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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I will need birth announcements in the next few months! I would love to order from Minted!
I would love love love to win this giveaway! I need to order save the dates for my upcoming wedding soon and minted has the most adorable ones. Please let me win!!
Mine would definitely be the fact that I used to try to suck on batteries as a toddler, and spent hours chasing the big box of spare ones my parents kept around on Christmas morning– totally ignoring my presents! Haha! And no– dont worry, my parents did not encourage me at all haha
I love baking cookies with my mom and sitting in the living room with the tree in the corner and a fire going. Makes me so happy!
I am loving all of these creative and fun ways to send out cards! It’s would be a great way to send a little love all year.
Favorite holiday moment is baking Christmas cookies with my two year old little girl. We just had a second little girl this year and I can’t wait to bake with both of them someday! Would love to show off our growing family on minted Christmas cards!
I love baking all kinds of Christmas cookies while listening to Christmas music!
Would love to try Minted for a change for our cards! Happy Holidays! and crap, have not done our card this year yet~ :-/
My favorite memory is getting new pajamas each year to wear on christmas morning. My two sisters and I would always get matching ones:)
I don’t think I can pick just one holiday memory!! I think it is incredible that to this day, any time I smell evergreen, I immediately am transported to my family’s home in front of the Christmas tree!
Thanks Gina!
Even though she doesn’t love it, I just love dressing my pup up in a new holiday sweater or outfit! This year she has a little Mrs. Claus dress, with a matching pillbox hat! It’s too cute 🙂
I’ve heard so many good things about Minted. I would love to try it out!
My favorite holiday moment is eating dinner with family!
my favourite holiday moment was about 6 years ago. My brothers christmas present, I didn’t have it under the tree. And when we were handing out all the presents, I went and grabbed it. I was bringing it over to him and “tripped” the box went flying, and SMASH. Everyone looked TICKED. All you could hear was the glass breaking. I kept apologizing while he opened the box. I got him a gift card that year. I just added some broken glass secured in bags to pull this prank on him. It was awesome. My sister looked like she was going to hurt me though haha.
Good times.
I would love to win this! would be amazing 🙂
I haven’t even started on a Christmas card yet! I love sending and receiving them.
I love their designs!
My favorite holiday memory is baking cookies with my grandmother…this time of year makes me miss her so much! I’m still trying to convince the hubby to get photos taken for cards….
Thanks for introducing me to Minted – super cute cards.
A favorite holiday moment every year for me is making my family members a Christmas present from my dog, it’s always a treat like “bark,” “puppy chow,” and this year “t-ruff-les” Now that I have a baby I should probably include something from her =)
I love sitting in front of the fireplace with the mantel decorated for Christmas while enjoying some peppermint tea with my husband.
One of my favorite holiday moments is making a and decorating a gingerbread house with my little girl. We use tons of icing and candies, yum!
Having my brother home for Christmas is definitely a Christmas favorite! He got home today from his third deployment. We weren’t expecting him to be back in time for Christmas but they came home early!
I love driving through our Botanical Gardens that are decorated to the 9’s with Christmas lights (called the Galaxy of Lights). My little one LOVES Christmas lights, so she gets a big kick out of it.
My favorite holiday memory is our Christmas Eve tradition of baking breadsticks, reading the night before Christmas, and signing songs. This is the first Christmas with my 10 month old daughter so it will be extra special this year!
Their cards look so cute! Can’t wait to have our pictures taken this weekend and order our cards ASAP.
I’m assuming you’ll post yours after your friends and family have received them. Looking forward to seeing how cute they probably came out!
Such cute cards!
Well my husband and I don’t have any kids to show off yet, but we do have some fur babies that would look mighty cute on a Christmas card!
This year will be my favorite Christmas since I’m at home with my newborn baby girl!
On Christmas morning, even at this age, my parents make us wait on the stairs while they get the tree ready and turn on the lights and video camera. All the presents need to be arranged just right from santa!
Favorite holiday memories include baking with my grandma and falling asleep on the couch in front of the Christmas tree at night. I just love the glow from the Christmas lights.
I love having the Christmas tree lit up — and the other twinkle lights we have around our house lit up — every night. It adds a touch of magic, I think.
My favorite holiday moment is actually every Christmas Eve. It’s my favorite day of the year with all the anticipation and cheer in the air. Most people are joyful and my family has a few great traditions we share on that day. Happy Holidays!
A favorite holiday moment is seeing the look on my parents’ or siblings’ faces when I managed to find the perfect gift. It’s that look of “wow, I’m so excited, this is awesome, how did she know?…” It’s a rare occurrence, but when it happens, it’s priceless 🙂
Favorite holiday moment is usually Christmas Eve (my favorite night of the year!) reuniting with my family and cooking a huge italian ‘seven fishes’ feast.
Plus there is just something magical in the air on the the eve of Christmas!
I am getting married next fall and LOVE the idea of using Minted to order Save the Date postcards.
Each year, we have a White Elephant party the Saturday after Thanksgiving and we call it “Thanksmas” as we celebrate both Thanksgiving and Christmas while everyone is in town. One year, there were 3 lottery tickets passed around. I had a lottery ticket that my cousin took from me during the white elephant. She scratched it and won $500!! Everyone screamed. I was a leeetle upset that I didn’t still have the card in my hand, but nonetheless was it exciting!
My favorite holiday moment is Thanksgiving weekend. Thursday is filled with food, football and family. and then Friday is christmas day! we traditionally get our tree (from a christmas tree farm!) and spend the day decorating and eating thanksgiving leftovers. It could not get better than those two days for me!
my family has a fantastic tradition of opening our gifts and having breakfast in our jammies then watching Muppet Family Christmas. my sister and i are now 28 and 30, but we still watch this kids movie and love every moment.
I love baking cookies for my family while singing (and attempting to harmonize) Christmas carols with my siblings!
Favorite holiday moment was last year when my Mom and I were cooking Christmas dinner and had the music playing. We were dancing in the kitchen and then my Granddad came in and started dancing with us. So cute!
I just designed our Christmas card this year and it is pretty cute! I could always use more to send to friends!!
These are perfect!!
My favourite holiday moments are going to the Lights in the Park Event on Christmas Eve, viewing all of the lights and mini villages created, and then going back home for appetizers and sleeping at my parents house, only to wake up the next morning for Christmas excitement
My favorite Christmas memory is of Christmas Eve. My parents would throw an awesome party for our neighbors and then we would go to Midnight Mass. I can’t wait until my daughters are old enough for us to do the same!
A mortifying and hilarious holiday memory was when we were opening presents a few years ago. We open presents at night, and because my nephew was only three, it quickly got past his bedtime. He’s always been into superheroes and that year he received tons of different costumes – naturally he had to try on all of them. Thanks to the late-night grumpies, coupled with a holiday sugar crash, my nephew started to throw a tantrum. We were all ignoring his fit, so as not to give him attention, but that ended up being hard to do when he dropped the pants to his Darth Vader costume and started peeing all over my parent’s Turkish rug. Whoops! It was kind of hard to scold him, since we were all laughing hysterically.
Also, cute holiday cards!
I love minted! We used their christmas cards last year, and they turned out great!
I am excited to give Minted a try!
My favourite part of the holidays is always family coming together! My family lives very far apart, all over Canada and the US. When I get to be with everyone I love most, its a special moment! 🙂
Ah I would love this! The last few times I’ve ordered prints and cards from a different site they haven’t turned out well, and I was wondering what a good alternative would be. I’d be so happy to try out one that you’re so enthusiastic about!
Love baking Christmas cookies with my family.