It’s beginning to look a lot like…

CHRISTMAS!!!

I know the stores have had Christmas stuff up for a while, but now that the temps are dropping, we had our first snowfall, and Thanksgiving is right around the corner it really is starting to FEEL like Christmas!  :)  There is a certain two and a half year old boy who asks every day if it’s Christmas yet, so I guess I’m not the only one who is excited! 

One of my favorite traditions leading up to Christmas is always creating our Christmas card.  Chris and I have sent Christmas cards since we were first married… even before we had cute kids to put in the picture.  It’s even more fun now with two little boys to include! 

This year I’m participating in the blogger promotion through Tiny Prints.  Even before I signed up to participate I was drooling over their Christmas cards.  They have everything from cute to classic, modern to vintage.  They are so great!  I’ve gone through all the cards several times and I *think* I’ve got my list narrowed down, so now I just need to choose my final one!  Here are some of my favorites:

{Click any of the cards to be taken to their direct links.}

I love all the different styles, and as I browsed I noticed that you could change most of the cards to a different style like taking the “JOY” one above and turning it into this:

or this:

I also love these…

And I think this one is just plain beautiful!

(Front)                                            (Back)

Something that makes finding your card super easy is all the different categories like: Christmas, Christmas Religious, New Years… etc.  I’m almost always drawn to the religious Christmas cards, but surprisingly, my favorite this year is one of the New Year’s cards!  Decisions, Decisions!

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Receiving Christmas Cards is one of my ABSOLUTE favorite things about the days and weeks leading up to Christmas!  I’ve never had a really great way of displaying them, but this year I’ve been searching pinterest to come up with a good way to hang all the cards we receive.  I’m loving this idea:

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One thing is for sure, we enjoy the Christmas pictures we receive all year long because we display them on our fridge.  In fact when we were selling our house it was suggested we take them down so potential buyers wouldn’t be distracted by all the pictures so I took them down, saved them, and putting them back up in our new house was one of the first things I did after moving!  :)  I love looking at the faces of our friends and family all year long. 

 

Here’s to the beginning of what I hope will be a very MERRY and Christ-filled Christmas for you all! 

PS If you blog and want to participate in this promotion and be compensated with some free Christmas cards, here’s how!!