Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A Shutterfly Christmas Card Review (and giveaway!)

We've been having a lot of fun doing Thanksgiving activities recently! I'm planning a recap of those for tomorrow, but I have a Christmas giveaway to get started first today. :) I am so excited to once again be able to talk about Shutterfly Photo Christmas Cards! My family has enjoyed using Shutterfly for Christmas cards for a number of years (last year we used Treat, a Shutterfly company). The selection of cards is much bigger and in my opinion, better, this year.

 I'm a big fan of cards that are a little more traditional in color and styling, but also have plenty of options to personalize. Many of Shutterfly's photo card options allow you to pick the same design in different sizes, colors, and even choose between a folded or flat card. Shutterfly introduced a new size card this year - its HUGE at 6x8 inches! It does not require any additional postage to mail, but it is more expensive than the smaller cards.

The inside (of the folded cards) and the back (of the flat cards) has TONS of options to personalize with additional photos, a large amount of text, or some of each. I am very thankful for the opportunity to have some space to write a bit about our year to keep family and friends that live far away from us updated.

Shutterfly is also one of the easiest to use photo gift sites from which I have ordered. As I scrolled through different cards I used the little heart icon to mark several cards as 'favorites' and they were automatically saved to My Shutterfly. It made it so much faster to be able to look back at the ones I had marked to narrow down the card for our family.

I get personalized offers from Shutterfly via email (free photo books, prints, other photo gifts) frequently, and these make great gifts, since all I have to do is pay shipping. If you haven't signed up for Shutterfly's email list yet, I highly recommend it! You can also check out their current Special Offers for more gift ideas.

I'm keeping our Christmas card a secret for now, but I wanted to share a few of my favorites to give you an idea of some of the new styles that Shutterfly has this year.

Simple, with one photo on the front (and I love this shade of blue):
(Light and Joy)

A bit more whimsical and fun, especially if you have small kids:
(Clothesline Frames)

I like the pattern over top the photo in this one:
(Snowy Window)

as well as this one:
(Ornaments of Peace)

Share your family's top ten memories from the year:
(Our Top 10)

I love the beautiful script on the side of this one, along with the multiple photo spots:
(Flourishes of Joy)

Win It!

Shutterfly has generously provided me with a fantastic giveaway prize: $50 off a $50 purchase (excludes applicable tax and shipping. Offer expires 12/14/12)! For a chance to win, leave a comment on this post telling me how you would use the prize...Christmas cards? A photo calendar? Another photo gift? Make sure that your email is visible in your blogger profile or in your comment so that I can contact you if you are the winner. Comments without an email are not valid entries. This giveaway will run until 9pm Eastern November 26, at which point a winner will be chosen via random.org.

Disclosure: Shutterfly sponsored this post and compensated me, but all opinions are 100% my own. 

16 comments:

  1. We weren't going to do cards this year, but we would if we won this!! :o) KLKreidler@yahoo.com

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  2. We would use it to fund this year's Christmas cards

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  3. I would definitely use these for Christmas Cards! :-)

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  4. I would totally use this for Christmas cards - we use Shutterfly most years and are always on the lookout for deals :)

    Becca - beccanemec@yahoo.com

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  5. Would love to win. got my first set of 50 shutterfly cards today and still need to make 50 more! Thanks so much!

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  6. Evan and I say every year we're going to do Christmas cards - I think we definitely would if we won!

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  7. We would use for Christmas cards. Lkfletcherthompson@gmail.com

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  8. We would use this for Christmas cards and calendars. I started giving the grandparents each a photo calendar the year Lyndon was born, and they've been requested every year since.

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  9. I would use it to buy my Christmas cards.

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  10. Not sure if I would use it for Christmas cards or photo books!

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  11. I've been going backwards getting a photobook made for each year. I might continue with my long (but fun!) process, or I might go for cards, I've never sent them out before!

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  12. So many cute cards! How could I not

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  13. I'd love to order some personalized thank you cards! kguikema@yahoo.com

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  14. I would do some cute cards debbie jackson
    djackson1958 at hotmail dot com

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  15. We would definitely use the credit for photo cards....even though we no longer have Becca close by to take our family photo. :(.

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