My Frist Giveaway... ever!!!

So, I've been blogging for several years, and never have had a giveaway.  I guess, partly because I didn't know how to even host one, nor did I know what to giveaway.

One of the problems was solved when I was selected to review a great digital scrapbooking product, Polaroid's My Memories Suite.  It was easy for me to do, because I've been using the product for a while now and I LOVE IT!  It's what we used for our "Family Essay" we needed to do for our agency, as well as our profile book.  Click here to see the picture essay. 

I've not ever, ever done anything with digital scrapbooking. As we started the adoption process, I knew we would have to do a profile, eventually.  I became panicked.  I had no idea what or how to do it.  I know there are several places online that you can pay to get them done, but I wanted it to be part of our process, and I wanted to make sure it truly showed who we were. 

I began researching the digital scrapbooking products out there, and I decided the easier the better (because adoption is hard enough, I didn't need software giving me grief either!).  Also, since we were spending up the nose for the adoption, price came into play (which is another reason we decided not to pay someone to ours, that and Travis is cheep).

Well, Travis being cheep, and me needing easy helped this whole process narrowed down easy.  There was once choice. My Memories Suite.  I downloaded the digital scrapbooking product, installed it, and started playing.  Wanna see my very first ever project....

Serioulsy... did it in less then 10 minuets (looking back now, there was so much more then I could do, but alas- it was my first time playing with the digital scrapbooking program!!). 

Like I said, I ended up using it for the Picture Essay and our Profile book, and other random projects. 

I love that you can use random digital scrapbooking kits you can find online (you have to manipulate how you get them in the program files, so it's not completely easy) but My Memories has an huge assortment of kits that are either free or low cost.  Eventually, I want to make my own custom header (have you noticed I've made changed around here!), I have the kit picked out and everything!

So, for all of us in the adoption world, if you have a profile to make, or want to update your profile this is an amazing product.  Once you make your pages, you can convert them to high resolution jpegs to print.

If you've already been blessed with your little one to take snapshots of, its great for 'quick pages' to send to grandparents or other relatives.  That's why I did the baseball one!  I sent it to my Mom.  I've sent other ones like that of the dogs, or our visit to the zoo or whatever and she prints them out, and keeps them.  You can also use the pages to have a scrapbook printed off as a keepsake. 

So... for the giveaway!  Your very own copy of My Memories Suite!

Here's how to enter!  You can have several entries per day, but please make one comment per entry!

Follow my blog (or tell me you are already following!)

visit My Memories Suite website and leave a comment here telling me which kit is your favorite (you can do this once a day)


tweet "I entered @jennadank #mymemoriessuite giveaway! http://lovemarriagewheresthebabycarriage.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-frist-giveaway-ever.html Please RT" then leave me a comment showing me your tweet (you can do this once a day). 
I need you to leave a comment with each tweet to enter.

You can also go follow their blog, on facebook, and twitter.  They have fun speed scrap challenges, and announce special deals there!  (remember, leave a separate comment for each social networking venue you follow!)


do a blog post sending your readers over to the giveaway- SPREAD THE LOVE!!! (just leave a comment with your blog post link)


the giveaway ends on Wednesday, July 6th at midnight. Don't forget- please leave a separate comment for each entry.  The winner will be chosen from random.org, and I'll announce it on Thursday July 7th!!!