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Now that Mother's Day is over, I can publish this article without fear of ruining the surprise. As you can see by the photo above, I created a customized Mother's Day card for my mom, and I used the Scrapblog service to do it. They had a special promotion on creating a free Mother's Day card, but unfortunately I wasn't smart enough to figure how to get the card for free. I poked around looking for what I had to do to get this free card, and failed. But hey, the cards were only $1 each, so no big loss (I ordered two). At the time, Scrapblog wasn't shipping outside the USA (they now ship to Canada), so I had to have it shipped to a friend of mine, who then shipped it to me. The final cost of the one card for my mom? About $25 USD. That's an expensive card, but I was so happy with how great the card looked on my screen after I designed it I knew I had to order it for her. Read more...

There's no shortage of online printing services, but this one caught my attention: ArtsCow is offering 1200 free prints to new customers: 600 free 4x6 prints, and 600 free 5x7 prints. There are some caveats of course - the biggest being a limit of 100 4x6 prints and 50 5x7 prints per month - but all in all it's a great deal and worth checking out.