Got Baby? Get Pictures! A Shutterfly Giveaway!

A hot topic on CMF lately, has been how to manage pictures of our little ones. Do you print them out on photo paper? Use digital scrapbooks? Create an old school cut and paste scrap book? Create a photo share site? Possibilities are endless. Unfortunately, our time is not.

Enter Shutterfly. Their new line of cards, stationery and photo books are designed to help welcome a new baby into a modern family. Ya know, the ones taking that like options… Ya know, the ones like me! 🙂 On the Shutterfly Storytelling site, Chief Storyteller, Heather M., lists five unique ways to welcome a new baby, including birth invitations and provides tips and tricks to help the parent celebrate a new addition to the family through pictures.

A few of the tips are listed below:

1. Storybook of Facebook Photos – Pull pictures straight from a proud parent’s Facebook page to create this stunning personalized storybook for the baby. It’s a sweet surprise for the family when your gift is upon meeting the child.

2. Birth Invitation – In this age of the modern family, parents aren’t the only ones in the room when baby makes his or her debut! A birth invitation is a formal way of getting those closest to you enthused about attending the labor and delivery.

3. The Moment We Met Momento – To commemorate the first moments shared between baby and special friends and relatives, use the images taken to create photo plaques that can be gifted or used as nursery decorations.

4. Explain the Name – Parents fret for months about choosing the perfect moniker for their child and often the story of how the name came to be is rather interesting. Include it on the back of the baby’s birth announcement.

5. Don’t Play Favorites! – It’s tough to choose a single portrait of baby so don’t! Have each family member (older siblings included) select their favorite snapshot to create a collage announcement.

I like these ideas! Don’t you? Well, at least all of them except the invitations for the actual birth. Um, sorry, no one was invited to that “affair.” If you’re interested in trying out Shutterfly’s many options or are already a Shutterfly fan, be sure to enter our giveaway! We’ll be giving 15 flat 5×7 stationery cards to give one lucky CMF reader!

Can’t wait to see if you won? Go ahead and order your photos and gifts! All orders over $30, qualify for free shipping with the promo code: SHIP30.

Please enter the giveaway by Thursday, March 15th. The giveaway will be selected on Friday, March 16th by Random.org. You can get up to four entries. You’ll get one each time you:

• Fill out the form below. This one’s the freebie!
• Tweet: “I want to win the @shutterfly giveaway from @cltmomfaves!”
• Share this link on Facebook (you can copy & paste this onto your status update: http://www.charlottemomfavorites.com/2012/03/got-baby-get-pictures-shutterfly.html)
• Leave a comment sharing what your favorite Shutterfly gift is, or what you are most excited to try out.

Good luck!