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11 April 2024 / 3 min read
7 tips for photographing old photos
Transforming old photos into a photo book will bring your and your family’s old memories to life again.
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11 April 2024 / 3 min read
Step-by-Step guide to reviving old photos
Do you, or maybe your parents and grandparents, have stacks of old photos gathering dust? Transforming those cherished memories into a photo book will bring your old photos to life again – and it’s a very thoughtful gift for your loved ones.
Inspiration
9 April 2024 / 4 min read
The art of food photography
In an apartment with paintings covering the walls, flowers in every corner, and a ceiling resembling a pink summer night sky, we find Therese Elgquist. With her, we discuss the art of capturing food in photographs, covering everything from sunlight and depth of field to the number of raspberries on a dessert.
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8 April 2024 / 2 min read
Make a thoughtful gift for Mom and Grandma
Showing your gratitude for the incredible women in your life is best done with a heartfelt gift made with love. A Mother's Day photo book is the perfect way to show your partner, mom, or grandma how much they mean to you. Here are some helpful tips to make a photo book for Mom:
27 March 2024
Make the perfect gift for Dad
There’s no better way to tell your partner how much you and your kids love them (and appreciate all those little things they do) than by showing it in a book you’ve made with love. A Father’s Day photo book is the perfect gift for your partner, dad, or grandpa.
25 March 2024
Make your own recipe book
Sharing and enjoying food together have a way of uniting us. Whether it’s your grandma’s favorite dish or a friend’s everyday breakfast bowl, adding those recipes into your own cookbook will connect you through generations and kitchens.
Inspiration
22 March 2024
How to make a photo wall
Are you looking for a simple (and very affordable!) way to display your favorite photos in your home? We’ve got a quick and fun project for you – a photo wall of prints. There are so many ways to make a photo wall, so we've gathered some tips to inspire you.
Inspiration
22 March 2024
12 ways to decorate your home with prints
Pimp your wall with some printed photos. Here are 12 ways you can display your favorite memories on your wall and make your home even more homey.
Inspiration
21 March 2024 / 3 min read
At home with Sarah Jane Gottschalk
In the cozy Kreuzberg district in Berlin we met up with Sarah Gottschalk in her cozy apartment to chat about how to make your personality shine through in your home, memories on printed photos, vacations that never happen and as they say in German - Dekofimmel.
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21 March 2024
Strengthen relationships with photo prints
When we look at photos of the memories we’ve shared together, we strengthen our relationship with one another. It’s not really about the photos themselves – it’s about the stories they tell and the emotions they stir.
Inspiration
31 January 2022
Make your photo book bit by bit
Even though it is very easy, and honestly, pretty fun to make photo books in our app (if we may say so ourselves), it still takes time. Simply because there’s typically not just ten photos to look through. More like ten thousand. But you know what? You can get around this way easier than you think – by making your photo books bit by bit.
Inspiration
24 September 2021
Turn your kid's art to a photo book
Who actually keeps all 762398 drawings that your kids make? Anyone? Well, here’s how you make your kid’s artwork into a coffee table book:
Inspiration
12 January 2024 / 3 min read
Four ways to make a year book
There’s not a lot of things that we buy that last a lifetime. We have a tendency to get bored with most things, but memories, on the other hand, become more and more precious as time goes on. So help yourself remember to remember by creating your very own collection of memories.
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9 January 2024 / 1 min read
Five reasons why you should make a year book
2023 is coming to an end and it’s time to take a moment and think about your year. Maybe all your dreams came true this year, or maybe they didn’t at all...
Inspiration
5 January 2024 / 2 min read
How to make a year book
There’s something special about collecting your favorite moments in a yearly photo book. Because just like that, all your photos come to life and the memories they hold will live on in that book. Forever. Pretty awesome, right? So, it’s about time to start your very own collection of memories with these five tips on how to get started.
Inspiration
6 November 2023 / 2 min read
10 photo book gift ideas
Scroll down for ten photo books that'll win you every gift-giving award this year.
Inspiration
9 November 2023 / 1 min read
Prints as Christmas cards
Looking for an alternative to the traditional Christmas card? Say hello to our photo prints. The perfect way to get a little more personal this holiday season and create something that your loved ones will want to keep forever.
Inspiration
6 November 2022
Make, copy, paste, repeat
We’ve said it before – and you’ll hear us say it again – there’s no gift like a photo book. So why not give it to the whole fam or the entire friend group? It can honestly be as easy as make-copy-paste-repeat. Here's how!
Inspiration
12 October 2021 / 3 min read
5 useful tips for the perfect Father’s Day gift
...and let me tell you, this is gonna go straight to the dad-heart. Because that’s the type of gift a photo book is. Though we might be a teeny-tiny bit biased, there’s honestly no better way to tell your dad or partner how much you and your kids love them (and appreciate all those little things they do) than by showing it in a book you made with love.
Inspiration
13 March 2024
Three Mother’s Day book ideas
All moms out there deserve the best. And they deserve it all year round, of course. But on Mother’s Day, you get a little reminder to recognize all the little (and ginormous) things they do. So whether this makes you think about your own mom, your partner, sister, friend, or grandma, here are some Mother’s Day photo book tips you can use.
Inspiration
13 October 2022 / 1 min read
Three ways to make a recipe book
There are plenty of ways to make a recipe book. And we mean plenty. You probably have recipes saved on print screens on your phone, jotted down on a notepad somewhere, recipes saved on your computer or ripped out from a magazine? Here’s three easy ways to make your own cookbook from all those scattered recipes.
Inspiration
16 May 2022
Make a personalized travel book
When we found @lou__lundberg on Instagram we instantly loved her techy tips, tutorials and lifehacks. Louise is a digital designer who runs her own business and when we realized she’d made a Once Upon book, we asked her right away if she would share some of her tips with our Once Uponers.
Inspiration
26 June 2022 / 1 min read
Three ways to “my baby’s first year” book
Obviously there are a lot of ways to make your baby’s first year-book. It all depends on the amount of time you have.
Inspiration
22 June 2020
Baby book questions
Sometimes getting started is the hardest part. But making a “my first year book” for your baby can actually be quite fun. To help you out a little we’ve created this list of things to write about and photo tips to make it a little easier.
Inspiration
6 September 2022
Sweet summer memories
Beach days, barbecues, flowers, freckles and ice creams and much, much more that all deserve more than being forgotten on your phone or in your camera. Time to get cracking on your Summer of 22' photo books to make sure all your sweet summer memories aren’t forgotten.
19 June 2023 / 3 min read
Create balance in your photography
A lot of us want to capture memories from when life is at its best. Imagine your camera roll after a wedding, graduation or vacay. Pretty much to choose from, eh? Exactly as it should be!
Inspiration
25 October 2022 / 3 min read
Ylva's Story
It was February, freezing cold and dark outside the first time Ylva felt that little lump in her right breast. She was only 43 years old and could never have imagined that the tiny lump a few months later would turn her life upside down. Read Ylva’s story about her cancer and how it helped her to share it with others.
Real life stories
1 November 2022
Personalized gifts for everyone
We might be a teeny tiny bit biased, but let’s be clear, there’s no gift like a photo book when you want to give away all the feels. So, here’s how you turn your photos to perfect gifts for all your loved ones.
Inspiration
22 May 2022
A football book for the ages
Say hello to ten year old football lovers Tuva and Alice. Their photo book passion project completely knocked our socks off.
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