OK we may not be the worlds best when it comes to poetry, but when it comes to high quality photo gifts, we know our stuff!

What gifts do you buy for your valentine? Chocolates, flowers? OK, fair enough, the standard run of the mill Valentines day gifts are all very well and good – but if you get your partner the same kind of gift every year, the true meaning of giving a gift, i.e. to surprise, to show someone what you mean to them – are lost, and it becomes simply a token, token gifts are largely taken as meaningless, a quick nip to the shop to pick up a bunch of flowers, doesn’t really say much does it?

So why not consider putting the element of surprise back into valentines day? If you’re flush, a weekend away is a nice idea… but if like most people, you’re shopping on a fairly tight budget, then personalised photo gifts are the perfect solution!

Find an image (on your iphone, on your facebook account or wherever it may be) either of the two of you together, or just of you, or whatever your partner will love – choose a gift (for example, a heart shaped cushion, heart shaped jigsaw puzzle, a photo Iphone 4 case, or whatever photo gift you know he or she will like), tell us using the text box, what message you would like to appear on the gift (if you would like text in addition to the photo), checkout – and you’ll have the perfect affordable valentines day gift a couple of days later.

Searching for non-expensive but practical & fun xmas gifts ideas? Try our new photo toothbrush holders.

These photo toothbrush holders are a high quality ceramic product, which we can permanently decorate with your images and/or text, to make completely bespoke, photo toothbrush holders.

Fun: Great stocking fillers for the kids, Personalise these toothbrush holders with any photo / image that the kids will love, their favourite teddies, their favourite pet, photo’s of themselves – whatever you know they’ll enjoy looking at.

Practical: It’s normal for families to become confused about which toothbrush belongs to whom, sometimes a decision is made when new toothbrush’s are purchased, with regard who is having which colour, and this can cause sibling arguments in the future, when the details about who is having which colour, have become hazy. Innovative solution: in addition to uploading an image, use the text box to inform us of which colour belongs to which name; no more arguments! (well, about toothbrush’s anyway, we cannot guarantee that your children will not argue about every other aspect of day to day life .

If you own an iphone, the chances are that you have a protective iphone case, especially if you have an iphone 4, as the phone doesn’t perform properly without the case.

If you have an iphone case, then you probably have a plain either black or white case to match your phone, like everyone else – BORING…..

Everyone is different, we’re all individual and we all have our own style – so why be plain & boring – add some character & style to your iphone, with a personalised photo iphone case!

photo iphone cases have a number of applications & benefits:

Brilliant Christmas Gifts. How many of your friends & family own an iphone? If you’re looking for a fairly inexpensive gift but you don’t want to go for the bog standard christmas gift, surprise friends & loved ones with a personalised photo iphone case, personalised with an image which has special significance to them.

Ladies - Accessorize! When you consider it, your iphone is probably your most expensive accessory, and it is on show more than any other accessory – you’re either texting on it, have it pressed to your ear, or it’s in your hands or out on the table in front of you, so stand out by having an iphone which matches your style. What’s more, because we’re making the photo iphone cases so affordable (more than 30% cheaper than many other online retailers), you can even have different cases to match different occaisons or different outfits. Just as you would chose the right bag to take out depending on what you’re wearing, you can do the same with your iphone case!

No more picking up the wrong iphone. Have you ever gone out to work with your partner / spouse’s / son or daughter’s / mum or dad’s iphone by mistake? Many people have, as they all look the same. It’s common also for people to mistakenly pick up the wrong iphone in the office. With a photo iphone case, there’s little chance of this ever happening again!

Look professional in business. If you are a business person, how professional would it look to your clients to have an iphone case which displays your logo and web address? If you run a company, and you have sales staff with company iphones, what a great idea it would be for them to have photo iphone cases which carry the company brand, and add that little extra touch of professionalism.

Prevent from forgetting your iphone. Have you ever forgotten, or nearly forgotten your iphone because you didn’t notice it against a same coloured surface? For instance if you have the black iphone & it’s on a black surface, or the white iphone on a white surface, it’s very easy to miss it & walk away. You would never miss your iphone with a colourful photo iphone case!

So, order your personalised photo iphone case today for just £18.99 (and get 10% off this price as part of the Christmas 10% sale)

We’re all in the same boat – most of us are feeling the pinch & wishing that we could push Christmas off a few months to give us more time to save! To help our customers this year, we have decided that instead of having a January sale – we’re having a Christmas sale, starting now – giving you 10% off all of our photo gifts until Monday December 12th. The reason the sale finishes on this date and does not go all the way up to Christmas, is that the last week of pre-Christmas orders is so busy that we will not be able to cope with running a sale during this busy period.

24 Hour Turnaround!

Most of the time, we manage to get personalised gifts out within 24 hours of the order being placed online! We cannot guarantee that we can always achieve this, especially the closer we get to Christmas, but most of the time we do.

We got fed up of having to deal with delivery problems at Christmas, so we now send all of our canvas prints, personalised tea towels & all of our photo gifts via DPD / interlink express, a very high quality next day courier. So you do not need to worry about the usual royal mail delays!

No More “we tried to deliver” Cards!

Just like when you order your shopping online from a supermarket, you will receive an email from the courier with the time slot available for your delivery, if the time slot is not suitable for you, you can simply choose another time slot, so your order will arrive at a time which is convenient for you.

Top Quality Photo Gifts

We have a simple philosophy, if we wouldn’t be happy with the printed product in our house, or giving the product to a friend or family member, then we don’t sell it.

There are a wide range of different blank products on the market, so all personalised gifts are certainly not made equally. We have spent a lot of time and effort selecting the best possible quality products, and in some cases (for example our tea towels and photo cushions) we were not happy with ANY of the available blank products, so we went to the lengths of having our own blanks manufactured to our own high standards.

There are also a range of different personalisation printing processes available. The process that we use for all of our photo gifts (other than canvas prints, which are done with wide format Epson printers directly onto the canvas) is called dye sublimation, and is the highest quality personalisation printing process. With dye sublimation, the image is printed in tothe surface of the item, not printed on to the surface, therefore the image is permanent & will not wash off, or peel off. With lesser quality printing processes such as laser transfer and inkjet transfer, the image is printed onto a transfer paper which is then heat sealed onto the surface, and does not give a permanent image.

So enjoy our Christmas sale, and we look forward to producing your stunning, high quality personalised photo gifts.

In the UK, we all know too well that summer does not last long – can you believe we have had the longest day of the year already!? So – why not cherish those summer memories, using them as an inspiration to keep on keeping on during the coming autumn and winter, reminding you that you have more summer fun to enjoy next summer.

Just have a think now about how many pictures you’ve taken this summer, and previous years – and where are they now? Sitting on hard disk drives, memory sticks, CD’s? What good are they doing there?

Photo’s are taken in order be enjoyed – so enjoy them by having them transformed into high quality canvas prints, photo cushion covers, personalised tea towels, photo mugs & other high quality personalised items.

To get your summer discount, simply enter the coder UKCPSUMM – and you will get 5% off any and all orders you place between now, and 30th of September.

Enjoy the rest of your summer, and remember – take lots of great photo’s, and don’t let them go to waste – utilise our website, and turn your photographs into exceptional quality art and gifts, to be enjoyed for many years to come.

Fathers day this year, 2011, is Sunday 19th June.

Make Fathers day extra special this year with a personalised photo gift from Photo Image art. When you order, enter the promotional code: Dad10, and you’ll receive a 10% discount .

Why not remind Dad / Grandad how special he is, by giving him a gift far more special and meaningful than the usual shop bought fathers day gifts? Photo gifts make brilliant yet affordable Fathers day gifts. The more standard off-the-shelf gifts are fine – but most affordable gifts within the £5 – £30 price range are really token presents. Personalised gifts are so special because of the photo’s with which the gifts are personalised.

For example, a “best Dad” mug and coaster set is a nice gift – a photo mug and coaster set with a picture of a treasured memory, is a special Fathers day gift. And the possibilities are endless. Just choose an image which your Dad / Grandad would love, and then choose a gift which you feel is suitable.

Some examples of great personalised photo gifts for Fathers Day.

Photo Cushions.

Do you have a great picture of the kids / grandkids – how about a photo cushion? We have three cushion options, and 2 sizes within each cushion type. Click here to see our photo cushions

High Quality Personalised Photo cushions for Fathers Day.

Of course pictures of children and grandchildren are not the only images special to Fathers / Grandfathers. Just choose images that are special to him, it could be his beloved pet, his favourite sporting activity such as Golf or Cricket. A picture of him meeting one of his sporting Hero’s (we can even photoshop such photo’s if you give us a suitable image & tell us who you’d like us to super-impose Dad / Grandad into a picture with). His beloved car or motorbike, a picture of him landing the largest carp he ever caught – the possibilities are limitless.

The Pop Art effect used on this image is FREE, as with all of the professional effects & alterations we provide.

Canvas Prints

Canvas Prints are one of our best selling products for Fathers day. Canvas prints make stunning wall art for the home, especially with the professionally applied effects that we offer free of charge:

Stunning Canvas Prints for Fathers Day

Baby photo's look fantastic as canvas prints!

If you have many images and you can’t decide which to use – photo collage canvas prints are a great idea:

Just send us the images (upload when you order - or email them to us) and we'll create the collage for you free of charge. We'll even send you a proof so you can see how it looks before we print.

Photo Tea Towels

Personalised tea towels are a very popular photo gift – turning any image or photo into a great looking yet also usable gift.

Tea towels have a large print area, so they look stunning - but also, because we use a permanent print process called dye sublimation, the photo tea towels we create are not only for display purposes. you can use & wash these tea towels over and over again, the fabric of the tea towel itself would actually be worn out well before the picture would be, as the image is printed in to the fibres, not on to.

Tea towels are particularly popular for converting art work into gifts. Most parents find that they have boxes full of childrens art work from school, why not make use of it by having it made into special Fathers day gifts?

Personalised tea towels also look great with photo’s of children, pets, special events, holiday photo’s and more.

Photo Mugs

Photo mugs are popular photo gifts for all occasions, they’re affordable, and of course they’re very useful – as everyone uses mugs.

When you order photo mugs from us, you have the option of adding both images and / or text. So just let us know what image you would like to use, and what text you would like to print, and we'll do the rest.

When ordering a personalised mug, we would always recommend making it a set by adding a matching photo coaster, for just £1.88 they’re a very low cost way to make the gift even more special.

Our wooden photo coasters are available both square and round.

Photo Keyrings

Photo keyrings are another very low cost yet high quality photo gift. Of course the print area is small

High quality metal photo keyrings. This is not a photo behind a plastic cover - the photo is actually printed onto aluminium!

These are just a few idea’s to set off your imagination – browse our website for idea’s, and go through all of the images you have both in electronic form, and in print.

The 10% offer (remember to use the coupon code Dad10) is available until Fathers day (June 19th), but the last day to order with guaranteed delivery in time for Fathers day, is Wednesday 15th June. If you’re within driving distance of our studio in Poynton Cheshire, about 20 minutes from Manchester Airport, then you can collect – but telephone us first to discuss if you’re placing a last minute order for a Fathers day gift. If you have any questions email us or telephone us on 01625 876618, and one of our friendly and experience studio staff will be very happy to help.

Time to think about Easter gifts…of course the traditional Easter Eggs are always popular, but why not ring the changes by turning your photographs, pictures or images into high quality personalised photo gifts. For your children, grandchildren, other half, parents and friends, after all, Easter isn’t just for children is it.

We can transform your photographs or any images, into high quality personalised photo gifts, including photo cushions, photo tea towels, photo mugs, canvas prints & much more. Unique bespoke gifts which will last long after all the Easter Eggs have been eaten…and in my experience that doesn’t take very long at all…!

If you’re looking for more traditional gifts, why not merge personalised photo gifts with the traditional chocolate gift – by ordering a personalised photo mug and matching coaster, and filling the mugs with chocolates? Yes, printed mugs containing chocolates or sweets are available off the shelf, but yours would be extra special, a one off unique gift, and the recipient will be aware of the extra effort you’ve made.

Maybe for Mum and Dad, or for Grandparents a pair of matching mugs, a set of Easter mugs of your own design, or a set of mugs and coasters complete with matching tea towel?

We have ‘special’ crockery which only gets used at Christmas don’t we, the shops are full of it around Christmas time, so why not have special Easter crockery, made more special by the fact that you’ve designed it yourself, and we can turn any photo or image into a matching drinks coaster, square or round, laser cut from HDF, high density fibre board, the highest quality engineered wood product available, not the more commonly known MDF, the result being a high quality coater which will look good and will not damage easily.

At Photo Image Art, we put a lot of effort into ensuring that our products are of supreme high quality, including the blank gift, the quality of the design / image alteration work, and the quality of the printing process.

Take our photo mugs for example – we select high quality, true dishwasher safe mugs. There are cheaper blank mugs on the market, which would enable us to make a better margin, but instead we select the best mugs available with the most robust coating, which means that our customers can enjoy their photo mugs without worrying about the image fading, cracking or peeling, as can happen with lower quality mugs.

The printing process we use for photo mugs (and all other items apart from canvas prints, which are directly printed) is called dye sublimation, is a permanent process used to print stunning high quality images onto a wide range of items. The dye sublimation process actually dyes the image into the surface of the item, not just onto it, which means that it will not wash off or run off. There are cheaper image transfer processes such as inkjet and laser transfer, but we are interested in quality, not in acheiviong the lowest prices & maximum profit margins.

So this Easter, surprise your loved ones with photo gifts – and ensure they’re fantastic quality photo gifts, by ordering from Photo Image Art. Get your Easter all wrapped up with our high quality, stunning, unique bespoke gifts, and make someone’s Easter egg…stra special……!

Valentines Day Sale

10% off Selected Photo Gifts

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Surprise your friends and family this year with personalised photo gifts; instead of the same old gift of chocolates, and get 10% off.

Just enter the discount code : easter10

Offer lasts until Easter Sunday (24th April)

The beauty of photo gifts is that the possibilities are limitless; simply use your imagination and you’ll come up with the perfect gift to suit the person / people you’re purchasing the gift for.

Here are some idea’s to get your creative juices flowing:

Personalised Photo Mug with matching coaster – filled with your loved one’s favourite treat.

Granted, printed mugs containing chocolates or sweets are available off the shelf, but yours would be extra special, a one off unique gift, and the recipient will be aware of the extra effort you’ve made.

Maybe for Mum and Dad, or for Grandparents a pair of matching mugs, a set of Easter mugs of your own design, or a set of mugs and coasters complete with matching tea towel?

Going to Mum and Dad’s for easter Sunday – why not surprise them by setting the table to reveal their gift, of personalised wooden photo placemats?

These are just a few idea’s to get you thinking – browse our online shop and you will see we offer a wide range of great personalised photo gifts, so just get creative; choose the perfect bespoke gifts for your friends and family this year, and make Easter eggstra special!

Remember – use the code: easter10 for your 10% discount