Having 3 children and being a crafter who encourages her children to explore arts and crafts regularly means that we have boxes upon boxes of art and craft projects in our garage – those that aren’t hanging on the wall of course.  We are not going to be able to store these forever so I have been looking into alternatives to hanging onto everything.

For example, recently I posted about the kids wearing their art.  One day these art shirts will be used as part of a quilt for each of the kids.

So when I was presented with an opportunity to try out American Greetings PhotoWorks I jumped at the chance.  I knew exactly what I wanted to create. 

A coffee table art book. 

Marisol absolutely adores it.  She has asked my husband and I each to read it to her a couple of times, and it was only delivered today.  I chose pieces of art that had a special meaning behind them – her very first crayon art, Holiday projects, a few special school projects and a handmade card that was sent to her daddy while he was deployed, to name just a few.  Each piece has a meaning behind it and most of them have a little story that goes along with the image.  Like the time her and her brother decided to paint the downstairs bathroom pink and blue and then paint themselves.  Yep, that was included.

Once all of the pieces of art were scanned or photographed it was extremely easy to upload them to the PhotoWorks site and arrange them onto pages.  Their editing tools are a breeze to use and you can change the page layouts, colors and typefaces with the click of a button.  

Over time I plan on whittling away at the boxes in the garage and make a series of books for each of the children.  A series that I can pass onto them when they are older, that they can share with their children.  

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Disclosure: “I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of American Greetings PhotoWorks and received a free photo book to facilitate my review.”