A few weeks ago, we drove 40 minutes up the road to Ashton, Idaho with our friends, the Pugmires, and we took our family photo for our Christmas Card. It’s something we do every year, and it’s such a fun tradition that keeps the whole family photo thing more casual and whole lot less stressful when friends are on the other side of the camera. I always take their photo (with Chris making funny faces to get the kids laughing) and then they take ours.
We stopped at two locations, just down the road from each other, and while I loved the white bark on either side of this trail…
The moss and woods and girls cracking up in the one below stole my heart and made it to the card. We’ve gotten a few questions about how to coordinate outfits for cards. I just try to balance patterns and solids. This was our first year (ever) going a little more dressy for pictures–even Charly got some bells around her neck (these).
Last year, we used Artifact Uprising for our cards and loved the quality so much, we ordered from them again this year. This foil-stamped “Merry” card spelled out exactly what I felt the girls were portraying and what we sincerely wish for all our friends and family.
The foil comes in silver, copper or gold (we went with the copper) and it’s so pretty in real life. Can’t wait to get these in the mail! Our friends at Artifact Uprising are all about spreading the cheer and have offered up a $50 credit to one of our readers! Just leave a comment below to enter and we’ll choose a winner Friday so you can start planning your own cards.
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Where are your dress and boots from? Love, love, love!
Artifact Uprising is amazing. I’ve printed so many of their square photos for my girls’ room and swoon everything on their site.
On your recommendation, I used Artifact Uprising for my Christmas cards this year. Their designs were really cute, but when the cards I chose arrived, I was disappointed in the quality of the card. In particular, the photo on the card looks blurry, which is odd since I used a high resolution image. I’ve had better luck with other online card shops.
I love your card! This has inspired me to go dressy for family photos this year.
Both photos are beautiful!! Love the idea of doing photos with a friend.
Great photo! Love Christmas cards every year
beautiful
Love the simplicity of the cards.
Beautiful family.
Beautiful Christmas cards!
Gorgeous photos!! That scenery is perfection, and I love that you included your pup!
Love this giveaway! Pick me!
I’m a sucker for dogs getting in on the Christmas card! We have our two English Bulldogs in ours every year <3
The cards are beautiful! We are hoping to make our first ever family holiday cards this year. :)
Love artifact uprising and Ashton! My folks live near there.
Love these, perfect mix of sophisticated and fun!
Beautiful card!
This year will be our first year sending out family Christmas cards as our family is completely with our girls ???
Love how the detail of the gold foil pops. Great work!
Your card turned out so beautiful. And I love Artifact Uprising. Every year I make a book of all our favorite pictures and order it through them. My kids love looking through them and talking about the memories we made and I love the classic, simple design and amazing quality.
So classy!
This has inspired me to take our own family photos this year for our Christmas cards. It’s seems like waay less pressure and would be awesome to include the dogs!
Such a beautiful family!
After a new home, a new baby, unexpected hospital bills- it would be great to have a little something for Christmas cards! They’d be our first EVER!
Love your card- so pretty! Can’t wait to get started on ours. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the top picture and awesome background.
Happy Thanksgiving!
lovely! and love artifact uprising
Love the look of foil ? yours turned out so well
I was going to order our cards tonight, but now I’m definitely waiting for tomorrow! Love, love, love yours!
ahhh perfect timing…i was JUST browsing on artifact uprising’s website a few minutes ago. we just got back from seeing some national parks out west and i am dying to get some of our photos printed on a large scale! your christmas cards are beautiful–great photo of you guys!
love both of these, would be hard for me to decide!
The cards/pictures came out great. Such cute pics.
That location is beautiful. There’s something about the woods (snow or not) that just screams Christmas card. Love the balance!
So cute! Love artifact!
SO nice!!
Love all the knits you ladies are wearing! So cozy.
Love the picture you chose! Candid pictures are my favorites :) I also LOVE artifact uprising (I have gotten their square prints a couple of times) and am actually working on a family album right now…it’s my dream to start making one album every year! Thanks for the giveaway!!
So cute!
Beautiful card, beautiful family! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! Thanks for the opportunity! :)
Love it! The foil is especially nice! Would love to win!
These cards are beautiful! Such a great idea to get friends to help with photos.
Artifact is awesome :)
Beautiful card, lovely family and the raw nature makes for a merry feeling indeed :)
Love that you went outdoors and included Charly!!!
And you’re absolutely right, your copper Merry is nice addition to the beautiful family photo!
They look so great! You have such a beautiful family, happy
Holidays!
Beautiful family, beautiful card! <3
I absolutely love your Christmas cards every year. They always have a more casual vibe and are not too stuffy and posed like most others!
So gorgeous!
I love your pictures! I have not heard of or used artifact uprising-I’m going to go check them out now. Thank you for the giveaway!
Love your card!
Love the cards! That copper accent is beautiful, and everyone looks great. I would love to use artifact uprising for my cards this year too!
I’ve been eyeing up Artifact Uprising cards for a couple of years now !
Beautiful! I love the minimalist design of the cards you chose! We do the same “picture ritual” with our friends as well!
Your cards are beautiful! We haven’t done a card the last couple years but I’d love to this year!
Very pretty card. Fun to have the dog in it.
This will be our third year in a row sending out Christmas cards and it’s a tradition I would like to keep going! There’s something so special about printing out pictures and I’ve been dying to use Artifact for some good prints!
Love Artifact Uprising! We started using them about 5 years ago before they were real big – so glad they have grown in popularity because their products and trustworthiness is truly wonderful!!
Pretty pretty! I dream in gold foil!
Love your dress, Julia!
I would love to win…would give me the motivation I need to send out cards for the first time in years!
I love Artifact Uprising!
This is the first time I have heard of Artifact. Will check them out. Lovely family and I love that you included the family dog!
Beautiful family, beautiful cards! Would love this for our cards this year. Thanks for the inspo as always!!
Beautiful cards!! Merry Christmas!
I keep meaning to try artifact uprising….need to!
Your family is so beautiful. Greta’s pig tails are adorable and Charly looks so cute all dressed up for the season!
This will hopefully be the first year I actually finish our Christmas cards!
The cards look great! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
Need to get on it for my Christmas cards. I am notoriously late sending them. A few years I have gone with Happy New year cards instead.
Winning the $50 gift certificate would help me on my way.
Gorgeous family and gorgeous pics! Love the tradition you guys have with the Pugmires!
So lovely! Wishing you and your family a MERRY holiday season!
Artifact is new to me. I’d love to give them a try for our Christmas card this year. Yours turned out lovely!
Beautiful family, pic! I love Artifact Uprising and would love to do our first family holiday photo cards with them. Thanks!!
Your photos and card turned out great! I was thinking of actually doing cards this year, so this credit would come in mighty handy!
Love artifact uprising! Happy thanksgiving!
Love how your photos turned out! We’re planning to use one from our daughter’s one-year-old photo session, where we all coordinated with white tops + jeans/jeggings for her ;)
Would love to know where your green sweater dress is from – i need more green clothes to add to my wardrobe!
I love your Christmas card. Looks perfect!
cards are on my to-do list this weekend, this would be great!
What a great giveaway! Love seeing pics of your cute family– especially Charly!
What a great giveaway! I’ve been wanting to try Artifact Uprising for a while now…their work is so beautiful.
These cards are beautiful!
I love artifact uprising! ?
We have our family photo session scheduled for this weekend (a bit late to the game) – I’m trying to plan outfits for 5 and don’t know whether it will be raining, or snowing, or none of the above! But most of all, trying not to stress so we can have fun with it. Love the joy in your family pictures – I hope we can capture a bit of that ourselves!
Great photo – Artifact Uprising is THE BEST!
I love your Christmas card! Such a beautiful family!
I love your cards! And Artifact Uprising in the best, they make the best stuff! Crossing my fingers!
Love!
Beautiful. I would love to give this company a try! Thanks for sharing.
We’ve been trying to plan our cards, too! I love how yours turned out.
Beautiful Picture/Card! I love Artifact Uprising :)
I’ve been on the hunt for some cute biker boots like those! Would you mind spilling? :)
Also your podcast slays me, you guys are so funny!
Thanks, these are just navy Tommy Hilfiger brand.
Beautiful photos and Christmas card!
Ooh, nice. I’ve been trying to figure out who to use for Christmas cards, so I will have to take a closer look at these!
Love your cards and family pictures! I usually take mine over thanksgiving weekend!
Such pretty photos! I haven’t picked ours our just yet, so that credit may come in handy.
What a fabulous giveaway!! I got pictures from Artifact and loved their quality. This would be great to get my butt going on the whole sending Christmas cards this year :)
Your cards came out beautifully. Such a beautiful family. The expressions on your girls’ faces are priceless. Thanks for the reminder to do my christmas cards….last year I waited too long and they barely went out in time. :/
Love, love, love! We have our friend take our photos around this time each year too! Such a great tradition! Would love to turn them into cards! Thanks for the inspiration…. Also I LOVE the podcast xo
Love your cards, and the dressed up version of your yearly family pic! Thanks for the giveaway!
Your photo is beautiful! Also, I love Artifact Uprising, thank you!
I love how laid back and “real” your photo came out (even if you are dressed up a bit)!
So fun!
Beautiful photo! I like the copper touch!
Christmas card goals!
I’ve always wanted to send out Christmas cards but never plan ahead. Hopefully one of these years I’ll get to it in time!
Love both of the photos you shared!!
I love the tradition of Christmas Cards, I wish more people still did them.
i’m so impressed by your creative capabilities and how they translate across your life! love the cards!
Just had our first ever Christmas shoot using a pro photographer so the timing of your giveaway could not be better! Thank you! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Oooo love! I’ve been looking at their Layflat books as well!
That’s a great idea for photos, having a “photo party” with friends! I should try that. Cute family & thanks for the chance at a gift card!
Love your Christmas cards! Great giveaway!
Receiving Christmas cards is one of my favorite parts of the season! Your family photos are adorable :)
so pretty!
Love your Christmas card. Such a beautiful family!
Love these and Artifact Uprising!
I love picture Christmas cards! We send one every year. Yours look amazing! I’d love to try Artifact Uprising and the credit would be such a blessing.
Love love love Artifact Uprising!!
Love these, now that e have a baby I’ve been toying with the idea of Christmas cards
You have such a lovely family!
Love foil pressed cards!
What a festive idea with friends! Gorgeous results! Happy Thanksgiving!
I love outdoor shots for Christmas cards. It’s my go to photo style every year. And I love how you coordinated everyone’s look to seem casual but it all blended so well, especially with the woodsy tones. Love all of it!
Beautiful cards for such a fun-loving family! Captures the spirit of Merry perfectly
Gorgeous cards and beautiful family. Love the foil stamped Merry!
So fun!!! This is one thing f my favorite traditions too!!!
Your family photos are so beautiful!
Love the cards!
Your cards look great! I tend to order cards from a different company each year. I would love to give Artifact Uprising a try.
You guys are the CUTEST family! & I love your dress.
These pictures turned out so great! I love how “Merry” the girls look in the one you chose for the card :)
Where did you get your green dress? It’s lovely!
I just got it at TJMaxx. It’s Calvin Klein Brand. They only had an XL, so it’s probably a little more flowy than it’s meant to be.
I love Christmas cards! I’m glad that’s one tradition that doesn’t seem to go away in this digital age.
I love your dress!! We got married this year, so I’ve been looking at Artifact Uprising a lot for photo books and cards :)
I really like the minimal/modern design that Artifacts Uprising offers.
We’ve never done a Christmas card but I want to do one every year!
aww, love that you included your pup!
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Unbelievably cute – love that dress on you but I think Charly’s bells are stealing the show here :)
Absolutely beautiful Christmas card! We are still working on making a family, I’m pinning this for the future :)
I love Artifact Uprising and their minimalistic and simple style. Your cards look absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing!
The cards came out really nice!
Beautiful!
What a wonderful photo! Would love to use Artifact Uprising!
I was on the fence about sending Christmas cards this year. But, your family was also on the fence and actually got the cards made- they look great. I would love to win the Artifact Uprising gift card to send Christmas cards this year. Merry Christmas!?
Beautiful, thanks for sharing the giveaway. So nice to have tallented friends to help with photos.
You guys have the best family pictures! I love the card you picked… it goes great with the picture
Both photos are great– I can’t believe what a big girl Faye has become — it feels like yesterday she was born — I know you feel the same!! :-) Thanks for the chance to win a gift card!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Your family pictures turned out great! The cards completely match your style!
Love the outfits. Thanks for sharing a giveaway!
Adorable!
Beautiful Christmas cards! Love the girls laughing! Would love to have the chance to use a $50 gift card. I love there website! Although, I have not yet use there products.
You’re blog is my favorite! Love how you love you’re family :)
Happy Thanksgiving!
Love the bells around Charly’s neck! And what sweet photos, too.
Adorable! Thanks for hosting the give away!
I would love to send out picture cards this year. We lost all 4 of our pets by July 3rd this year & just now added to our family with 3 rescue cats – boom, one each week, they just kept falling into our laps, how could we say NO :)
I would love a card showing off my grownup son & all of our new family members!
-PS, your pictures are always so lovely!
New reader here! I just discovered the wonder that is blogland after we bought our first house last month!I love your style and it just correlates so well with what I like as well. Thank you for doing this, I’m sure it’s a lot of work!
I absolutely adore this picture!
These turned out amazing! I would love to print our cards through Artifact Uprising – for our first Christmas cards as a married couple!
Beautiful card!! Love the casual but sophisticated style. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Just took some photos but haven’t put the cards together yet! Would love the chance to try out Artifact. Your card looks wonderful!
Cute cards. I can’t believe it’s time to start thinking about Christmas cards!
How fun! Love the pics that have kids cracking up!
I love your dress, Julia! Also, are those knee socks fitting Faye? I am debating getting some for my daughter, who’s in between your girls. Thanks!
I love Artifact Uprising. I order prints and their quality is amazing. Love your tradition for taking the photos.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Julie
Great choice for the picture!
we just took ours yesterday!!! Hope we win the giveaway! Yall have the cutest little girls. I like the more rich earthy tones you picked this year. Very beautiful. Happy Thanksgiving!
I love the copper foil so much!
Your family photos are always the best! Happy holidays.
Such a precious family photo! Can you share where your dress is from? Also, I LOVE Artifact Uprising! Used them for wedding thank you’s and holiday cards last year.
YHL introduced me to our site via their podcast…. need to go into the archives for those kitchen projects!
Love artifact uprising too!
What a charming family photo. Relaxed and comfortable and enjoying each others company.
Beautiful family!! Thank you for the chance. I’d also love to know where your dress is from
Love this picture, and your blog!
Love! Read your blog religiously ! I can’t believe Christmas is right around the corner, so fun (esp with kiddos!!)! ??⛄️?
Merry Everything! Love it!
So cute! The girls smiles are precious!
Such a great photo!
Such a happy pretty family!
These are darling and you look beautiful!
Both pictures are great!
Love the photos!
Is it awkward that I want to see the Pugmires’ pictures, too? :) I had a friend take some “big sister” photos of my 2 year old, and I think having a familiar photographer was key in getting natural pictures.
You can see it here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BMxD13fhAxc/?taken-by=corinepugmire
I used Artifact Uprising for our cards last year—great quality! Thanks for the giveaway.
Lovely. I always misjudge how many cards to order and never get enough
I love your christmas card! That green dress has me swooning! It’s so nice to see a different printed company besides the usuals!
I love both of these photos! The first is great because Faye is so adorable, but I loved the second when I saw you had updated your sidebar photo earlier this week!
We do casual photos every year with a tripod and remote. Typically the 1st phtoo is the best even though I take tons (just in case)! I would love to give Artifact a try this year!!!
Also, Julia – where did you get your dress? I love it!!
It’s just from TJMaxx, Calvin Klein brand. They only had one size, but I loved the cable knit so much, I just wore it a little loose.
Great picture and card!
Lovely family!
Super cute. Love Artifact, so many awesome products!
Such a beautiful card!
I love so much that you guys include Miss Charly in your pictures :)
Such a beautiful christmas card! I am excited to order a photo book from them, for a surprise christmas gift, I have heard great things! Now I just have to get it finished ?!
You are a wonderful family and look like such genuine and warm people in your blog posts and on your adorable Christmas card. I use artifact uprising to make all of our son’s photo albums and I would love a gift card. Thank you!
These are such beautiful pictures and I love how you added the bells. Such a nice Christmas touch! Thanks for offering a gift card!
Faye is so cute in that first pic that I can’t handle it! Also, please tell us about your dress…I am loving it!
Oh both these photo a gorgeous !! I love that you’re doing this Christmas card every year, it’s something I want to start now that I’ve moved out and am starting my very own family life :)
Faye’s love for Charly melts my heart! Beautiful family!
So so so good! Love this year’s card! You guys are killing it in 2016. So much good stuff this year. Thank you for the amazing content and inspiration!
Your outfits are so darling and spiffy (you know, for the adults ;)). I love it! Thanks for the chance to win the gift card.