Christmas Cards with Minted

Do you send out holiday cards every year? We do and we have a little too much fun with it. Take a look at our Christmas card from a few years ago. Ridiculous, I know. And creepy. Sleep well, friends.

By the way, I’m still determined to single-handedly bring back the side ponytail. It’ll happen. #goals

This year, I worked with Minted to create our Christmas cards. We usually get family photos taken around late Fall; they’re the perfect way to add a personal touch to our cards. Along with family photos, I like to include a year-end review. I found these really nice newsletter-type designs at Minted.

There are so many great designs, it was hard to decide! But then I spotted these Booklette™ and Minibook™ cards and fell in love. Aren’t they beautiful? And look how perfectly they match our outfits! Totally didn’t plan that, it was just meant to be.

As an indie artist and small business owner, I’m all about supporting like-minded folks and I absolutely love that Minted works with independent designers. Their site is intuitive which makes it super simple to customize their designs to make them our own. Not only was the turnaround time surprisingly fast, but the quality of paper, color, and vibrancy is top-notch.

We had our photos taken by Shelby Leigh Photography. Shelby and her family are our newest friends and we just love them to death. Even though we’ve only known them for a few short months, we immediately hit it off and it feels like we’ve known them forever. It’s actually borderline uncomfortable when our husbands get together because there’s a little too much bromance going on for Shelby and me.

But these are good problems to have, aren’t they? We are incredibly thankful for fast yet profound friendships and a support system so effortlessly established here at our new duty station. Military life is funny that way. You either jump with both feet in or sit on the sidelines. There is no middle ground.

In other news, I think I have carpal tunnel in my right wrist, which is weird because I’m left-handed. I’d bribe my husband to address these envelopes, but he has the handwriting of a serial killer.

As much as I want to, I couldn’t possibly afford to mail every single one of you a Christmas card, so I hope this post will suffice. Just know that I am fiercely thankful for each person who stops by this little online space of mine, shares a post, builds something amazing, leaves a lovely comment, and just generally chooses to spend his/her valuable time with me, however brief.

You inspire me. You motivate me. You keep me from camping out on the couch, eating Nestle Bon Bons (do they still make those?) in my pajama pants, getting sucked into an endless marathon of America’s Next Top Model. And let’s face it, my ‘smize’ could use some improvement.

So from my family to yours, we’re wishing you the happiest of holidays. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See you in 2016!

*This post is sponsored by Minted. All ideas, efforts, and opinions are my own.