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Be my Valentine – personalised cards

Create your very own Valentine’s Day Gifts

I have to tell you some shocking news! I just can’t keep this fact to myself, I’ve never been good at keeping things to myself anyway. As everyone knows Valentine’s Day is just a few days away so in case you haven’t found anything for your Valentine you’d better stop reading and start thinking of perfect gifts straight away! But please do think twice before getting some really cheap or unromantic Valentine’s Day Gifts.

I mean, for example all the Valentine’s Day Cards which are available all across the country. Get them in shops, buy them online or even make them on your own. You surely know that even some of the big grocery stores offer Valentine’s Day Cards – some of them quite nice but others incredibly ugly and in plain words just cheap. And that’s not only because of the low price. Create your own Valentine’s Day Gifts and Cards and avoid nasty surprises when you present your Valentine’s Day Gifts to your Valentine.

Personalised Cards with your photo and text

Personalised Cards for Valentine’s doesn’t necessarily have to be as cheap as 7 p, but you still can get them at very reasonable prices. We do have a special Valentine’s offer at the moment: Create your own ‘Be my Valentine – personalised cards’ with your photo and your personal message and pay as little as 89p, only the delivery prize in the UK.
Your favourite photo of you and your sweetheart in a lovely heart shaped design with some text on the front and a personal message inside of the card.
If just the card is not enough for you, have a look around on the website, I am sure you’ll find plenty more ideas for personalised gifts for your Valentine.

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Photo montage filmstrip

Create your own filmstrip photo montage

Who doesn’t know ‘Groundhog Day’ the great movie with Bill Murray from 1993?
One of my beloved movies from the 90s, I can’t actually recall how many times I have seen it. And did you know that the movie is based on the Groundhog Day, which happen to be today, on February 2^nd? Celebrated mainly in the US and in Canada this day is quite important for those who believe in the folklore tradition and the forecast reliability of a groundhog coming out of its burrow to either see or not see his shadow, meaning that the winter weather is either continuing to be cold for six more weeks or the warmer weather is just around the corner. Whatever you believe in, a photo montage with your favourite images might be just perfect for this special day. Favourite photos of your dogs, your family or just any other image….create your very own photo montage filmstrip!

Customised Directors Chairs with your photos

The photo montage filmstrip looks best as cinema montage prints – you decide which size and how many photos you want to have. From 2 to 7 images in one panoramic filmstrip line as a wonderful and artful options to show off your best photos.
But it’s not only a custom canvas you can have your photos printed on, no, there are many other products too. How about a customised director’s chair with your name and your favourite in a filmstrip style? Perfect for holidays, the garden or obviously any film set you might have to be at one point in your life.

Lovely photo montage as Valentine’s Day Gifts

These gift ideas are not only ideal for movie lovers but great gifts for anyone in your life.
Still looking for some Valentine’s Day Gifts for your darling? Get the best photos together and have a photo montage filmstrip created  just for you – your own photos of love!

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Canvas Skyline

Your favourite skyline on custom canvas

Do you remember the moment, the very first moment when you came into the city and immediately fell in love with the skyline and the city itself?
Sunset over the rooftops, the change of vibrations in the city when the daily life ends and the nightlife is about to start… I am sure you have taken hundreds of pictures to try to catch the atmosphere on different occasions and times of the day.
How about turning your best photo into a custom canvas, your canvas skyline as a unique and personalised decoration for your own wall?

Canvas skyline created by you

Custom Canvas prints in a wide range of sizes and options are just waiting for your photo. Turn the skyline of New York into a panoramic canvas over 150 cm wide as an eye catcher for your living room, the beach and the breathtakingly beautiful sunset from your last holiday as a canvas skyline for your bedroom… you decide if your custom canvas is going to be in colour, sepia  or a black and white canvas.
Another wonderful and pretty creative idea is to have your photo not only printed on one canvas but on multi panels. A multi panel with three or four panels is just perfect for giving the custom canvas the additional twist. Your canvas skyline created by you.

Wonderful Valentine’s Day Gifts for your Valentine

A canvas skyline is perfect as a wonderful gift for so many occasions, but just the best thing you can create as Valentine’s Day Gifts for your Valentine.
A canvas skyline with your favourite photo that will bring back so many good memories and hopefully is able to unite you and your Valentine forever.
Fabulous Valentine’s Day Gifts with a canvas skyline.

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Gifts for Valentine

Creative gifts for Valentine

How fast the time flies and it is already the end of January and only a few weeks before the BIG day, Valentine’s Day!  Yes, it is this time of year when lovers all over the world celebrate their love and express their feelings. Some prefer to do so in a private surrounding, just the partner and no one else around, some flowers, a greeting card and that’s it.

Others might be slightly more outgoing and feel the need to show off their love to not only the partner but the rest of the world as well! Crazy public outbursts of love, marriage proposals on this specific date, huge presents for the beloved one…some people just go crazy about Valentines Day Gifts.

Turn your photo into Valentine’s Day Gifts

Do you know that creating wonderful Gifts for Valentine doesn’t necessarily need to be a big act and time intense? Turn your photos into Valentine’s Day Gifts and make special surprises for your partner. How about a Book of Love? Tell your story of love on each page with text and photos of your life together.
Other wonderful Gifts for Valentine are the unique Valentine’s Day Cushions with lovely designs full of love. Add your personal photo and a private message of love to the cushion and we will start making your Gifts for Valentine right away.

Gifts for Valentine – just in time

Order before Feb 13^th 2pm and we’ll make sure that your Valentine will receive the gifts in time. To see some other cool gifts which can easily be turned into Gifts for Valentine just have a look around the website, I am sure you’ll find perfect Gifts for Valentine for your love!

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Adorable baby gifts with photos

Create unique and adorable baby gifts with your photos

To welcome a newborn is always and will always be one of the greatest moments and wonders in life, therefore it is undoubtedly a great idea when you create adorable baby gifts with photos. Unique baby gifts either for the baby itself or for the proud parents, grandparents, godfathers and godmothers and friends and family in general.
Cuddly baby blankets with a wonderful design with the name of the child, a photo book filled with pictures of the babies’ family and personal letters or even baby sleeping bags or a buggy bag – you’ll be surprised what we have got to offer.
Get yourself some adorable baby gifts with photos, very easy to create and providing long lasting joy and usability.

Photo gifts for babies easily made

So how can you create your adorable baby gifts then? Is there anything you need to be aware of? To be honest, it couldn’t be any easier.
Just choose the personalised gifts you wish, and then upload your photos or designs. Most baby gifts can be created online, once you are happy with your design just complete the order and you’ll receive your personalised gifts in only a few days time.
Just imagine how great the first family photos will look like on a custom canvas for the grandparents, a wonderful baby blanket or the buggy bag.

Order adorable baby gifts with photos online

Ordering adorable baby gifts with photos online is one of the easiest ways of getting the gifts you need without even leaving the house. With a newborn it can be difficult to manage all these things, so ordering baby gifts from home is a perfect and relaxing option.

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Create your own recipe book

Personalised recipe books with your photos

There are so many things you can do with your own photos, it’s not just framing them and hanging onto the wall. From blankets to photo cushions, unique leather handbags and many other cool gifts, there’s plenty to discover and you can have your own images turned into creative and personalised gifts.
One of my latest creations is a lovely cookbook I gave my best friend for Christmas. You can either design one of the personalised photo journals with your best food photos and  your own text on the cover and then fill the pages with your own recipes or just create your own recipe book by making a photo book.
Personalised cookbooks with your photos are just a wonderful and truly unique gift.

How to create your own cookbook

Personalised photo journals can be created very easily. You need photos for the cover, back and front, and a message you want to add to the cover, for example ‘My best recipes’ or ‘ Secret wishes of a Chocaholic’. Then just start to upload your photo and create your own cookbook. Once you are happy with the design, proceed and complete your order. For the photo books you do need your photos of food and the recipes scanned and saved as jpg files. Choose the amount of pages for your photo book and the size you need, than upload your photos and our designer will create a unique photo cooking book for you.

Personalised photo journals as recipe book

Don’t you think that creating a personalised cookbook is just the perfect gift for friends and family? A cookbook with cheeky recipes for bachelors for your best friends 30^th Birthday as birthday presents, the best collection of family recipes for your sister’s wedding or just a personalised recipe book for you and your fiancé. You’ve got the idea – now it’s your turn to start and create your own recipe book with your recipes and photos!

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Perfect gifts for couples

Get wonderful and perfect gifts for couples

It’s not just another wedding you are invited to this summer, it’s the wedding of your best friend since primary school! As if that’s not already enough to get excited about, she asked you to be her bridesmaid – and what else could you have said rather than YES!
So the countdown is on, the planning for everything for the big day in summer in full process, and there is only one little thing in your mind that pops up from time to time: Where can you find perfect gifts for couples? Not some ordinary wedding gifts you can get in the shops on the high street or the ones you get nicely suggested by wedding planners and friends and family. No, you are looking for something way more unique.
Get wonderful and perfect gifts for couples online and create them with their favourite photos and even personalise them with your messages to the happy couple!

Personalised wedding gifts with photos

Are you looking for something classy and elegant? Why not giving the acrylic photo block a try, available in three sizes you’ll surely find the right one as perfect gifts for couples.
Not big and impressive enough?
Well, you’re not easy to impress – but how about some wonderful deckchairs? Yes, I am talking about deckchairs, ideal for the garden, the balcony or even holidays.
You can upload any photo you like (or even design or create a montage of the best photos of the couple…) and add a personalised message. You choose either a double deckchair for the two together or single personalised deckchairs with a funny Mr & Mrs Hughes Design.
So each of them can have their own deckchair but sit together so everyone can see that they belong together.

Unique and glorious gifts for couples

But not only deckchairs are great and glorious gifts for couples, washbags for Men and Women and personalised towels are fantastic as presents for weddings.
I am sure you’ll find something unique and creative for your best friend’s wedding…

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Unique floor cushions for children

Wonderful floor cushions for children

It’s this time of the year again, time for the big spring clean up in the house or flat! Especially the rooms of the children need a proper make over and clean up, as usuall after spending so much time in their rooms in  the cold winter weeks. Why not surprise them with something new, such as unique floor cushions for children with their favourite photos or images from cartoon characters so they can have some comfy seats to play or relax on in their own rooms. We offer different sizes of floor cushions, the round floor cushion in either 50 or 70 Diameter for example as well as the rectangle and square floor cushions in 4 sizes.

Create your own floor cushions for children and their room

You can choose the unique design, you can even create it yourself on your computer at home. Why not design wonderful home gifts together with your children?
They can decide which images to upload, where to place them on the floor cushion and then also add their name or any other text they wish.
Let them create their unique floor cushions for children, you’ll see how much fun this is and how much they’ll treasure their very own floor cushion once they receive it.

Your photos on floor cushions for children

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a photo for the print, you could also let your children draw some own artwork or put together a photo montage, and then just scan the design and upload it  to the preview for the floor cushions. That’s how easy it is to design something new for the children – something they really can use and will enjoy for sure!
Perfect as Birthday presents not only for children, but for anyone else of your friends or your family as surely everyone will love their very own personalised floor cushions!

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Vintage Canvas Prints

Create own artwork with old images

Do you have any old images from your grandparents or other relatives? Any really old black and white photographs of cities or landscape from the area your whole family comes from?
Why should you keep these treasures in boxes or folders, try to bring them to new life and create vintage canvas prints as decoration for your bedroom wall, living room wall or even for the office! Be proud of your origin and show it off with a custom canvas!

Make your own vintage canvas prints

How does that work you might wonder, I only have the analog photographs and obviously no saved files on my computer to upload. No worries, you can either scan the photo yourself and then just safe it as a jpg file or even send your photo to us and we will do this job for you (and send it back to you of course…).
Make your own vintage canvas prints with your photos, a brilliant and very trendy idea.
These canvas prints are also perfect as presents for parents as anniversary gifts or as a special surprise for your grandfather’s 80th Birthday.
Choose any size you want and have your vintage canvas prints in a few days time ready to hang on your wall. You can also choose multi panel canvas prints for a truly special effect.

Stylish pouch purse with vintage prints

Vintage canvas prints are not enough for you? You want more variety for showing off your beloved old images? No need to worry, just have a look around our website and you’ll find loads and loads of wonderful gift ideas to use your photo for.
A stylish pouch purse with vintage prints is most likely one of the must-haves for this spring.

Don’t let your photos get covered in dust – turn them into wonderful vintage artwork!

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Your own bigger picture in Hockney Style

Your photo as a Hockney Photo Montage

You can’t avoid hearing or seeing anything about David Hockney when you are in London these days. Magazines are full of articles about him and the recent exhibition, you can see posters in the whole city – still wondering what exactly is going on here right now?
From January 21th until April 9^th 2012 the long anticipated first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney RA will be presented at the Royal Academy of Arts.
The exhibition covers a 50 year period of Hockney’s fascination and discovering artworks of landscapes and also includes newer drawings from his iPad series.
To keep his iPad safe he should think of getting an iPad Case with his own designs printed on both sides – how great would that be? Of course you can design your very own iPad Case too!

Hockney Canvas Art for your home

But let’s go back to Hockney and his amazing artwork and ideas: Do you know that you can have your own artwork in a brilliant Hockney Style for your home without paying a fortune you don’t have? Choose any image you like, the size of the canvas you wish to have and then don’t forget to choose the Hockney Style as well. Our designer then will create a montage in Hockney’s style and send you a proof.
Like it – just let us know and we will start with the printing and production of your very own Hockney montage!

Have your own bigger picture in Hockney Style

Your own bigger picture in Hockney style is most likely going to be the new eye-catcher in your living room, your office or wherever you want to hang your personalised artwork onto.
Of course we do have some other personalised Pop Art to choose from, just have a look around our website!

Have your own bigger picture in Hockney Style and be part of the hype!