I have a very exciting and different sort of giveaway today. That’s because a lot of us are stay-at-home parents, work-at-home parents, or entrepreneurial sorts. We’re always starting something new, whether it’s a business, a kid’s project, or yet another blog. So when I had the opportunity to test the Broderbund PrintShop 23, I thought, “It’s very different for dkMommy Spot yet it’s so perfect!”
The PrintShop 23 can help you do everything from designing your own greeting cards to starting your new business. I’ve been trying the Pro Publisher Deluxe, which has been a whiz at designing dkMommy Spot business cards and other dkMommy projects I keep putting off. But the PrintShop is very easy to use with premade templates you can tweak and alter to your heart’s desire. And the best part for me is, I don’t have to go get 500 business cards printed at an exorbitant price, then wonder how I’m going to get rid of them all. I can print as I go. Saves money, saves paper, saves a lot of headaches for me.
There are three versions of PrintShop: The Standard ($29.99), Deluxe ($49.99) and the Pro Publisher Deluxe ($99.99). All three contain hundreds of thousands of images and graphics, hundreds of fonts, project templates, a photo workshop with editing, and lots more fun stuff. I spent a large chunk of my weekend playing with the program and found it endlessly enjoyable. Tutorials can be read as a PDF, printed, or watched as video. The layout is simple, the tools are self-explanatory, and the end results are very professional. Overall, no matter what you’re looking to print and design yourself, you’ll find PrintShop will be a great timesaver and a whole lot of fun.
Want to see for yourself? I have one Standard version of PrintShop ($29.99) and one Deluxe version ($49.99) to give away to two randomly chosen winners just in time for preparing your own Christmas cards. Or get that business off the ground you keep putting off because it all seemed too complicated. Or surprise your boss with a great PDF document, or design your own family newsletters or stationary or slideshows or postcards or…
3 Ways to Enter:
1.) Just visit Broderbund’s PrintShop page and tell me something about the product that would really help you with your special projects. Have fun with your comment! If I can’t contact the randomly drawn winner, I choose according to comments.
2.) Email subscribers are entered into this and all future giveaways, for as long as their subscription is active. (No need to leave a comment to let me know you’re subscribed–once you’re in, I hold your email address near and dear!) Just click here: Subscribe to dkMommy Spot by Email (Please make sure to verify your Feedburner subscription by responding to the email they send you. If you do not receive it, check your junk mail. Only verified subscriptions are entered for all the giveaways.)
3.) Blog about this giveaway on your blog with a link back to this post. Come back and leave me a Comment with a link to your blog post. (If your comment doesn’t show up right away, don’t worry – I may have to approve it first. My blog might think it’s spam but gosh darn, I certainly don’t!)
Feel free to do all three, and you have three entries to win! You have until midnight EST on Friday, October 17, 2008, to enter.
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Since my husband owns his own business, the delux version would be the best…he’s forever needing to go to a print shop to have business cards made. This would save us a fortune!!!!
Please count me in, would love to share this with my family!
-Barb
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I’m still working off PrintShop 21, so obiviously I need an update! Cardmaking is a breeze with PrintShop, not to mention all the other things you can do with it… Deluxe me!
Sweet!
I’m just a beginner and the only PrintShop I have is from 1996 when I got my first computer. This would be great for labeling my salsa jars and items I sell at craft fairs. I need something that makes my packaging stand out and look like I’m a tad more professional. One of the better giveaways I have seen on a blog. Please keep them coming.
The print shop Deluxe looks like an afternoon of great fun playing with pictures and using all my creative juices!!
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The Print Shop 23 Deluxe would help me with making holiday greeting cards!
Printshop at the hop..
Have 4 main reasons for wanting this, they are Sarah, Laura, Sammi and Emma also known as my grandaughters who have so much homework, church work and club work this would be a godsend. Also to help my middle son in his business.
All of those templates would really help me get some projects off the ground. I have been trying to do more digital scrapbooking and would really come in handy with Holiday crafts.
This stuff would be great to use on some projects I have been putting off doing. Thanks for the opportunity!
Have always used this software….it is great. Like to burn CDs, so the label maker would be nice.
I don’t have any version of Print Shop, buthave been told I need it. I run an at-home business and try to do everything.
Print Shop Deluxe would enable me to make greeting cards from scratch, and it sounds like it includes a great selection of graphics! My new computer doesn’t like my old card program.
I would love to win this. I had a version 10 years ago that I loved. I would use it to make things like candy bar wrappers that I could use as cute package decorations.
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The Stationery areas of either edition would be great. I am giving Christmas Gifts to Family Members this Christmas of the Origins and Meanings of Their First, Middle and Last Names. You can do the research usually for free online. Then to print the information on various nice stationery that to you represents the persons personality would be great. I will either print these out on nice glossy paper or card stock. They can add this to there scrapbooks or photo albums. I’d also like to make candy bar wrappers that are individualized for Christmas. We are trying to do every cost effective presents for Christmas this year, as we need to use the money to do some unexpected home repairs.
I don’t have much experience with using CD’s to make cards and such, I’ve been doing alot of that by hand, but I think in the long run a digital based approach would be more cost and time effective, and besides I am having some nerve complications in one of my arms, so cutting out items for hand made homemade cards is becoming harder to accomplish. I believe it would be easier for the graphics component of either of these Print Shop programs to make a nicer card than I can now. At our Church, we all exchange cards at Christmas and I’d like to find something that can be personalized for each individual that we give to. Thanks for the chance to win. These are great prizes and will save the person who wins money on having to buy cards and more at the store.
the templates are rwally helpful in doing projects
I would ? the Printshop Pro. Making graphics and signatures is my therapy! Life is crazy with three kids. I would also be able to make my own invitations!
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Something like this is on my wishlist!!
Even the standard version seems really awesome, because i love resizing and using photos!!
What a great giveaway! The idea of having all those fonts at my disposal–and tweakable templates for things–sounds great. I like to create greeting cards with rubber stamps and I’m always hearing about people designing and printing the word part with their computers. I haven’t been able to do that yet. This would be great! (After all, I can’t have a stamp for absolutely every greeting I could possibly want. Some are definitely one-time-onlys.)
I would love to win this! It would be great to make our own Christmas Cards (tis the season!), and would save us a lot of money. Thanks for the contest!
The Print Shop 23 Deluxe would help me with making cards for everything birthday or christmas or whatever! Thank you for the chance to win such a great gift!
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Hi,
this give away is fantastic. One obvious thing is, it’ll save us all money! – I. just went and bought Halloween cards and was horrified at the checkout. – Too embarrassed to put them back though. I read that with the print Shop 23, you not only get the images on the software, you get a 3 month bonus sunbsciption to Million Images Club – thats worth it, alone. Great giveaway. I loved your blog about this, I am a SAHM too and scour yard sales for find and sell items on ebay, I have just started. – I’d love to make little notes saying thank you fro buying from me!
I am a subscriber also, but I never know if I am meant to write this in or not.
i like how you can make t-shirts with the standard. I’m not really understanding how. I guess i buy thermal paper? But it’s a cool concept cause i would like to have shirts made up with family on them and give them out as gifts!!
I had a look and its great. I am quite basic with my PC knowledge, so was pleased to read that the PS 23 is SIMPLE (to use) but powerful and EASY (editing) – It sounds as though they’ve made it for me. I’d do my Christmas card and my sons birthday invitation and thank you cards. I can match up themes. thanks so much for this great give away, I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
Hi, thanks for the chance to win. I like the idea of templates, not having to start yourself from scratch, so anyone can get going quickly with this software. great!
This would be perfect for our Christmas cards and scrapbooking.
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Deluxe has more than 21,000 professionally-designed templates – unbelievable
The fact that it has 750 fonts to make your text stand out. I like having fun with different fonts.
Print Shop sure has come a long way since its beginnings in the dot-matrix days! I’d enjoy using its Clipart Editing tool to add my twisted sense of humor to some of the packaged graphics.
i would like to have the deluxe version
The information I found that would be helpful to me is: More than 21,000 professionally-designed templates! Can you imagine how long it’ll take me to go through all those? I can’t wait.
I am a subscriber.
How, thanks for the contest. The idea of creating your own templates is just great.
This printShop 23 would be great to make cards.
I am a teacher, and I do a newsletter twice a month for parents to stay connected. I’ve created my newsletters on a very old program, so I’d love a new program to enhance my newsletters.
thanks.
The PintShop 23 would be great to make Christmas cards
I love how the software comes with 19,000 pre-designed QuickStart templates to give you a place to start!
I work in a sheltered workshop for the mentally retarded/developmentally disabled…this would be such a great asset to make cards, posters, certificates for the people I work with.
I am a subscriber.Is this contest open for Canadians to enter?It’s marked not specified.What does that mean?
oh i’d love to have this stuff! I’d make little ‘model’ books for each one of my neices and nephews for christmas. EAch one having his/her own portfolio like a little model
Ohhhhhh weee *rubs hands together* I can feel myself getting all tingly and my creative juices are starting to flow!
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I would LOVE to have this stuff too because I am a graphic designer and I would have LOTS of fun with it! I am crazy about fonts and would have fun creating all kinds of interesting graphics with it! Thank you–this is a must have for an artist like myself.
this would be great for the church work i get stuck do– the church work i happily volunteer for
I like that you get a bBonus Subscription: 1-year subscription to the Million Image Club with the deluxe one.
I love that I can make fun Christmas letters with it.
As a grammar school teacher, either version would be an absolute Godsend! I would SO love to win this – for the good of my students, of course!
this would be wonderful to win. I am doing scrapbooks for both of my grown daughters for Christmas. Oh, the things I could do with this program.
And we love Brunderbund…I bought a paint program of theirs over 10 years ago. My kids loved it!
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My daughter has started doing her scrapbook pages digitally and I’ve been thinking about doing it, too. Print Shop would be just the thing I need to get going.
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I have heard this is a great software package