Are your favourite memories stuck on your phone? Here’s how you can turn your digital photos into 4 different beautiful, tangible keepsakes you and your family can enjoy every day.
#1 GREETING CARDS
– Giving out annual Christmas and Holiday cards is a great way of keeping in touch with friends and family and showing them you care. I love receiving these cards as much as I love gifting them! These double sided cards are printed on thick card stock paper and can be custom designed with a greeting or caption. To get access to your own online card editor and order gallery, please contact me.
#2 LAY FLAT PHOTO BOOKS
– Make a family photo album! I print my family photos once a year in a photo book I design and print at PosterJack. I include my family photos that were professionally taken but also my iPhone photos that I take throughout the year. You can upload your photos to https://posterjack.ca/products/layflat-photo-books?snowball=GABRIELLE68191 and start your album design right away.
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#3 TRADITIONAL PHOTO ALBUMS
– If you love printing photos a bit at a time throughout the year, traditional photo albums with 4×6 clear sleeves on each page are a good fit for you. This flexible way of displaying your photos allows you to slowly fill an album over the course of a year. Print a handful of photos at a time, and fill the album as you go. I recommend Photo Central in Winnipeg or London Drugs for low-cost/high-quality 4×6 prints. Just upload your high-res jpgs to their website and pick up your prints in store.
#4 FRAMED PHOTOS FOR YOUR WALLS
– Print and frame your photos. There’s always that one stunning photo from a photo shoot that you know is “the one”. Decide which size you’d like and have it printed and framed to hang on your wall at home. Again, PosterJack is a great place for ready-to-hang prints. Framed products from PosterJack are found in their Shop > Wall Art section: Framed Prints and Gallery Boxes are my favourites!
If you’re looking for something a bit more fun, Peel & Stick prints in their Photo Prints section are awesome. What’s a Peel & Stick? The name says it all.
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Why I love Posterjack so much:
√ high quality products
√ Canadian company
√ Fast turn around time
√ $10 flat shipping fee, no matter how big your order is
√ convenient ready-to-display products. No more buying frames from IKEA and fiddling with the DIY framing process (which I hate with a passion!)
Why I’m an affiliate partner with them:
I was printing so much from them and recommending them to all my friends, family and clients… when it dawned on me: I should get an affiliate link!
So in case you’re wondering – they didn’t approach me to give me free products in exchange for being their promoter. Years ago, I found them myself first, fell in love with their products, and naturally started promoting them to everyone I knew!
At first they had quality issues (10 years ago). A few times I had to ask them to re-print their errors, which they did for free. For a while I was not recommending them to clients. But after some time, I noticed their products were being consistently delivered beautifully and with zero flaws. That’s when I started recommending them to my clients.
They have been a trusted printer for me ever since.
HAVE A PRINTING PLAN
So if you’re like me, and you don’t like that your digital photos just sit on the computer for years and years, make sure to have a printing plan. Hopefully the print recommendations above will give you the motivation to start printing your photos more regularly.
If the task feels huge and overwhelming or if you’re behind in years of unprinted photos, don’t worry about it.
Start small.
Start by printing one photo album or even just one framed print. Go through your photos from the last 12 months.
Print just one thing to start.
The excitement of receiving that first physical print will feel like a small win. I promise!
And small wins will motivate you to keep going, and print even more.
I wrote an article detailing my iPhone photography organizing and printing process.
You’ll learn how I stay on top of my photos, how I make sure to print a family photo book once a year, and how to store your digital photos so you never lose them.
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I hope this has inspired you to bring your memories to life—because there’s nothing quite like holding a beautiful photo in your hands. It’s a feeling no screen can ever replace!
