Random Giveaway — Five Blurb Books
My oh my. It is so time for a Giveaway! Remember those Blurb books I posted about last month? From the company that offers the option of "slurping" a blog? The ones that everyone seems to love so much? Well how about if five of you get to make your own Blurb book for free dollars and fifty free cents? Nice, right?
Blurb books are easy to make. High-quality. And have a fast turnaround. Basically, you upload the pretty pictures and the pretty words and you'll receive a polished book that looks like it came from your favorite publisher. Square, portrait and landscape options. Up to 440 pages. Softcover or hardcover. Starting at $12.95. You have total creative control.
What kind of book will you make? Baby's first year. An album of 2007. A collection of Grandma's favorite recipes. A record of your blog. Something for your Mom (Mother's Day is coming quickly.) The sky's the limit — and you can find inspiration and book ideas here. Think the book you made is especially amazing? You can even promote and sell copies of it on the Blurb website.
Oh. I love this Giveaway. I'm imagining five of you receiving your finished book in the mail and grinning with delight, then showing it to your family, and getting a big pat on the back for having made something so lovely. I think I'll spend the afternoon daydreaming about the books I could make — feel free to join me.
[ Edit: I should mention the details. The five winners will receive a code allowing them $29.95 credit for a free book, or toward a book valued at more than $29.95. Happy commenting!]
Thanks, Blurb!
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Random Giveaway Guidelines:
-You have until midnight PST on Sunday, March 30th to enter this giveaway.
-Just make a comment ON THIS POST to enter — any comment.
-Anonymous comments will be ignored/removed.
-One entry per person, please.
-The winner will be randomly picked and announced Monday morning.
-What are Random Giveaways? Read about them here.
Labels: giveaways, make something
posted by Design Mom at Thursday, March 27, 2008
1060 Comments:
I'm first pick me!!
Perfect timing, I'm dying to make a book all about our little boy's 1st year of life- he'll be one next month!
I would make a book to promote my business. I would love this!
Love it! I'd love to put all of these photos wasting away on my hard drive to good use!
Come on, lucky #3!
Please, please, please!! Pick me!!
I've started a book and plan on doing all my books through them, they are the best. I'd love to win some free.
I would love this!
These would be prefect gifts for friends and family, please pick me!
How cool! Please pick me!
those books are awesome, i hope i win
I'm in the middle of laying out my blog book. winning would be perfect timing!
Oh, how I'd love to win this! I keep meaning to do a blurb book, but it would cost an arm and a leg to do my whole blog! This would be a great start!
I love these! I've been telling my fellow bloggers about them since I first discovered them from your site!
Oh how exciting! I just had my 1 year Blogiversary and I'd love to make a book to commemorate the first year! :)
oooh, no more excuses for never doing anything with our wedding photos!
Hoping to be picked so I can make one for my Mom!
Oh how exciting! I just had my 1 year Blogiversary and I'd love to make a book to commemorate the first year! :)
Please, "book" me as I have so much to "blurb" about!
Love this!
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 !!
Patricia
This is the best giveaway yet and I would be honored to create a book for my loved ones.
oooh! i have been toying with the idea of slurping our adoption blog into a bound book for our daughter to read when she's older. i hope i win! :)
Oh, I'd be thrilled to win this! I want to have my whole blog in a book someday!
Steph
We really want to make our blog into a book! What a great way to keep the memories and pass them onto family. Please pick me!!!
thanks blurb & design mom! this would be awesome.
Oh I have so been wanting one of these!
I would love, love to win the chance to make a keepsake book of my blog.
I'd love this!
Oh, I need this. I owe my parents and in-laws some wedding pictures (we did a destination wedding, just the two of us). We blogged about our weddingmoon and so it would be easy to turn our posts and pictures into a special keepsake for our loved ones. What a great idea and a great contest. Thanks!
I've been wanting to do a blog book for a long time. What a great excuse!
I've always wanted to create a "blurb" book. Perhaps a free book will be the push I need to get started. Pick me!
I was just thinking I'd really like to do this--and here it is! Thanks!
Oh, I've been wanting to slurp my blog for the longest time!
Wow! I love the name "blurb." I could say it all day. I would love to make one of these for my husband for Father's Day. Thank you!
Mary
sendallemailstome@yahoo.com
I have used them before and love them. I still have to do more books to finish my blog... so count me in.
I would love a book!
It would be so much fun to make a book of pictures of my two daughters that I have lying around.
I want this!!
This would be awesome for my niece who wrote a book about her favorite cat (born on her birthday a few years back) who was murdered by a cougar last month. (true story)
Her birthday is in April! It would be a wonderful gift.
I love making albums! Please, pick me! Faye
Fayerimalovski@optonline.net
Yes please - this is a great giveaway! (please forgive me if this posts twice)
I've been meaning to do this for months. This would be a great modivator!
Perfect timing...I am half way done with my book. Now I just need to finish!
Since I'm scrapbooking challenged, this would be perfect for me.
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!!!!!
I love this idea!!! I have pictures galore of my 14 year old that I want to put in a book like this!
AHH! I would LOVE this! I've been thinking about doing this forever....
I hope I win!
Please choose me! I've been working on one for my honey for a wedding gift. It has all the photos and ticket stubs, etc. from our courtship. :)
i would love my blog to be slurped up into something pretty for our bookshelf!
What a super duper giveaway!
Anniversary is coming up and what a way to express our love.
Oh blurb! I would love this!!!
I love these books. I have never made one, but would love to! I hope I hope I hope.
I've been working on a book since I read about them on your site! I would love to get it for free!
I just found your blog about a week ago and am addicted. Thanks for so many fabulous ideas. And here's hoping I'm a randomly chosen winner :)
How badly I've been meaning to make one of these books and this would be the perfect excuse!!
Wow, what an awesome giveaway! I love photography and writing, so it'd be awesome to win this!
Thanks Blurb! Sign me up.
I would love to win this. I host a photo blog and have been researching self publishing. Would love to make a book of my favorite pics. Blurb and lulu have been at the top of my list.
I love these!
oh please please please pick me?? I'll have been married 4 years in may and we still don't have a wedding album!
So lovely. We could finally do a real wedding album! Or baby book. Hard to choose...
Making one of these would make me feel much better about not scrapbooking in the past year!
I have a 2 poopy diapers to change, do i qualify? :o)
I love this.
This is fun. Thanks.
oh how i would love to win this one! pretty please with a cherry on top.
OK, I've really wanted to win other Design Mom Giveaways, but I'm DYING to win this one!
Please, oh please, oh please pick me!
I've been wanting to do one of these!! I hope I win!
Sweet giveaway! I'm keeping my fingers crossed...
I was planning to slurp my blog into a blurb book as a gift for my mom. Hopefully I won't have to pay for it!!
Oh my goodness - I would LOVE to win one of these books!! :o)
Oh I am thrilled about this one! Hope it's me!
oooh, please pick me! I have been wanting to make a cookbook of my favorite recipes!
I've been using Blurb to make books since they were in the beta stage. I love them and I love watching them grow! It would be awesome to win a free book!!
Suh-weeeeeeeeeeet!
i LOVE blurb! i have a few books in the making... just waiting to be finished + purchased. would love to win! :D
I've been wanting one of these books for a while. They're gorgeous!
ooh, pick me..pretty please! :-)
Oh, I've been drooling over these books ever since your first post! I want to finish my baby's first year book! Pick me!
I have been working on putting a book together for months. I would love to win this!
Ohhh, I got married a few months ago and have been looking for the perfect way to preserve my wedding pictures. This would be so fabulous. Love love love your blog, btw.
I have been wanting one of these for quite a while, but I keep putting it off, but a free one, that would get me to do it!
yes, please. I want to do one for my pottery blog every year and do four this christmas for grandparents, full of my son's baby and early childhood pictures!
I loved your Blurb post so much I blogged about it! I would love you forever if I won. ;)
As for what I'd blurb: My 2007 Book Reviews on my book blog.
What a GREAT gift idea!!!! Please sign me up!!!!!
Horray! What a great giveaway. I must have a book of my very own!
Oh, I'm DYING to win this one! I have so many books to make!!
Love their stuf.Pick me, please!!
Yay! I love it, I love it!
Thank you for the chance to win one of these gorgeous books!
Would love to give Blurb a try…awesome giveaway, as always.
These look awesome!
I've been thinking about doing a Blurb for two years now and have wondered how it would work--good chance to learn.
I've been coveting this since you first mentioned it! Pick me please. :)
Yeah Another great Design mom giveaway. Perfect too, as I have already created my daughters 1 year book, it is sitting on my desktop, just waiting to be published. Who doesn't love blurb!!1
love it - great giveaway!
jkolsubs (at) gmail (dot) com
Wow, those are amazing!
I am in the process of editing mine right now and have held off due to price! I would love love love to win! thanks for the chance!
This is PERFECT timing! I want to make a "welcome" book for my sister-in-law's first baby to introduce the baby to it's family (i.e. pics of grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.). It's for her shower in April. I would love this!
These books are great. I have a couple in the works right now.
my mother has written a short story and i would love to win this for her... ps. i always love your blog!
Oh my! I have a blog just waiting to do this! How cool!
PICK ME, PICK ME!!!!!
Blurb!
I've already started the layout on my blog book. This would be awesome!
I'd love to turn my baby's blog into a Blurb book. It would save me from having to fill in all those blank pages in her baby book.
I just downloaded their book program. I'm so excited to use it. Please choose me.
Sometimes I think destiny tries to give me a little kick. I was informed just a few weeks ago that I needed to look into these.
I'm daydreaming already
Oh, I so desperately want to win this one! Both my 1 year wedding and blogging anniversary have passed and I would love to create a book for each. Thanks for the opportunity...
so many adventures to fill these pages - yeah!!
oh I see birthday presents being made with this!
I already have a project in mind that this would be so helpful for. Pick me!
Such a great idea, I love this!
I love these books! Thanks!
I love to do one for our wedding photos, my floral business, or even just to document my blog.
How generous! I've just been toying around with the program this morning. Thank you!!
Oh goodness I really really want this!
That is awesome!
Oh, I can't even say how badly I want this.
It makes me happy to think about this give-a-way. What a fabulous prize to win!!
this would be so awesome to win. Pick me!
I've been working on mine and would love to get it printed for free.
Fantastic!
If there's ever a time for me to win a giveaway, I would love for this to be the one!!!!!
I would love to make my baby's first year with this... and print my blog out... and a family album.. and...
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please please please!
lovin' those blurb books. Would love it if I won!
I'd love to make a book to show off my writing and not so glam life. I've got my fingers and toes crossed.
Count me in! How exciting!
My sweet hubby made me a surprise blog www.mywiferules.blogspot.com and I would love to print it out!
This has been on my to do list. I bet a free one would motivate me to get it done!
I've been meaning to Blurb my blog. This is a fantastic giveaway!
I'd love to put a smile on my wife's face with a book full of photos from our wedding on our second anniversary. Can a guy enter this give away?
I haven't won here yet - could this be my lucky draw
This would be a perfect win for me!
I'd love to win!
I have been wanting to do this FOREVER! Please pick me!!
Love love love (love love) these books. There's no way I'll win this contest, but here I am throwing my comment in the ring anyhow. Because I want my book!!!
This sounds almost too good to be true! Pinch me..uh, I mean, Pick me! :o)
Mommy Bee
luvmybabybee at gmail dot com
All your giveaways are awesome especially this one! Pick me!!!!!
i can't wait to make my first blog book!
I already had an idea in mind to bless my husband who is an up and coming photographer. This would give me a great jump start!
It would be so great to have a print out of my blog, especially since I've been so bad at keeping a journal lately.
I created a blog for my dad 3 years ago. He has always wanted to be 'published' so I started a BLURB book a while back but haven't been able to finish it.
I would love to be able to get a handful printed for him to pass out to his friends!!
meredith at metalmeredith dot com
Wow that is great
I would make something for my mom
I can attest to the ease and quality of these books! I made a photo album of my sister's bachelorette party and it turned out fantastic.
I'm in!
I made one with another company to celebrate my 25th. A book to treasure.
e-Mom @ Splash!Graphics
How gorgeous! I would think about finally documenting our last pre-kid vacation to Europe, but would probably end up showcasing my kids!
My blog is my journal, so it would be nice to have a hard copy of my life of the last 5 years.
I can't decide - "slurp" my blog or pictures to promote my flower work? Such a hard choice! Please pick me!
Looking at these whenever I wanted would make my heart swell. :)
Wow. Great.
This is the best giveaway ever! It would be perfect for my portfolio!
This is the blurbiest!
oh pick me....I have 2 years of blog to print!
Ohhhh....I stumbled upon your blog and have been a faithful reader. I would love, love, love a Blurb Book and have actually been trying to make one from my own blog recently....I have to say it is a wee tricky.
Oh and in regards to your last post, hot slings are awesome too!
Heather Spencer
www.spencerhouse.blogspot.com
Awesome give-away! Perfect to mark my son's third birthday. Thank you
We have been looking into Blurb as a way to publish my blog for family history. Doing it for free sounds even more enticing!
Oh I've been wanting to make a blurb book for a while now. This would be so awesome!
I have two baby books waiting to be printed, but funds are tight right now. I'd LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to win this giveaway. I adore blurb and plan on printing many blog and recipe books in the future. Thanks!!
Awesome giveaway!
Oh please let it be my lucky day!
We just upgraded our camera and one of the main reasons was to be able to have nice quality pictures for making blurb books! We have not made a book yet....I will wait to see who wins!!
oh, i so want to win this!
I have been wanting to make a blurb book since you're first post about it. I did a weekly picture of my son for his first year and I've just been waiting for a beautiful way to compose it, a free blurb book would be perfect!!!
oh please please please!!!! i've been drooling since you last posted about this site. i just dug free dollars and fifty free cents out of my couch!
Oh I lOVE this idea! I've been dying to make one of these!
I love this! Please let this be my turn!
Wow that sounds great!
I love love love the blurb books! Perfect for recording my kid's kodak moment!
Oh I would love love love to win this!
What an awesome site. I've used iPhoto for many years, but have been wanting to find something more creative where I can have more input. This looks great!
Those are so cute!
I LOVE this giveaway!!!!!!! I have been dying to try this ever since you posted it!
Oh my goodness!! I would love this. I am currently working on my first one (just about finished). It has been so fun.
I would love to create blurb books of my daughter - grandparents are asking for more pictures!
oh, i'd love this!
I love these! Too awesome.
I would love this! I actually have a Blurb book in the works--and getting it for free would be even better!
I've been longing for one of these books!
Wow, way to get about a zillion comments!
Anyway, I have been thinking about writing a blog pot on making your own book because I saw one that a friend of mine made of her art portfolio. It was amazing, and so affordable. Now my daughter (in high school) wants to make one for a project in her Theory of Knowledge class.
sooo.....
I think I might do this every year with Sis to chronicle our kiddos for Grandma and Grandpa. Thanks for sharing!
I've been trying to convince my hubby that a book made from our blog (which is basically about our son) would be soooo worth any price we paid- but free is the best price ever!
YAY! Pick me! I love these books!~
I've been meaning to make a blurb book of my blog all month! I sure would like to pay free dollars and fifty-free cents for it...
What an awesome giveaway! Yay! :o)m
please, me!!
I just need to win once, and then I'll stop bugging you... really!
That would look glorious on my coffee table!
These are fantastic books - I really need to get on this!
Oh, yes please! I've been wanting to give this a try...
how great is this? creativity at its finest.
I would LOVE this! I'm a blogger and have been wanting to make it into a book for a while now.
Me, me!
I'd love to make a blurb book of my son's blog!
Oh, I love this!
I've been dying to do this!
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