Tada!

I present to you...our finished Christmas card for 2010! Well, holiday card - since I waited so long to order them, no way I'll get them all out by Christmas. :) Thanks to Shutterfly's 50 free holiday card promotion, I saved an absolute bundle - but I'm seriously considering re-ordering holiday cards next year. So easy to make and order!! You can check out the original version here if you like - but there are soooooo many others that it makes it hard to choose which one to make!

Cheery Year Powder 2010 Christmas 5x7 folded card

Visit Shutterfly.com for classic photo Christmas cards.

View the entire collection of cards.

My love for Shutterfly continues.

Well, it's that time of the year again - time to send Christmas cards.  Well, I'm considering sending holiday cards to cover everything, but anyway.  I usually buy boxed cards and send them out, but I wanted to buy personalized cards this year - I want to make it a tradition to get a nice picture taken during Thanksgiving and use it for our holiday cards.  While we didn't get a nice picture snapped during the holiday, JJ's birthday is tomorrow(!), and we'll all be spiffied up, so we'll get one snapped then.

Anyway, I've recently discovered the awesome holiday cards that Shutterfly offers.  I already use them for calendars [my mom made and ordered our 2011 calendars earlier this week, and they look SO great - can't wait to get my copy!] and plan on using them for JJ's birthday invitations next year [if I'd stop be lazy about taking pictures, I could've made birthday invitations this year] and baby shower invitations [for showers I throw...I'm not pregnant again yet].  I hadn't realized until recently the wide selection of holiday cards they have; they're so awesome!

As I've flipped through the hundreds of cards Shutterfly offers, I can't decide what I want. I do like these though:


I realize this one is a Christmas card, but I just love it.


I love the blue! This card is so cute. I'm really leaning towards this one if I really do decide to do a holiday card instead of a Christmas card.

I just think this card is SUPER cute. And clever. And different.


Oh my gosh! I love this one! Love the script, the monogram...I love it all.

I need to stop looking at the cards before I make one of each of them and send them to everyone and their mom.  If you haven't checked out their holiday card collection yet, you need to - it's such a great selection.  I haven't decided which design to use yet [obviously], but I'm going to use one of them for our holiday cards.  Even if we can't get a family picture snapped since J isn't home, if I can just get a rockin' shot of JJ, that'll work out awesome.

As I mentioned in my previous blog entry, Shutterfly has been an amazing company to work with.  I've ordered dozens of pictures from them [ordered 154 tonight, actually...ha], and they've always looked great.  I can even upload my iPhone photos to a Shutterfly app for printing...and those prints look like I took them with a regular camera!  They don't distort the picture like some other photo printing people do. My last non-picture order was a photo book I made of J's BMT graduation weekend, and it came out amazing.  I think even J was surprised at how good it came out.  I have another free book offer that needs to be used by Monday, and I hope to get all the pictures from JJ's birthday uploaded so I can make another photo book.  I've had friends who have made wedding and family albums out of their books, and they always come out looking amazing.  I appreciate the ease of use and the many options for personalization; I feel like I really made that book based on my wants and needs, not just premade templates.

I hope that you all take the opportunity to check out their site if you haven't already.  I don't think you'll be disappointed - but if you are, they also have great customer service.  What is there to lose?!  NOTHING!  As another mention, they're currently offering a promotion for bloggers - 50 free holiday cards!  For more information, go here.

So, in short - go check it out.  Now.  What are you waiting for?!

Shutterfly = love.

This morning, when checking in on The Nest [affectionately known as TN], my friend at Confessions of a Blonde Sports Fan...Knitting Optional had posted about a Shutterfly blogger promotion. I always love to rave about Shutterfly, so I wanted to share my experiences with them as well as the blogger promotion with you all.

I've been using Shutterfly for a good four or five years now; my mom discovered it one day [i'm sure it was while watching some show, like oprah or regis & kelly], and we've been using it ever since.  Shutterfly's responsible for our family calendars, numerous photos and, most recently, a photo book I made chronicling J's BMT graduation weekend. That book came out AWESOME, and I'm getting ready to make another book to send to my dad.

Shutterfly is fast, relatively inexpensive, and very easy to use.  The quality of the product is also great - and, there's an app for that. The fact that I can upload my iPhone photos directly to Shutterfly from my phone is one of the biggest reasons I love this site [and, the photo comes out looking awesome].  It's super simple to upload dozens of pictures and organize them into folders, too - and their share sites are awesome.  I can't think of a single negative aspect about Shutterfly, to be honest with you.

This year, we'll be using Shutterfly for our holiday cards and possibly for JJ's birthday invitations [which I need to get on, note to self].  My mom and I also started piecing together our 2011 calendars and hope to get those done BEFORE the new year starts, not AFTER like the past two years [oops].  I just hope that the awesomeness of Shutterfly remains for many, many years - and would kiss their feet if I could for making it so simple to store pictures as well as offering great photo products.

If you're interested in finding out more about the blogger promotion they have going on right now, you can check it out here.  In the meantime, if you've never used Shutterfly before, I highly recommend it.  If you have and love it, join me in thanking them for their awesome service.