What a great time of year for personalized stationery and holiday cards. If you can plan ahead and order your holiday card now, you can save money! And save the headaches of ordering later in the season!Below is a list of all the companies offering a special this season and a link to each. Boatman Geller: 10% off all holiday orders before 9/30BG is new to us this year and they have just added digital photo printing to ALL of their card designs. So order with or without a photo at the same price. Or if you prefer to print your own card, order blank stock! Return Address Labels and Gift Stickers also available.
Carlson Craft: Free Return Address or 10% off before 9/30 (extended to 10/12/2008)
A LARGE variety of cards, searchable on a sister website. Many corporate cards as well as personal cards. A few photo cards as well. Checkerboard: Free Return Address before 9/28 (extended to 10/12/2008)
These are some of the most gorgeous cards available. All of checkerboards cards are on beautiful papers with unique designs in classic, traditional styles and some more contemporary styles. You will need to add your own photo to these cards, but they are worth it! They also carry some beautiful party invitations.Dabney Lee: 10% discount on all holiday orders before 10/15A brand new printer for us and we are SO excited about this one. They have notepads, luggage tags, glass coasters and paper weights, gift sticker and return address stickers that can be holiday or any day. Because you pick the patterns, colors and designs. Mix and match to make them very personal. They also have a line of great items great for GIFT GIVING (non-holiday items not on sale) for the home, including paper placemats, papter coasters, decks of playing cards, notepads......all in fabulous designs and monograms for the home! We hope to have these images up soon for your shopping! (coming soon, sorry, electronic images were not available)
Cooper & Oliver: 1/2 price Return Address before 10/15These cards have beautiful and sometimes different color schemes if you've got a picture with some non-Christmassy colors. You will have to add your own photo to these cards. Those that have ordered these in the past usually come back!Inkwell: 15 % discount on all orders placed by 10/31Inkwell has a wonderful selection of photo cards (which can be printed with your digital picture or without so you can add your own photo) and party invitations. In addition to their selection of both "hip" and "traditional" designs is their pricepoint, which is very reasonable. And if you are only hosting a party and need 20 or 25 invitations, this is the perfect invitation, because their low quanity pricing is reasonable! Nu-Art: 10% discount for orders placed before 9/30Another company with a sister site that allows you to search, mock up and order from them. Nu-Art has many corporate cards, but has a terrific line of RECYCLED PAPER cards for personal or corporate use. (not many of the recycled cards are the traditional photo cards, although you could add your own photo to the inside of many of them.)Periwinkle Press: Free Return Address on order placed before 10/15 (extended to 12/31/2008!)
Really great designs! These cards to not allow a digitial picture to be printed on, so you'll need to affix your own photos.
Polka Dot Pear: Free Return Address Stickys before 10/31Polka Dot Pear offered a new line of holiday photo cards last year and has added some fabulous new desings to the line up this year. Check them out! Prints Charming: Free Return Address before 9/30 (extended to 10/31/2008)
Prints Charming has added a new line of digitially printed photo cards this year. They are reasonably priced (as are their traditional photo cards where you add your own photo) and the designs are fun and fresh. Even better these cards are printed on the back with a continuation of the pattern/design from the front. If you send out a picture of your pet, Prints Charming has a couple of cute dog cards (woof).Putnam House: Free Return Address before 11/15Great holiday cards in a variety of sizes and picture placement. All digital photos only. Simple designs, good colors!Stacy Claire Boyd: 15% discount on all holiday before 9/30We added SCB last year with great success, but learned that they have a VERY early cut off date for their photo cards (November 18), so be sure to order EARLY! They have also added some new designs that we are sure you will like! We'll even save you up to $50 on proof and photo set up fees by using their new online proofing tool (saving $50 is always good!). SCB also has a line of cards that you can add your own photo (cut off date December 1)Sweet Pea: Free Return Address before 10/31Sweet Pea has been a favorite for years and they have really updated their cards/colors/desingns in the last two years, so if you haven't looked at Sweet Pea lately, look again. They have also given us a sister site to use, so feel free to shop right from that site. You'll get to see your copy and design. But as always, if you have trouble, we are here to help you!And there are lots of other holiday cards out there, some just don't offer an early bird special. Be sure to look at holiday gift stickers, holiday return address labels, napkins and cups for entertaining through the holidays, party invitations, stationery as gifts, notepads as teacher gifts and the list goes on! More coming soon, or call for an appointment if you are in the Kansas City area!