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Welcome to Fall

Welcome to Fall

  It is starting to cool off a bit in Northern California and I’m craving a good Pumpkin Spice Latte! I want my whole house to smell like Fall and pumpkins, so I recently ordered several candles from Wax Cabin Candle. I light the Pumpkin Horchata candle and it smells like someone is baking a yummy cake in my house, I love it! I also ordered a few of their other best sellers – Lavandou Fizz, Cozy Cabin and Brunch. I have always loved anything Lavender and it makes me feel like I am having a spa day. Since there is very little travel going on right now, Cozy Cabin made me feel like I was in a log cabin in the woods 🙂 The great thing about these candles is that they are 100% soy wax grown in America and they are hand poured in New Jersey. They last a long time and smell great! They have a nice selection of fun boozy candles and even Mandles (candles for your man). Wax Cabin was kind enough to offer our readers a discount code to get 15% off your order. Just use code simonandkabuki15 at checkout. Check out their whole selection here Wax Cabin Candle Company.  They make perfect Christmas gifts for you or your family and friends! Happy...
New Simon+Kabuki Holiday Photo Cards

New Simon+Kabuki Holiday Photo Cards

Are you ready for the holiday season?! Thanksgiving is next week which is really early this year. Want to get some of your “to do list” crossed off? Take a bunch  of family photos next week at Thanksgiving and then upload your pics and take advantage of all of the great sales for Holiday Cards. We have bunch of new designs to pick from and lots of fun gifts in our Etsy store also. Check out our Where to Buy section for all of our cards and gifts or click here for our holiday cards, SimplytoImpress.com, PhotoAffections.com, Zazzle.com, and Picaboo.com....
Merry and Bright with Simon+Kabuki

Merry and Bright with Simon+Kabuki

Next week is Thanksgiving… Yikes!! I usually take pics for my holiday cards that weekend and have half my shopping done. Not sure how well I will do this year, I already feel way behind. If you are looking for personalized photo cards for the holidays,  you’ve come to the right place. We have a new line of cards on Zazzle. Check them out below and use the links for some happy shopping. Zazzle always has discounts including Groupon’s so be sure to check around. At least you’ll be able to cross one thing off your list 🙂 Click here to see all of our products and stationery on Zazzle or click each card below for that specific card.                               ...
New Simon+Kabuki Cell Phone Cases

New Simon+Kabuki Cell Phone Cases

We have some new cell phone and iPad cases on MyCustomCase.com. Check them out below and click on the image to go to that particular case. They are on sale right now through 10/27. Use code FALLSALE17 for 30% off everything! That’s great deal for a super sturdy personalized phone case! This would make a great Christmas present.  ...
New Prints up on our S+K Etsy Store

New Prints up on our S+K Etsy Store

Check out our newest Simon+Kabuki Prints. We’ve added lots of fun new digital prints. You can download a high quality JPEG to print at home, online or through most office or stationery stores. These are perfect for last minute gifts or to decorate your own walls. We will be adding new stuff daily. Any requests or suggestions? Sign up for our Mailing List to get 15% off or buy multiple prints to get a great discount using the codes below. Coupon code: BUY2GET1FREE – Simply add 3 items (priced at $5.50 USD each) to your cart and enter the code for your free print. Coupon code: BUY4GET2FREE – Simply add 6 items (priced at $5.50 USD each) to your cart and enter the code for your free prints. CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR PRINTS...
New Simon+Kabuki Holiday Cards

New Simon+Kabuki Holiday Cards

Ready to get a jump on the holidays? Check out some of our new holiday cards. Click on each card to go directly to the online vendor and start personalizing. Easy, peasy! Plus there are lot’s of good sales going on right now. You can even get your Corporate Holiday Card taken care of with our business holiday cards. Happy Shopping!! Check our Where to Buy section for more links and great gifts. Click here for all of our Picaboo.com cards. Click here for all of our FineStationery.com cards....
New S+K Personalized Art Prints

New S+K Personalized Art Prints

We have some exciting news to share! We’ve just launched personalized art prints with Frecklebox.com. If you are looking for an awesome quality personalized print on archival paper Frecklebox.com is the place to go. You can easily preview your print before ordering and you can order an 8 x 10 or 11 x 14 print. We had a lot of fun with these, lots of new illustrations and watercolors. They make a perfect gift for the upcoming holidays and any gifting needs you have coming up. Use code YAY! at checkout to get 35% off art prints. Available in 8 x 10 or 11 x 14, printed on high quality paper, frame not included. We still have our downloadable digital art prints on Etsy. These are not personalized or printed but are great for a last minute gift. Check out our holiday collection perfect for easy, low-cost decorating over the holidays. Check back often as we add more products to our store. Here are some coupons for ordering at our Etsy Store: Coupon code: BUY2GET1FREE Simply add 3 items (priced at $5.50 USD each) to your cart and enter the code for your free print. Coupon code: BUY4GET2FREE Simply add 6 items (priced at $5.50 USD each) to your cart and enter the code for your free...
Simon+Kabuki Gift Guide

Simon+Kabuki Gift Guide

I can’t believe Christmas is right around the corner. Are you looking for some last minute gifts? Here are a few from S+K. You don’t want to be out shopping the week of Christmas so get those orders in! Click on the picture to link to the site and purchase. Check our Where to Buy link for other options and all of our holiday cards as well.  ...
New Holiday cards from Simon+Kabuki

New Holiday cards from Simon+Kabuki

Here are a few of our new holiday cards from SimplytoImpress.com and Photoaffections.com. You can see the Simply to Impress cards here and below are links to the PhotoAffection cards. Both sites are having great sales right now from 25% – 40% off. And don’t forget we also have a great selection of business holiday cards here.                Four Photo 2015 Card Let it Snow Card Peace and Joy Card White Merry Card White Square Card        ...
Simon+Kabuki Holiday Cards

Simon+Kabuki Holiday Cards

If you have not ordered your cards for the holidays, there is still a little bit of time left. I hope to order my cards this week, fingers crossed. Check out our cute selection from Picaboo.com. You can find lots of different options with multi-photo cards and single photo cards. Make sure to check out their discount page to get the best deals! Don’t forget to check our Where to Buy section on our website for great gifts for everyone on your list!                   ...
Simon+Kabuki Holiday Cards

Simon+Kabuki Holiday Cards

The holidays are quickly sneaking up on us, they do this every year and I’m never quite ready. Thanksgiving is already next week! Online card ordering is easy peasy, upload your photo and copy and away you go! I will be posting some of our holiday card selections and gift ideas over the next few weeks. Here are a few cards from our new Holiday collection on Finestionery.com. Click here to check out all of our cards and gifts at FS. We have some cute personalized notepads that would make great gifts this Christmas....

Free Holiday Tag Printables

Have you started wrapping yet? I’ve started and had some great plans to get all my wrapping done but of course life always gets in the way! My car was giving me issues and I spent the morning at the dealership getting things fixed. Ughhh! I’ve been meaning to get these gift tags up for a while now. I hope they help with your wrapping. You can print them in color or black and white, both are available. I think I am going to try printing them on kraft stock in black and white and pearl stock in color. Try cutting them out with pinking shears for a fun addition. Make sure to crank the xmas tunes while wrapping. Have fun! Download Color Gift Tags, here. Download Black and White Gift Tags,...

Fun (Easy) Christmas Craft

I had a crazy busy weekend, one that included going to the mall. I suggest you stay far away, but since Macys left the sensor on my sister-in-laws gift, I had no choice. 🙁 It was scary, lots of honking! People need to take a chill pill before going. It’s going to be busy, someone will take your parking spot, and some of the things you want to buy will be sold out, deal with it. I also had two soccer games to go to and an annual -not to miss- cookie exchange. I squeezed in a few minutes to make these super cute Christmas Tree in a mason jar decorations. They are super easy and anyone can do them, plus you get to skip paying $40 for them at stores like Anthropologie. What you need: Jars with lids – any kind will do, we keep and clean spaghetti sauce jars Snow – I bought a bag of snowflakes at Home Depot, you can also use epsom salts Glitter – any color Bottle Brush Trees – Multiple sizes are good, I found mine at Hobby Lobby Glue Gun Other embellishments – Small figurines, Glittery houses, other ornaments You can glue the little trees either at the bottom of the glass jar or on the lid. I think I prefer the bottom of the jar. I tried it both ways. Then I just added fake snow and some glitter. The next one I make I think I will spray the tree with adhesive and roll it in glitter. You can decorate the lid, mine has fabric on it, or paint...

Fun gifts under $30

It’s crunch time. If you’re still shopping you may want to hit the internet to avoid the long lines and crowded parking lots at malls. If you can’t avoid the mall than make sure to hit them early in the morning or later at night. I think toys R Us stays open until midnight and I’m sure several others do as well. Here are a few fun online options that I found. 1. Love this little Ballerina Mouse in a box, to purchase click here. 2. Super pretty bath salt sachet. Perfect for any woman on your list, to purchase click here. 3. Most guys hate wallets, get them a cool money clip, to purchase click here. 4. Yum, Italian Cheese Making Kit, to purchase click here. 5. Super fun game for the family, to purchase click here. 6. Love these fingerless gloves, to purchase click here. 7. Perfect for the aspiring student, to purchase click here. 7. Not much time left to order personalized gifts, better hurry. Lots of fun stuff at Frecklebox plus everything is on sale right now (use code Merry20), to purchase click...

Holiday Dish Collections

We are always busy designing for holidays a year or two in advance. Here are some dishes that we designed and hope to get picked up for the next holiday season. We are also working on holiday dishes similar to our Eat at Mom’s set. It was very popular at retail and they’ve asked us to come up with something similar but in holiday sayings and colors. Hope your Christmas shopping and decorating is going great. I know I plan on doing some wrapping tomorrow. I will have some free printable gift tags on the blog this week, so keep an eye out! Happy...

Simon+Kabuki on the Today Show!

Check out our personalized products that were featured on the Today Show. Our Frecklebox products are at the very beginning of the clip right after the ad. You can purchase the Rainbow Chevron collection, Multi-Monogram collection, Garden Party Coin Bank and Owl Friends Journal at Frecklebox.com. So fun to see our stuff on...

10 Tips for the Perfect Holiday Card Photo

Each year I struggle to get my kids to cooperate and take great photos for our Christmas card. I love candid photos with a slight blur. To me those seem magical, but I can hear my mom bitching when she gets the card that the photos are blurry! 🙂 So there must be a little of both and some fun thrown in. Collage or multi-photo cards are great for that or if you lucked out and got the best picture ever go with the single stunning photo card option. Here are a few tips to get you on your way and a few of ours that were captured this year.. 1. Location, location, location – If you have a nearby stream, park or forest even the Christmas Tree farm use that as your backdrop. 2. Get in close, especially if you don’t have a great background. Close ups, especially of young kids are adorable. 3. Take action pictures, like jumping, kicking through leaves, swinging one child between parents. 4. Sharing a moment like reading, hugging or kissing makes a sweet image. 5. Use non-standard posing – take a shot of everyone laying head to head on the ground or a photo from below with your kids looking down at you. 6. Be Spirited – Are you the family with all the sports nuts? Dress everyone in sports gear. Love pets? Make sure the photo reflects your furry friends. 7. Take individual and group shots. That way at least you have something to use no matter what. And take lots of pictures, you can always toss later but getting everyone...

Christmas Tree Decor

What kind of Christmas tree do you have? Is it classic/traditional, filled with lots of red and green, or vintage, filled with lots of glitter and retro ornaments, maybe whimsical, with bright fun colors and lots of white, or maybe a specific theme like coastal, filled with ornaments from the sea? I think mine is vintage random. I love all the old glittery  glass ornaments but I also put up the ones the kids made or ones with sentimental value. I wish my house was big enough for several trees, it would be fun to have different themes. I’d love a wild and whimsical white tree, like something out of Dr. Seuss! Here are a few to get you started thinking!...

Early Black Friday Deals and Ideas

Are you trying to get some early holiday shopping done? It seems like each year the shopping gets earlier and earlier! Soon we will be shopping in the summer for Christmas. I know we start thinking about Christmas the day after it’s over and most of our online retailers need all holiday inventory from us by June. By the time Thanksgiving rolls around we are pretty much over the holidays at Simon+Kabuki! Most of our partners have big sales going on right now so if you are looking for the perfect gift or holiday cards get shopping from the comfort of your home! Below are just a few of our online retailers, check out their sites for discount codes. Check our Where to Buy page for additional links. Lot’s of fun personalized gifts to be had at Frecklebox.com. I know kids love seeing their name in print. I love the Rainbow Chevron Collection, above, perfect for tweens. Also love these Metallic holiday cards from Frecklebox.com. Totally unique and one of a kind! Love this iPad case from MyCustomCase.com. Check our where to buy page for additional case designs. Check out these fun book plate labels for the avid reader and the rest of our designs on Expressionery.com. You can order note cards, invitations, calendars and other fun stuff! If you are at all crafty you could make a quilt for a super special gift. Or if you are like me and mostly use iron on fusing you could purchase the fabric and quilt patterns as a great gift for the sewer in your family. Check out Quilting Treasures for...

Early Gift Guide

This year Thanksgiving is really late so Christmas is going to sneak up on us. I’ve already started purchasing some small items to get a head start. Here are a few of my favorites things this year. Links for purchasing are below. 1. Old Fashioned Dolls  2. Doily Coasters  3. Perpetual Calendar  4. Pillow  5. Shabby Chic Frame Set  6. Custom Cell Phone Case  7. Custom Rainbow Chevron Gifts  8. Travel...

Holiday Party Inspiration

Time to start planning the perfect Holiday Party! Using elegant black as a backdrop just add pops of blue and red and throw in some glitter to set the holiday tone.     Invitation Table Setting Decor Cookies Glitter Banner Cocktail...

Simon+Kabuki Business Holiday Cards

Time to start thinking about holiday cards for clients and customers. We always try to come up with something fun for our clients. We’ve sent out bags of coal with cute hang tags, coasters with funny jokes, custom labeled chocolate bars and a lot more. Not sure what we will come up with this year. But if you don’t have the time or the creative resources you can easily order custom holiday cards online. We’ve designed a bunch and I am sure one of them will be perfect! You can check them out here. If you are looking for some custom ideas give us a...

Holiday Photo Cards Sneak Peek

  I know it is still summer and school barely started, but at Simon+Kabuki it’s holiday time! Most of our holiday cards have been turned in and launched or they are about to be launched. Here are a few I thought I would share. I love that you can now get custom die cut cards fairly easily. These cards can all be found on SimplytoImpress.com. If you are like some of my friends you will have holiday cards ordered stamped and ready to go by October 31st, if you’re like me you will send them the week before Christmas! Enjoy! Sparkly Be Merry Merry Dot Frame Rosy Round Ornament Snow Dash Curved...

Happy 2013 and Holiday Sneak Peek

Happy Friday! Hope you had a fabulous Holiday and got everything you wanted! I got lots of fun goodies and a trip to Hawaii for our whole family from my parents. Lucky us, but we have to wait until July to go. I guess in the meantime we can just day dream about that warm tropical breeze and yummy pina coladas. I know the holidays just passed like three days ago but we’ve already been designing for next years holiday and the year after that. Here are a few new design collections that we’ve been working on. Hope you like...

Holiday Cards Sneak Peek

Here at Simon+Kabuki we’ve just finalized our holiday designs. We usually finish up our holiday stationery designs for some clients in May, but others are due in July and August. Above is just a small sampling of the many cards we did this year. There were well over 100 new designs added to all of our stationery partners. Most won’t go live until September or October but a few like Snapfish are live now. You can check out our Where to Buy page for specific site links. We will update that page as new sites are added. If you have any questions or are looking for something in particular drop us a line. We hope you like them as much as we enjoyed designing them! You can find Simon+Kabuki stationery on a variety of sites, SimplytoImpress.com, Snapfish.com, Tinyprints.com, Invitationbox.com, Picaboo, and many...