When was the last time you printed photos and actually put them in a photo album? It’s a practice of another time, something families simply don’t do anymore. As much as I love all the photos of my kids, they don’t go much further than my phone. We do yearly family photos and those get put in frames and on our walls, thank goodness, but other than that – it just doesn’t happen. Ahead of a trip for my husband and I this week to England, the KiiPix Smartphone Picture Printer arrived at our door to review which was perfect timing! I printed a few cute photos from my phone to use as bookmarks while we travel!
Available in stores at Toys R Us in Canada ($49.99) or online at Amazon.ca ($51.99), this mini wonder prints photos right from your smart phone onto cute little Fujifilm Instax Mini instant film (sold separately). It folds compact and is super light making it a fun take-along for travel or everyday adventures.
Using the KiiPix Smartphone Picture Printer is easy – so easy that my 10 and 7 year old daughters took to it quite quickly, and I’ve already ordered more film. You simply place your phone (at optimal brightness, we learned we should have read this in the instructions first) face down and then click the exposure button to take the photo. Then turn the dial on the side to roll out the photo and watch it develop before your eyes!
The photos are a photo of a photo essentially, so the quality is what you’d expect. However, for kids wanting photos of their friends or the catapillar pet they had all summer, or for a mom to create bookmarks to take on her holiday, it’s great. This is also a great gift idea for birthdays and the holidays for that hard to buy for tween – just remember that they’ll need extra film too!
I have another KiiPix Smartphone Picture Printer set aside for one lucky reader! To enter, simply fill in your name and email address in the form below and click BEGIN. Then leave a comment on this post telling me what you would use your printed photos for – decor? A keepsake in your wallet? Bookmarks like me? Or another great idea?
I would make these into christmas cards for family members. Thanks! š
I would make birthday and Christmas cards!
With everything being digital Iād love to print out the memories on my phone Write on them as notes and give away to my kids and extended family
I would definitely use this for decorations, like the picture clock I want to make for my bedroom.
I’d make a collage with pics of my grandchildren!
This would be amazing to have! I would print my favourite pictures from my phone and frame them š
My kids would print photos to put on their walls – they love making photo collages!
I would use them for sharing and to make photo collages.
I would use it for cards and decorations.
I will use in Christmas crafts for my girls to gift!
I would use the printer for decor but love the idea of making bookmarks!
A great item to make those collage frames she loves
I would want to go old school and do a photo album, so I could keep all of the memories in one place but I love your book mark idea too.
I would use it to send photos to my great aunts. They are in their 90s and love it when they get family photos.
Id use these pictures for scrapbooking
I’d use it for decor – a hanging collage š
We’d use this printer to keep the family up to date with what is happening in our world.
I would use these as keepsakes.
They would be going on the fridge for everyone to see.
Would be great for keepsakes, to use when making crafts and would be great when making cards or scrapbooking!
I would use them for sharing
this would be great for gift tags or photos for lockets
To hang on the wall o fridge!
too cool I would use it for lots of things like birthday, Christmas cards and collage of my granddaughers
a keepsake photo for my wallet
I’d keep them in my wallet!
Remember the polaroid thrill. That’s how I’d use it
I think this would be great fun for my grandkids so that they could print off some of the numerous photo’s that they take
I would use them in an album to look at anytime I want.
I would use these for making keepsake crafts with my grandson.
I would do a collage of pictures for my daughters room and create a photo book too
keepsakes!
I would gift this to my granddaughter and she would probably use it for colleges of all her friends!
My kids would have fun decorating their whiteboards with the pictures.
I love your bookmark idea – I’d definitely be copying that š It would make for sweet photos in my son’s scrapbook too! Thanks for the chance to win š
I’d probably use the pictures in some sort of craft!
I’d love to add photos to my planner.
I’d use the photos to take a picture of everyone and put it above their coat hooks and garage sport lockers!
I think my granddaughter and I would find all kinds of crafty things to do with the nice little pictures that it would print….Christmas ornaments as the first thing that comes to mind.
I do scrapbooking, so I would use them to make beautiful memories come to life on paper.
I would print out pics to put on the fridge.
I would make it into ornaments which would decorate our Christmas tree this year.
I think Iād use it to gift picture to the grandparents who are constantly asking for printed photos!
It seems like I am constantly having to stand at the Kodak picture kiosk in my local grocery store and have to print pictures off for my daughter to use for school projects. This would save me so much time!
I think my kids would have a great time taking pictures, printing them and then putting them into a little book with some hand written notes and pictures. How much fun would it be to look back at in 10 years?!?
I would use them for Christmas cards!
I would use it to make greeting cards
would be great for sharing; my teen could post them on her wall as decorations, share with friends; to make a little photo album – so many opportunities !
I would make cards for Christmas!
I would use it to print photos to send to the grandparents and aunts and uncles, who stay in South Africa
I would love to make a collage of my pictures of my kids and my puppy.
My daughter loves to have photos printed. She has a twinkle line with little clips on it to display her artwork/photos/etc in her room. She would really enjoy printing her own photos to add to her display.
I would make cards!
I would love to print little pictures for my wallet! And my daughters would love to use this to make things like bookmarks, decorations, mini cards etc.
I would use it for cards and decorations!
Totally would use this to make birthday/thank you cards
I would make different Holiday cards
I would like to make bookmarks for my family members.
I would use some for work, and also for wallet pictures and other stuff š thanks!
Journaling on the go!
I would make a collage with photos of everyone attending our family dinners.
i would use it to add cute photos to my daughters lunch until she can read then i can switch over to notes and use this for sending out cards!
I print alot of photos & make cards with them. I would also use this for my wallet pictures & cards.
I would use this to share photos of my boys with my mom, their grandma! š
Birthday invitations Christmas cards Bookmarks so many ideas but these are my 3 favourite
I would like to use the printed photos for a wall collage.
These would be great to send little pics in my kids planners for school. Bookmark sounds like a cool idea too
I would use the photos to make a picture collages, cards and decorations!
My grandkids live an airplane ride away so I would use it to surround myself in their pictures.
I’d make a collage with them.
I will use the printed photos for Christmas cards
I would print pictures for wallets and gifts.
This would be great for personalized cards.
I would use it as decor!
I’ll use the photos as gift tags.
With my kids being so little I think it’s fun to pop their photos on their gifts (since they can’t read quite yet). We also started to attach their photos with little notes to the gifts they’re giving to others. I know grandma appreciates the photos and usually adds them to her albums and picture frames.
I would make collages for the grandparents. They are always asking for photos of the kids but we only just have them on our phones.