It's that time of year again to start thinking about Christmas cards. I contemplated making my own cards this year but in an effort to simplify our holiday season I settled on the ever popular photo card. Now comes the hard part...Shutterfly has so many new and wonderful cards this year, I'm having a hard time choosing a design! Ususally I pick out a card and make sure to take pictures of Milo that complement the style and colors. So off I went to choose a card (click here to see the many choices) do I want folded cards, flat cards printed on heavy cardstock, cards printed on photo paper, 4x8, 5x5 or 5x7 and then there is the style; traditional, religious, contemporary, full of color, few colors, oh and how many pictures, they have styles to accomodate between 1 and 6 photos. After a long debate with myself I have decied on this style, but who knows, we'll see after I take the Christmas pictures of Milo :0) One of my favorite things about the cardstock is that it is made from sustainably forested trees.
Why Shutterly you might ask? I have always recieved wonderful quality in a timely fashion from them. My favorite Shutterfly project was a photo book I made about Milo's medical story. I wanted to remember the whole story and be able to share it with others. The book I recieved was wonderful! So professionally printed and bound. So far I have ordered 3 hard back copies, one for Milo, one for me and one for my mom. I am contemplating making another one that is geared toward preschool/Kindergarden age for Milo. I also made some small soft back photo albums for my nephews and niece of their vacation time with us. They were a hit! Shutterfly makes it easy, choose simple path and they will do most of the work for you or fully customize the book yourself (my choice because I'm a bit of a control freak). I have also made calendars and photo mugs for Christmas presents that have turned out beautiful. They also have greeting cards for about any occasion. I especially love the cards who's proceedes benefit the American Lung Association, Heifer International, and LIVESTRONG. I just saw graduation announcements too, for everyone from preschool graduation to college graduation!
Oh and if you have a blog and would like to earn free holiday cards from Shutterly click here to learn how. Even though I wrote this post to earn some fabulous free cards, everything I have said is absolutely true :0) I really do love Shutterfly!
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