Are You Sending Christmas Cards This Year?
Right about now I start thinking about our family holiday photo. The kids grow so quickly, life pushes past and there you are again one year since you rounded up the whole gang to take a picture.
We used to send out Christmas cards every year with a family newsletter. Since starting the blog I just kind of figured that people could keep up with us here. But I realize that many of my family and friends have still not joined the blog phenomenon. In fact, when I mention to them that I’m a blogger they give me a puzzled, “Poor little thing,” expression.
So this year I’m going to surprise a few great aunts and uncles with a Christmas card and a family picture. It’s been so long since I sent one that I may need to include smelling salts with the cards.
I’m going to make it easy on myself and order it all through Shutterfly. Gone are my days of cutting 300 little red and green squares, gluing them onto cardstock, going to the 1-hour photo 3 times before I get it right. Now I can just click-click-click and it’s all done. They have so many adorable choices….I can’t decide which one to pick.
The Shutterfly website has wonderful tips and a video about having a Family Photo Day. I watched it last night and it gave me all kinds of ideas for our family picture this year. I just need a few bales of hay, some giant ornaments and a cow.
You can watch their video for some photo inspiration. I’m the first to admit, my idea won’t work for everyone.
If you already have a great photo, Shutterfly has a Cardworthy Photo Sweepstakes on Facebook where they are giving away 4 amazing prizes including a dream trip for a family of four. I could really use that. I wonder which 7 kids we’ll leave at home.
I’ll be posting pictures my family photo session after Thanksgiving. If you haven’t taken your pictures by then I am sure my images of pandemonium will help to encourage you.
I’m really, really excited to be able to give one of you, my beautiful readers/friends, a ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR promotional code to Shutterfly! You can surprise those long lost relatives with a family photo for the holidays….or order yourself something special to hang on the wall. There are no rules that say you have to spend it on Christmas cards. But there might be a rule that says if you do….you have to send me one. Smelling salts not included.
Enter below…..good luck!
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I am part of the Mom It Forward blogger network. Mom It Forward and Shutterfly partnered together in this campaign. Shutterfly compensated me for my participation, but all opinions and thoughts are my own.
What would I do with $100 at shutter fly!? Aaahh! I’d be super excited! I’d get the family photo book I want to make into a yearly family tradition!
I’d love to get Christmas cards as well as make a couple of mini-photo books for our relatives afar…
I LOVE shutterfly!! I use them for our Christmas cards almost every year!! If I had $100 from shutter fly I would definitely get some Christmas cards & maybe some photo books for the grandparents for Christmas!! 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway Lisa!
what would i do ? oh my! I might pass out first cos im going to go on a photo spree! then i will hopefully get my photo albums up to date 🙂
I would love to have cards made…. print a photo book, maybe?? Thank you for having this giveaway!
Christmas cards and a photo book
I would order their really cute Christmas cards that are usually over my budget!
What a great giveaway! I have so many photo books I want to make! That’s what I’ll do if I win:)
I would by Christmas cards and maybe some gifts.
I would love some Christmas cards….or maybe a photo book! Decisions, decisions! Thanks for the chance!
I love Shutterfly so much! I have tons of photo books to catch up on and I would love to order calendars for the grandmas! 🙂
I love to give Photobooks as gifts to grandparents, but maybe I would even (finally) get one for myself!!!
I was looking at their cards yesterday to try and pick one! This would be nice!
I would spend it on Christmas cards of course!!
I always use Shutterfly for my printing needs. Thank you for the giveaway. I would order all my Christmas cards and one or two photo calendars for the grandparents.
I would use it on photo books – we had two weddings in the family within one year… I’d love to be able to make photo books for the grandparents (and me :-))
I would love for each of my shutterbug daughters to make a book of their best photos. Anything left over would be used for graduation announcements and some of the many, many reprints that we would like to have.
I would love to make a photo book! Shutterfly prints such nice ones!
I think I would use it to do my yearly recap of my son and with what is left I would do some shoots for some people I know can’t really afford otvand them make them photo books as well
I really want to make a nice photobook for my mother for Christmas. I recently discovered their site and it is awesome!!
I would catch up on my youngest son’s baby album (he is four)!
What would I do with $100 from Shutterfly? Christmas cards for this year and calendars for next year.