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!

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…

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!

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!

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!

There’s one good thing about the stress of finding all your Christmas presents for your loved ones – once you’ve finally found them and Christmas is over, you don’t have to do the whole thing for another 12 months. Unfortunately we can’t say the same about finding the right Birthday presents. The fact is that Birthday Gifts are required over the whole year, so it seems to be a never ending story… Birthday Gifts for Children, Birthday Gifts for Grandparents, Birthday Presents for best friends…there you go, does that already start to make your head spin and your hands sweat? No worries, with the little help of your own images and designs you can create your very own Happy Birthday Gifts for Children!

Create your own Birthday presents with your photos

First step is to choose the product you want to order. A lovely and cuddly baby blanket is a perfect birthday gift for newborns or babies, a photo cube is a great gift for children to play with, and so are bean bags with a montage of the children’s favourite photos for the playroom. Once you have decided on the perfect product you only have to choose the size, the colour, the material, depending on the product.
Then you can start with uploading your images to design your Birthday Gifts for Children.

Happy Birthday Gifts with your surprise

If you have chosen a montage style made by our designers you have to upload your images after completing the order, the other options you can design yourself on your computer. Upload one or even more images, add a personal note and once you are happy with the design, proceed with your order. Only a few days later you’ll have your personalised Happy Birthday Gifts for your loved ones – and the best thing, you can design more birthday presents anytime if required!

It’s been a while now since your wedding, but you still have all the images and emotions more than vivid in front of your inner eye. Such a wonderful day, beautiful weather, surrounded by all your friends and family, THE dress of your dreams, the husband of your dreams – what else could you wish for?
Yes, there is one tiny but important thing missing: Do you have a safe place for your wedding photos? You might have plenty of photo albums to keep the wedding photos safe, but what about some other more creative ways of finding a way to show them to the world ( well, more likely to yourself and friends and family but that’s more than enough, isn’t it).

Wedding photos as canvas or shopper bags

Yes, photo albums are a good way to keep all wedding pictures safe, but what do you think about using your favourite ones in a more imaginative way? Design a black and white canvas with your best wedding picture for your wall in the living room, personalised shopper bags for the wife and all her bridesmaids with their photo together… there’s a whole lot more to discover and use as a wonderful idea to keep your wedding pictures safe!

Create a safe place for all your wedding photos

Most products are pretty easy to design: Just take a few minutes, get your computer ready, maybe a nice cup of tea and then have a look onto the website and find your favourite product.
Choose your size, colour, material and start by uploading your first image. The straight forward preview page will show you how your image will look like on the finished product.
Are you already happy with the design? Perfect, just proceed with your order…You can also upload more images to create a montage or even add text – it’s all in your hands, you are the designer of your masterpiece. A wonderful idea is to create some Valentines Day Gifts with your wedding photos, truly a great way to find a safe place for your wedding photos.

This year do not forget to buy personalised bookmarks if you are an avid reader! Be up to date with technology and protect your device from scratch and dents by using e- reader covers. When spending your money on shopping and leasure use a printed wallet. Brand yourself with cool gifts such as personalised t-shirts.

Felling stuck? Not buying gifts because you simply dont know what gifts to choose? Going around in endless circles? Discover your sense of purpose with Bags of Love this Valentines day!

Personalised gifts for avid readers:

1. eBook reader covers

Do you have a friend or relative who devours books and gets through about 3 in a day? Do they own an ereader? A cover to keep their newest piece of gadgetry safe – eBook reader covers –  would be a fantastic and practical idea for personalised gifts. Books contain so many different tales and adventures, and your loved one really does hold a whole library in his or her hand every time he or she goes out with their technology. But you can create another beautiful story through your photos with our stunning, high quality eBook reader photo covers.

2. Personalised photo bookmarks

And what better way to supplement their book reading than to give an avid reader (this time one who does not have a gadget with which to fulfil their pastime!) some beautiful photo bookmarks? Any reader knows that being without a bookmark is one of the most annoying and frustrating experiences ever. Picking up from the page you left off is key and it is such a bore to have to find the last page you were reading previously. Now every time your loved one sits down to read their book they will be reminded of that great memory through your personalised gifts and will feel warmed by your lovely words of encouragement or love!

We are taking a break over Christmas but we will be back in January to offer you some great personalised gifts for you and your loved ones! Merry Christmas!

Very few people realise how difficult it can often be to find truly original Valentine’s Day gifts for men that do more than simply tick the imaginary box! Here are 3 great gift ideas that really break the mould:

1. Personalised apron

The personalised apron is a personal favourite Valentine’s Day gifts idea because it is so versatile. You could make it serious (he really needs to start doing some cooking!) or funny (make him have the body of your perfect man!), or beautiful, or shocking, or strictly professional… the choice is yours! Very practical Valentines’ Day gifts for the special day.

2. Photo cushion

Men love the photo cushions because they are so comfortable and can be personalised either with one photo or with a great montage of all the best snaps from ever since you started going out all those days ago! Fabulous personalised gifts for your boyfriend or husband.

3. Heart jigsaw puzzle

Everyone has played a classic jigsaw puzzle. They provide hours of fun and entertainment as we struggle (in vain in my case!) to arrange all of the pieces in the correct order. Yet the heart jigsaw puzzle is extra-special as it is – you guessed it – in the shape of a heart. Thus your lucky man will only realise the love and compassion built into the puzzle as he is completing it, and you could even add a lovely message to the photo puzzle such as those three words or even your man’s name for a great personal touch. Perhaps the most romantic Valentine’s Day gifts ever!

We are taking a break during Christmas but we will return in early January! Don’t miss us too much! Please don’t hesitate to come back to BagsofLove if you are ever in need of some top quality Valentine’s Day gifts or personalised gifts for any special occasion!

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