I love deal websites. Sure, 99% of the emails that I receive from these websites are spam to me. But the other 1% can sometimes be gold. This was one of those times.
Vistaprint [affiliate link] recently had a deal for $75 worth of stuff for $15. I’ve always thought that printing some business cards would be kinda fun, so I latched onto the deal. I didn’t know who I would give business cards out to, but I thought that it would at least be a bit of fun.
When I went to their website to figure out what I’d get, I also noticed that they had tons of other cool stuff like custom stamps! So my mind changed from business cards to custom stamps (for when I’m a teacher). So I got my creative juices flowing and started designing a stamp. I was happy with my finalised design, and I had more of my $75 dollars left than I had expected, so I designed some business cards as well (When I placed my order, Vistaprint had a sale. So in addition to using the voucher, I also had a number of other discounts applied to my such as free uploaded designs. This meant I got tons of stuff for my $15!).
A very exciting end to this story is that I received the shipment today (11 days early) and I really wanted to show off the cool stuff that I got. To begin with, here is the stamp that I created.
I was so happy with my first order that when Vistaprint did the same promotion last week, I spent another $15 to get $75 dollars worth of stuff. But I’m waiting for that order to arrive.
If you’re a teacher then I’d definitely recommend them to make a custom stamp for you (you need to design the stamp, they just print it)! And if you’re not a teacher, well, I guess you can have a stamp too if you want. Or you could get any number of different things from them. Below the break I’ve put a few pictures of the other things that I ordered as well as some brief explanations about them.
These are the business cards that I had made (I’ve blacked out personal details that I don’t want online). The back is a QR code which people can scan and automatically download my contact details onto their phone.
This is another stamp that I had made. It’s was actually free (apart from postage), I customised the text but the star was a stock image that they had on the site.
I also had some cards made for FreeHDCountdowns.com (another website I run). Again, I’m not sure what I’ll do with these cards, but they were a bit of fun to design. The QR code sends you to the website.
This is a desk business card holder.
Vistaprint also offers to make free business cards. I already had business cards so just decided to make some time out cards. They look pretty cool and I got 250 of them for free, but they do have a little bit of Vistaprint advertising on the back.
More than anything it was a whole heap of fun. I really enjoyed designing everything, and in itself the stamps are worth $15, so everything is a bonus really! If you’re ever in the market for business cards or custom stamps, definitely check out Vistaprint [affiliate link].
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hey! it’s lynne xie from eu things at uni.
i’m starting teaching this year and so keen for personalised stamps! do you know if it’s still possible to get that $75 of stuff for $15 deal?
Hi Lynne,
I think the deals over unfortunately, however they’ve done the deal a few times so it could pop up again. The deal was through Living Social, so if you keep an eye out on that site you’ll be able to check see if the deal reappears.
Thanks for stopping by my blog!