Vista Printing

Maybe I have been living in the dark ages and all of you have already been enlightened?  However, I just found out about Vista Printing yesterday as I was blog stalking reading other's blogs and read the blog post Emily has over at

I literally spent HOURS looking at all the stuff that was listed as free. 

All these freebies are only good until July 10th!

(Here's a warning - be careful, shipping can get pretty pricey.)

Here's all the stuff I was able to get:

 
It says I saved $115.91.  I got everything free except it cost $4.99 to upload my own design for the FROG Folders and shipping was $29.20.  You tell me, did I do okay?  Since I've never used them before I'm not sure.  I hope I did...

This is how I plan on using each of these:

Birthday Banner - I'm going to display this each day that a student has a birthday.

I stole borrowed this idea from Emily.  I will use this magnetic board attached to my magnetic large white board to use for keeping score during the student/teacher game!

I will use this window cling on the window of my classroom door.

I'm only 6 years away from retirement.  I'm going to use these address labels to begin labeling the things that are mine.  It will help when I loan things out also!

Another idea I stole borrowed from Emily.  I'm going to put these refrigerator magnets in my students back-to-school goody bags.  They can use these to display their work on the refrig at home!

I think I'm most excited about these.  This is part of the newest back-to-school theme/classroom decor I am working on for my own classroom.  We have the plastic communication folders that have the clear plastic sleeve on the front.  These will be in the front of each student's folder.

Blank note cards because as teachers we go through tons of these each year!!!

Notepad because you can NEVER have enough notepads to jot quick messages home to parents!

I designed my own rack card to be a reading log for the students.  On the back, it tells "What Can I Read?" "Who Can I Read to?" and "Where Can I Read?"  I amazes me each year how many students don't know that there is more than one answer for each of these questions!

As I said, this is a first time for me.  I hope that shipping cost is worth it!  How many of you have used Vista before?  Are there any other places you use to print items for your classroom?  I have some Shutterfly promo cards.  I'm trying to figure out what I might can do there...