Shutterfly Makes Holiday Memories Last Longer! Review + Giveaway

I cannot tell you enough how much I love picture cards during the holidays. Being 1500 miles away from 99% of my family means that unfortunately we do not see each other as often as we would like to. Often the holiday cards we receive is the only pictures we get of certain family members; and we love seeing how the children or family have grown through the year.

We've used several different sites for cards, digital pictures, and photo gifts, but honestly the majority of our products are from Shutterfly. I just love the quality of the products, our family enjoys the quality of the photo gifts, (for mother's day I made calendars once), and I would even go to the extent to call ourselves a "Shutterfly Family". In fact, preparing for this post, I logged into my account and checked the account history and copied some of our cards from previous years. These were from 2005, 2006, and then the photo I used for 2007. I had found pretty picture slide-in type cards that year, and ordered the pictures only, to fill them that year.

Even with my own kids, I love seeing how they've grown and matured through the years. We always take the pictures in front of my mom's Christmas tree, mainly because it's usually set up the weekend after Thanksgiving, and we usually have a real tree that's set up only a couple of weeks before Christmas Eve.

This holiday season, Shutterfly is offering some great deals on photo holiday cards, and many start at only $0.32 a card. This includes the photo, a personalized message, and an envelope. One year for Father's Day, I paid a little extra and had the three Father's Day cards I ordered shipped directly to our Dad's and to my hubby. It was great not to stress about misplacing the product before I could get them to the post office, or getting stamps, or any of that. If you have the extra money in your budget this year, I highly recommend using that service. Granted, if you're sending 150 cards, that will probably be too costly, but definitely look into it.

If you're a blogger and would like to spread the word about the great deals at Shutterfly, you can earn 50 Free Cards. Bloggers, click here for more information.

Our friends at Shutterfly have offered 5 of our lucky readers their chance to WIN 10 Free Holiday Cards! Enter multiple times for your chance to win up to 50 CARDS!!!

Here's How:
Visit Shutterfly.com and check out the large selection of holiday photo cards. Come back here and tell me which one you would order if you won!


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This giveaway is open to residents of the US, and anywhere Shutterfly ships to. For more information, visit shutterfly.com . This giveaway will end on December 6, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST. The 5 winners will be chosen using Random.org, and all winner information will be posted on our WINNERS PAGE and on this post. After winner validates entry, the gift code will be emailed directly to the winner. Please include a valid email address and your user id in your comment. If we cannot find a way to contact you, we will not, we will choose another winner. We do try to email all winners, but due to the volume of giveaways offered on our site, delays can be expected. If you catch your name before we email you, please feel free to contact us first. :) Any unclaimed prizes will be redrawn accordingly and at the discretion of 4BabyAndMom. Special thanks to Shutterfly for providing us with 50 free cards and for extending this giveaway to our readers. As always, what you have read is strictly the opinion of 4BabyAndMom. Your opinions may differ.

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CardsDirect.com Giveaway * Ends 11/7 + Coupon Code!

I am in denial.. Christmas is in 52 days. Normally by now we have had our family pictures taken, are messing around online trying to find which picture looks best in the right photo cards, or if I should just put their school photos inside a pretty or unique card.

Although I'm way behind schedule, I have started to search through the variety of Christmas cards for both businesses and personalized cards for families, and I must share with you that some of the designs on CardsDirect.com absolutely blew me away!

I love simple, elegant, timeless, traditional cards. I also love unique, funky photo cards. In other words, I am incredibly picky when it comes to picking out holiday cards.

My husband, on the other hand, really likes to pick out humorous cards.. you know the ones you wish you could send to your family or friends but would never.. Those are his favorites.

No matter what you're looking for this holiday season, I'm pretty certain that you will find something that you fall for at CardsDirect.com.

In fact, CardsDirect.com not only have a large assortment of Christmas photo cards, traditional holiday cards, birthday cards, baby shower invitations, thank you cards and more. No matter what kind of cards you are looking for, go check out Cards Direct and see what you can find. With over 2,000 designs, it may be hard to stop looking once you've started.

Right now enter the gift code: CDEPERCENT or CDEDOLLAR at the checkout to save 10% off or $10 off anything at CardsDirect.com until 11/5.


Our new friends at Cards Direct have offered one of our readers their chance to WIN a $50 gift code for your choice of your favorite cards on Cards Direct!

Here's How:
Visit CardsDirect.com and browse their selection of cards and tell me what your favorite design is. Is it a birthday card? Photo card? Holiday card? Share it with us!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNER!

Please refer to our WINNERS PAGE for more information on how to claim your prize!

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For you, Valentine! Sidder Bug Creations Weekend Giveaway! (Day #7)

What do you get when you combine your favorite picture, plus the talent and dedication of the owner and creator of Sidder Bug Creations? Give up? Utterly adorable cards, invitations, and announcements, on quality photo paper, custom made just for you!

Whether you are in the market for newborn baby announcements, holiday cards, post cards or birthday party invitations, the possibilities are endless with Sidder Bug Creations. Custom made, all you need to do is provide your picture(s) and your vision or theme and let the natural talent of designer Sydney do the rest! Sidder Bug Designs started as a hobby but after so many compliments, Sydney decided to take a leap of faith and offer up her designs on the world wide web.

WIN IT!
Just in time for Valentine's day, our friends at Sidder Bug Creations has offered one lucky reader a digital format design of their choice! Think of how cute your little bug would look on a personalized card for his class or family! In need of an announcement or invitation? Choose that instead!

Here's how:

• Head over to Sidder Bug Creations and tell us about your favorite Valentine card or gift and what kind of custom card you want and why! (Check out her review blog as well,The Opinionated Wife!)
• Email this post to at least three other friends and CC us at 4BabyAndMom [at] gmail [dot] com!
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• You get an extra entry in ALL of our giveaways if you follow the directions in this post!!

Special thanks to Sydney of Sidder Bug Designs for sponsoring Day 7 of our Fabulous February Fiesta!
Fine Print: Please include your email or contact information in your comments. YOU MUST post separate comments for each one of the tasks above that you complete. This drawing ends Tuesday 2/10/09 at 11:59pm EST. Any comments posted after that time will be deleted. If you post one reply saying you did all six, you will only receive 1 entry. One lucky winner will be selected using Random.org. Winner will be announced on Thursday 2/12. Thank you for participating!

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