awesome giveaway! I briefly heard of Blurb on another bride’s website…but only after my own wedding! I would love to be entered; perhaps if I win I could make a book of our honeymoon photos 🙂
Hi! What a great giveaway! I was actually going to invest in a book and I had NO clue where to start! Anyways, I am sending my picture to you now. Thanks!
Thanks for hosting such a wonderful giveaway! I am emailing my picture over!
Yes please… I would love to enter. Emailing shortly….
What a great giveaway – just time for my soon-to-be wedding photos!
I’m sending you my “cover shot!”
I would love to be entered…my picture is on it’s way.
Oh I love it!!! Emailing my picture now….
Hey there! Just saw you added yourself to my “followers” list and so I checked out your blog and love it!!! I can’t wait to read more from you. And this giveaway sounds amazing… I would like to enter and I will get my photo over to to ASAP.
I would love to be entered as well. I will email you my photo now as well.
What a great giveaway! Emailing you now 🙂
So cute! I’d love to enter! I am going to email you right now 🙂
this is a great giveaway! I’ll email you ASAP. I need this – its perfect for my wedding album I’ve been meaning to put together for months now!
amazing giveaway!!!
emailing cover shot now!!
amazing giveaway!!!
emailing cover shot now!!
amazing giveaway!!!
emailing cover shot now!!
amazing giveaway!!!
emailing cover shot now!!
amazing giveaway!!!
emailing cover shot now!!
I’m emailing you a pic right now. I’d LOVE to win this book. Blair and I were married in August and I’d love to put together a book of all the surrounding activities- the cocktail party on Thurs, the RD, our trash the dress session (SO much fun), etc. This would be perfect!!
Love those books!! I’ve been procrastinating for SO long in making travel albums…this would be perfect 🙂 Sending picture now!
Ahhhh, another chance to have more baby pics around. :-)) Please enter me. I’ll be emailing you the picture shortly.
Hi! Happened to come across your blog; I haven’t yet entered into blog-land but maybe someday!
Would love to be entered in the giveaway – I have thousands of digital pictures on my computer that I have yet to print and put in an album. I’ve been tinkering around with iPhoto on my laptop but haven’t done much yet. Emailing the picture now!
How sweet of you to host this, I would love to be entered..
jpbuc1017@gmail.com
Ooooh, I love this giveaway, and I definitely want to enter…I already know what photo I will send you. Thanks for doing this, so fun!
how nice! I would love to be entered 🙂
I would LOVE to have a book with pictures of Baby B. I could finally document the 250 pictures still sitting in my camera.
Pictures are on their way!
I would love to be entered! I will email you my picture right away. Thanks for doing this! Hallie
What an exciting contest! I would love to make a Blurb book for all of my engagement session pictures.
ohmygosh ohmygosh! I would love to enter. My best friend just got married and we spent the entire summer planning showers, bachelorette parties and of course the beautiful wedding! It was the best summer and I’ve been working on creating a blurb book of all the fun so this is just perfect. Emailing you a pic right now!
Best giveaway ever!
Oh how I love those blurb books! I am planning to do one to use as our guest book! Can’t wait! I will email you soon with a picture! YAY!
i would love to be entered : ) what a fabulous giveaway!
Please enter me!! This would be perfect to display our wedding and honeymoon pics! 🙂
Oh girl, I’m in! I haven’t had a chance to peek at Blurb…is it kinda like the photo books you can get at Wal-greens or Wal-mart or Picaboo?
I sent you an email – awesome giveaway! Blurb is so very cute to begin with…
HI Blue eyed bride,
I just sent you the picture last night (you helped us with our photographer dilemma recently ;o)
Thanks so much for hosting this wonderful and generous give away!
Cheers,
Jen
This is so nice of you to have this giveaway! I would love to enter and will email you a picture 🙂
I would love another way to show off pictures of my three year old.
I want to be entered.
Love this contest (and your blog)…enjoy my sunflower. 🙂
I have not commented before, but love this idea and will certainly enter. Thank you for the great idea and reference!
Hey lady – I definitely want to enter! I’m having a hard time picking out a photo! I’ll send you something today if it’s not too late! Have a great weekend.
How fun is this?!?! Would be perfect for some wedding pics… I am emailing you my photo.
How did I not see this???? 🙂 Enter me please and I will search for a photo to email you 🙂
I don’t know how I missed this the first time around! Silly me! I want to be entered!
What an amazing giveaway! I’d love to be entered. Now I just need to find a picture.
Please enter me! Emailing you now!
LOVE the idea! I am emailing you now from travnbeck@msn.com. Please enter me, THANKS!
I’m so excited about this giveaway! Already emailed you 🙂
I am so excited! We are hoping to make one of these to use as our guestbook for our wedding! We are HUGE red sox fans, but having a very southern wedding, so we are going to use the book to show our love for our team, including the cover being a picture of us at world series game last year. the email is on its way! 🙂
thanks so much!
Oh wow! How funny that you are offering this considering that i have been considering using Blurb to make my wedding book. I have been so busy with running ASB, my master’s program, and a number of other programs I am in that I haven’t had time to sit down and create the book. I am definitely going to send you a picture. Thanks, Erin!
I love Blurb! I made a book for my husband last year with photos from our anniversary trip to Ojai, Santa Barbara, Dana Point & Laguna Beach and it turned out fantastic [much better than similar efforts from Kodak & Shutterfly].
I'm planning on doing a few for Christmas so I'll definitely be sending you a photo. Guess I better go start looking for the perfect photo…