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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. ...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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! ...
Lot’s of fun S+K holiday products are just starting to launch. I will have our newest holiday cards to show you tomorrow plus a big sale! In the meantime though, check out our new personalized holiday coloring book at Frecklebox.com. At only $6.95, these make great gifts for the kids. They can spend the holidays coloring while you are cooking or entertaining. Each page can be personalized with your child’s...
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,...
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...
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...
Looking for some cute options for Custom Gift Wrap? We’ve got you covered. We have 4 new wrapping papers launching this week at Frecklebox.com. You can enter to win a roll by going to Frecklebox’s Facebook page and entering your personal message. I can’t decide which roll I’m going to use this year. I’m kind of going the kraft route so it might be the top right design, what about...
If you are looking to get a jump start on the holidays, there are plenty of photo cards on sale right now. We have a lot of cards through SimplytoImpress.com. If you use the code Winter13 you can get 30% off right now (I think the sale lasts a week). I love all of the custom shapes and paper selections they offer. If you’ve not ordered through them I highly recommend trying them out. They have great customer service and attention to detail. Here are a few of my favorites from SimpytoImpress.com, click the link to see all of these cards and more. Did you know that Thanksgiving and Hanukkah are on the same day this year? Check out our combo card above. Quick Tip: When buying a square card order 5 x 7 envelopes to save on postage. Double check to make sure they will fit before ordering. We are eagerly awaiting the launch of our new metallic cards for the holidays and I hope to unveil those next...
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...
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...
Last week I mentioned that we were working on an exciting new project. I decided to give you a sneak peek today. We are creating one of a kind metallic holiday cards. They are not live yet but will be soon. They are printed on metallic double thick paper and are beautiful! As soon as they go live you will be the first to know about it! I know some people have already started ordering and may not want to wait for these fabulous beauties, if so head on over to SimplytoImpress.com to get a jump on the holidays. They have amazing customer service and a great sale right now (sale ends...
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...
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...
Each year my sister, myself and my best friend from elementary school host a cookie exchange party. We try to schedule it the week or two before Christmas so that we can give some of the cookies as gifts. The rest we just eat ourselves! It is a fun no pressure party, bring a lot of cookies or a little. We do not have rules like some parties-you do not need to make a certain amount, no labels required, no recipe cards either. We use evite to send out the invitation. We set up a table with pretty plates and put all of our cookies out, then we mingle, munch and have some fun. Towards the end of the evening we start going around the table filling whatever boxes/plates that we brought. I usually try to fill a couple for gifts and a big tray for home. Over the years we’ve had times when the party was small and intimate, times that it included our children and times where there was a huge group and custom martinis! We have been doing it now for 16 years and it is a great way to see your close friends around the holidays. I try to make a few treats each year. I always make fudge, peanut butter fudge is yummy and I found a great recipe several years ago. It is actually called Killer Crack Peanut Butter Fudge and I found it on the blog CookieBakerLynn. I would recommend that you only make it once or twice a year because as the name suggests if you do it more often they...
We are quickly approaching the holidays. Every year it flys by and I always say to myself that this year I will be super organized, holiday cards done by Thanksgiving, presents wrapped as they are bought, and all shopping done by mid-December. I assume I am like everyone else on the planet and this miracle never happens! I do have a small amount of shopping done, no presents wrapped and some Christmas cards ordered so I guess I am 1/4 of the way there. I hope to finish ordering my cards today. With all of the online options and quick shipping this is probably the easiest item on my list to cross off. We have been designing custom photo cards for over 5 years now and each year we add multiple online sites that we design for. You can find our cards on sites like TinyPrints, KodakGallery, Snapfish, Simply to Impress and many others. I have gathered a small sampling of some of our cards to get you inspired. It only takes a few minutes of your time to upload and personalize a card and within a week you get the finished product and a lot of happy smiles from all of your friends and family. Most sites are also running discounts so there is no excuse to sending a personalized card! You can get the above cards here: Harlequin Greetings Giftwrap Perfection Holiday News Jolly Christmas Christmas...
What’s not to love about the holidays – traffic, people fighting over the last Tickle Me Elmo doll, Grandma’s fruitcake, Uncle Joe’s drunken slurring – I digress. I love the holidays and can’t wait each year for them to arrive. Almost everyone will host family or friends during the holidays so why not make it a vintage holiday to remember. It’s easy to set the tone of the event with a great invitation mailed to all of your guests (no evites for this one). Picking the right invitation will help with the theme and color scheme. Adding food, decor and music is a lot easier with a theme. We used our vintage invitation above as our inspiration, it can be found at KodakGallery. You can use this invite for any festive holiday party, Christmas or New Years. Here are some tips to make sure your party goes off with a bang: 1. Add elegance to your soiree with a little glitter and shine, but keep it “vintage” with some weathered materials like galvanized metal or mercury glass. Try using a soft burlap runner on your food table with delicate candles. 2. Gather pinecones and spray paint them silver and gold–they don’t need to be perfect, the natural color coming through looks more aged. 3. Instead of a classic red and green color scheme, try a palette that includes browns and eggshell. 4. Use blank paper wine glass charms and write down reindeer names or holiday words like “peace,” “noel,” and “happy holidays” so your guests will know which glass belongs to them. 5. Use fringed burlap as a...
I know that it is July and the temperature has been hovering near 100 degrees, but here at Simon+Kabuki we’ve been finalizing holiday designs. We usually finish up our holiday stationery designs for some clients in May, but others are due in July and August. It is hard to get into the Christmas spirit when we just celebrated the red, white and blue! I take notes after each holiday season of hot trends or things we should work on next year. One of the things we noticed this last year is that more people are going back to the Merry Christmas sentiment versus Happy Holidays. Traditional colors are always hot and multiple photo cards are a hit. I would say that half of the cards I received were multi-photo. We always try to inject a little bit of S+K sass and style into all of our products and this year is no different. People always ask if we ever run out of ideas – it hasn’t happened yet! That is not to say that it can sometimes be a struggle to think up snow and santa when we just want to hit the beach with a good book or ride our beach cruiser over to Starbucks for a cool drink. You can find Simon+Kabuki stationery on a variety of sites, KodakGallery.com, Snapfish.com, Tinyprints.com, Invitationbox.com and many...
We are always hard at work on new designs so we thought we would showcase some of them on Wednesdays. We are working on some right now for the Licensing Show in Las Vegas. When we were in New York for Surtex we saw snowmen everywhere and one of our colleagues said you have to have snowmen. We love Christmas and definitely have lots of great holiday patterns they just don’t involve snowmen. We tend to try to be a little bit more original or modern, sometimes that backfires. We actually had someone come into our booth asking for snowmen. Really?? Isn’t it obvious from our more tastefully designed Christmas patterns that we could certainly handle snowmen? Guess not. No hating on the snowman/woman themes we just thought that it was overdone or at least done enough by other people. So we designed our own line of snowmen/women. Not sure where they could be used, (Jersey Shore how about a Christmas Card) but they sure were fun to think up! Some were inspired by our trip to New York while other are definitely California influenced, dude! Hope you like the Sneak Peak. Sneak...
