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Win a Vinyl Banner from Uprinting.com! GIVEAWAY!!!

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Do you own a small business? If so, this is a great giveaway for you! Uprinting.com has teamed up with Stuff Parents Need to provide the following giveaway:

2′ x 3′ Vinyl Banners for one winner
with or without 4 Grommets,
premium 15 mil Vinyl Banner
1 Business Days Turnaround time
Free US shipping only

Even if you don’t have a business you need to promote, you should consider banner printing for any number of possibilities, from birthday to retirement banners for special occasions, to welcome home signs for loved ones coming home from time away. We actually have a “Happy Birthday” banner that we put out for everyone’s birthday, and I absolutely love it! It’s a terrific way to quickly decorate for a special day.

 We’ve placed orders from Uprinting.com a few times before and have always been impressed with the quick turnaround and quality products we have received. If you haven’t become a customer of theirs yet, I highly recommend giving them a try!
 Win it!: As I stated early, one of you is going to get a 2×3 banner for your business or home. Woo hoo!

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Customized Greeting Cards (UPrinting GIVEAWAY!)

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EDIT: Giveaway closed!

One of my favorite partners, UPrinting, is teaming up with me to do another awesome giveaway!

A little while back I told you about the custom stickers and labels that you can make with UPrinting, for anything from address labels to business logos that you put on your packages. I recently ordered my address labels, and I was very impressed with the customer service. They were lightning fast and helped me out when the file I submitted was the wrong size. I was very pleased with the service!

Today I want to talk about greeting cards. UPrinting can custom make greeting cards for you! How cool is that?! Perhaps you run a business and you like to send out cards to your clients during the holidays. UPrinting can help you create the perfect card, customized to your needs. No more generic boxed greeting cards for you! UPrinting also offers envelopes that can have your return address printed on them, which will save you a lot of hand cramps from writing your address 100 times, and which will look even more professional than an adhesive address label. Or perhaps you need a really nice set of thank you cards, but everything you see in the stores is either extremely boring or extremely expensive (that’s my experience, at least). Now you can get something personalized at a price you can stomach!

Today you have the chance to win a set of 50 7x 5″ (folded to 3.5 x 5″) Custom Thank You Cards with plain envelopes, including 14 pt Cardstock Gloss coating and full color outside and blank inside. Awesome! The contest will run until Saturday, April 24th at 7:59pm CST. A winner will be randomly selected and emailed, and will have 48 hours to claim their prize. Open to residents of the United States.

How to Enter:

Mandatory Entry: Follow me on Google Friend Connect or subscribe to my blog via email. Your first entry should be a statement that you have done so. It’s just that simple!

Additional Entries:
1. Put my button on your blog and leave a url where I can find it
2. Subscribe to the UPrinting blog
3. Become a fan of UPrinting on Facebook
4. Follow Stuff Parents Need on Twitter (leave your TwitterID)
5. Tell me one other product UPrinting offers that you could use.
6. Enter any other currently open giveaway on my site (one extra entry per giveaway that you enter)

Disclosure: I received no compensation for this post. I will receive the same greeting card package in appreciation for hosting the giveaway.

How to Create Your Own Stickers

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I’m a new member of the UPrinting.com Blog Sponsorship Program. I’m very excited about this partnership, because I will have opportunities throughout the year to tell you more about all the wonderful things that UPrinting offers (such as a way to create your own stickers) AND give you the chance to win some of their terrific products and services. Woo hoo!

how to create your own stickers  Today I have the opportunity to tell you about the stickers and labels you can purchase from them. If you are like me, you could use some updated mailing address labels, and this is a terrific way to be able to customize the look of your labels. If you don’t have a specific look in mind, UPrinting also has a large selection of templates from which you can choose.

Custom stickers and label printing are also helpful if you own a business and would like to put your business name or logo on products or packages. My friend Desi over at Wee Share (who is also hosting a Uprinting giveaway right now) points out in her post that bloggers can even have stickers made to match their blog buttons. That’s a really cool idea! This could also be a terrific tool if you own a small business (like at Etsy shop) and could use labels for the packages you mail out. The size range that they offer is also really impressive, going from 2 x 2.75 to 11 x 17!.

One really cool thing I want to highlight about UPrinting is the fact that they have a low price guarantee. From their site, “UPrinting.com will match the currently advertised price of other online printers for any product configurable through our website.” With this guarantee in mind, there’s no reason not to try them out!

EDIT: This giveaway is closed. Congratulations #25!

Win it!: And one of you is about to get the opportunity to do just that! UPrinting is giving away the following custom sticker/labelpackage to one Stuff Parents Need reader!

  • 250 Stickers/Labels
  • Sizes: 2” x 3.5”, 2” x 4”, or 3” x 3”
  • Paper: 70lb Label Matte
  • Specifications: Full color front, blank back; 6 Business Day printing
  • Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping


The contest will run until February 27th at 7:59pm CST. A winner will be randomly selected and emailed, and will have 48 hours to claim their prize. Open to residents of the United States.

How to Enter:

Mandatory Entry: Check out all that UPrinting has to offer. Then come back and tell me what you will use your stickers/labels for if you win!

Additional Entries:
1. Subscribe to my blog via RSS or email
2. Follow me through Google connect (2 entries, so leave 2 comments)
3. Put my button on your blog and leave a url where I can find it (2 entries, so leave 2 comments)
4. Subscribe to the UPrinting blog
5. Become a fan of UPrinting on Facebook
6. Follow Stuff Parents Need on Twitter (leave your TwitterID)
7. Enter any other currently open giveaway on my site (one extra entry per giveaway that you enter)

Disclosure: I received no compensation for this post. I will receive the same sticker/label package in appreciation for hosting the giveaway.

Current giveaways: awesome children’s cds (ends 2/18), flower arranging dvd (ends 2/19) and handmade lovey (ends 2/24)