Have you ever gotten a custom puzzle made? Let's all share some more tips in the comments, and make sure to check out the description for all the info on how to get one from Ravensburger!

Pro tip. If you're scanning in old photos to use, be sure to scan them in at a high resolution so your puzzle comes out cute.

I have been making custom puzzles from Shutterfly for many years. I usually make a 252 piece puzzle. I always use a collage of family photos which works out pretty well. Unfortunately, the quality of the puzzle is not great. A lot of the bits are bent, and the puzzle doesn’t lie flat. So I am very happy to hear that I can make custom puzzles from Ravensburger. I did not know that. I am excited to transfer my business over to them. By the way, you were definitely a super cute kid.

Been wanting to make a puzzle out of my wedding photos for a while. This is great

Oh YES! I did that two years ago for my daughter. She loved her playmobil castle with all the ladies, princesses and stuff. I put ALL of them (30?) on the stairs of the castle for a group photo. Even the animals 😄 Gave the puzzle to her as a christmas gift. She still loves it ♥️

At my workplace we had a few custom puzzles made based on infrastructure diagrams of systems we work on. I know it's not as *cute* as family photos, but we did make sure to have a slight gradient in all the solid areas to make the puzzles easier to solve. The goal of the puzzles was for us to remember aspects of our systems as we build the puzzles.

Karen: don’t use a picture with a solid background! Also Karen: orders a puzzle with 20% solid black 😂

For ppl in the uk you can get custom ravensburger puzzles from photobox ☺️ they’re great! I’ve got 2 and both are really nice quality

My husband ordered a puzzle photo from our wedding pictures for us. He chose a grayscale picture of us in my white wedding dress and his dark burgundy suit (show up as black) and a white car parked on a cobblestone area 🥲. When I saw the pic he chose my jaw dropped and we just giggled for 10 mins at his very great idea. It turned out to be fun though to separate the white with texture (my dress), plain white (car), and grayish white (the sky), as well as figuring out all the cobblestone pieces that all looked very similar 😂😂

I once had a custom puzzle made. I split it up to fill an advent calender. Every day the person got a few more pieces. I actually used a picture that I drew myself. And I picked a really colorful one. Turned out pretty cute 😊

"Not every image in the world is gonna be fun to do as a puzzle." As someone who has drawn pet portraits for people, this is a common thing we have to say xD Yes, that is a very cute photo of your baby, but it will not make for a good pet portrait artwork x'D

I know Karen wouldn't like it because of all the fur, but it would be lovely to have a puzzle of one's own pets 🐈🐕

Future Video Idea: KAREN GOES TO A PUZZLE FACTORY (I would really like to see how the puzzles are made!)

We love a sponsored queen 👸 🥳

Wow! Only 2 weeks for them to print, cut, and ship a custom puzzle! I didn't realize it would be so fast!

My husband got me a puzzle out of my favorite picture of us - it was such a thoughtful gift! I really love it ….but in the picture both of us are wearing dark clothes. It made up about 1/4 of the picture and it took forever to finish 😅 and I can attest, it is very weird putting together pieces of your own face. But still very CUTE😊 it would be fun to get another one made!

The way I yelled, "Yes!" When you said this video is sponsored by Ravensberg!

Yes! Ravensberger sponsorship- good for you!

They all looked great, and very good quality. The smaller sizes would be the perfect presents for children. They would love doing them again and again and again.

I seriously was halfway through your video when I paused it, went to Ravensburger, and made a custom puzzle for myself. You may have unleashed a monster! I doubt any of mine will be as cute, though. 🙂

Hi Karen I got a 1500 ravensburger puzzle and I put all of my trinkets and pictures and baby stuff in a pile on the floor and took a picture of that The puzzle turned out so incredibly cool So so so cool So glad you're sharing this with everyone 👍🏽👏🏽🤗💜

This is a cute idea for a Christmas gift for my parents: I think they would love a grandkids collage puzzle!

I had no idea custom puzzles were a thing. I now know what to get my mom for the holidays.

What a CUTE little baby you were! 😀 I'm considering making my own custom puzzle now. Thanks for the promo code Karen!

the first photo kind of gives me the same vibe as pictures that come in frames when you buy them new.

I’ve been wondering what to do for my puzzling sister and this is it!! Now to decide what theme/pics to choose😻 And you both are cute kids!

oh gosh this looks fun! I want to do a collage of my cat! I'm worried about pixelation though. what a great gift

I've never had a custom puzzle made. But my parents had a cute custom of calendar made of my niece, who is their 1st grandchild

My parents are a nightmare because they defeat any hard puzzle quickly. This video is gold. Thank you. I need to make them something hard and also engaging. I just need to reverse your instructions about ease……

Very cute, and excellent tips! Next we need a custom Puzz3D featuring you and Katie Puzzles!

That cute little baby is the Cute Karen I follow today. What a great gift idea for me as a dissectologist to share with my grandchildren this Christmas.!

CUTE! Scrolling through all my photos now.....

My sister and I got my mum a New York Times puzzle of the front page on her birth day, looked great! Pricey, but great quality.

CUTE! Thank you for sharing - totally doing this!

I think that my favorite photo of my beloved cat has a varied enough background that I’m going to give it a try with a 500-piece puzzle. I’ve been thinking of using Shutterfly but I’d much rather use Ravensburger. Thanks for the discount code, Karen. You are still CUTE! (I’m a fan of the new Friday upload schedule.)

I've picked making a custom puzzle as my yearly tradition with myself, as in it's my Christmas present for myself every year. I make a custom collage in GIMP out of our yearly highlight pictures (I do three landscape ones on each side and two portrait ones in the middle, landscape format) and order it as a 1500 piece Ravensburger Puzzle. Those are the only ones I hang up actually! They decorate our hallway. This year is going to be the third year ❤️ I use your tips to hang puzzles from way back! ☺️ I'm a little sad the coupon will not work in Germany 🥺 Great video, Karen, it will help so many people have more fun with their custom puzzles ❤️

My children gave me a puzzle of 2000 pieces with 7 blurry selfies on it. 😵‍💫 On one picture everyone wears the same grey bandshirt. On another picture they wear the same shirt again.🥴 And there is no picture on the box! 😬Needless to say that I put hours and hours in it without finishing. Next winter I will try it again!!! Luckely my kids are as cute as Karen and Katie! 😃 (Sorry for my bad English...🇳🇱)

I made the exact mistakes you are talking about. My husband and I got married last year and I love one on the pictures soo much I got it made into a 1000 poce puzzle. It arrived in April and I have not finished it yet because 2/3 of the picture is trees. And at this point it's basically a solid color puzzle. I did the 1/3 that is not trees already and had a lot of fun. But the trees.... I still adore the picture and wanna get it finished. I already have all the remaining pieces sorted out by shape. But it's a LOT of pieces still left 😭

Expert level tip: if you want to surprise your sister with a puzzle gift, don't post it on KZfaq in October. :-)

Good luck at nationals next week. I made a Ravensburger custom puzzle for family. Taking a pic with lots of distinct areas, picking a pixel resolution that works for the puzzle size, and figuring out how many pieces were best for the desired difficulty were the big steps.

Bummer that it’s only US! Such a great and cute gift idea 💡- love from Australia x

They should use these puzzles as the San Diego speed puzzle competition puzzle.

This came in a PERFECT time, thank you!

Very cute kids! But definitely 90s style outfits with those dresses & matching bow! What were our mothers thinking?! 😆

got a photo puzzle from a friend. its her black dog in snow. no other colors 😂

What a great idea for a video. Very helpful and timely, especially the tip about the subject taking up most of the photo. Thank you Karen!

I am going to order one. I wish that it came with a printed guide inside or that the picture on the top of the box covered the entire box. Thank you for the tips and the coupon code! :)

The picture you chose for the 100 pieces puzzle is very good ! Not only were you cute as a baby, but the picture itself looks very professional. Perhaps it is the neat colour blocks and the framing/composition (there is just the right quantity of background foliage), I'm not an artist, but I couldn't help thinking it came from a catalogue. Maybe I watched Parks & Recreations too much, but I do think it would fit just right into a Parks and Recs catalogue. "Do you see how happy this child looks ? That's thanks to our brand new playgrounds !" I have never ordered a custom puzzle, and probably never will (I don't have particularly pretty photographs, I'd rather buy ordinary puzzles with professionally chosen pictures), but the advice you give on your channel did help me when I tried to get back to puzzling. I puzzled as a child, but kind of stopped as a teenager (maybe earlier), and thus never completed puzzles with more than 200-300 pieces. A few years ago, friends of mine who puzzle regularly offered me a 1000 pieces puzzle for my birthday, which I tried to complete, but it was just too hard (if anyone is curious, you can find the original image on Wikipedia, to illustrate the Santorini article, it is the "Sunset in the village of Oia" one, with the colours altered a little to make it easier). I kind of forgot about it, until KZfaq suggested your channel a few months ago and I ended up watching a lot of your videos. It motivated me to try to get back to it, but more gradually. Thanks to your advice, I was able to pick a 1000 pieces puzzle with a much easier picture, and two 500 pieces with hard-ish pictures. I'm glad Ravensburger puzzles are good quality because they really dominate the market here (along with Nathan Puzzles, which was acquired by Ravensburger a couple decades ago, so they have a different approach in terms of choices of pictures and tend to favour larger puzzles (1500, 2000, 3000 pieces), but they are probably identical in terms of manufacturing), it would have been harder to find another brand.

I love how all of the puzzles are in portrait mode, even though your camera setup is optimised for landscape so you have to solve them turned 90 degrees 😆 But I guess these pictures were just too cute not to choose ;)

What an awesome Christmas gift idea! And thanks a lot for all the tips and tricks on getting the best puzzle out of it!

Speaking of holiday puzzle gifts, I have my advent calendar puzzles all packed up and ready to go based on the method you showed us last year! I just hope the recipients think the images and the wrapping are as cute as I do. 💜

Thank you! I'm always trying to think of a great Christmas gift for mom, and your idea will be loved! Great video, so cute.

You do have such cute baby pictures! I have had a custom puzzle made once before with some pitfalls! The photo collage had everyone in the same outfits, so the textures the same were all over the photo, and they were pretty dark. GRATEFULLY, there was some lettering and border texture to help break into the puzzle and grid it out. Thank you so much for a coupon code (and for sponsoring, Ravensburger!!) -- we will be making a custom puzzle or two this holiday season thanks to your inspiration!!

"I was such a cute kid" and you're an adorable adult! 💜

That’s a cute puzzle and now I have a ton of gift ideas. Thanks for this.

We were gifted a cute puzzle last spring of us sitting on a couch with our dog at our feet. Chipper died a few months later and the puzzle is such a good memory of him. I’m thinking of creating a montage of Chipper photos in a puzzle. I like the idea of Ravensburger quality. Thanks, Karen, for creating this super fun video!

Thank you Karen!!! This is the PERFECT gift for my mom and it was so helpful with the guiding steps in the first half of the video. I will for sure be using your promo code so thank you to Ravensburger as well.

This is too sweet, I can't bare it! 😊 What a CUTE project!

Too CUTE !!

I've been wanting a custom puzzle for a video game scene forever :0 was waiting for Ravensberger to re-open their custom orders ever since covid so this is great! The only worry is its resolution but hopefully I can find a way to upscale it.

Ohh I kinda of want one. What a great ad for Ravensburger. The swing photo is a beautiful shot! Cute!

I LOVE this idea, of creating a puzzle from your own personal photos! Now, I need to go through our photo albums. Thanks for sharing this idea ❤

Your channel is really fun for me. Not only do I get to watch you tackle interesting puzzles, but I also get to learn about some puzzle history and ways to make your own puzzles like in this episode. Keep up the great work.

Oh my lordy, I worked for Penney's/Lifetouch back in the day and that backdrop brought back SO many memories! When studios started shutting down the company let me keep a few of them. I'm pretty sure that one's in my storage unit somewhere. You're absolutely correct, this was VERY cute! 💖

Not puzzle but diamond painting of my dog and I love it, it hangs in the corridor of my family home

my best friend got me a custom puzzle of all of our best photos for christmas and i cried !! best present !

Your channel popped up in my KZfaq feed. I have now, 1 week into your videos, ordered 7 puzzles from Bits and pieces, 8 puzzles from Buffalo, and 1 from Amazon/Colorworks brand. I fall into the addiction process with everything I do. It’s a love/hate relationship with myself. 😂 🤦🏻‍♀️ I have a future plan to take a photo of my collection of sea glass, layering the different shades as gradient and add my shells, stones from the beach, sand, for a custom puzzle. Then I can pass my collection on and not have so much clutter in my house. 👍 I’ll still get to enjoy it. 😊 puzzle form.

Cute idea for a Christmas present. Thanks!

I just finished my first custom, 500 pieces, from Ravensburger! So worth it. It's a picture of my cat laying on a Ravensburger box while I work on a puzzle, lol. Yep, my cat is solid white. Yep, a large part of the background is black. But it turned out beautifully, with her white fur contrasted against the black. The box and in progress puzzle are part of it too, so it's not totally black and white, lol. I want to do one with my other cat now. Yep, she's solid white too.

Hmmmm I never even knew custom photo puzzles were a thing!

I did help out on a custom made puzzle of a scene from Norway, it had a third of solid blue sky without any clouds (that part was all mine too solve). The whole puzzle was 1500 pieces, I guess 450 was blue. It took me two and a half days. But I was so proud afterwards.

had a puzzle made for my parents for their wedding last year :) they did it during their honeymoon and framed it

Such a cute gift.

Thanks so much for this wonderful idea. I just ordered two as gifts for Christmas.

I am dying to tell you what a cute baby you were. Really glad Ravensburger sponsored this video. I had no idea they made custom puzzles - all the ones I've seen were printed at local souvenir shops and the quality is abysmal. A custom Ravensburger puzzle sounds like an awesome gift. You keep emphasizing "photopuzzles" so I wonder if non-photo images are an option. Personally I don't like photographs in puzzles. The background parts that are out of focus are difficult and annoying to me because my eyes already have trouble focusing. If there are crisp lines or consistent brush stroke textures, it's a lot nicer to put together. I would at least add a painting filter to photographs before submitting for print.

Such a cute idea!

Hello everyone and Karen!

Haha, I love landscape puzzles :D I love Ravensburger panorama puzzles - special the ones from Iceland

This is such a CUTE gift idea! Loved the video as always!

love it！soooo lovely！

Congratulations on the sponsorship! You deserve it!

Welcome back!!! I hope you enjoyed your vacation. 🙂

Cute idea for a Christmas present

So CUTE!!! Great tips, now I'm off to search for perfect pictures to order my own custom puzzles

thank you, I just got the perfect idea for a christmas present for my family!

How cute! What a fun puzzle gift idea. I ordered one just in time, but I haven't decided if I'm going to gift it or keep it for myself.

How cute! 😍

New to your channel, Karen. You were a cute baby no doubt, and you still are today. My husband and I have been doing puzzles for a few months and love it. God bless you.

so cute Karen, i like your videos so much, because you are a very symphatetic person

So cool that you can get a custom ravensburger! and you chose very cute pictures!

I would love to make a puzzle especially for my mom. Thank you for the tips cause I almost used a really challenging puzzle as a birthday gift for my mom. Cute.

I’m watching this while puzzling my custom puzzle I made 2 years ago 😂

You and Katie were both so cute 😍 I love this idea for a Christmas gift!

Nice! My husband bought me puzzle from them few years ago and it was very good quality but he picked photo opposite your recomendation - 2/3 of picture was blurred grass with leaves and trees :D :D but i love it and it was so fun! :)

Never had a custom puzzle made. Your choices were all great. You were a cute toddler, indeed. Something I would have to think about.

Watching you do the portrait-orientation puzzles sideways was really weird! I could never!

Cute. Great idea,

Toddler Karen was already a puzzler!?! 🤯😍

Just used your code! Thanks so much for that! 🥰

Thank you cutie pie! Funa and informative as always 👌