Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Free Christmas Cards!!!

Its that time again. Time to start obsessing over Christmas cards. I had decided that I wasn't going them this year. I always spend about a week designing and redesigning our card. And then I'm never completely happy with it. Then I get them printed, search all over for envelopes that are the right size, etc.

Then I saw this post on my friend Samantha's blog : about Shutterfly running a promotion to bloggers to get 50 FREE Christmas cards. So I looked around their site. And I liked what I saw! How cute are these:






You can see all their cute designs here.

But it gets even better. Every year I make my mom a photo calendar. Again I usually custom make them. I know there are lots of sites out there to order photo calendar's, but with a family as big as ours, I like to be able to put everyone's picture on their birthday. It helps when you have 30 or so birthday's on the calendar. I've never been able to find a site that does that, so every year I spend about 25 hours painstakingly designing a calendar myself. I had decided that I just don't have time this year, so my mom wasn't going to get one. Then, while looking at the cards, I discovered that Shutterfly has redone their photo calendars and now has an option to put photos on the calendar dates! YAY!!! Thank you Shutterfly for saving my Christmas gift tradition!

2 comments:

Jill said...

this was my first year doing christmas cards and i had my friend design it and then we went to costco to print it. so easy. they give you the picture with an envelope. i only paid 9 bucks for 50 cards!!! my friend is amazing though. i'm sure it won't be that easy when we don't live by her. love your find though. so much better to pay nothing. merry christmas!!

Sharon said...

I was going to say I have done calendars with pictures. Costco might even do them as well I think that's where I did mine last year. And I get my carts there. Mine where $15 for 50. I don't design my own I just use the ones they have there. I am all for simple. Oh and yes Drew does the brushing first and than joint compressions. If I can remember It really helps. He actually really likes it. It really helps at nighttime. does lincoln have low muscle tone to?