FREE Christmas Cards!!

As most of you know, I am a HUGE fan of Shutterfly. I use them every year for our Christmas cards, and this year I used them for Harper's birth announcements and thank you cards. And I love their return address labels because you can add your own photos for a personal touch. 

Well good news!! Shutterfly is currently hosting a holiday card promotion for bloggers! And this is one promotion you will not want to miss! Bloggers can get 50 free holiday cards from Shutterfly if they blog about their experience with the company and the new holiday card collection! Check out all of the details here! 

When I send out Christmas cards I want them to have a personal touch and Shutterfly Christmas cards allow you to include tons of photos on every card. It makes it way more convenient than trying to print out photos and include them inside the card when you send them out. The cards are very high quality and the photos look clear, crisp, and vibrant. I went ahead and made a Christmas card to show you how absolutely adorable they are. (This isn't going to be the one I send out but it turned out pretty darn cute!) 

This photo shows the front of the card but the best part is Shutterfly allows you to put even more photos inside the card at no additional cost. So I usually put another 4 photos on the left-hand side of the card and have a nice Christmas verse on the right. This is the Retro Plaid Christmas card. Some of my other favorite designs are Seasonal Chic Noir, Bright Blooming Tree , and Monogram Snowman. Shutterfly came out with a ton of new Christmas card designs!! Check out their 2010 holiday card collection HERE! 

Retro Plaid Christmas 5x7 folded card

Shop Shutterfly.com for elegant Christmas photo cards.

View the entire collection of cards.

They have matching address labels for almost all of their holiday cards but I usually go with a label that allows you to add a photo on it. Aren't these ADORABLE!!

Some of my favorite products are:

·         Christmas cards,  photo calendars, and Christmas gift tags. I think the photo calendars would be a GREAT gift for family and friends. 

Need help with your Christmas card message? Here are several ideas:

Non-denominational Christmas Card Messages

Wishing you a joyous Holiday Season

and a most prosperous and healthy New Year.

Warmest wishes

for a happy holiday season

and a wonderful new year.

May the Holiday Season

bring only happiness and joy

to you and your loved ones.

Wishing you and your loved ones 

all the wonder and magic of Christmas.

Joyous songs and Christmas cheer...

laughter and friendship to you all year!

A heartfelt Christmas Wish for you May all 

your Christmas lights come on the first time 

you plug them in! Have a Bright Christmas!

'Tis the season to be jolly – 

May your Christmas be filled with all the things 

that make you smile!

Religious Christmas Card Messages:

Wishing you the gift of faith, the blessing 

of hope and the peace of His love at 

Christmas and always.

May the splendor of this season remind you

of Him who is worthy of all our praise.

Biblical Christmas Card Messages:

Today in the town of David

a Savior has been born to you:

he is Christ the Lord.

-Luke 2:11

We have seen His star in the East,

and have come to worship Him.

-Matthew 2:2

And suddenly there was the angel,

a multitude of the heavenly host,

praising God and saying:

"Glory to God in the highest."

-Luke 2:13

"She shall bring forth a son,

and thou shall call His name Jesus;

for He shall save His people from their sins."

-Matthew 1:21

"Behold...

I bring you good tidings of great joy."

-Luke 2:10

And what kind of post would this be without a few great coupon codes?! Here they are! I hope they work for you. 

Free shipping on orders over $30- SHIP30

One free card- CARD4U

25% off cards- FATWALLET5

5% off Cards- CSHARE5

10% off your order- SAVE10

5 free cards- TRYFIVE

Baby Announcements!

I have this crazy idea stuck in my head that once the baby gets here, I am not going to have time to do anything for awhile. I made a long to-do list to try to accomplish before his arrival.

Fifth on the list is gathering all my friends and family's current contact information. I want to make sure we have all the numbers stored in Erik's cell so he can make the phone calls when Harper arrives. And I want to have everyone's address for the baby announcements.

I have found it REALLY difficult to keep up with everyone's address information. I swear my friends and family move on a regular basis. Erik and I just moved in June and I am thinking about ordering those cute little "we moved" cards to send out. Because I am having a heck of a time figuring out which friends live where. So I figure if everyone sent out these cards, life would be easier.

But anyways, back to the baby announcements... I looked up several websites that carry announcements but I think I am going to stick to what I know which is Shutterfly. We used Shutterfly for our Christmas cards last year and they were BEAUTIFUL!!

Here are my favorite picks from the Shutterfly website:

Which one do you like the best? I think they are all pretty darn cute! 

One of my favorite things about Shutterfly is the fact that you can set-up an account and it allows you to save all of your addresses online. Then you can pay a little extra and they will actually address and stamp the envelopes for you and send them out. We haven't decided if we are going to take that route but it is a nice option to have!! 

Right now you can get free shipping on orders $30 or more. You just have to put in the coupon code "Ship30" at checkout. 

So what do you think? Do you like any of those announcements? Do you have any other websites or stores you recommend?