Paisless Press blog editor and digital scrapbook designer Liz Tamanaha shared with us her Thanksgiving album. After collecting her favorite memories, mementos and photos that were scattered around her house throughout the year, she brought them together in a mango Noci photo album to show what she was thankful for.

It’s a simple mini-album with a whole lot of heart: A collection of your favorite photos of the year and why you are thankful for these moments, in three easy steps:

1. Pick 10-12 of your favorite photos from the year
2. Jot down why you are thankful for the moment or memory that the photo depicts
3. Put the photo and the corresponding journaling side-by-side in the album

I'm thinking of doing one of these every year around Thanksgiving time. It'll be neat a few years from now to look through this collection of thankful moments and see how things have changed (or remained the same).

To see more from Liz on Paislee Press, go here.

-Kate

Please join me in congratulating October's winners of the Kolo Monthly Photo Contest 2010! The fifteen lucky winners will receive a $50 worth of Kolo merchandise and are automatically entered to win the grand prize of $500 cash and $500 worth of Kolo products, to be announced on February 1, 2011. Photographs are judged by a panel of expert photographers and designers. Winners will be directly contacted with information about receiving their prize.

Be sure to send in your photos for November's "Blue" theme. Good Luck!

To read more about Kolo's Monthly Photo Contest 2010, go here.

artist: Justin Tiew
title: The London Eye
country: Australia

artist: Zoltán Balogh
title: Questions
country: Hungary

artist: Tirion Jenkins
title: A fragment of the old Crete
country: Hong Kong

artist: David Lazar
title: Our World
country: Australia

artist: Somnath Chatterjee
title: The Land of Endless Discovery 1
country: India

artist: Mohammed Alkharari
title: think
country: Saudi Arabia

artist: Leslie Reinbold
title: Peace of the Land
country: United States

artist: Dibyendu Dey Choudhury
title: First ride
country: India

artist: S P Mukherji
title: Fishing Cans
country: India

artist: Wael Eldeep
title: Working Young
country: Egypt

artist: Paul Zizka
title: Wrecks of Luganville
country: Canada

artist: David Rich
title: Knee Deep
country: United States

artist: J.J. Guy Longtin
title: Low Tide
country: Canada

artist: ian leyland
title: Boats for hire
country: United Kingdom

artist: Gilberto Sendtko
title: Loneliness
country: Brazil

There’s only two months remaining to enter your photos into the Kolo Monthly Photo Contest 2010. This is your chance to win your favorite Kolo albums and boxes, along with earning some extra cash. The grand prize winner will get $500 cash and $500 worth of Kolo merchandise. Six second place winners will receive $100 cash and $100 worth of Kolo merchandise, announced on February 1st, 2011.

November’s theme is BLUE. Get creative, the more variety of photos, the better! The fifteen monthly winners for “blue,” receiving $50 worth of Kolo product and a pass to the next round, will be announced on December 10th.

Don’t forget to upload October’s “travel” photos by Sunday! To start uploading, go here.

For more information on the contest, visit our site.

“Like us” on Facebook to keep updated on photo contest announcements.

-Kate

Iwona Borkowska transformed this red Kolo Cotrina Lux album into a photo collage sharing countless stories of a city’s daily life to its deep history. The mixture of photographs and written words throughout the book tells a narrative through one citizen’s eyes. The careful arrangement and layout design of each page helps capture the feeling of a vast city and place it onto the pages of one singular book.

While attending the College of Technology and Economy and the Art Academy WI Strzeminski, Iwona Borkowska studied textile design, photography, film and video communication.

-Kate

Please join me in congratulating September's winners of the Kolo Monthly Photo Contest 2010! The fifteen lucky winners will receive a $50 worth of Kolo merchandise and are automatically entered to win the grand prize of $500 cash and $500 worth of Kolo products, to be announced on February 1, 2011. Photographs are judged by a panel of expert photographers and designers. Winners will be directly contacted with information about receiving their prize.

Be sure to send in your photos for October's "Travel" theme. Good Luck!

To read more about Kolo's Monthly Photo Contest 2010, go here.

artist: Sudip Roychoudhury
title: Return
country: India

artist: Hansa Tangmanpoowadol
title: Energy
country: Thailand

artist: Susan Watkins
title: Frosty Sunset
country: United Kingdom

artist: Viktorija Vaisvilaite Skirutiene
title: Viola
country: Lithuania

artist: SP Mukherji
title: Yellow Sunrise
country: India

artist: Zoltajn Balogh
title: Silence
country: Hungary

artist: Serge Claes
title: Flowers
country: Belgium

artist: Md.Shahadat Hossain
title: Color of Life
country: Bangladesh

artist: Marieta Culibao
title: Vintage Yellow
country: Philippines

artist: Arup Halder
title: World of Flowers
country: India

artist: Maarja Kliiman
title: Color of the Night
country: Estonia

artist: Jenna Lambdin
title: Yellow Pansy
country: United States

artist: Graham Scheer
title: Canola Field
country: Australia

artist: François-Ferdinand Bozso
title: Crossing the Euphrates
country: Switzerland

artist: Dominique Meynier
title: Pinar del Rio
country: France