For nearly 100 years, Hallmark Cards, Inc. has helped people connect with one another and give voice to their feelings. Our employees are personally passionate about caring, creativity, quality and innovation, values that have guided us from the start and remain at our core.

These are just some of  the great holiday gift ideas that Hallmark has…

2009 Christmas Recordable Card with Music – Each Hallmark Recordable Card with Music allows the sender to record a 10-second voice message directly into the card. When opened, the recipient will hear the familiar voice of the sender, followed by a 30-second clip of a classic pre-recorded Christmas song.

Cover: Guess who hopes your Christmas is as merry as can be?
Inside: It’s me!
Music: “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”

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2009 Christmas DVD Greeting Card – Heart

Hallmark DVD Greetings are an interactive new approach to the holiday newsletter. Each Hallmark DVD Greeting hosts a template that can be edited and customized with personal photos, burned to the included DVD, and sent with the coordinating greeting card (also included).

Cover: From our hearts to yours…

Inside: Have a wonderful Christmas.

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Digital Scrapbook – Holiday Digital Memory Keeping

Hallmark’s Digital Scrapbooks incorporate multimedia enhancements including music, photos and text with personal photos.  It’s an easy way to personalize and share special holiday memories.

Consumers can select a background, sentiments and music to coordinate with their favorite photos — creating their own digital scrapbook — which can then be displayed on a digital photo frame, computer screen, television, or anywhere else you can plug in a USB drive.

The Digital Scrapbook collection also features friend, family, love, and baby themes.

Check out your local Hallmark store for these gifts and many more for everyone on your Christmas list.

For nearly 100 years, Hallmark has believed in the very best of human nature, the desire each of us has to live a life that intertwines in meaningful ways with others. That belief stirs our passion – a passion that has built legends, pioneered an industry and enriched countless lives. A passion that you see and feel in everything that bears the Hallmark name.

A recent national survey commissioned by Hallmark revealed more than three-fourths of moms said they are looking for new ways to boost their child’s confidence as they head back to school and get into the flow of the school year and all it brings.

To address their need, Hallmark has introduced a collection of encouragement cards for kids, which are designed to help parents provide an extra boost of confidence for kids as they experience “everyday” moments – whether it’s the first day of school, taking a test or trying out for a team. The cards incorporate humor and heartfelt messages to help adults show support, pride and give a special child a boost of confidence. (Some of the cards include originally recorded sound clips too, which play when a child opens the card!)

These cards start at 99 cents, and the encouragement cards with sound retail for $2.99.

I have always been a firm believer in telling my kids exactly how proud of them I am at just about anything they accomplish and I was so happy to learn that Hallmark now offers a way to help me send that message to them. I recently was able to give my daughter her first card after she tried so hard to learn to play a song on her guitar, when she finally got it right I saw the happiness in her eyes and she made me so very proud that she pushed through and learned it that I took that opportunity to give her a Hallmark card, the You Rock card to be exact and she loved it!

And I get the chance to help my readers with a giveaway for two of you. You will each win a pack of 10 cards. That is 8 of the encouragement cards for kids with sound and two others without sound (a $25.00 value for each prize pack). Please see rules below to enter today…

Giveaway

• MAIN RULE – Tell me in comments what your child has done recently that you are proud of. (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
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• 2 Extra Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog.

This giveaway will run through midnight on October 23, with winner being announced the morning of October 24. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.