Hi Moms!
My husband wrote a story for my son when he was only a year or so old. i just unearthed it recently and thought it would be a neat idea to have my son, now 9 and who loves to draw, illustrate the story as a fathers day gift, maybe next year. However, i would like to get to made into a real book. i've seen how snapfish can make photo books, but i didn't know if anyone knew where I could get something like this done?!
Thanks a ton!
The Gilded Leaf Bindery is amazing. You can google them.
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The Gilded Leaf Bindery is amazing. You can google them to find their info.
Check someplace like Michael's or Hobby Lobby. They might have some kits or tell you where to go. What a neat idea !
You could take your son's drawings, scan them or take digital photos of them, and make a book thru snapfish or shutterfly as if they were photos.
You can do really neat books with heritage makers. If you are interested check out my website. www.heritagemakers.com/375779. You can personalize them great.
SmileBooks is another photo book source that I LOVE. It's not cheap, but the best thing about it is that it is 100% customizable (and I mean that!), unlike Snapfish and Shutterfly, who give you limited layouts that you put your pics and captions into. With SmileBooks, you can put the captions (your husband's story) anywhere on the page you like, any color, any font, etc. and you can make your pictures (your son's drawn pictures scanned into jpgs) any size, any rotation, even a two page spread etc. Check them out! I'd say that's a great option for a personalized story book. Remember, you don't have to use "photos" to make books with any of these sites really- and that's exactly your case anyway. And if you sign up for SmileBooks emails, they always have deals going on. I make the book I have in mind and then I just wait for the best deal...which you can do if you're planning this for next year. Have fun. What a neat idea!
You can order a book making kit, but you have to send away to receive the finished product so it might not return it time. But it is really cute and comes out wonderfully.
You can do it on Snapfish or Shutterfly. If you go into their photo book options, they do have options to make text only pages. You may have to play around a bit, but it will work. I think it would be cheaper and easier than any kit you can find! Good luck!
We do this for school projects!!! (Making DK Eyewitness -TYPE of books for unit projects)
What we do is to have the kids' pictures scanned into the computer, laid out in a word processing or photo editor with all of the text (I use Mac Pages, but have also done it with Photoshop Elements)... and then -to date- I take it to our local kinkos type copy place on a flash drive to get them hard bound. I'm looking for an online source that would cost less, because even with the massive education discount we get, they're still about $50 per book.
<grinning> So there's one avenue for you, but I'm hoping you'll get a less expensive option on here I can co-opt.
