Seasonal Scrapbooks

Easter is right around the corner and many parents (and Easter Bunnies too!) are preparing for this festive, colorful time of year. As part of an Easter basket for someone special in your life, why not give them something a bit more interesting than some chocolate eggs and instead gift them with a Bunny Photo Album?

Made from just a traditional, colorful Photo Album and filled with pictures of bunnies, this adorable and thoughtful Easter gift is sure to delight anyone, no matter what their age. Fill up the pages with photographs of a pet bunny, bunnies in nature (or at the zoo), and maybe even some great bunny facts! We bet that no one has ever received a creative, fun gift like this before for Easter.

Let StorePhotos.com get you started by providing you with a lovely Easter Album, ready for you to fill up with adorable snapshots of Peter Cottontail, Peter Rabbit, the Easter Bunny, and all of his friends.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Have you found the perfect gift for that special someone?

If not, StorePhotos.com wants to help you find or create the ideal gift for the loved ones in your life. This Valentine’s Day, step away from the traditional candy, flowers, and cards. Gift someone you love with something that really means something. Make up a romantic photo album! Romantic Photo Albums make for great gifts, especially when you have a ton of fantastic memories captured on film! Chart the growth and progression of your relationship by starting out in the beginning. Your first photo together would make for a great start. Or, if you want to be really creative, get some baby pictures and chart your relationship from infancy!

Be sure to write sweet notes and captions for your sweetie to read as they enjoy the sentimental gift!

The Holidays are now over. Your fridge is filled with leftovers, the wrapping paper that littered your house is all picked up, and you can finally breathe a sigh of relief that everything went off without a hitch. However, with the holidays ‘wrapping up’, there is a new project left that you must attend to – organizing all those holiday photos!

Don’t fret, this project can be done from the warm comfort of your own home, and doesn’t require you to venture into the centers of consumer madness that you’ve come to hate during these past few hectic weeks! All you need to do is gather all the Holiday pictures, find a cozy spot in your home to get settled, and get to work. Oh wait! You’re going to need Photo Albums, Scrapbooks and Scrapbooking Supplies as well. Here’s a short list of what could be useful when organizing your Holiday memories.

- First you have to find the right organizer. If you have a have a ton of photos, it may be easier to make a Photo Album than try to sort through which ones would be absolutely best for a Scrapbook. Organizing your pictures in a photo album instead of a scrapbook can still produce a uniquely beautiful story – it’s all about arrangement!

- If you go the route of a photo album, you’ll need to find the perfect one to fit your needs. If you want to make a traditional Photo Album with only pictures, you should choose one that will give you enough space to neatly organize your photos without being left with many empty picture sleeves. A little planning goes a long way toward a full and clean-looking album!

- If you’re planning to make a Scrapbook, you will be looking at a little more work, but a lot more room for creative input! Start by gathering as much holiday flare, ribbons, wrapping paper scraps, cards, etc, as possible and choose a layout that would best display your holiday photos. Each photo should have a theme all to itself. So if you have a picture of your child opening a gift, include on the page a piece of wrapping paper or bow from the gift in the photo. Do this with each page and your scrapbook will be a hit!

Now that you’ve finished this little project, you can kick back and relax. Until you begin New Year’s Eve preparations!

This year, you don’t have to dread the Secret Santa exchange at work. Here are a few ideas that can make gift giving at the office easy, inexpensive, and enjoyable this holiday season:

Everybody Loves A Treat

Put simply, who doesn’t love food? Cooking or baking something for your gift exchange could be the perfect way to solve your holiday giving woes. However, before you run off to the kitchen, make sure the person that you are giving to doesn’t have any specific food allergies. This may take some detective work, but in the end, it’ll be worth it. Don’t have any time to bake? Try getting them a gift basket or a restaurant gift certificate.

Make Those Memories Last

Photo Albums and picture frames make for fantastic gifts, especially for people who have children. This holiday season, try looking at StorePhotos.com for some great Secret Santa gifts that your co-workers will love. From photo storage boxes to scrapbooks and scrapbooking supplies, StorePhotos.com has everything you need to shop for someone who enjoys capturing his or her favorite memories.

Bring a Little Green to the Office

Small houseplants are an ideal choice for Secret Santa exchanges. Besides being an appealing gift, house plants also add to the overall beauty and décor of your office space – a welcome change during the barren, cold winter season. Try to choose hardy plants like cacti, rubber tree plants, or lucky bamboo stalks that don’t require a whole lot of care.

Winter photography can be incredibly beautiful, even when the weather outside is frightful. If you’re a photographer, or just someone who enjoys taking pictures now and then, consider cataloging your winter photography in a special Photo Album. Not only can this act as a portfolio of your work, it’s also a way for you to share your work with others. Here are a few tips on taking beautiful winter pictures:

Exposure

When doing an outdoor winter shot, your camera will tend to think that the scene is too bright, and may want you to adjust to exposure, which can make the snow seem grey or a different shade of white. Instead, try adjusting your F-stop and taking different shots. When you put them on your computer or take them to be printed, you can decide which stop works best with your camera for taking winter scenes. On my camera, I keep my F-stop for winter shots on a +1.

Keeping Warm

This may sound like a no-brainer, but it is important to keep warm while doing outdoor photography! In addition, make sure you bring a camera bag or other protective gear for your camera. This can prevent your camera or other equipment from getting wet as it snows.

Let There Be Life!

Batteries are the life support system of your camera. During cold weather, batteries will drain much more quickly, making for less camera time. Be sure to throw extra sets of batteries into your bag before heading out.

Be Creative

In all things, this is paramount. When taking winter photography, be creative! Use different angles or modes to capture various frames. Remember, it’s not so bad if you take 150 photos! Most professionals will take hundreds of shots only to keep a handful of exceptional ones. It’s all about trial and error. Take a chance and play around with different shots while you’re outside.

Christmas is a magical time of  year full of happy get-togethers set around a beautiful, snow-covered world!  This time of the year has a fantastic way of bringing people closer together, and can create tender moments that are worth remembering for a lifetime.  A way to  savor these moments forever is to organize them – in a Christmas scrapbook!

A Christmas scrapbook is a special kind of scrapbook that can employ the participation of the whole family in it’s compilation.  To start the scrapbook, you have to give the family a heads-up.   Tell each member to bring as many old holiday photos and cards as they can find to the next family function.  Sift through  the photos of past Christmases with your family – these photos can make up the first pages of your scrapbook!

After laying out the beginning of the scrapbook, be sure to take many photos throughout the Christmas season.  These photos will make up the bulk of your Christmas scrapbook.  Once the season is over, you can compile these photos, along with all the Christmas cards you receive, to fill the remaining pages.

Be sure to get a Large 12×15 Scrapbook so you have plenty of space to be creative.  Most of all, have fun with this by keeping the whole family in the creative process.  It’s not only a good way to remember the holidays, but it could really bring family and friends closer together during this magical time of the year.