Now that we have a baby, we’re actually considering a personalized holiday card for our 
family. Don’t get me wrong, we’re a far cry from matching, red, knitted sweaters but the idea of sending our parents, siblings, and grandparents a family picture is appealing. After all, they ask for pictures daily and they do live in another country and miss Athena, and us, dearly.
Shutterfly has a wonderful new collection of Holiday Cards this year from traditional colors and embellishments to merry and bright colors that take on a modern feel. They also feature religious/scripture based cards (including Hanukkah) and cards that you can showcase your fur babies photos on. Whatever your style, their are sure to have something you’ll love.
Maybe it’s not as “Christmas like” as the others, but our favorite is the black and white design with the red strip in the middle.
Do you have a favorite? We didn’t finalize our decision yet. If you have a favorite, let me know. We want something that highlights Athena but still includes us. I’d like it to be fun, too, but not overly “here’s my perfect family” because that’s not us either. Oh the decisions!
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. THE WINNER HAS BEEN CONTACTED AND I WILL SHARE HIS/HER NAME ONCE I’VE SPOKEN TO THEM. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED! HAPPY HOLIDAYS 🙂
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I LOVE shutterfly… ordered my cards and got them a week ago! I’d totally use them again and again!
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We buy their photo books all the time! They are simple and great quality. 🙂
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I haven’t ordered a photo book yet…but just did ‘family’ calendars for my family (Gramma, Aunts & Uncles, Cousins, Brothers/Sister-in-laws!) I can’t wait for them to come in the mail. I hope they arrive before I go south for holidays!
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I love shutterfly and I do use them but I strongly dislike family picture holiday cards. I’d really rather someone send me a Christmas (or Hanukkah or whatever holiday they celebrate) card and enclose a 4 x 6 photo of them and their family. That way I can frame the picture or put it in an album or whatever without having to keep the holiday words scribbled all over it.
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My favorite is the last card. Thank you for sharing. Best, Mtetar
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What a charming idea!
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My wife is a BIG Shutterfly fan. We buy a few photo books every year as Christmas gifts for relatives, and their frequent sales save her lots of money on photo-prints for our road-trip scrapbooks.
As for the cards, I’m partial to the black-‘n’-white “Christmas Greetings” design, If I had just the right photo to complement it.
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We did calendars form shutterfly last year, the pictures were mostly of my son….we gave these to his grandparents – they loved them. I just went to target photoshop and got 5 prints done and got a free photo book from shutter fly coupon….thought that was a great deal – ~$1.50 paid for $25 coupon. 🙂
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I love Shutterfly too– I have several photo books made by them, as well as many cards. Their print quality is outstanding!
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Understand the temptation to do something Christmassy. I am loathe to admit it but as we are going home for Christmas I am considering getting a pack of the Christmas-themed disposable nappies!
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I love Shutterfly! I swear I should own stock in them!! I haven’t done the family photo custom card, but I have taken my Alaskan winter pictures and created my own Christmas cards with Shutterfly. One of my favorite sites! Easy to use…easy navigation….great quality! Fantastic Promos/Coupons!! I like the Christmas Greeting card… if you are looking for an opinion 🙂 Plus free shipping to Alaska applies! (of course if you spend over X amount). You don’t know how exciting that is! I’ve gone to sites where I fill up my cart and when I go to check out “Free Shipping” doesn’t apply to AK…..I’m forced to select 2nd day air for $40. So annoying! Any way, have fun creating your card!
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Oh yeah we’ve been doing Shutterfly for a few years now–they are awesome! My mom is the one who usually picks the design and we supply her with pictures that we think would be good to go with the card. She makes the final selection. I’m also in charge of the holiday letter where I update everybody on what we’ve been up to for the past year (not as common). I try to make it funny because I often find these boring and tedious to read. I’ve always been complimented on it which makes me happy since I love writing them. 🙂
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We left it to late last year so made up a mini-movie using iMovie, using both photos and some video clips and then emailed everyone that instead. It was a big hit so we will be doing the same again this year. On an added bonus it is free, totally unique to you and more environmentally friendly.
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I love that idea, but I feel like we’ve moved so far away from printed pictures. I really miss having them around the house. I think we’d like to stick with the traditional on this one 🙂
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I LOVE Shutterfly! I made for my son an album for his 18th b’day back in June. It’s the best present I could ever give him. The quality, the designs and all the accessories you can add are incredible. Worth every penny. Not to mention how fast it was in my mailbox. Whatever you will do, they’ll love it. Grandparents are not pretentious 😉
Show us what you picked, please!
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Grandparents, friends, everybody loves the picture cards when there are kids on them.
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I loved sending “picture” cards when my three were little. It let the family back east see them grow up.
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Its a lovely idea.
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I also like the coffee table photo books. I think you all should do a calendar instead of a card. That way your family can enjoy the pictures all year long. 🙂
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I thought about a calendar too. Good suggestion. We might go with a photo book for our parents, Athena’s grandparents so they can leave it out all year 🙂
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Two. I agree. The last one. Black and white photos always get my vote anyway but the last card is actually really pretty. Show us the cards when you get them.
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BEAUTIFUL CARDS
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I love them all! We ordered our cards through Snapfish and the designs were similar, I went with colour but love the black and white cards as well.
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Excellent post. So, how many more shopping days until Christmas?
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I just had to comment here, because I bet your holiday card will be an exciting one! I hope so 🙂 Bunging jumping, rock climbing, scuba diving, etc., Happy Creating!
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Very pretty… definitely with you on the black & white and red striped design.
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The last one (black & white) is the nicest. We use Shutterfly all the time of our photobooks. A few other sites allow more creativity, but their image storage is the best we’ve found.
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We have been using Shutterfly now since we had our first baby and his is 9 now!!! Love how they change up their designs every year. I just ordered mine earlier in the week and was able to get 40% off!!!
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It’s hard to choose because they’re all pretty nice. I really like the “Laughing all the way.” It’s really cute and different. But I would have to say my favorite is the one right after that with the red and green “Merry Christmas with love….” All the best!!! ~Sophia
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I just received a Shutterfly offer & have never used it before so I wasn’t sure if I would. Good to see some examples & get a little more info, makes it worth looking into. I like the black/white with red strip in your post.
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I have been cutting and pasting and gluing and making my own cards, photos and albums for years… but only when I have time. I think it’s now time to check out Shutterfly and make it easier on myself! Thanks for the post.
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I tried “liking” this, it won’t let me.
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I love personalized cards – and my favorite is second from the top 😉
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We have been doing Shutterfly cards for years. Last year we made calendars instead. Love them both!
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The B/W one with the red strip down the middle is my favorite! I think it’s classic and adorable. Good luck hope you post your card so we can see it.
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I’m a Shutterfly customer as well. Have made my own photo book, desk top calendar and a birthday greeting card. All were great quality.
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I use Shutterfly for everything! Photo albums (and groupon has great deals on these), printed pics, mailing labels, and we just took our first family photos for Christmas cards last week!!
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Lesley….
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We are doing a holiday card this year and we don’t have a baby. But so much has changed in our lives that we felt it was the perfect way to update our friends and family. We went with http://www.minted.com/ Great designs and they are having a sale right now.
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