{"id":13730,"date":"2016-07-26T04:32:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T04:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ami.blogwrangler.net\/mixbookreview\/"},"modified":"2016-11-14T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:03:01","slug":"mixbookreview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allaboutami.com\/mixbookreview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixbook Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photography is a major part of our blog, and we love documenting our special occasions, travels, and experiences in general through photos! \u00a0I am so thankful that Ryan loves photography and he has such a great eye. \u00a0I enjoy looking through old photos of our trips to relive the experience, and sometimes I cannot believe how much the girls have grown when I look through their baby photos! \u00a0Pictured below is one of my all-time favourite travel photos from our very first trip to Maui- isn\u2019t this banyan tree stunning? \u00a0I felt like a little fairy sitting atop the branch of this magical tree!<\/p>\n

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When Mixbook<\/a><\/b> reached out to me and asked if I wanted to try some of their products, I thought it would be a great opportunity to finally print some of our photos. With the advent of digital photography, we actually rarely print out our photos now as we simply look at them through our computer and phones. \u00a0During the girls\u2019 first year of life, we took newborn and monthly photos to show their growth and how much development occurs over those first 12 months! \u00a0I was meaning to put together a baby book for each of them, but I never came around to doing it. \u00a0Thus, I decided to make a baby book for each of the girls through Mixbook, documenting their newborn stages to when they turned 1!<\/p>\n

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Mixbook <\/a><\/b>offers many themes for their photo books, including family, travel, wedding, year in review, and baby! \u00a0Within the baby theme, they had many beautiful templates available, and I decided to go with \u201cBaby Magazine<\/i><\/b>\u201d. \u00a0Once I decided upon my theme, it was very easy to put together my Mixbook. \u00a0 I simply uploaded all the photos I wanted to use and dragged them onto the pages. \u00a0Their interface is very user-friendly and straight-forward. \u00a0They offer a wide variety of layouts, backgrounds, and stickers, which makes formatting the books very easy!<\/p>\n

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You can include text, special quotes, and bible verses to really personalize your book!<\/p>\n

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The hardest part was actually organizing all my photos and deciding which ones to include. \u00a0In the end I had about 35 pages for each book! \u00a0After I previewed both books and was happy with the formatting, I placed my order and eagerly awaited their arrival in the mail. \u00a0Within less than a week, they printed my books and they arrived at our doorstep- I was delighted with how quickly they came! \u00a0Do you recognize which baby is which?<\/p>\n

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I went with their 8.5 x 8.5\u2033 Classic Square Photo Books. \u00a0This is Baby Myla!<\/p>\n

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And this is Baby Brielle wearing her Bear Pom Beanie<\/a><\/b> that I designed!<\/p>\n

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You can also include photos on the back covers as well! \u00a0Briellle is on the left with her crocheted lamb hat<\/a> (see HERE<\/a><\/i><\/b>) and Myla is on the right!<\/p>\n

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I was very impressed with the quality as soon as we took out both books and started flipping through the pages. \u00a0Our photo books are hardcover which makes them very durable, and the paper is very thick. \u00a0The photo quality is wonderful, and the layouts look so professional!<\/p>\n

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I love how I could include so many photos within each page spread. \u00a0This was Myla at 10 months!<\/p>\n

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Here is a sample from Brielle\u2019s book- our little cutie pie at 3 and 4 months old! \u00a0They\u2019ve grown sooo much!<\/p>\n

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In fact, you can see how much they\u2019ve grown below! \u00a0The girls wanted to join our morning photoshoot when they woke up, and we asked each of them to hold their own book! \u00a0Brielle was busy looking at herself wearing her lamb hat on the back cover \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I am delighted with Myla and Brielle\u2019s Baby Books, and we will treasure them for years to come! \u00a0I\u2019m so glad we finally have hard copies of all the beautiful photos that Ryan took of our girls during their first years!<\/p>\n

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I was given a $60 USD credit to try out the Mixbook<\/a><\/b> products. \u00a0I took advantage of a promotion that was going on at the time that I ordered, and this amount was actually able to cover both books plus shipping to Canada!\u00a0 Mixbook<\/a><\/b> has provided the code \u201cAMIMIX<\/b>\u201d to my readers so you can get 45% off all 12×12\u2033 and 14×11\u2033 photo books<\/b> (until July 29th). \u00a0They not only offer photo books, but also calendars, canvases, and cards (e.g. invitations, greeting cards, etc). \u00a0I would definitely recommend waiting to order your photo books until they have a promotion going on as they seem to happen pretty frequently! \u00a0If you can\u2019t take advantage of this coupon code, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll have another one soon!<\/p>\n

Note: Thank you to Mixbook for providing me credit to make these photobooks! \u00a0All opinions expressed are 100% my own!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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