10 Days of Giveaways: Day 4 (Minted)
I love love love holiday cards. Each holiday season, I look forward to receiving Christmas cards from our family and friends all over the world. We won’t see some of our closest friends for a year or so, as military life simultaneously binds us and creates distance, so it’s fun to see how much everyone’s families have changed since we last saw them. On our entryway table, I’ll prop up the Christmas cards we receive, and always look forward to sending ours out, too.
This year, Minted kindly offered to do our family’s cards, which was great timing, as we’d booked photos with Jacquelynn Buck here in Tucson. If you’re in Tucson and looking for a photographer, I can’t recommend her enough. She does gorgeous work, got my sometimes poker-faced little lovebug to smile (at a camera!), and works quickly, which is importante when you have a little one. (She didn’t give me a discount or anything because I have a blog. She’s truly amazing and I just wanted to spread the word.)
We ordered some photos and a canvas from her, and used her photos for our Christmas card, courtesy of Minted.
They have so many beautiful options, I had a hard time deciding! In the end, we went with this “Merry and Bright” theme with rounded corners.
I can’t wait for them to arrive!
Minted also offered to participate in our 10 days of giveaways with an awesome prize: two winners will each receive a $100 credit to their site. They make gorgeous holiday cards in addition to unique gifts like personalized stationary, decor, art prints, calendars and journals. If you’re gift shopping at Minted, you can use the code “HOLLY” to get 15% off holiday card orders of $150+ (10% off orders $100+) through today.
Here’s how to enter:
The winners will be announced in Sunday morning’s post. You have until Saturday night at midnight to enter <3
xoxo
Gina
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My favorite holiday moment was when I woke up, and there was the furby under the tree! Best Christma ever!
This is a good one!
It may prompt me to do a holiday card!
It’s kind of strange, but my favorite holiday moment is watching the Wizard of Oz with family. Not sure how, but it has become a tradition in my family.
A funny holiday moment was when I went sledding Christmas Eve Eve and bruised my tailbone. All of Christmas I was sitting on one of those foam donuts!
I still need to get a picture for our holiday card. I’m seriously procrastinating!
I would love to win this. I am a Maid of Honor in my friend’s April wedding and will need some beautiful wedding shower invites! Thank you for all of these fun giveaways!
Our save the dates need to go out within the next month so it would great to get them from minted!!!
I love Minted!
My favorite holiday moment was last year watching my baby enjoy the holiday ( she’s a month younger then liv)!
my favorite holiday memory was the year that we realized my grandmother was enjoying her dessert without her teeth!
My favorite thing about the holidays is time with family! This year will be the best as it’s our first Christmas with our baby girl!
I love, love, love sitting in the living room at night with the tree all lit up, enjoying the warm twinkle while I have some Christmas cookies or hot cocoa (with peppermint schnapps, of course). It’s so quiet and calm and relaxing. 🙂
Favourite memory: cookies for breakfast Christmas morning!
Love the design you chose!
My dad sister and I went shopping for my mom when I was little and when we got back she asked what we got her and I yelled out without hesitation, SHOES!!! My sister was so mad at me for spilling the beans.
I always love the Christmas Eve service and then going home and cuddling up by the tree in the dark with the lights on. Cozy.
My favorite moment is from when we were growing up. My parents would go downstairs first in the morning and set up and make us hot chocolate and then we’d come down the stairs and get to see what Santa left us.
Wedding invitations would be awesome!
I still need to send out my cards, but this would be a great way to do it!
Eating the cookies and carrots my toddler left out for Santa for the first time. I dont think that will ever get old 🙂
A favorite and funny holiday memory: When I was about 5 or 6 my parents got my older brother and I an electric keyboard and electric drums. We had fun with them for awhile but the real fun began when my parents decided they needed to take a turn. They ended up playing with them for most of the day and drove my brother and I crazy!!
Favorite moment was waking up to snow falling on Christmas Day on my first trip to NYC
My favorite holiday moment is putting cookies out for Santa as a child, and waking my parents up at the crack of dawn to see what Santa brought, 😉
We had a blizzard one year when I was 5/6 and it was so cozy having an actual “White Christmas” and spending time by our fireplace with family
My favorite holiday moment is putting the ornaments on the tree every year. My mom gave me all my childhood ornaments, as did my fiancee’s mom. So every year we have ourselves a trip down memory lane and share Christmas stories. 🙂
My favorite holiday moment has been introducing my daughter, Lily, 2-years old, to all of the magic this holiday season has. <3
The first Christmas i spent with my husband
A favorite holiday moment is that every year my husband, his siblings, and all the spouses pile onto a couch together to take a family photo.
Playing the Spoons Card game with the family and breaking the table when everyone leaped to the centre to get a spoon!
One of my favorite holiday moments happened last Christmas. Two girls in my family announced their pregnancies! On Christmas Eve, one had their ultrasound wrapped as a christmas present to her dad..who teared up when he opened it. The other was on Christmas Day and she just shouted it out when we arrived at the door. I almost dropped all the gifts I was holding 🙂
Definitely my favorite holiday moment is putting all the ornaments on the tree 🙂 It’s the only thing I allow myself to collect…I love going over the memories of first house, first Christmas together, Baby’s First Christmas, etc each year!
For my boyfriend and I, the holidays means a lot of traveling to see as many family and friends as we can. We spent Thanksgiving with my family and are spending Christmas with his. On these trips, I most appreciate the quiet, shared moments that surprise us in the middle of all of the running around. Last year, we stopped for last minute Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve and I ended up wrapping all of the presents in the back seat of the care on our way down (which is harder than it sounds!). This past Thanksgiving, we were able to get a run in on Thanksgiving morning together even though it was absolutely freezing. Those little moments where you realize how thankful you are for the other person are some of my favorite of the season:)
I love getting our Christmas card (taking the pictures) s put together every year! We are a military family also and it’s such a time to appreciate my husband and all that he does
Going to the Christmas Eve service as a family and them coming home and spending time together.
Love getting/mailing christmas cards!
One of my favorite Christmas memories was when my grandma spent the day teaching me how to make all her best cookie and fudge recipes.
My favorite memory was seeing a new bike under the tree in second grade 🙂
I love spending time with our family on Christmas Day. One of my favorite Christmas traditions we do with my mom’s side of the family is a White Elephant gift exchange. We always end up laughing!
I’m a sucker for cute stationary and graphic design.
Favorite holiday memory is all getting footie leopard pajamas and posing for a photo shoot!
I love Minted! Used them for my wedding Thank You notes and the past couple of years Christmas cards. I have so many great Christmas memories but one of the funniest is from a couple years ago when I went with my then fiance (now Husband’s) family to mexico for Christmas. One night after an impromptu Mexican bar pub crawl (and a few too much sangria) I fell and severely sprained my ankle. Quite the impression I made being carried back to our condo in that state hahah.
Christmas cards are one of my favorite traditions of the season!
A couple years ago one of my best girlfriends got engaged on Christmas Morning. One of my favorite Christmas moments was hanging out with her and other girlfriends later that morning drinking champagne and celebrating with her and her fiance!
I just ordered our holiday cards from Minted! Love their products so I would could definitely put the gift money to use!
Favourite holiday moment: my dad making authentic Chinese food. He cooks for two days straight!
I want Harney Christmas card! Haha. We just ordered ours, but this would be so perfect for announcements next year!!
Oh holiday moment, duh. I still remember the Christmas that I snuck out into the living room at 4am and saw my shiny new bike (5th grade?) and was so stressed that I had to act surprised in the morning haha. My mom had a very strict rule that no one would go out to the tree until she had made her coffee and was all settled in to see our reactions as we came in.
Would love to win!
Maybe if I win, I’ll actually send out Christmas cards! 🙂
I loveeee Minted! Eyeing their invitations for our wedding next fall!