Cardstore.com

I was recently given the opportunity to create my own Christmas cards from Cardstore.com. Before I get to the cute designs Cardstore.com has available, let me tell you about this impressive feature of the company: sustainability. Here's a bit of what they have to say about that:

We’re concerned about minimizing our impact to the earth. From using recycled paper and eco-friendly digital printing, to maintaining FSC certified printing facilities and partnering with carbonfund.org to offset our carbon footprint, we do our part to protect the environment.
To help minimize our global impact further, Cardstore.com prints most of our cards on recycled, eco-friendly paper from Mohawk. This paper is made up of 100% post-consumer waste, is processed chlorine free and is Green Seal Certified. In addition our paper is manufactured entirely with wind-generated electricity.
Our print-on-demand process is by its very nature responsible production; we make what we sell, nothing more. A large portion of traditionally manufactured greeting cards remains unsold, and ends up in landfill.

Now then, care to peek at one of our Christmas card designs for this year?

Pretty cute, huh? They came quickly too! I placed the order on November 22. The cards were shipped on November 24. If you remember correctly, Thanksgiving was November 25. The cards were in my mailbox on November 29. That's pretty fast considering the holiday that was smack dab in the middle of all that!
Here are some other products of note that Cardstore.com carries:

• Custom Gift Tags - These were featured in the Nov 2010 issue of Real Simple Magazine!
• Embellished Card Kits
• 2010 Holiday Cards
• Photo Notebooks

As a special treat to you, Cardstore.com is offering all of you a 15% discount code for their website. Enter MERRY15 when checking out.
As another special treat to you, Cardstore.com is offering one set of custom photo gift tags as a giveaway! Interested? Here's how to enter:
1. Simply leave any comment on this post. That's an automatic entry.
2. For an extra entry, check out Cardstore.com and mention which other item also interests you.
3. For a third entry, "like" Cardstore.com on Facebook and post something like this: "I entered to win some custom photo gift tags from your shop here: http://bit.ly/fBSTMo!" Come back and leave a comment saying you did that.
4. For a fourth entry, follow @cardstyle on Twitter and tweet this: "I entered to win some custom photo gift tags from @cardstyle and @MeganDunham here: http://bit.ly/fBSTMo!" Come back and leave a comment saying you did that.
5. For a fifth entry, post on your Facebook wall that you entered to win some custom photo gift tags here: http://bit.ly/fBSTMo ... and come back and let me know you did that!

The contest is open to US residents only. The winner will be selected by Random.org. The contest will close on Friday, December 10. The winner will be notified over the weekend and will need to respond within 48 hours or risk forfeiting the prize to the next in line.
Congrats to:



See this post for the rest of this week's giveaways!

Disclosure: I was given the opportunity to design and receive a set of the photo cards you see above. I love them. I really do. I was not forced to say that to you. You can see my proper disclosure statement here.