Alternative Gifting: The Insta-Scrapbook
by Marisa
I'll admit it: I used to be a hardcore scrapper. And there's something pretty fantastic about gifting your loved one with painstakingly crafted pages of photographs, notes, and other mementos, whether of trips taken, or lives lead. But in this frenzied season of holiday parties and seemingly endless shopping, who has time for hours of cropping, matting, and assembling? Enter: the online scrapbook.
Sites like Snapfish.com allow you to upload your photos (including scanned images of notes and other non-photographic mementos) to create highly personalized albums in a range of sizes, covers, and backgrounds. Enter your captions - including full pages of text, should you choose - adjust the font to your taste, and voila! You have a fully bound and assembled scrapbook in a fraction of the traditional time. Even better? Snapfish's classic 8x11 inch hardcover album begins at just $20 for 20 pages and is currently available at a 50% discount. Sentimentality, affordability, creativity... This is a gifting trend we can all get behind.
