Celebrate Everyday Life with Shutterfly
Tags:One of the big projects I have been working on over the last few months (and am really excited about) is the creation of a Celebrate Everyday Life photo book for Shutterfly.
This hard-bound book is available in 12x12 and 8x8 formats (minimum of 20 pages but you can add up to 80) and are set up for you to simply drag and drop your photos right into the book& type your text into specified areas. The design is super clean with plenty of white space to keep the emphasis on the photos + words.
Page topics within the photo book include everyday celebrations, observations, distractions, travel, play, work, routines, family, home, beauty, little things, etc. All those parts of our life worth documenting.
In addition to creating the photo book I wrote four short articles related to putting this book together (and scrapbooking everyday life in general). Here's a link to each:
Making A Successful Everyday Life Book
Journaling Your Everyday Life
8 Techniques for Choosing or Taking Photos
List of Everyday Photos
While you are visiting Shutterfly, check out the darling photo book created by Jessica Sprague: ABC's of You.

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What a fantastic project and so inspiring.
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I can't wait to do this book. I love Shutterfly books. I have done a few and I notice that I journal a lot more than I do with my "regular" scrapbook pages. So thank you for doing this. Your mind is full of wonderful ideas!
Sara M
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Wow!! Another amazing project! Thank you so much for making it easier for people to document the everyday little things that are SO important.
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Snapfish has a similar program and I think I might give it a try. Thanks for the articles.
Sue
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I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. Beautiful work Ali! I will be making one of these books for sure. Thanks for this!
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wow wow wow~~~~
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What a fantastic idea! I am loving the new things Shutterfly is doing, and this just takes the cake. :) I am so excited to make my own! Their quality is fantastic - I love the book I made for my daughter for Christmas. Congrats on this project... awesome!
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This question is definitely off the subject, but is there anywhere for a person with no blogging experience to go to get the scoop on blogging so that they don't totally fall on their face? I would like to get some journals and bags up on ETSY and it sure seems that you need a personal blog to be able to link to get your name out. Sorry to throw this out to you, Ali, but I was in your class at CKU in Chicago a couple of years ago and I thought "if anyone knows, it will be ALI!" Thanks for any info you can relay.
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This is hella-sweet! Thanks so much for sharing!
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can imagine you're excited about this! It looks great!!!!
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Ali, this is amazing!! It was love at first sight!! :)
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WOW... just another amazing idea from Ali! Love it! :-)
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Ali,
I must say this is absolutely incredible!!!! You should be so proud. I think you hooked me...I'm gonna have to try it out. Thanks girl!!!
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What a family treasure!
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AWESOME idea! Way to go Ali! (Smart and very, very cool!)
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Congrats and you have done a wonderful job.
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Ali, thanks so much for the articles you wrote for Shutterfly! I esp. like the idea that imperfect photos can be used if that fits the right moment! =)
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I loved the articles. Somehow it makes me feel normal when it comes to my photography shortcomings. There is hope for the challenged picture taker. Thank you!
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this is so COOL!!! i would love to take the time to create my own album from scratch...but keep putting it off cuz I don't have the time to do it all prefectly. with this, I won't have to worry...drag and drop, and i know it looks great! i can move on to other projects without stressing over THIS one. thanks!
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I recently (before you had any option on Shutterfly) made my own all digi layouts hardbound book of a long weekend on the Olympic Peninsula via Shutterfly and I SO LOVE it!!!! Man... now I have to go and do ANOTHER one now that you have made it so easy!?!! So cool!
~Karrilee~
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