October seems like a lifetime ago already! A distant memory of sunshine and time spent with family in Spain. I’m always taking photos and lately I’ve been saving memories with Truprint.
Truprint provide a great online service to turn photographs into mementos of all sorts, including calendars and photo books. I’m a big fan of photo books and have made up a number since Monkey was born. I find they make great presents for my parents who live in Spain, and don’t get to see Monkey very often.
Saving memories with Truprint has meant I’ve been able to create a 7×5 Soft Custom Cover Photobook for Mum and Dad with all the photos I took of them with Monkey during our holiday.
The 7×5 Soft Custom Cover Photobook is a great way of collecting photographs, you can select your layout and costs £12.99 for 20 pages. I know my parents will love this Christmas present, saving memories with Truprint and reminding them of our holiday.
Next I decided to make up a lovely hardback 8×11 Premier Lay-Flat Photobook for us to keep of as a memento. Having a hardback will really keep this photo book in pristine condition. You can add a title to the front cover and spine, and have a wrap over photo covering the front and back of the photo book. You can change the page layouts to suit and add text as required. The paper has a matt finish so great when Monkey wants to have a look! The paper is also quite thick, so pages won’t get torn. I’m really pleased with this book and for £29.99 for 20 pages I think this is a great way of saving memories with Truprint.
As well as saving memories of our recent holiday, I wanted to look back at the last year. What have we done with Monkey, where have we been. I decided on 2 different ideas. Firstly, another photo book to add to our collection. I do one at the end of every year, something for Monkey to have when he is older.
This time I opted for the 11×8 Hard Custom Cover Photobook, complete with gloss paper finish and a wonderful presentation box for storage.
Apologies for the flash images on these photos! The print reproduction is great, just as you would expect from Truprint. Again I added text to the spine and through the photo book, you could change layouts too. The photo book itself costs £24.99 for 20 pages, the premium gloss finish was £7.00 and the presentation box was £13.00. The presentation box is actually deep enough to store 2 11×8 photo books and would make a wonderful add-on for a present. Great for weddings, christenings and other special family occasions. I’m very happy with my photo book selections.
Photo books are wonderful, I’m a big fan, you can tell. But I also wanted something I could look at all the time. I realised that a 2014 photo calendar would give me the chance to do just that.
I opted for the 11×8.5 Classic Calendar at £14.99. There were lots of backgrounds to choose from, you can add a photo for each month and a cover shot, as well as titles. I also added photos and notes to remind us of specific family events throughout the year.
As you can see there are different photo layout options for this photo calendar, and now I have a reminder of times with Monkey, over the last year.
The service at Truprint has been great, I had one issue on the website which was resolved immediately, the orders were delivered promptly, and the finished products are all of very good quality. I’m one happy Mummy and I know my parents will be thrilled with their surprise present.
disclaimer: I was given access to the items mentioned in exchange for a review, my comments however, remain my own honest opinions.
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I’m really thrilled that Truprint have kindly offered 5 of you the chance to save your own memories. Would you choose a holiday memory, Christmas, your kids through the year?? The choice would be yours. 5 of you can win a 11×8 Hard Custom Cover 20 page cover book valued at £24.99 (you can add extra pages at your own cost). Just complete the rafflecopter for your chance to win! Good luck.
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Christmas day!
Christmas and its build up!
I’d probably choose some of our Disney photos or possibly the year 2013 in photos.
My 6 children
I’d choose the Christmas period, or our summer holidays
Think I would do Christmas memories or our holiday this year.
My late bunny rabbit who lived in my flat with me, he was my best friend ever <3
Our summer holiday from this year
my kids birthdays
The Christmas holidays 🙂
Family holidays and days out.
My beautifil son
Christmas because we are all together.
Christmas as a lot of the family will be together
My kids growing up
My last holiday!
i would capture my brand new nephew growing up 🙂
my family on holiday
Family holiday pictures
I would capture memories of our holiday in Italy this summer xxx
A year in pictures from 2013
Family holidays.
memories of my recent holiday
pics of the family over Christmas
Old photos of my parents .. in particular, the one of them on his motorbike. Of course, their wedding photo. And, the one of Mam and me standing in the river fishing.
We’re having 3 grandchildren born next year, it would be lovely to keep those memories.
Baby photos for my son’s when they leave home, a keepsake for them
my 50th birthday
The family cruise on Cunards QM2
My bunnies, they are soooo cute xx
The holidays and then maybe the birth of our new baby.
the build up to xmas
Family holidays.
My daughters year 11 prom, she will look like a princess, memories to last forever
My children growing up
My wedding day
kids opening their pressies xmas day and family holidays
I’ll be taking lots of photos of our rescue dog, hopefully enjoying his first Christmas with us. 🙂
Woof Woof! Merry Christmas!
I would use it for pictures of the kids
My baby niece’s first year.
I would let my partner choose – probably tattoo design related stuff.
Our travels this year.
I would let my Mum do one as she has never done a photobook before
My grandad who passed away last week 🙁
My 10 month old daughter’s 1st Christmas – have got some great photos!
Photo’s of our son.
My daughters growing up
family walks in the countryside over the year. 🙂
It would be wedding memories as we still only have them on disc 3 years later (shocking) would be lovely to see them in print.
holidays from this year
Our wedding day
My family together we have a new addition going to be born in the summer we cant wait to meet him or her
christmas
I would put my Germany experiences in the book
I’d capture our last holiday … some great memories 🙂
I would use it for pictures of our skiing holiday last year
Christmas 2013
My 2 sons aged 7 and 10 over the years
I’d make a book for my daughter. she was flower girl at my wedding and her giraffe did everything… wore my dress, had hair done etc. it would be nice to make a book of it for her
summer holidays
My holiday to Blackpool
I would capture my little mans 1st year of life. up to his 1st birthday xxx
I would capture our family Christmas and new year 2013 xxx
Our holiday to Tunisia
All the best parts of 2013 🙂
my little boy starts school this year so I would capture that
My parents Ruby Wedding celebration
our family holidays!
My sons first year.
Some pictures of my little granddaughter.
2014
a holiday memory from when we went to disneyland paris earlier this year
Probably some wedding photos to give to my mum
my daughter growing
My baptisim
My grand children’s holiday to Australia..
Christmas 🙂
I’d put together a book of photos of our honeymoon.
Our trip to Disney World next month!
my kids and dog
My trip to New York for my mums 60th x
First family holiday
I’m going to New York in June, I’d use the photobook as a memory for that trip
Family holidays
My son’s year
Our Silver Wedding Anniversary in February. (Can’t believe it is that long already!).
Christmas 2013
my children
Opening of the presents on Xmas day
Our holiday
My twin boys 1st year x
My Wedding
My children – on holiday at Christmas or just being.
My 40th birthday and Christmas …… very close together!!
Pictures of my dogs
old and new photos of all the family
I would love to capture images of my boys as they get bigger
family photos from 2013
My children and my lovely 1 year old granddaughters first year :). Great prize
Our big family holiday to Turkey
my daughters progress from birth till her birthday in feb
days out and trips with my daughter
twins birthday
I would definately capture our holidays away happy smiles tasting that gorgeous ice cream whoops of delight as my little one paddles in the pool and anticipation as the plane takes off
Family & Friends
My nephews and niece going up 🙂
I would like to make a book of all the holidays my friend Jacque and I have gone on for her birthday.
My children growing up over the years 🙂
Baby girl due any day now, so I would use it to capture those special first few days
oh good luck!
My Niece’s first year will end in Feb would love to document it from the picures we have
My family photos 🙂
Pictures of places visited, people met and amazing things seen
my grandchildren
My 2 Beautiful children and my amazing wife xx
I would make memories of my lovely new granddaughter.
Photos of my son
my boys!!!!
Memories of my son
I would create a book of my family using photos taken the last year, pets too of course 🙂
A book for my son’s 21st – growing up memories
My daughters growing up 🙂
We had a lot of lovely days out in 2013 with family and friends so I’d use those images.
Of the holiday days out we had last summer 🙂
I would make a photo book of our summer holiday photos from last summer 🙂
Pictures charting from when my husband and I first met up until the present day
Our last family holiday together to Thailand x
I would fill this with some of the great memories me and the kids have had since they where born,there are to many to put inside the book,but the main ones like there first birthdays,first christmas’s,first day at preschool,first time the stood up,first time they got covered in paint,mud ect…There just 4yrs old and nearly 2yrs old..Just like any other mother am always taking pictures of the kiddies,i think they get fed up with me sometimes,but i really do love pictures,a picture can tell a thousand stories 🙂 Thats why i love the saying
“I think the only reason people hold onto memories so tight is because memories are the things that don’t change; when everybody else does”
If i won it would be treasured,just like all my memories
GOODLUCK EVERYONE,ALL THE BEST <3
lovely reply, I totally agree – good luck
I’d choose loads of pictures of our family’s pet baby tortoise! Everyone would love it 🙂
My beautiful boys x
photographs of my mum and dads 50th wedding anniversary party would be great displayed like this
id use pictures from different day trips we had in 2013
All the cakes I bake
Lots of school photos in chronological order!
My whole family.
Our holiday to Florida
Our first baby, a boy is due in just over 4 weeks so this would be perfect to remember all his first moments.
Like you I do a book at the end of every year, so I would use it for this
My nieces wedding
all the pictures I’ve got of my grandson always meaning to get them organized
Family photographs 🙂
my daughters first year
Our holidays!
It’s my aunts 80th birthday party on Saturday, so I’d like to do her a photo book of that.
The first few days of my new Granddaughters life
my upcoming holiday
special occasions, birthdays christmas etc 🙂
We have some lovely Christmas photos this year.
Wedding photos
my mothers 70th
Too many to mention such as my granddaughters first year
My year in 2013 🙂
My son’s birthday
Would love to win this as a present for my parents
Our florida holiday
ive just given birth to my first child so will be used for my beautiful daughter
My baby twin girls!
Family, friends, Pets, Outings etc. As would be nice to have a collection in a book. Would be a lovely gift for my Mother.
It would have to be from my wedding 4 months ago. All 4 of my children looked amazing and we only have pictures from our big day stored on our computer so it would be lovely to have them in a special book
Our Christmas trip to Disney!
my kids everyday life 🙂
I would capture my sons first year of school
my family holiday to florida 🙂
It would be the past 2 years since my daughter was born as a keepsake for Nanny!
i have 5 children so would love to capture all those early day memories as they grow so fast 🙁
it must be family
My wedding nearly 5 years ago and never had a wedding album
my kiddies n days out xx
Last summer holiday
My daughter growing up 😀
I would do memories of our home education journey with my son.