Scrapbook or photo book gift? which company

Gold Member Joined: Apr 06 2006 Posts: 1192 Location: usa

I am making a gift for my husbands birthday next week - I asked his friends and the community he's a rabbi of (chabad shliach) to email me well wishes and I am going to make it into a scrapbbok - I opened up a new email account and this is going to (hopefully) be a surprise.

I have already gotten a number of messages back and they are very nice and quite touching

I really want this book to be nice and it will prob be something that he will show people

so my question is: what format should I do? initially I was thinking of doing a photobook and having each persons picture next to their message but firstly I dont have everyone's picture and many of those that I do (from facebook) are not the greatest quality

but I am not very creative and I think that if I just have the messages then it will be boring to look at.

so im asking for ur opinions on how you think it will look good.
just bear in mind that his birthday is next week (think shipping time) so I have only a few days to work, and bec its a surprise, I can only do this when he is not home so thats even less time.

I think I will have about 30- 35 messages (that come in time) and I prob only have about 10-20 of pictures of the senders

thank you

Gold Member Joined: Feb 25 2009 Posts: 1317

Free photobook from picaboo!

Gold Member Joined: Apr 06 2006 Posts: 1192 Location: usa

they have these yellow signs on my pics saying they are low resolution

Senior Member Joined: Sep 15 2008 Posts: 133

I would tell you to do a photobook online as quickly as u can, so that it will come in time.
You can use whichever pix u have, with the well-wishes on bottom. For the ones u do not have a pic of, u can just do pages of written up responses and name of who sent it. ( like 4 on a page?)If you have any extra pages, you can do pics of ur husband around the community etc,
Beautiful idea!

Gold Member Joined: Apr 06 2006 Posts: 1192 Location: usa

thanks

Sweet idea! You need to realize that you will most likely need to do express shipping.

Shutterfly has pretty fast service, even if you don't do express shipping. They have fairly good coupons all the time as well. You can do it on their site with backgrounds and text, but beware that it will take a LOT more time than you expect it to take.
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