5 Second DIY Photobook Last-Minute Christmas Gift

The holiday season is approaching, and you are ready! You prepared everything in advance... you started buying gifts in October (or earlier, like me!) and you have a list of guests that you checked twice. But the end of December rolls around and, suddenly, it is Christmas Eve and you realize you forgot someone! Or your cousin who originally said they could not make it, texts you to tell you they will be there. Oy vey!

No need to fret - if you have Pinchbooks, you have a great solution for a last-minute Christmas gift. With these hard cover photo albums, you can bind personalized DIY photobooks in 5 seconds flat, and with no machine or tools of any kind. Seriously! Here is how easy they are to use:

    1. Open your Pinchbook photo book so the spine expands.
    2. Insert your photos into the spine.
    3. Close the covers...and your're done!

It is really that simple! Gosh I love these things!

Ready to buy? Click here to choose your photobook color and size.

Ok, so you know how to get your photos printed...choose a 1-hour photo store, or print them from your home computer with some photo paper. My preference it to have them printed professionally because the quality is so much higher than my home printer. But if they are closed for the holidays, you may just need to print them at home. So let's not waste any time -- I make the photo printing the first thing I do by uploading my photos from Facebook onto my photo store of choice, and send them the order for 1 hour pickup. While I wait, I continue cleaning and decorating the house for our guests, so there is no wasted time. Then I pickup my photos, use my little trimmer, if needed, and stick them into Pinchbook hard covers using the 3 steps above and, vualá, I have a gorgeous photobook gift!

The best thing about them? They don't look like they were a last-minute gift! For one thing, a photo gift in general always looks like it took time, thought, and heart. Plus, the albums are made of a really strong hard cover that is wrapped in a pretty linen textured cloth (faux leather is also available). They actually look expensive! But thankfully for my wallet that is already above budget, they are a very cheap photo gift! They start at only about $14 for a box, and the box quantity has either 5 or 10 books, depending on the size. Normally I would only want to buy 1 for that 1 last-minute gift, but they are so simple and pretty (and inexpensive), that I don't mind having a few extras for future gifts (or to hoard for myself, lol).

Here is a video of the photobooks that I used for Christmas gifts for our family 2017 Christmas gathering.

And that's it! So easy, right?! You are left with a gorgeous personalized photo gift. And no one will ever know how fast and easy this gift was! Muahaha!

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P.S. Just in case you were wondering; the puppy from the photo book is named Griffin ☺


Mallory Morsa, Binding101 Product Expert About the Author • Mallory Morsa is the product expert and content specialist at Binding101, and has been a valued team member since 2008. She started her career here in customer service, moved onto sales supervisor, product management, and then onto content. She takes a hands-on approach to products, and truly gets to know how every item works before she writes about them, with a goal to give you all of the honest information you need to make a confident buying decision. She has a bachelor's degree with a focus on management and marketing, and has been a writer, photographer, and videographer for many years. In her free time, she loves to read by the pool, volunteer at the local animal shelter in the kitten nursery, and snuggle her three furbabies while she binge watches Netflix.


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