Sugarhouse Ink

In hopes of highlighting as many clever, creative, women-owned small businesses as possible (and my word, they're everywhere!), I'm hosting a giveaway every Sunday here for the next several weeks.  I'm doing as much of my own Christmas shopping as I possibly can with savvy girls like these.

First up, I want to tell you about Sugarhouse Ink.  This is where I'm getting my family's Christmas cards this year!  I'm having a hard time picking out exactly which one I'll use, but I'm seriously considering this one:

I'll make my final selection once I manage to find a photographic moment in which all six members of this family are happy at the same time.  July, maybe?

Sugarhouse Ink (and I love that name, by the way, because, you know, sugar) designs personalized photocards.  And not just for the holidays, but for birth announcements, parties, and even wedding invitations.  Here are a couple of my favorites:

 

They also have a blog that offers some really excellent tips for taking good family pictures, which is handy this time of year.

Sugarhouse Ink is giving four readers each a $25 Sugarhouse Ink gift certificate.  To enter to win, simply look through their holiday designs (Christmas, Hanukkah, or New Years), and come back here to leave a comment saying which specific design is your favorite (note that the designs don't have names, so just use the name of the family on the card, and let's hope none of those families stop by here and completely freak out that we're talking about them.)

I'll draw four random winners from the comments section on Wednesday.  This giveaway is open to U.S. and international residents.

*COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED*

Comments

[Gretchen]

I like the one w/the "Stone Family". Although it was really hard to choose!

Gretchen
gretnel@hotmail.com

[Rhonda Turner]

I love the 5 x 5 size. I've already linked this to my site and can't wait to order Christmas pictures!!

[Les]

Oh I love, love, love their designs! The HollyJollyChristmas is my very favorite!

~Leslee

[LeAnna]

My favorite is the Jensen family, the one with the scroll thing on top, and the picture in the middle. I've always wanted to do Christmas cards like these...

[Heather]

I LOVE the Hardison Family Card!! For me...finding the perfect picture is the hardest part of putting together and holiday card but any picture would be gorgeous with this card :)

Heather
zwei_baby@yahoo.com

[Molly]

I like the Paynes photo collage.

[Katie]

The Fredricks, love the ornaments!

[angie]

wow! these are beautiful. and unique from lots of other sites that i've been scoping out. i love the "paynes" college card, as well as the "hardison" one. lovely. and i would love to use them!!

[Marla Taviano]

I like the Christmas one with all red on the right half.

[Bridget]

WOW!! I honestly had a hard time deciding which was my favorite. In the end, I think I would go with Steven, Cara, and Liza (I think those are the right names) and it has JOY in big letters on the right. Thanks for telling us about this Sugarhouse Ink!

[Valerie]

I like the Christmas one starring the McGee family. And then I realized there was more than 1 page. I also like the Stone family and ever single one on the final page. I'm not good at narrowing things down. :)

[Andrea]

I love the christmas cards that are brown with the snowflakes its different from the traditional red and green.

[Hollie]

There was so many to choose from, but I think I like the Mery Christmas card near the end, with 3 pictures at the top, and one of the entire in the middle. There was not a last name, but the names of the family members were:Jeff, Debbie, Ivin, and Emma.

[Amy @ Cheeky Cocoa Beans]

I love the designs! My favorite is the Merry Christmas design with the Anderson family.

[Johnna]

I like the one with the McKay Family that is orange and brown, with Merry Christmas on the bottom. Thanks for the giveaway.

[Patsy Clairmont]

I picked the same one as you. i love that the eye goes to the family unity and not necessarily one individual. Although I also like to visually see how each person has changed over the year. I love choices.

[Lisa in ME]

I love the second one you posted (brown with snowflakes). I'm in the midst of getting my Christmas cards photos ready to go - this would be great! :-)
lisaanne29@hotmail.com

[Annie]

I couldn't read the last name, but the card with Jared Emily and Hannah was my favorite. So cute! If I win can I keep that family on there? It would be so interesting to hear the comments: "Wow, they've really lost some weight" and "Where do you suppose the other kids are?"

[Becky Miller]

I like the Evans family Christmas card, because it's kind of newsletter-y without being too long.

[Kayla]

I love the Anderson family! It is so simple and beautiful! Just perfect!

[Overwhelmed With Joy!]

I like the second to last one...with the Christmas tree on it! :)

Thanks for hosting the giveaway!

[Anna]

I like the one with the Stone family. The one with red on the top and the bottom and them walking away from us in the middle.

I hope they aren't mad at us! Yikes!

[Tammy S.]

I like the Seasons Greetings on with the kind of retro looking Christmas tree on the side. Thanks for doing this giveaway!

[World's Greatest Mommy]

The Hardison Family card is my favorite. The brown on the card is really lovely.

[Shelly]

I love the Stone Family one, but in the other color it comes in.

I can't wait to use their site for our family pictures. Very cool and affordable.

[Angie - heartchild]

I love Blake, Emily and Annie. Great site and giveaway!

Thanks!

[Phyllis R.]

The second one on the top in the Autumn designs - Gabrielle. I love multi-photo cards and this one has a clean and simple design.

[Stephanie]

Seeing how my baby girl is due any time now, I just had to check out the birth announcements and my favorites are Madeline & Sophie.

I like the Christmas card that is brown and orange (can't read the name of the family).

[Kathrin]

I like Christmas collage card with the Payne family...it's hard to choose Great designs!

[Andrea]

I like the "Merry Christmas" "Happy 2009" card at the very end with Ezequiel, Sandra, and Lucas. Very nice cards - I always do a picture card at Christmas

[Jennifer Gustavus]

I like the "Hardison Family" one, choc. brown with white snowflakes, red writing. We have the best beach picture to use this year, I'm so excited. Even if I don't win I think I will be using them!

[alice]

I think I like the Anderson family one, but the more I look, the more I change my mind. They're all great!!!

[angela]

Christmas, 2 pictures. I think the Blecker family

[Lindsey]

The Christmas one with Blake, Emily and Annie is my favorite.

[julie]

Love the Happy New year cards!

[Jill Jones]

I like a card on the last page. The multi-colored tree on the brown background.

[Missy]

I like the one from Blake, Emily, and Annie.

[Lisa F]

I like them all but if I have to choose I would choose the McKay Family

[Katie @ Heart Gone Walking]

LOVE the McKay Christmas one! Thanks!

[SaraG]

Love the brown one with christmas tree and jacob and henry - beautiful!

[Becky]

Thank you for this great giveaway!!!! I really liked the Christmas card with the Anderson Family.

[Kelly]

Love the Hardison family Christmas card. Great giveaway.

[Rachel]

I really liked the brown seasons greetings with the cute little Christmas tree and the family is Tom Marianne, Jacob, and Henry.

[Haydensmommy]

Oh so cute! Their birth announcments are lovely. My Favorite Christmas one is the Let It Snow with Becky, adam and Lily.

[Karen]

I love the Boyd family Christmas card!

[KO]

I love the Christmas card with the montage surrounding the "merry Christmas". The ornament one is cute too. These are great!

[Amy A]

If I have to pick, I'll say the Anderson family is my favorite.

[Deanna]

Those are very cute. I liked the Hardison's, McKay's, and the one that says Happy Holidays with no last name.

[Heather]

Love the Christmas cards, they are so unique to any that I have found on any other site!

[Kristine]

I love the collage with the Payne family. Beautiful designs!!

[Mary]

Are you kidding me? I have to pick JUST ONE??? Okay, fine. The Paynes' Merry Christmas card. But really, I'd like to protest - I want one of each!!! :)

[Lyndsi]

I like the Christmas card shown on your blog for the Anderson Family.

[Allison]

So many cute ones! I really like the "Paynes" collage one and the picture on the McKay family is so great (both Christmas designs)!

[Kim]

I LOVE these cards! They much cuter than the normal greeting cards you can buy! I really LOVE the "Jeff, Debbie, Ivin & Emma" card. We had our first REAL professional family pictures taken a month ago, and I have had big plans to use them on our Christmas cards this year. I was so happy to get a photographer that gave us a copyright free CD! Thank you for doing this WONDERFUL giveaway!

[Amy F]

Wow, hard to chose! I think I like the Christmas "Stone Family" design the best. Although I would probably use the gift certificate for baby announcements since we're due with #4 on Nov 28th!

Thanks for hosting this giveaway!

[Tracy]

My favorite is the Merry Christmas in the middle with a collage of photos all around of the Paynes.

[Kara]

I love "Tom, Marianne, Jacob and Henry" (second to last). It's so cute!

[Jennifer]

I love the green "Merry Christmas Happy 2009"

[Trista]

I love the Boyd Family with the brown and blue. We've already had our portraits taken and this would match really well.
Love the site, I'm saving it to my favorites.

[marci]

I like one whose name I cannot read. Jonson? Jensen? It's the first column of christmas designs, 4th one down.

[Kim]

The Christmas Payne family card is absolutely too adorable for words!

[Adrienne]

I love, love, love the last christmas card (the Fredericks), with the picture in the middle of the ornament. Very cute!

[Adrienne]

Sorry, posted the wrong URL link in my previous comment.

[Sara P.]

My favorite is also one of yours.
The Hardison Family. Jake, Lisa, Ethan, Emily, Justin and Ryan!

[Plastic Daffodils]

I really like the McKay's Christmas card. Thanks!

[Kristen]

I like the one with red and green stripes (The Payne family). Also, I liked the one that said "Merry Christmas" and "Happy 2009" - very clever to include both sentiments on one card!

[Stephanie]

I love the Christmas card from the Fredrick's. So cute, the pictures in the ornament.

[Nikki]

I like the one from the Paynes.

[Hilary]

My fav is "The Stone Family wishes you a Very Merry Christmas."

[Sheila Rich]

ok, I like the Joy card with Steven, Cara and Liza the best

[jessica]

The "joy" card with Steven, Cara, and Liza was my favorite. Thanks!

[Jennifer]

I actually looked at the baby announcement cards, as we're due in the spring. I love the Sadie Marie Jones one!

[Sandwiched]

I like the brown Season's Greetings card with the Christmas tree or the New Years card with the Clarks. So great!

[tonya k]

I love the Jacobsen family. Those cards are so adorable! Thanks for the giveaway!

[Elizabeth Sue]

Loving the McKay family! Thanks for entering me!

[Trina]

I love the Tom, Marianne, Jacob and Henry card! The brown with colorful tree. CUTE!

[Pam]

Oh, I love the Christmas card that was red at the top and white at the bottom!!! Thanks for offering this!

[Alicia]

My favorite is the brown and red card with the Hardison Family.

[brandiandboys]

let it snow, of course!

[Shannon P]

I like Blake, Emily and Annie's card.

[Tracy]

LOVE the last one w/ the Fredricks!!!!
Love them ALL, though...so different from the run of the mill basics seen year after year!!! Thanks!!

[Sheila]

This is an awesome idea!!

[Anne Fischer]

Yea! Love supporting small businesses and especially those innovative women out there! Can't wait to see what you have coming up! My favorite two (can't choose) are Seven, Cara and Liza "Joy" card OR Jared, Jennifer and Finn with the "Happy Happy Merry Merry" card. Thanks for showing us someone new!

[Becky B]

I love the collage with the Payne family. Love these cards! Thank you!

[Val]

I love the "Boyd Family." I like it because it stands out from the traditional red & green cards.

[Laura R.]

Love the light blue and red color schemed Christmas ones! So cheery!

[april]

the let it snow card from becky, adam and lily

[CptMom]

I like the one of the Stone family.

[KW Crosby]

I like Blake Emily and Annie. Nice cards

[Pamela]

The Andrews Family is my fave! Love the classic design!

[Aimee]

I like the one from Caleb, Alyssa, and Lucy Phelps. With a baby coming, I may get my birth announcements here!

[Mercy]

Ohh, there are some neat ones. I'm going to go with the "Jackson" or is it "Johnson"???? It's the one with the brown stripe and the flowery design. But, I really do like them all. :0)

Hope I win!

If you get your photos done at Target or what-have-you can you have it done through sugarhouse? Just curious. Hope I don't sound completely ignorant, I just have never done the online picture thing. It would be a new adventure for me.

Thanks,
Mercy

[Alaina]

I love the Jeff, Debby, Ivin, & Emma card!

[Cindy McLean]

I liked the McKay family or the Stone family. Thank you for this great opportunity to win this awesome gift!

[Christina K]

I love the Christmas card from the Hardison family. I have a picture of my girls in front of a red tree that would look great!

[Simone]

Very cute... my favorite is the Christmas card with the Hardison family.

[Kim]

I really like the Love Jeff, Debbie, Ivan, and Emma because it would perfectly display a family portrait and individual portraits of my three kiddos! Thanks for a chance at a wonderful giveaway!

[amy]

love the red and white one with the jensen family. thanks!
aebg1974 at bellsouth dot net

[Devin]

I just found your blog and I am loving it! I just have to enter this contest, even though I feel funny doing it with my very first comment ever....but, I liked the Phelps family the best.

Ooh, I hope I'm one of the lucky ones! But, if not, I'll definitely still be back anyway! :-)

[jeanette]

I love the one with the Stone Family (with their backs to the camera). Photography can be so powerful with the simplest of settings. Very nicely done!!