It’s November 25th
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I just realized it’s exactly one month until Christmas. Have you bought your holiday cards yet? Have you even taken the photo for it, if you do that? It’s best to do so early so there’s no rush, but if you haven’t yet, it’s not too late!
A few tips I learned when I was preparing to take our photo:
- Choose the layout of your holiday card beforehand, that way you can take a photo to fit it perfectly.
- Don’t start off the shoot offering bribes, because by the end of the shoot the kids won’t care anymore.
- Try for candid, not posed shots.
- Pretend you’re not taking photos anymore, and hold the camera away from your eye, but still pointed at your kids, and snap away! This really only works outdoors where no flash is necessary.
- If all else fails, merge individual photos of your kids into one, or choose a collage design that lets you include more than one photo.
This year, for the first time, I ordered magnetic holiday cards from MagnetStreet Baby. We included only our kids in the photo. They change so much from year to year, but everyone knows what my husband and I look like.
My girls’ faces are going to grace the doors of refrigerators all over the world! Their name may fool you, but MagnetStreet doesn’t only sell magnetic products. They also sell folded and flat linen cards, coordinating labels, and seals for most of their designs. If you can’t find just the right one for your card, they can even create one for you.
I should be getting my cards sometime this week. I’ll reveal what the photo looks like then, as well as tell you what I think about the cards themselves. I can tell you that I really enjoyed the entire ordering process. Yes, you read it right – I enjoyed it. I usually despise ordering anything photo-related because it’s quite tedious to get it looking just right. Often times you lose your entire project because you take too long to finish, or accidentally click on the wrong button. Not the case at all with MagnetStreet. The hardest part is deciding what design to choose!
It’s all quite simple. After you’ve added your chosen layout to your cart, you get to personalize it by either launching an interactive tool or filling out a form and uploading your photo. If you decide to fill out the personalization form, the MagnetStreet designers will fit your desired text and photo into the card themselves. If you choose to launch the interactive tool, like I did, you have full creative control over what your card will look like.
With the design tool you can upload photos to your gallery, edit text, and customize the colors of the card. To add the photo, you just drag it from the gallery to the card, and position it as you’d like. It tells you what the photo quality is (aim for excellent!) right away. The text editor is great. Not only can you add your own names, but you can change the card’s message, like from “Merry Christmas”, to the more politically correct “Happy Holidays”, or whatever you’d like it to be. The text’s color, size, and font are all customizable. What really impressed me is the color editor. You can change the color of almost every aspect of your chosen design, and thanks to the live preview, see it instantly change before your eyes. With MagnetStreet you can truly create a completely unique card. It’s unlike any other company I’ve ever ordered from.
MagnetStreet Baby is giving one of my readers a $100 credit towards the purchase of anything on their site. Birth announcements, holiday cards, invitations, labels and seals – the choice is yours.
All you have to do is visit MagnetStreet Baby, take some time to look around, and leave a comment here letting me know what you think you would buy with the $100.
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I would hold on to the $100 gift card until my daughter’s baby arrives in March. I would then use it for ordering birth announcements. We know she is having a boy so we would be choosing one of the boy designs, just not sure which one, they are all beautiful!
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its a toss up between the label and seals & the linen cards…those are all nice.
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Just in time for Christmas!! I would get the magnetic Christmas card with the black snowflake background. Thank you so much for entering me.
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I’d use the cash on the Blue Background with Snowflakes cards.
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I would get the “Chocolate Squares” holiday cards. They’ve got awesome designs!! I’m a graphic designer and was thinking of designing my own cards this year, but I’d love to win them instead!!! Thanks.
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The cheerful ornaments folded Christmas cards are a definite must if I win!
I super love all of the adoption announcement magnets, would love to send those out!
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I love Linen Holiday Birth Announcements – Chocolate Squares. I would love to win. I still haven’t ordered any
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I would buy the holiday cards and also some birthday announcements
Love the snowflake holiday collection. Not sure if I would do magnet or flat card, but there are a lot of great designs!
i love the birth announcements, but don’t know which one yet, as little junior hasn’t revealed he or she yet!
i might get the Magnetic Christmas Cards – Snow Globe – Vertical – it’s quite cute
My best friend is about to have a baby, and with the current state of the economy, they’re on quite a tight budget. I’d love to give her the winnings to get some of those adorable birth announcements!
I love the Christmas Cards – Lovely Snowflakes. My husbands entire family was at my house for Thanksgiving. It was the first time the whole family was in one place at one time for over 10 years. We took tons of family shots – and I would love to give them as gifts on these cards!
I love the magnetic cards!! I didn’t even know things like this existed.. I really think I want to use these for friends and family. Everyone is always harrassing me for a picture of my son. Now i can send out my cards and give a picture they can keep! Yay!
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I’d get a set of ribbon magnet announcements and a matching set of return address labels and seals.
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I love the Striped Monogram address labels. Thanks!
I would really love to get some of the magnetic cards!! I love the design Stylish Snowflakes!
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Two things I’d love to buy are the Return Address Labels & Envelope Seals – Lovely Snowflakes and the Christmas Cards – Let it Snow (Red) – Horizontal. Thanks!
I love, love, love the Magnetic Birth Announcements – Photo Collage (Designer’s Choice). Beautiful and perfect for 2 of my most endearing friends that just gave birth! They’d love these! : )))
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Definitely birth announcements – I’m due in less than two weeks! I would love to be able to put in an order and know that beautiful cards would be made for me instead of me stressing about it after the baby is here. Right now my favorites are the Magnetic Birth Announcements – Bursts and Magnetic Birth Announcements – Sweet Song Birds. Thanks!
I love the concept of the Magnetic Holiday Card so that’s how I’d spend my money. My favorite is simple and straight-forward: Full Photo with Name Bar. Thank you!
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I love the magnetic collage holiday card. It would be perfect for this year!
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I love the chocolate squares cards!!
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I would buy so many things.. we have 4 month old twins and this would be perfect to send out pictures with for Christmas!!!
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I would definitely get holiday cards!! I love this collage design:
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I would get the label and seals for the holidays and definitely holiday cards since I haven’t done mine yet!
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