One of my favorite things about the holidays is the cards, pictures and newsletters from friends. At the end of the season, I pick my favorite ribbon and wrap all of them like a present. One day, I'll actually do something with them. But because of this, I'm very particular about picking out my cards. So, when another friend had this cool blog posting about Shutterfly cards (thanks Jaclyn!), I had to do the same! Admittedly, there are 50 free cards in the deal for me but since I love their cards and books and use several Share sites, I knew I could speak a little piece on some of my favorite products from Shutterfly.
The cards. I end up ordering cards year round from Shutterfly. And that way I can personalize it so much. For Mother's Day, Steve took a couple of pictures of Beca hugging my belly (with Meredith still in) and I quickly put 4 different pictures onto a card and was able to send those out! Took less effort than a Hallmark visit and was way more personal! ) The Christmas card designs and layouts are always fantastic and I have such a hard time choosing. I know people who don't think through it at length as I do probably spend a lot less time and can just put 2 or 3 pictures on and click "Order". I spend 2 or 3 weeks going back and looking at it. So far, may favorite for this year from the collection -http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards is:
Some of my other favorite items to get from Shutterfly are the magnets, mugs and Photo books. Beca's friends love getting magnets of themselves at Christmas. And the coffee drinkers in our lives often find a happy little mug on a mug for birthdays or Mother's/Father's Days.
I think my favorite gift to give is our family book. It's the year in pictures for those very close to us. I honestly have started that on a few other sites to get it cheaper but never liked the layouts and backgrounds and options that I have on the other sites. Shutterfly always makes it a great project and I can keep adding and tweaking and saving until I'm totally happy with it! We always keep one for ourselves. Beca has the best time looking back at them and "remembering" the trips and fun days. It's also a stop-gap measure to truly scrapbooking the pictures we have. One day, I'll get to do more of that but for now, the little book suffices. This year should be interesting with either trying to compress the pictures onto the number of pages or buying more pages. I'm thinking there might be some thicker books!
So I love Shutterfly and even when other sites offer up deals, I've always found myself back uploading to them. It generally means kicking Steve off World of Warcraft to gain the bandwidth necessary. But it means that I have photos that I can put on all kinds of products and then be able to pass on something that someone else might want to tie a special ribbon around and save forever!
Bloggers get 50 free holiday cards from Shutterfly, follow the arrow à http://bit.ly/sfly2010
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