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Old 03-07-2019, 11:00 PM
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OK, so first off... I have a confession: I have been digiscrapping for like 12 years and apart from a calendar that I gave as a gift like 10 years ago, I've never actually printed any of my pages (ACK, I KNOW!)

In 2009 I finished a family vacation album that I never got around to printing. Years later, new and fabulous products came out (thanks SSD!!) that better fit the theme of my album, so I decided to re-scrap the whole thing! Well, I finally finished and this time I was determined not to let it sit dormant on my hard drive for another 10 years.

Our budget is so tight, but I found a Groupon for Printerpix: 2 11x11 albums for $11 (plus shipping). I had never heard of the company, but I took the plunge anyway ($5.50 per album y'all!!)

The albums came to day and I am sooooo excited you guuuuys! Some of the photos are a little blah, but I'm sure there's a learning curve with this sort of thing. Overall I am SO HAPPY with the way they turned out! I'm definitely not waiting another 10 years to print my pages.

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Old 03-07-2019, 11:12 PM
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WOW Karli-Marie! Those books look awesome! Yay for your photobooks!
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Old 03-07-2019, 11:18 PM
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yay for you - that's how excited i was when i printed my first book - best feeling ever!!
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Old 03-08-2019, 12:42 AM
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Yay! The pages look great! I love the feeling of having my layouts in my hand, especially the satisfaction of a complete album.
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Old 03-08-2019, 12:49 AM
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Your pages look wonderful!!! I have yet to print a book...I print individual pages....but like you I am going to print a book one day LOL
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Old 03-08-2019, 12:52 AM
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They look great! The price you paid is phenomenal!
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Old 03-08-2019, 03:44 AM
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Oh this is perfect! What a beautiful album. Congratulations!
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Old 03-08-2019, 07:27 AM
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Well done to you! Seeing layouts printed in a book is what inspires me to keep creating
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Old 03-08-2019, 08:54 AM
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Wow! These are amazing and so beautiful! Makes me want to go print off my own long awaited albums. Haha. Great work!
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Old 03-08-2019, 09:12 AM
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Yay! So great!
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Old 03-08-2019, 09:30 AM
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Yay you, they look fabulous!
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Old 03-08-2019, 09:32 AM
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Yay! Sounds like you found a great deal!! Scrapping the pages is the easy part, printing them is the hard part! Glad you are making progress and I hope it continues!
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Old 03-08-2019, 10:11 AM
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What a treasure!
I have printed loose pages to add to an album before, but I hadn't printed a book until my 2018 project life...and now it feels like an addiction! I can't wait to print another one!
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Old 03-08-2019, 10:11 AM
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Looks fantastic! Since I don't scrap chronologically, the only thing I print now is vacation albums. Enjoy looking at your album!
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Old 03-08-2019, 10:50 AM
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Wow!! This is awesome, Karli-Marie!!!! It must feel amazing to be able to see all your hard work printed.
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Old 03-08-2019, 12:13 PM
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WOW, amazing deal! So glad you printed your books - they look amazing. It makes it all worthwhile! And sometimes we have to save the memory, bad photos and all!
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Old 03-08-2019, 12:43 PM
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Wow! your book looks awesome! Did you post your layouts in the gallery? I'm curious to know which templates/kits you have used.
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Old 03-08-2019, 03:01 PM
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SO awesome! There is nothing like having those books in your hand!!! Beautiful!
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Old 03-08-2019, 03:08 PM
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Thanks everyone! Now to show the family!!!

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Wow! your book looks awesome! Did you post your layouts in the gallery? I'm curious to know which templates/kits you have used.
I only have a handful of the layouts posted in the gallery, mostly out of laziness

Here are the few I have:












I used Cindy's travel album as the base for most of the pages, though I am notorious for modifying templates to fit my needs.



And her Florida templates for the cover and first page:


As for the kits, some of them are "Believe in Magic" kits by Flergs and Amber Shaw, which have since been retired Though, Flergs has revived some of the kits in her "Remember the Magic" series.

Off the top of my head I used: Believe in Magic: Florida Magic, Believe in Magic Worlds: Morocco, Believe in Magic: Sungdown Spectacular, and Believe in Magic: Birthday Boy which I don't think have been re-introduced yet...

Here are a couple of other kits I used that have been re-released as Remember the Magic kits:




And a few of the other kits I used:











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Beautiful books and a fantastic deal! Enjoy them.
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Old 03-08-2019, 09:45 PM
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yay! big congrats!! So cool to see your work in albums huh?
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Yay! That is awesome KM! Love your albums and pages! Are you pretty happy with the quality? That's a smokin' deal!
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Old 03-09-2019, 08:41 AM
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That is so awesome. I'm glad you finally printed albums, there's nothing like holding them.
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