Years back, when I had my first son, I decided to try Scrapbooking.  I bought every decorative sticker, border and paper I could find and paid a fortune printing out all the digital photos I took.  As my newborn got older, I had less time to scrapbook and by baby number two, I was done completely.

I hated the fact that I didn’t have the drive to create scrapbooks, because I always found them to be a wonderful gift to my parents around the holidays.

Then I found Scrapblog.

Scrapblog is free and signup is quick and easy. Creating an account grants you access to a ton of cool features!

• Save, publish, and share your scrapblogs
• Leave comments on other’s scrablogs
• Create your own personal profile to display all your creations
• Bookmark your favorite scrapblogs and view them at any time
• Add other scrapbloggers to your friends list and find them easily

After registering with the site, I managed to make a great Scrapblog Photo Book in just minutes.  It’s literally all done in three easy steps.   After registering, I clicked on the “Start Creating” button and was taken to the area where your Scrapblog book can be created.  You have a few choices, you can start with a blank page and Build your own scrapblog from the ground up, start with a theme that is predesigned scrapblogs from our designers or use the option I went for and select to stat with Quick Mixx, which allows you to pick a kit and add your photos and Quick Mixx will layout all the pages for you.

If you choose the Quick Mixx option, Scrapblog will give you 150 credits to use to customize your creation with other stickers, frames and backgrounds.

The great this about using Quick Mixx is the photo upload feature.  Scrapbook quickly uploads your pictures in a variety of ways.  I took a screen shot of how it’s done -

After the photos are uploaded, Quick Mixx will put the scrapbook together for you!  You can then go through each page, adding captions, frames or pictures as desired.  Once you have your Scrapblog make, you can save it online and share it with the community or choose to print them off your computer or even order books, cards and calendars at very reasonable prices.  In my opinion, it’s WAY cheaper than creating a scrapbook from scratch.  Right now, Scrapblogs has a limited time offer: 25% off all print purchases! Enter HOLIDAY25 at checkout!

Because I’d prefer to keep the Scrapblog I just created private (I have some family that wouldn’t like to be online), I’m going to show you an example from the “explore” section of the Scrapblog website-

Scrapblogs also wants to give one of my absolutely fantastic readers their own 12 x 8 Keepsake book, a $35 value!  Because it’s so close to Christmas, this is going to be a short giveaway so tell all your friends!  Once a winner is chosen, you’ll get your promo code emailed to you right away and please review the Holiday shipping deadlines below so you have your book created in time if you’d like to give it as a gift to someone else.

If you would like a chances to win, you can do any or all of the ways to enter listed below and each comment left counts as one entry, so be sure to leave separate comments for each action taken! The winner will be chosen from a random comment left on this post using Random.org. This giveaway ends Weds., December 16, 2009 at 6:00 PM EST. Winner will be notified on this site and by email immediately.  I will then supply you with a code to claim your prize so you can make a Keepsake Book for yourself or a family member and receive it in time for Christmas!  For a full complete of rules, read this. Good luck! Only relevant comments will be approved.

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• Visit Scrapblog.Com and Register
• Tweet about this giveaway (include @Scrapblog in the tweet & leave me a comment
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• Blog about this giveaway and then leave a comment here with your link to your blog post.
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