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Tue, 09/22/2009 - 13:48 by admin
Creating a personalized magazine cover at YourCover.com is easy and we've just made it even simpler by posting "how-to" videos on our site.
You may be looking for magazine cover templates, a romantic gift idea or a personalized birthday gift - you will find them all at YourCover.com.
Watch our "How to Make a Magazine Cover" video and you will see the simple, step-by-step procedure for creating your own personalized magazine cover. The most important element is having a great photo of your "cover star", then choose your magazine cover template, personalize your headlines and you're done. You have created a truly unique personalized gift that the recipient will love - give it a try - it's as much fun to make as it is to give!
You may be looking for magazine cover templates, a romantic gift idea or a personalized birthday gift - you will find them all at YourCover.com.
Watch our "How to Make a Magazine Cover" video and you will see the simple, step-by-step procedure for creating your own personalized magazine cover. The most important element is having a great photo of your "cover star", then choose your magazine cover template, personalize your headlines and you're done. You have created a truly unique personalized gift that the recipient will love - give it a try - it's as much fun to make as it is to give!
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 14:12 by admin
Sometimes, in pursuit of finding a unque personalized gift, people will go in the wrong direction and end up with a truly bad gift. Though the examples given may be truly unique gift ideas, they will likely disappoint the recipient!
Have you ever received a gift so bad that you were rendered speechless? At some point you have probably received a gift that just seemed totally inappropriate, insensitive or just plain thoughtless. And perhaps you’ve even given some ‘stinky’ gifts! Giving is one of the real treasures in life, so everyone should take a little time and use some creativity to find and give the perfect gift!
Below are a few examples of some gifts you may want to avoid if you are on the hunt for a unique personalized gift or any type of unique gift ideas.
2) Religious Magazine Subscription: Imagine, opening a card to find out you are the proud recipient of 12 months of a religious magazine that’s not even for your religion and on top of that you’re not even particularly spiritual! Blatantly shows how little the gift giver knew about the recipient!
5) Initialed Items That Are The Wrong Initials:Here’s another thoughtless gift – a friend received a ‘B’ pin from her mother-in-law when her initials are L.C.! Is Mom getting passive-aggressive with her daughter-in-law? Uh-oh!
8) A Bathroom Scale: A friend of mine told me this story… an ex-boyfriend got her a scale one Christmas. It was a fancy digital scale with all the bells and whistles, but nothing says ‘you should lose a few pounds’ more than a scale! Needless to say, that relationship didn’t last long! Make a mental note men – a bathroom scale is not a good present!
To read the full list of 15 worst gifts, please visit:
15 Of The Worst Gifts You Never Want To Receive Or Give!
Have you ever received a gift so bad that you were rendered speechless? At some point you have probably received a gift that just seemed totally inappropriate, insensitive or just plain thoughtless. And perhaps you’ve even given some ‘stinky’ gifts! Giving is one of the real treasures in life, so everyone should take a little time and use some creativity to find and give the perfect gift!
Below are a few examples of some gifts you may want to avoid if you are on the hunt for a unique personalized gift or any type of unique gift ideas.
2) Religious Magazine Subscription: Imagine, opening a card to find out you are the proud recipient of 12 months of a religious magazine that’s not even for your religion and on top of that you’re not even particularly spiritual! Blatantly shows how little the gift giver knew about the recipient!
5) Initialed Items That Are The Wrong Initials:Here’s another thoughtless gift – a friend received a ‘B’ pin from her mother-in-law when her initials are L.C.! Is Mom getting passive-aggressive with her daughter-in-law? Uh-oh!
8) A Bathroom Scale: A friend of mine told me this story… an ex-boyfriend got her a scale one Christmas. It was a fancy digital scale with all the bells and whistles, but nothing says ‘you should lose a few pounds’ more than a scale! Needless to say, that relationship didn’t last long! Make a mental note men – a bathroom scale is not a good present!
To read the full list of 15 worst gifts, please visit:
15 Of The Worst Gifts You Never Want To Receive Or Give!
Fri, 09/04/2009 - 17:42 by admin
Unique Bar Mitzvah gift ideas can easily turn out to be embarrassing, ostentatious, or just plain ridiculous. While Uncle Lenny may have the best intentions in mind when he buys you 18 acres on Mars (18 of course representing the Hebrew word Chai – or “life” – in the Jewish tradition), there are far better unique Bar Mitzvah gift ideas out there.
Not all unique Bar Mitzvah gift ideas need to be sappy or silly. In fact, it can be fun, cute, and memorable like a YourCover personalized magazine cover! You can be funny and pose a photo of the young adolescent on the cover along with headlines which speak to his prowess in sports, fondness for Harry Potter books, love of astronomy or what have you. Indeed, you can shape his “magazine destiny” as it were any way you see fit. Turn him into a homerun slugger, a National Geographic explorer, a brilliant academician, or a glamorous Hollywood actor.
You could also turn the tables and offer up the personalized magazine coveras a party favor to friends and relatives who make it to the Bar Mitzvah party. Be aware that you shouldn’t make your magazine cover too embarrassing or revealing – some good-natured ribbing is fine, but be aware of the 13 year old’s temperament and consult the parents if you think your humorous riffing may be headed “too far.”
In short, by using our magazine cover templates you can tune your Bar Mitzvah gift idea to the mood of the occasion and create a fun, unique, family-oriented gift that’s sure to be remembered and treasured – and hopefully displayed fondly for years to come.
Thinking of abandoning your Chai check for a cool and classy personalized Bar Mitzvah magazine cover? Head to YourCover right now to get started!
Not all unique Bar Mitzvah gift ideas need to be sappy or silly. In fact, it can be fun, cute, and memorable like a YourCover personalized magazine cover! You can be funny and pose a photo of the young adolescent on the cover along with headlines which speak to his prowess in sports, fondness for Harry Potter books, love of astronomy or what have you. Indeed, you can shape his “magazine destiny” as it were any way you see fit. Turn him into a homerun slugger, a National Geographic explorer, a brilliant academician, or a glamorous Hollywood actor.
You could also turn the tables and offer up the personalized magazine coveras a party favor to friends and relatives who make it to the Bar Mitzvah party. Be aware that you shouldn’t make your magazine cover too embarrassing or revealing – some good-natured ribbing is fine, but be aware of the 13 year old’s temperament and consult the parents if you think your humorous riffing may be headed “too far.”
In short, by using our magazine cover templates you can tune your Bar Mitzvah gift idea to the mood of the occasion and create a fun, unique, family-oriented gift that’s sure to be remembered and treasured – and hopefully displayed fondly for years to come.
Thinking of abandoning your Chai check for a cool and classy personalized Bar Mitzvah magazine cover? Head to YourCover right now to get started!
Thu, 09/03/2009 - 20:34 by admin
If you are looking for unique gift ideas, you are in the right place. YourCover Personalized Magazine Covers are unique gifts for Mom, great personalized anniversary gifts or unique birthday gifts for guys. Use our free online design tool to upload a photo and then personalize the cover so that every headline is all about your "cover star". A personalized magazine cover is a fun personalized gift idea for any occasion.
Our personalized photo magazine covers can be purchase in several ways:
Simple: $14.95 - download a photo file of your completed magazine cover and print it yourself at home. Great last minute gift!
Standard: $44.95 - we print the front cover only on heavy glossy photo paper and place it in a solid cherry wood frame, shipping is included.
Deluxe: $59.95 - both a front and back cover are printed on a single piece of heavy glossy paper and placed in an acrylic frame (allows you to see both the front and back covers when displayed), shipping is included.
Posters, mugs, mouse pads, t-shirts - have your fake magazine cover printed on these items which can be purchased separately or along with a framed magazine cover. Get started today! www.YourCover.com
Our personalized photo magazine covers can be purchase in several ways:
Simple: $14.95 - download a photo file of your completed magazine cover and print it yourself at home. Great last minute gift!
Standard: $44.95 - we print the front cover only on heavy glossy photo paper and place it in a solid cherry wood frame, shipping is included.
Deluxe: $59.95 - both a front and back cover are printed on a single piece of heavy glossy paper and placed in an acrylic frame (allows you to see both the front and back covers when displayed), shipping is included.
Posters, mugs, mouse pads, t-shirts - have your fake magazine cover printed on these items which can be purchased separately or along with a framed magazine cover. Get started today! www.YourCover.com
Thu, 08/27/2009 - 14:24 by admin
We are so pleased with a great review of our personalized magazine covers by blogger Shop with Me Mama! Kimberly made a personalized baby magazine cover and she writes about her experience in her blog. Below is a snippet from that review:
"...You can personalize EVERYTHING on the front of this cover, it is so much fun and what a keepsake! You can also design the back, but I just wanted the front. It turned out so clear and just like a magazine cover, we love it! What a fun way to show off your kids..." Read more
It's great when independent reviewers think our products fit the bill as a great personalized gift idea, a unique photo gift or as unique gifts for mom. We hope you think so too!
"...You can personalize EVERYTHING on the front of this cover, it is so much fun and what a keepsake! You can also design the back, but I just wanted the front. It turned out so clear and just like a magazine cover, we love it! What a fun way to show off your kids..." Read more
It's great when independent reviewers think our products fit the bill as a great personalized gift idea, a unique photo gift or as unique gifts for mom. We hope you think so too!
Thu, 08/20/2009 - 18:21 by admin
Although we hate to admit it...Fall is just around the corner. Even though our flowers will stop blooming, it doesn't mean that the wedding season won't! Fall is a beautiful time to capture your most important day, and YourCover wants to be there too! Among all the things you have to think about for your wedding day, you have your heart set on a personalized wedding favor for your guests :o). But before you place that order, consider an alternative favor idea which will not doubt wow your guests – personalized magazine covers!
Options abound for how to incorporate personalized magazine covers into your ceremony and party. You can make up a bunch of specialized covers (featuring inside jokes, memorable pictures, and clever/sentimental thoughts) for your bridesmaids or groomsmen and present these along with the traditional initialized flasks or purses. Alternatively, you could create a fun fake magazine cover of you and your fiance and put these keepsakes on every table, perhaps raffling them off at some point during the ceremony.
If you want to get super fancy and involved, you can further tailor the magazine covers for the table by incorporating pictures of the people sitting at your tables into the design layout. For instance, let’s say that at table 12, you’ve seated Grandma Estelle and Uncle Ernie. Your magazine cover centerpiece could feature a picture of you and your fiance on the front and then have fun pictures of you with your Grandma Estelle and Uncle Ernie on the back along with some cute quotations and captions.
Best of all, unlike other seemingly personalized wedding favors (such as home-burned CDs of the special couple’s favorite songs), your personalized magazine cover can distill the essence of your relationship in a fun, warm, and really humorous way. Include “headlines” that poke fun at the greatest romantic moments in your relationship, or create a top-20 list cataloging you and your fiance’s idiosyncrasies. No doubt everyone at the wedding party will love it, and you'll have a keepsake to last a lifetime.
This unique centerpiece idea is fun to put together and, most importantly, very cost effective. You can put together your personalized wedding favors and centerpieces online over the course of an hour or two, place your order, and get top quality results delivered quickly.
Ease the burden of planning out your favors and centerpieces today – visit yourcover.com for details on how to get started with your magazine cover adventure.
Options abound for how to incorporate personalized magazine covers into your ceremony and party. You can make up a bunch of specialized covers (featuring inside jokes, memorable pictures, and clever/sentimental thoughts) for your bridesmaids or groomsmen and present these along with the traditional initialized flasks or purses. Alternatively, you could create a fun fake magazine cover of you and your fiance and put these keepsakes on every table, perhaps raffling them off at some point during the ceremony.
If you want to get super fancy and involved, you can further tailor the magazine covers for the table by incorporating pictures of the people sitting at your tables into the design layout. For instance, let’s say that at table 12, you’ve seated Grandma Estelle and Uncle Ernie. Your magazine cover centerpiece could feature a picture of you and your fiance on the front and then have fun pictures of you with your Grandma Estelle and Uncle Ernie on the back along with some cute quotations and captions.
Best of all, unlike other seemingly personalized wedding favors (such as home-burned CDs of the special couple’s favorite songs), your personalized magazine cover can distill the essence of your relationship in a fun, warm, and really humorous way. Include “headlines” that poke fun at the greatest romantic moments in your relationship, or create a top-20 list cataloging you and your fiance’s idiosyncrasies. No doubt everyone at the wedding party will love it, and you'll have a keepsake to last a lifetime.
This unique centerpiece idea is fun to put together and, most importantly, very cost effective. You can put together your personalized wedding favors and centerpieces online over the course of an hour or two, place your order, and get top quality results delivered quickly.
Ease the burden of planning out your favors and centerpieces today – visit yourcover.com for details on how to get started with your magazine cover adventure.
Wed, 08/12/2009 - 13:48 by admin
When it comes to picking up unique personalized baby gifts, new parents, grandparents and their friends tend to go overboard one way or the other. Some people choose personalized baby gifts based on the baby’s sex or perceived athletic proclivities. Others buy up initialized hoodies, knitted blankets, customizable teddy bears, and the like. Still others go for the “outrageous” but useless by buying stars, planets, or even a piece of land on the moon for their little ones.
If you have something different in mind, consider ordering a personalized magazine cover. If you’ve got a photo of the new baby, you can easily digitally upload it and create a fun and/or moving tribute. Customize your headlines, add thoughtful notes, poetry, song lyrics, bits of advice, or silly goo-goo talk in the headline areas. You can craft the image so that the baby strikes a regal pose or just mess around with the layout and background to get the tone you think would mesh best with your intentions for the keepsake.
You need not have any experience as a graphic designer or editor to give these personalized baby gifts. Simply sit down at your computer, toy with the free magazine cover templates, and let your imagination take you where it will. Unlike other personalized baby gifts - such as toys, clothes, or baby books – your personalized magazine cover will offer a distinct snapshot of the child’s earliest weeks on the planet. And, no doubt, when the child grows up, he or she will look back at the gift with intensely curious eyes.
Welcome baby with brilliance – visit YourCover ASAP to spin an imagination filled, sentimental, and warm magazine cover gift.
If you have something different in mind, consider ordering a personalized magazine cover. If you’ve got a photo of the new baby, you can easily digitally upload it and create a fun and/or moving tribute. Customize your headlines, add thoughtful notes, poetry, song lyrics, bits of advice, or silly goo-goo talk in the headline areas. You can craft the image so that the baby strikes a regal pose or just mess around with the layout and background to get the tone you think would mesh best with your intentions for the keepsake.
You need not have any experience as a graphic designer or editor to give these personalized baby gifts. Simply sit down at your computer, toy with the free magazine cover templates, and let your imagination take you where it will. Unlike other personalized baby gifts - such as toys, clothes, or baby books – your personalized magazine cover will offer a distinct snapshot of the child’s earliest weeks on the planet. And, no doubt, when the child grows up, he or she will look back at the gift with intensely curious eyes.
Welcome baby with brilliance – visit YourCover ASAP to spin an imagination filled, sentimental, and warm magazine cover gift.
Thu, 08/06/2009 - 19:08 by admin
A big thank you to "How to Be Mobile" a website guide that shows you the "How-To's" for your notebooks, mobile devices, and mini-notes. They have done a wonderful post on "How to Put Yourself on a Front Cover," using screen shots of how to create a personalized magazine cover! Take a moment to read their review of our site. We think they did a really thorough job of explaining the steps of how to use our online design system to create a personalized magazine cover.
"Well, it doesn’t necessarily have to be you – a good photo of a friend or family member would also make a great cover for use as a gift – but the online design system offered by YourCover.com is certainly quick and easy to use, and can result in a pretty professional-looking end product.
Once you’ve designed your personalized magazine cover there are a range of options to display it. You can have it emailed and print it out by yourself (US$14.95), or have YourCover.com print it on glossy paper and frame it for you (from about US$45 – 60 depending on frame type). There’s even the option of getting it put onto posters, mugs, mouse pads or t-shirts.....(Read More)"
"Well, it doesn’t necessarily have to be you – a good photo of a friend or family member would also make a great cover for use as a gift – but the online design system offered by YourCover.com is certainly quick and easy to use, and can result in a pretty professional-looking end product.
Once you’ve designed your personalized magazine cover there are a range of options to display it. You can have it emailed and print it out by yourself (US$14.95), or have YourCover.com print it on glossy paper and frame it for you (from about US$45 – 60 depending on frame type). There’s even the option of getting it put onto posters, mugs, mouse pads or t-shirts.....(Read More)"
Fri, 07/24/2009 - 20:20 by admin
Planning a family reunion? Coming up with new ideas to help celebrate this important event can be challenging. A unique keepsake for your reunion would be a YourCover personalized magazine cover. Upload your family photo to the front cover and personalize the headlines with special memories and insights into your family history.
You can order your magazine cover as a photo file download that you can print and frame yourself, or YourCover can print and frame it for you. Unframed copies are a perfect memento in each hotel room to start off the reunion with a bang. Or give out a framed copy after the reunion as a special keepsake of your event. A YourCover personalized magazine cover is the perfect gift to recap all the memories your family has shared throughout the years!
You can order your magazine cover as a photo file download that you can print and frame yourself, or YourCover can print and frame it for you. Unframed copies are a perfect memento in each hotel room to start off the reunion with a bang. Or give out a framed copy after the reunion as a special keepsake of your event. A YourCover personalized magazine cover is the perfect gift to recap all the memories your family has shared throughout the years!
Thu, 07/23/2009 - 17:56 by admin
Great magazine covers immediately grab our attention with their high gloss shine, the seductive appeal of amazing large striking photography and creative usage of typography. All combined can pack a powerful punch.
Some magazine covers are more noteworthy than others standing high above the competition and making us take yet another look at these creative, beautiful or just plain wacky images with text that mirror our world. We have put together a list of the 15 best magazine covers since 1990. Below is a sample of several of the categories as well as a link to the full article.
2) Best Use Of Text
"Entertainment Weekly," 2003: Dixie Chicks
11) Most Classic Photo
"People," 1997: Princess Diana Tribute
15) Most Awkward Photo
"Vanity Fair," 2006: Exposed Hollywood
To see all best magazine covers, please visit: 15 Best Magazine Covers Since 1990
Some magazine covers are more noteworthy than others standing high above the competition and making us take yet another look at these creative, beautiful or just plain wacky images with text that mirror our world. We have put together a list of the 15 best magazine covers since 1990. Below is a sample of several of the categories as well as a link to the full article.
2) Best Use Of Text
"Entertainment Weekly," 2003: Dixie Chicks
11) Most Classic Photo
"People," 1997: Princess Diana Tribute
15) Most Awkward Photo
"Vanity Fair," 2006: Exposed Hollywood
To see all best magazine covers, please visit: 15 Best Magazine Covers Since 1990