studio dayspring christmas cards giveaway

**this contest is now closed, and pinkdaisyjane is the winner!**

dayspring was one of the sponsors of the relevant blogging conference that i attended in october. they sponsored a lovely lounge and a bunch of giveaways while we were there. (i won an incredible nativity that i was so excited to pull out as soon as we got home from thanksgiving.  so much pretty.)

i jumped at the chance to review their cards because i am TERRIBLE at sending christmas cards and figured this may be the only way our family actually gets them out!

last night we got our computer back (after 15 days) and i was finally able to get to work.  studio dayspring has dozens of templates for all kinds of photo cards for christmas, new years, invitations, or anything else, and if you choose their "U-Design" tab you have even more creative freedom.

a bit of advice--i had trouble preventing my images from bleeding into the other image boxes, so if you create a multi-photo card, you may want to crop them down to faces before you begin.

here's a nice example of a template dayspring offers:

i love how they turned out: the template with its unusual color palate, the space for multiple images (because you're crazy if you think a decent picture exists of the four of us at the same time!), and the freedom to add whatever message, text, and verse i chose.  i can't wait to get them in the mail:)

edited to add:  i'm also really impressed with studio dayspring because after i ordered the cards and posted here, they contacted me to say that two of my pictures were pixelated.  i sent them the original files, and they fixed it for me.  what great customer service!

(lesson:  don't use a photo from facebook or your blog--the quality is not the same!)

studio dayspring is offering one {so much reviews} reader a coupon code to design (and ship) 50 flat 5x7 cards absolutely free--a $62 value!

to enter, simply leave a comment (with your email address if it's not on a blogger profile) about christmas cards.  do you send them?  make them?  forget them?  do you design them as soon as your summer vacation is over, or are you up late nights in december wrestling with fonts and cropping like me?  do you not mess with photo cards or prefer a letter?

the winner will be chosen by random.org on monday december 6, so you still have some good time to design, ship, and send.  good luck!

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dayspring provided me with complimentary cards but I was not otherwise compensated to write this review. 

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