Ho Ho Holiday Cards with {Minted}

Do you send out Christmas or other holiday wishes to friends and family?  I enjoy designing the card every year. I always create a few different designs then let Adam choose his favorite. There are 100 places to make your holiday cards, but I always go back to Minted.
I choose to use Minted because they feature art from all over the world for their beautiful designs. Minted is the marketplace for independent artists, from around the globe. Their designs are not only gorgeous and unique, but their products are the highest quality.

This year, we took advantage of their free address book concierge. How beautiful are the fronts of our envelopes! This is a service Minted is offering at no charge for a limited time. Send your addresses in any format and Minted makes the hard part easy! You will thank yourself next year too, no searching for that address list!

There is still time to order beautiful cards for the holidays. Christmas Cards, New Year's Cards, and even special Minted gifts from Minted Art & Minted Home can still be ordered in time for Christmas.

Get cards with free rush shipping and 15% off with Minted promo codes: SHIPNOW and WINTER16 

Your cards will arrive by 12/20 if you use the free concierge service, you are still a step ahead and your friends and family will get their cards before Santa arrives!

Minted is known for its high-quality paper and printing. Minted’s Signature paper is thick and luxurious with a creamy cotton texture, and has been optimized for photo printing. You can also choose 100% recycled paper, Pearlescent paper which adds a subtle shimmer, DoubleThick paper or even TripleThick paper. Minted also offers postcards, ornament cards and 8 unique die-cut shapes.  A variety of backer options allow you to add additional photos, text, and customization options to your holiday card.

I was compensated for my time for this post but as usual all opinions are my own.

Decking the Halls! (for 4 bucks) Yep.

Have you had enough Holiday home tours yet in blogger-land? I hope not. Don’t worry mine is short and sweet. With a treat at the end.
I was in bed sick alllll weekend long so I didn't get to finish taking all of my photos. 
So this will be more like the nickel tour today!

Hurry in...it's snowing!

Here is a better shot of our front door wreath. I rescued it from an estate sale in a big box of wreaths and garland for 50 cents. Watch and see how far this box of greenery takes us this Christmas..

I took off all the ugly bows and ribbons, spritzed the wreath with some gold spray paint for some pizzaz. Then I hot glued some ornaments from the dollar store, and smack a big sparkly gold "N" on it to finish it off. I love it.

When you come in the front door you will immediately see another rescued wreath from the same estate sale box-o-greenery.

 This one got spritzed of white spray paint and real pinecones hot glued on there. I needed a little something else, so I made some rosettes out of scraps of lace. I like this one so much I think I will use it for my front door wreath after Christmas.

DIY wreath.

After you walk in the entry you see our beautiful tree. She is new this year. Last year we had a real tree. Which we LOVED. We would have gotten another real tree this year....

But this one came unexpected to us in July. My Aunt and my parents got it for me at a moving sale, get this...for: $3.

That is not a typo. $3, 10-foot tree. Pre-lit. With the stand and everything. We are lucky ducks. It fits the spot next to our fireplace perfect.

And next, our mantel.

I used garland from the same estate sale box as the wreaths. Luckily this was still in the original packaging.  I didn't need to rip anything off.
I took it outside and gave this a spritz of white to match the snowy look on our tree. It took about 5 minutes of random spritzing.

The white doesn't show up in the photos as much as in person...

The Noel sign was a craft night project. I just cut the boxes and stenciled right onto the burlap. The hard part was stringing the twine through the burlap. The trick was tweezers!

you don't see our dirty fireplace doors...amiright?

Our dining room is festive too.

On top of my china cabinet sits my lantern collection. They are now surrounded by few mini trees. Also from…you guessed it, the box of estate sale greenery. They too got some white spray paint spritzes to freshen them up and match the other greenery in the house.

The believe banner was made at craft night too. So easy!

These trees will hold our holiday cards as we get them through the next few weeks. It's an easy way to display them. I didn't even put hooks in them, just perched them in the tree branches.

Thank you for visiting!

Linking up today for the Dare to DIY: Deck the Halls....with NewlyWoodwards, Primitive and Proper, Decor and the Dog, and Maybe Matilda.

If you haven't entered our giveaway from  PorterDesignCo to with a set of 3 vintage postcard ornaments enter below! Today is the last day! More info in this post.

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Decking the Halls Teaser & a Giveaway from {{PorterDesignCo}}

Who is tired of the holiday Christmas tours yet? Not Me. How about one with a giveaway! Now we're talkin' right?

Our holiday home tour will be live on Monday. Here is a teaser:

I have a few of these beauties on my tree. Ornaments featuring vintage postcards from the early 1900's! These are all custom, handmade ornaments from PorterDesignCo

PorterDesignCo is celebrating its Grand Opening! They are a brand new shop, open just in time for Christmas. The description of the PorterDesignCo ornaments:

"Most feature original postmarks depicting the dates and towns in North-Central Illinois where my great-grandmother, Della, received them. Also included, are many original messages from the senders. "

How sweet right?

Enter right here on the Rafflecopter for your chance to win a set of 3 vintage postcard ornaments from PorterDesignCo:

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Next, on Let's Just Build a House blog

Excuse the lack of posts lately. Just like everyone else--the holidays make us 3x as busy!

I hope everyone had a great holiday. We did. This was the first year in my entire life I was not at my mom & dad's on Christmas morning--we celebrated over the weekend with my parents & sister.
It was weird, and I was kinda sad Christmas morning...but it was also wonderful to wake up in our very own home on Christmas day.

We have so much to share with you soon!

Some upcoming posts:

• Kitchen reveal (finally..I know!)
• Seating for the dining area for our fabulous DIY Farmhouse table
• Our very first giveaway on the blog!

What was your favorite gift you gave or received? 

Did you celebrate Christmas early/late too?