Merry Christmas from our family to yours! I hope that you guys had an enjoyable and fun Christmas this year.
We had a relaxing and really fun Christmas Eve at my brother’s house and then hosted Christmas with just my mom yesterday. It ended up being so nice and relaxing. We made prime rib for the first time which turned out to be really fun and so delicious! Then we made homemade cinnamon rolls for dessert and they were amazing! We used the Pioneer Woman’s recipe and I highly recommend!
I was able to work with Basic Invites to make the cutest holiday cards this year. I was super impressed with how easy they were to design. For the past seven years I’ve used Shutterfly to make my Christmas cards and while I do love the cards, it was so much easier to customize them on Basic Invite’s website. Once you choose a card you can change the color of each element on the card and they have over 180 colors to pick from. So cool.
Another really cool feature they have is an address capturing feature where you can post a link on social media and your friends and family can fill out the form with their addresses. It’s a much easier way of getting all of the addresses you need from your friends and family. They will even print them on each envelope for free!
Each year Tommy and I have had to text many of our friends and family who have moved throughout the year to get their new addresses. This would be a particularly cool feature for the first year that you are sending out cards so that you wouldn’t need to text each of your friends. It can be really time consuming to wait for each of their responses and then copy each address onto the website. You can also have Basic Invite send out your Christmas cards and I’m definitely going to be doing that next year. I always wait way too long to send out my cards because I hate going to the post office, ha! Not to mention it’s faster because they can send them right away and you don’t have to wait to receive them.
Another one of the things I love about Basic Invite is that they have faith based cards too. Even after seven years on Shutterfly, I have yet to notice many faith based cards, but it was one of the first things I noticed on Basic Invite’s website. I love the glory to God in the highest card below. It’s so cute!
I was even able to put together a birth announcement for sweet Melly girl too which was really special because I wasn’t able to do that with either of the boys. I love that I have that this time around.
Basic Invites is such an awesome site to order cards from and I thought you guys might love them too. If you are still interested in sending out cards this year (they have designer Christmas cards, business holiday cards, and even new years cards!) you can use code 15FF51 for 15% off your order.
I really hope you guys had a great Christmas! I’m really looking forward to this week to reset the house and to sit down and think about the new year and things I want to focus on. I’m still unsure about if I’m going to set goals for this year but if I do I will be back to share them soon!
