My Custom Story - custom board books

Custom Alphabet Board Book

2012-01-25T11:02:00.000-08:00

We should add this to the FAQ - we are asked quite often - can you make a 26 page Custom ABC Board Book? And we do make custom sizes starting at 200 copies, but most people who ask the question are just asking about making one book. How do you make an ABC book? Check out our storylines page - it works best with the 6x6 size. You just have 2 or 3 letters per page.

We have also seen clients make two books (24 pages and most letters get their own page). But it can be done in just one book, here are some pics of a 6x6 Alphabet Board Book.

Let us know if we can help you design a custom ABC board book!

www.mycustomstory.com

Back online!

2012-01-25T07:26:00.000-08:00

Good morning!

We're back online this morning:

www.mycustomstory.com

The behind the scenes updates have finished. We had hoped to get to some of the new features in this update, but things did not go as planned. So we are testing that and will be doing another update soon with custom spines, new layouts, and more fun features we'll tell you all about when they go live.

Thanks for your patience during our updates!

Site Update

2012-01-24T07:20:00.000-08:00

Good morning! We have been updating the site overnight. We are still working on it today, we will be back online tomorrow. In the mean time, you can use our old site at:

www.mycustomstory.info

I will remove this post and replace it with a what's new post when we're back online at www.mycustomstory.com.

Thanks for your patience,

My Custom Story

Holiday Deadlines and Coupon Code

2011-11-05T22:52:00.000-07:00

The holidays are almost here!

Use coupon code: H8L9daY2011

From Nov 1 - Nov30th, 2011 - the coupon is 15% off custom board books

From Dec 1 - Dec 31st, 2011 - use the same coupon code, the discount is 10% off custom board books

Holiday Shipping Deadlines

Christmas Deadlines

International Order Deadlines

November 28th - regular orders

December 5th - express mail orders

US Order Deadlines

December 5th - regular orders

December 12th - express mail orders

Hanukkah Deadlines - rolling deadline for arrival between Dec 20 - 28th

International Order Deadlines

November 24th - regular orders

December 1st - express mail orders

US Order Deadlines

December 1st - regular orders

December 8th - express mail orders

Happy Holidays!

My Custom Story

www.mycustomstory.com

Down Syndrome Awareness Month

2011-10-05T09:29:00.000-07:00

October is Down Syndrome awareness month. Two of our adorable models on the website are blessed with an extra chromosome.

Back to School coupon code

2011-08-29T09:23:00.000-07:00

Use coupon code: Back2School for $5 off, valid now through September 5th, 2011 on any custom board book purchase.

We have three new storylines:

Alphabet

Life Lessons

Top Ten

More on how to use our storylines feature can be found in this blog post.

We are working on some new updates to the website, adding more backgrounds and updating the photo upload area. We'll tell you more about it in the next newsletter with the Christmas coupon code (sometime in October)! If there is a background you'd love to see, email us at info@mycustomstory.com. We'll try to accommodate as many requests as we can!

Visit us at: www.mycustomstory.com
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**MCS will be closed September 1 - September 5th. We will respond to emails and phone calls when we reopen on Tuesday, September 6th.**

33% off any of our THREE new storylines!

2011-07-07T10:39:00.000-07:00

From now until Monday, July 11th at 4pm PT, use the coupon code 33story3 to receive 33% off any of our three new storylines:

Alphabet

Life Lessons

Top Ten

To check them out, click on Storylines from the home page. More on how to use our storylines feature can be found in this blog post.

Creating a Book Using a Storyline

2011-06-29T17:48:00.000-07:00

Creating a book using a storyline

After you upload photos to your account, you can either use one of our storylines or write your own.

To use one of our storylines, first upload photos to your account, then click on Storylines from the home page:

You will see a list of all 21 storylines, click on the one you want to view to see the full text.

Select your size (4x5 or 6x6). Then use the box below the text to make your changes to the storylines, whatever you type in the box will be added to the page. If you leave a page blank, the storyline text will appear on the page. In either case, you can still edit the text later. Click submit after you have entered all of the text.

A book will open with all of your text at the top of each page.

Click on the “My Albums” tab below the book. Please note: The layouts tab is used in the write your own option, you can use it in the storyline option, but adding a layout to a page will remove text. If you decide you would like to design with layouts, copy the text, then drag and drop a layout, then paste the text into the pre-defined text spot shown in the layout you choose.

Click on the album that contains the photos you want to use in your book. All of the photos in your album will load, you’ll see % appear to show you how soon your photos will load, this depends on your computer speed, internet connection speed, how many photos are in your folder (usually just a few seconds). If you have hundreds of photos in an album, it will take longer, we suggest you pick which photos you’d like before uploading to the site or split your photos into multiple folders if you have lots of photos.

Drag and drop a photo from the “my images” (my albums changes to my images when you open an album) tab below. You can switch back to all of your albums, by clicking “back to album”.

Click and drag the image to move it where you would like it on the screen:

To resize the image, drag the image so that you can see any corner. There are two black frames. Click and drag the inner frame to crop the image (drag the inner frame back out to un-crop the image).

To resize an image, click and drag the outer frame out to make it larger and in to make it smaller. Below I clicked the outer frame and dragged it in to make the photo smaller.

You can add as many photos to a page as you’d like. More on arranging photos without a layout can be found here:

http://mycustomstory.blogspot.com/2010/11/tip-you-can-drag-and-drop-photos-onto.html

Photoshop templates and CUSTOM SPINES!

2011-06-17T12:58:00.000-07:00

We are VERY excited to announce that custom spines are now available when using our new Photoshop templates and will be coming to the website later this year! If you'd like to use our Photoshop templates to design your book, email us!
Please note: Our new process takes a little longer, books now arrive in 2 - 3 weeks.

Last Day for Regular shipping for Father's Day!

2011-06-01T09:54:00.000-07:00

Get your orders in by midnight PT today for regular delivery for Father's Day. Rush order deadline is June 10th. Coupon code

Father's Day Deadlines and Coupon Code

2011-05-27T08:56:00.000-07:00

Father's Day Deadlines

Regular orders are due by June 1st

Express Mail orders are due by June 10th

Coupon code: Dads2011 for a $6 discount