Christmas with Snapfish

Snapfish are one of my go to brands for personalised photo items and so when asked if I would like to work with them this Christmas to showcase there photo cards and gift ideas I knew I had to be involved. 

This Christmas why not send out personalised Christmas cards with a photo of you and your family. Here are some tips on how to get the perfect photo. 

1. Get an extra pair of hands

Grab a friend, neighbor or other family member to take the photo for you

2. Lighting

Natural light is your best friend so if indoors set up near a window to get the most of the winter sunshine. 

3. Look the part

You can if you choose to wear Christmas jumpers, Santa hats, etc to give your photo a festive look. 

4. Prop it up

Jazz up your photos with props such as Christmas tree in the background or tinsel, baubles etc.

5. Pets complete the family

so if possible it would be worth including them 

6. Rewards

AKA bribery this is easiest way to keep children and pets interested. 

Onto the cards there are so many different styles and designs to choose from. I chose to go with the very festive Santa in his sleigh, with Merry Christmas above in white font,  a blue background and stars. The photo I picked out was one of the 3 of us taken earlier in the year as we don't have that many family photos. 

You can choose the 8 x 4" cards on different paper such as stationery card and flat lay in glossy or matt. They come in packs starting at 20 up to a pack of 500 cards. Prices vary depending on the style that you choose to go for and how many cards you would like. 

The other item I went for is the 6x4 table top acrylic photo print which was £9.99 each and I got 2 as gifts. I again chose the same family photo of the 3 of us taken earlier in the year. 

The photo is mounted behind a 0.2" acrylic plate and includes a desk stand so is perfect on desks, tables and mantelpieces.

As usual the photos have come out in great quality and are perfect card and gift ideas for the festive season. 

Fathers Day Gifts with Snapfish

Snapfish recently contacted me to ask if I wanted to review some items for Fathers Day (19th June) as I love personalised Items I had to say yes. 

Next was the hard decision of what to choose as they have such a varied selection of items.

I chose to get some prints that we could frame, some personalsied cards and x6 photo coasters. 

Now one of the issues I have constantly with Snapfish is all my photos coming up as low resolution so I felt restricted on what items to choose as I didn't want them to come out blurry. I don't know if anyone else has had this issue at all? I use photos from my camera which is why it confuses me as could understand with photos taken from a mobile phone.

So the prints we chose were a selection of me with Blake, Stuart with Blake and Blake with his Grandad and the three of us as a family. We went for the 7x5 matt prints which are 19p each. Even though the website was saying that the photos were low quality I still feel that they came out well. We currently have one of the 3 of us in a frame on the mantle piece. 

We are also going to get some frames for the others and have 3 hanging up around the home and the one of Blake with his Grandad is going to be a gift for my Father in law. 

Next up are some personalised Fathers Day cards for both Stuart and my Father in law. 

They are of excellent quality and the photos have come out well. Cards on Snapfish start at 75p which is a great price for personalised, high quality cards. I know that both Stuart and my Father in law are going to love them. 

Last of all is the set of 6 personalised coasters for £12.99 They are 4x4 in size and are also excellent quality like the other items. One thing that surpirsed me was that the photo I used was taken on my mobile and came out fine but images coming from my camera came up as low quality when trying to order. I do love this photo of Blake though playing at the park and love the blue skys in the background. One thing I would have liked with the coasters would be that it would be nice to have an option of not just one photo for all 6 coasters but being able to select up to 6 photos to include on them.

Have you purchased anything from Snapfish recently? 

Personalised Valentines Gift with Snapfish

With it being Valentines Day this Sunday a great present idea for both the man or women in your life 

is something personalised. 

I love personalised items as it feels like someone has gone and made that bit of an extra effort for your gift. 

Snapfish got in contact with me and asked if I would like to share with my readers a photo gift. 

I decided that I would pick one of their photo books as I felt it would make a perfect gift for my husband. 

The photo book I went for was their popular 11x8 hardback book. 

I like to take photos on a daily basis and as they are special and important why not add 

them to personalised items such as photo books, mugs, keyrings, coasters etc. 

The website is very easy to use and there are a wide range of books you can choose from in different sizes and cover types.  You can also personalise  the theme of the book so that the inside of it can be whatever design and pattern you would like as there is very large selection to choose from. 

You then go on to adding your photos to your book. 

The only issue I had was that quite a few photos of mine kept coming up 

as low resolution even though they were taken from my digital camera.

In the photo book as I am giving it as a gift to Stuart I chose to include photos of us as a couple,

some photos of me, Blake and as a family. 

The book arrived in under a week and is of excellent quality. 

The pages inside are of high quality and the photos look amazing. 

I am very happy of my experience with Snapfish and will definitely be using them again the future for personalised photo gifts.