WINNER ANNOUNCED: Amanda T. – you win!!! I have emailed you with your winning code to redeem your $250, so please check your inbox! Woohoo!!!

It’s no secret that I’m kind of obsessed with Minted – the best place in the whole, wide world to get all-things-paper! (Find 15 great sites to get your holiday cards here – I listed Minted at the tippy top!)

Trust me, I know my paper. I used to have my own stationery design business, and I don’t mess around when it comes to Christmas cards, my friends. I love that kind of thing!!! (You can get a glimpse of one of my favorite cards we have ever sent at the bottom of this post!)

So now I’m SUPER EXCITED to partner with them to extend this $250 (!) giveaway to my readers so that you, too, can see why I love Minted so much! They use the best paper out there (I love the brown kraft paper envelopes myself!), and their designs are always classy and beautiful. You can often drag your text around so you can move it to just the right spot on your picture – this is a great feature that can be hard to find with other card sites. They also send vellum inserts for fold-over cards to be sure there’s no ink transfer on the inside during transport, and they have the best customer service!! And check out this FREE (for a limited time) recipient addressing they are now offering – so beautiful! I wouldn’t be recommending their site to all of you if I didn’t believe in the quality of this company! I am one of their biggest fans – just ordered my moving announcements from them (read about our move here), and my holiday cards will be ordered soon… not gonna lie – I can’t wait to spend some good time figuring out what to send!!

Read below to see how to enter (so easy!) and to get a glimpse of some of the great cards they offer!

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**HOW TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY**

CLICK HERE to take you to the entry page! Enter your name and email address. That’s it! :)

Be sure to enter before Tuesday November 25, 2014, at 11:59 pm PT. The giveaway will expire promptly at midnight. The winner will be notified via email and announced here as well.

I’d love it if you also wanted to keep up with me via Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and/or Instagram. That way you won’t miss out on all the fun here! And I make a nice friend… Minnesota girls are always nice, right? :)

A GLIMPSE OF WHAT MINTED OFFERS:

Please click on the images below to find that service or card. 

Minted is also a great place to find special gifts – find some of my favorites here in this post! And if you’re looking for photo inspiration for your cards, don’t miss this post with 100 photos to inspire your holiday cards and this one with 30 photos with wording ideas!

RECIPIENT ADDRESSING

I mean, how amazing is this?! This gorgeous recipient addressing would really set your cards apart! And it’s FREE!!! (for a limited time anyhow). I am TOTALLY doing this this year!!! Love it!

Click on either image below to learn more about this awesome service!

FOIL-PRESSED CARDS (exclusive to Minted!)

We used a card pressed with gold foil last year (this one), and I loved it! So unique and beautiful!

Find the entire foil-pressed collection here.

Find the cards below by clicking on the image.

SIMPLE & CLASSY

I love Minted designs because they are simply beautiful – they highlight your pictures without distracting from them. The fonts, colors, and tiny hearts just make me happy! :)

Here are two of my favorites (click the image to find the card):

UNIQUE & INFORMATIVE

The cards below offer a unique alternative to the traditional Christmas letter. A fun way to share a bit more information!

COLLAGE STYLE

Sometimes there are just too many great pictures to share just one!

PERFECT FOR A “REAL LIFE” PHOTO

Minted offers many uniquely-worded cards… the ones below can work with just about any photo whether it be a perfect, disastrous, or funny shot!

FUNNY

We often worry about sending out the most perfect pictures… but sometimes having a sense of humor is what gives you the holiday card homerun! The cards below would be great to use if you’re trying to give the recipients a little chuckle!

BOOKLETTES & MINIBOOKS

New to Minted this year – the booklette card! Find the entire booklette card collection here. Something like this would be great when you have a lot to say after a particularly eventful year. Or share some special recipes as the family did below! Fun idea!

Similar to the booklette card – the minibook! Find the entire minibook collection here.

NEW BABY

Minted has the best cards to celebrate a baby’s first Christmas! They have great wordings to choose from, and the designs are classy and sweet. And they make it so easy to search for these special cards because they compile them in a “New Baby” collection – most websites don’t separate them this way. Find the new baby holiday card collection here.

Here are two of my favorites. Click the images below to find these adorable cards!

NEW HOME 

Just like with the new baby holiday cards, Minted also has a line of cards that would be perfect to announce a move to a new home. Find the new home collection here.

Below you’ll find two that I love!

NEWLYWEDS

Minted also makes it easy to search for cards if you’re celebrating your first holiday season as a married couple! Find the newlywed holiday collection here. So many beautiful designs!

Here are two cards from the collection that I thought were special (click on the image to find the card):

CARD ORNAMENTS

Minted also offers ornament cards – so unique! View the ornament card collection here. I think these would be particularly special to send for Baby’s First Christmas or your first married Christmas. Your recipients could save the card and hang it on their tree each year if they’d like – so special!

Here are two examples below – click on the image to find each card.

**HOW TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY**

If you still need to get yourself entered in the giveaway (we are talking the chance to win $250 from this great site, people!!) simply click below.

CLICK HERE to take you to the entry page! Enter your name and email address. That’s it! :)

Be sure to enter before Tuesday November 25, 2014, at 11:59 pm PT. The giveaway will expire promptly at midnight. The winner will be notified via email and announced here as well.

I’d love it if you also wanted to keep up with me via Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and/or Instagram. That way you won’t miss out on all the fun here! 

BEST OF LUCK! You might be doing your happy dance just in time for Thanksgiving if you’re the lucky winner – how great would it be to have $250 (!) to spend however you’d like?! I can’t wait to send that email next week – it’s so fun to tell people they won! :) Makes me feel a bit like Santa!

Happy Thanksgiving and happy card shopping, everybody! And feel free to read through my Thanksgiving and Christmas posts for ideas and recipes as the holidays near! I’m just about to start getting our books all wrapped for this new favorite holiday tradition we started last year! Love it! :) I highly recommend reading one book per night in December with your family as I describe in this post. It’s a wonderful way to force yourself to slow down and really enjoy this precious time of year with those you love most!