Today’s post is sponsored by Minted, but my love for their products is all my own!
Happy new year (again) and as I write that, I actually can not believe we are well into January already, it's crazy right? At least now I feel like this past week I established a work order again after the two week . . . (okay three week) hiatus I took to relax and recharge during the holidays. This Christmas season went fast for me and I no sooner got all of my decorating done and presents wrapped, then I blinked to find it over, just as quick. One of the things that I had to let go of over the holidays is sending out holiday cards to my friends and family. Some years I just can't even deal with it if I am feeling rushed or pressed for time and 2015 was ONE of those years. But once the holiday passed, I felt like I really missed out, so I decided to go ahead and do something about it and did something different . . . sent New Year cards!
I have never sent New Year cards and I'm telling you what, after sending these out this past week, I think I may do this every year as I discovered a few things: I was able to take my time sending them, plus they will probably get noticed more (since they are not competing with all the other cards) and it's like sending a nice unexpected surprise for all to receive in their mail!
I chose my New Year cards from Minted and their selection is amazing, who knew that sending New Year cards was a thing? I think it's awesome, that the cards are designed from a community of artists that they have chosen because I for one, can appreciate that and would love to someday have one of my designs possibly listed! ;) Dream big right? But the choices were many and I love being able to upload my own personal photo and it will let you see what your photo looks like in the designs you are considering! It's great!! After playing around with a few different options, I narrowed down my choice by choosing a card design that people could cut the photo off of the top of the card and keep or frame, if they wanted. It's like getting double the fun with my design I picked . . . a card for now and then a photo for later!
A couple reasons you will love these cards: when I got these cards back from Minted, the finish on the cards was very matte and printed in thick cardstock which makes them very durable and not flimsy! Once you choose your design, you have options on colors as well - I enjoyed being able to match up the design and type with the colors in my photo. The hardest part of creating your own cards is picking out a great photo! I hired a photographer back in the fall to take some pics of my mom & dad for their anniversary gift and I jumped in real quick to get this one taken of me and my daughter and I am so glad I did. She is growing waaaaaay too quick and looks about eighteen in this pic (sigh) and she's only twelve!!! So when I needed a quick photo for these cards, I thought why not use this one? I love it, so will my family and it's one I will cherish forever!
Truth. I am one of those people who notice the little things, details, special little touches . . . so every time I get an order from Minted, they never disappoint on their packaging and branding, I mean look, Brian packaged my order and hand wrote it to me with my name . . . it's the little things! ;)
Since it's a new year and like everyone else, I am TRYING to get organized and start the year off on a good note, I decided to check out what else Minted had to get me organized and boy was I loving what I found! I'm one of those people who like to have numerous journals around for jotting down ideas when they strike. I also need to have a sketchbook of some kind nearby, to sketch out a design that I don't want to forget or want to put on paper to see if it's going to work.
One of my goals this year is to get all of my items organized with my business, to find places for everything, create a better brand awareness and to work the hardest I ever have on my BIG goals I have set for this year! I am definitely getting organized in style with these perfect pieces I found and ordered from Minted. My favorite part is that everything can be personalized how I want it.
Check out what I found: 'the Great Ideas' journal is what I will grab to sketch out a new design or lettering idea which is why I had "EC inks" personalized on it as it will be used just for that! The two books with this happen to match (which rocks) and they have my business name on both. One is a journal that has lined pages in it for me to write down notes for my business and keep track of all of those lofty goals for 2016! ;) The other book is an address book. I had never considered having one for my business but it makes perfect sense as I have met so many amazing people who I like to send notes too or a small surprise every now and then, so this way all of those contacts have a place to call home in my new address book! Look at that . . . I am already MORE organized! ;)
One of my goals this year is to get all of my items organized with my business, to find places for everything, create a better brand awareness and to work the hardest I ever have on my BIG goals I have set for this year! I am definitely getting organized in style with these perfect pieces I found and ordered from Minted. My favorite part is that everything can be personalized how I want it.
Check out what I found: 'the Great Ideas' journal is what I will grab to sketch out a new design or lettering idea which is why I had "EC inks" personalized on it as it will be used just for that! The two books with this happen to match (which rocks) and they have my business name on both. One is a journal that has lined pages in it for me to write down notes for my business and keep track of all of those lofty goals for 2016! ;) The other book is an address book. I had never considered having one for my business but it makes perfect sense as I have met so many amazing people who I like to send notes too or a small surprise every now and then, so this way all of those contacts have a place to call home in my new address book! Look at that . . . I am already MORE organized! ;)
I loved partnering up with Minted again this year as I truly do love their products and can't wait to use all of their journals and books to keep me organized this year! Have you purchased anything from Minted before? Let me know below as I would love to check it out!
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