Cardstore Holiday Photo Cards Review (& Personalized Gift Tags Giveaway Ends 11/19)

ABOUT:

Cardstore.com combines beautiful artwork, personalized greetings, and professional printing to help create tangible reminders of life’s events, big and small.

Cardstore greeting cards are perfect for all of life’s important occasions, with card styles that are smart, stylish, playful, original, and modern.

And their convenient personalization tools allow you to customize your greetings with photos and special messages to create a one-of-a-kind greeting card they’ll never forget!

Some of the new 2010 products:

• CUSTOM GIFT TAGS:These small business card-sized tags can be customized with a variety of designs, with and without photos. Start at $15 for a set of 25 (can go as low as $7.50 for a set of 25).

• THINK PINK CARD COLLECTION:This collection of 70+ cards feature several holiday “pink” card designs that will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Notecards and general friendship cards also available.

• EMBELLISHED CARD KITS:Cardstore has partnered with leading stamping manufacturer Hero Arts to create these DIY card kits that combine the time-saving elements of digital photo card creation with the personal, hand-crafted touch of dimensional embellishments and stamping. Dozens of designs are available along with a range of coordinating embellishment packs.

• 2010 HOLIDAY CARDS: Cardstore.com has hundreds of new holiday photo cards, party invitations, and holiday thank you notes from the stationery industry’s top designers. Cards come in a range of sizes, from folded notecards to glossy postcards, and start as low as $0.79 each.

• PHOTO NOTEBOOKS Perfect stocking stuffers for kids and adults alike, these notebooks are personalized with a favorite photo and message. These are the only custom photo notebooks to feature photo options on the back, scratch-resistant cardboard covers and durable stainless steel wire-o binding. Priced from $15 to $18.

MY THOUGHTS:

Every year I send out Photo cards for Christmas.  I got the chance this year to order some Holiday cards from Cardstore.com and I was excited to check them out.  My first impression with Cardstore is that they have a lot to offer, but luckily everything is organized by category:  Photo Cards, Thank You Cards, Kids and Babies, Occasions, Holiday Cards, and Stationery.  Then within each category are tons more options to choose from.  The only drawback though is there really is a lot to choose from and I wasn’t able to narrow it down to much once I chose the type of card I wanted to customize.  For example, I like to search by Number of Pictures since sometimes I want more a certain number of pictures on the card.  To show just how many choices they have as an example too on the Flat 5×7 Christmas Cards there are 16 pages of cards to choose from.

The way Cardstore works is you choose your card, Personalize it and you can pay for just one card or the more you buy the cheaper the cards get.  Most cards are between $2-$3 each, but go down to under $2 if you buy a lot.  Personalizing my Photo Card was super easy too and there was no special software to download or anything, very user friendly.  My favorite feature though is that you can just buy 1 card if you want because sometimes I want to pick out different cards for different people and occasions or I may want a Flat card or a Folded card.  I ended up ordering (20) 7×5 inches Flat Cards for $31.80 plus $5 shipping.  Overall, my process at Cardstore was very easy and I would definitely shop there again.

COUPON: Visit Cardstore.com and use MERRY15 for 15% off Holiday cards. Expires 12/31/10

WIN IT: (1) US winner will win a set of Personalized Gift Tags.  They come in sets of 25 and can be used as present adornments, gift enclosures, or as party favors tags.

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Mama’s Money Savers Disclosure:  This post was written for Family Review Network & CardStore.com who provided the complimentary product for review and giveaway in exchange for my honest review.  Please see my Disclosure Policy.