Now that the tryptophantic coma has worn off, it’s time to turn our thoughts to snow, holly and red suits belted in white. To help you winterize, Team Picnik is rolling out our Holiday Effects, Stickers, Frames, Fonts and Fancy Collages.

Add some festivities to the family holiday card with snowflakes, a candy cane, or a dreidel. Or spruce up your profile picture with a white beard and jolly red nose, some antlers, or a spring mistletoe.

We are tickled to bring you a holiday set chock-full of cheer, so be artistic, be silly or somewhere in between just make sure to be merry!

A few of our very own Team Picniker’s joined men from around the world in recognizing Movember.   Movember is the dedication of the month of November to raise awareness, research dollars and support for men’s health and prostate cancer.

To participate in Movember men start out clean shaven on November 1st and then proceed to grow spectacular variations of mustaches for the remainder of the month.

If you are late to the party or follically challenged finish the month strong by adding a little scruff to your photos or profile pictures with our Premium Beard tool or free beard stickers.  Nothing says you are committed to a good cause like drawing some scruffy attention to it.

The coming two weeks are huge, Picnikers!

For those of us in the US, this is the 4th of July long weekend. To celebrate, we have every kind of stars and stripes for your photos: Bokeh Stars, Red White & Blue color effects, flags and fireworks stickers, and more! And don’t forget to put those photos in one of our Independence Day themed Fancy Collages.

Today is Canada Day! Canadians: Check out our collection of Canadian flags, bunting and that essential Maple Leaf in the Seasonal Stickers section!

And on July 14, the French celebrate Bastille Day. We’ve got everything French in the Seasonal Stickers section: Le drapeau de la France, la Tour Eiffel, du café, des baguettes, des croissants, and more!

So we’d like to wish everyone a joyous 4th of July, a carefree Canada Day, and a fabulous Fête Nationale. Happy Picniking!

We have two new operationally ready features to announce, right in time for Memorial Day.

Heat Map 2.0 The original Heat Map Effect has been expanded and made even more awesome with five presets to choose from: Thermal (the original), Satellite, Combustion, Autotrophic, and Infrared. Each one designed to mimic the view you get from different thermographic or low light imaging devices.

Camo Face Paint Fade into your urban jungle (or desert, or woodland) with this new feature. Just paint the colors on, changing colors frequently to avoid detection. Unlike other face painting tools, you can switch colors without hitting Apply.

Plus! Commemorative Shapes of every kind are here for those of you who are celebrating Memorial Day next weekend: Yellow ribbons (in the Awareness Ribbons Stickers), BBQ Stickers, Flag overlays, Camouflage Frames, and anything else you need to pay tribute on this holiday.

We here at Picnik hope you all enjoy these tools and have a really lovely Memorial Day Weekend. Happy Picniking!

Travel season is nearly here! And in honor of National Travel & Tourism Week, we here at Picnik would like to extend a gentle reminder not to forget to pack your camera! Think of all those great vistas, silly signs and amazing people you see on your travels. You wouldn’t want to lose any of those moments, so leave the extra pair of shoes behind if you must but make room for that camera.

To help celebrate, and because sharing photos we’ve taken is one of our favorite things to do, too, we thought we’d show off some favorite travel photos from the Picnik team:

We hope that whether your coming adventures take you across oceans or close to home, you capture those memories you’ve created, and use Picnik to share them at their best with friends, family, and the world.

Happy Picniking and happy travels!

Mother’s Day is right around the corner for many countries, and breakfast in bed is alright for some, but it’s the card that makes it work. Everyone knows the best kind of card is a handmade one, but that doesn’t mean you need to be tied to the construction paper and scissors if you can make her the perfect photo card in Picnik!

Picnik has lots of Fancy Collage templates to personalize with your favorite photos of Mom: Cards, Stationery Sets, IOUs, even scrapbooking-style frames for the wall, desk or fridge.

And don’t forget that Moms take lots of photos, so a Picnik Premium Membership makes a great gift (and an easy one, but we won’t tell anyone)! Happy Mother’s Day and Happy Picniking!

It’s February: Time to make sure your loved ones know how you feel. We have a complete collection of romantic Valentine’s Stickers, affectionate fonts, and all sorts of Fancy Collages from sweet to sophisticated, and all perfect for your photos!

A snow storm the size of Australia was bearing down on the US this week and a cyclone the size of the US just passed through Australia, there’s trouble and unrest in many corners of the globe, so perhaps there’s never been a better time to tell people you love them. And since the mail is all screwed up due to the weather, what better way to say it than with Picnik?

Picnikers: Put down your cookie sheets, step away from the candles, and get out from under the mistletoe! December is upon us and you don’t want to be late sending out those holiday greeting cards.

We here at Picnik would like to invite you to be kind to yourselves during the busy holiday season. Leave the boxed cards at the store, the car in the garage and the cookies in the oven because our new Holiday Greeting Wizard will guide you through perfectly customizable cards for everyone in your address book before the kitchen timer dings.

Just click Send a Greeting at the top of the Holiday Features list in the Create Tab to put your festive photo into one of our custom, customizable Holiday Greetings. Or upload a new photo by clicking the Try It Now! button on the Home Page. Choose your style, select a color scheme, write your own message and email it instantly to family and friends. Or save even more time by sending it to Buzz, Facebook, or Twitter.

Don’t forget to send a copy to yourself so you can print it out and put it on the fridge. Just in time to rescue the cookies, finish lighting the candles and take up your position under that mistletoe.

The sleigh bells are ringing, the jingles are belling, everything is turning red, green and gold, and blue and silver, which means it’s time to deck your photos with all the festive and jolly that Picnik has to offer this year!

New Effects! Like Winterize, which instantly turns your photo as cool as a frosty day (goes great with Snow!)

New Stickers! Like Candy Canes, Dreidels, and Sketchy Christmas shapes to go with the Santa Hats and Mandarin Oranges and Holly.

A Jolly White Beard! Because honestly, what good is a Santa Hat without the Santa Beard?

New Gift Tags and Fancy Collages! Perfect for gift wrapping and cards, don’t forget to use our full Touch Up suite to get your family photo perfect!

And New Holiday Textures! Make your photos merry and bright with our sparkly, snowy new photo overlays.

Happy Holidays, and Merry Picniking!

It’s that time of year again! The days are growing shorter, the clocks are turned back, the leaves are changing color and people in the Southern Hemisphere are basking in the sunshine that’s skittered away from those of us shivering up north: It’s Fall! (Or Spring!)

Here in the US, we’re getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday. A whole day dedicated to giving thanks for the gifts we’ve been given with a big turkey dinner shared with friends and family (and a full three days afterwards to recover and eat leftovers), Thanksgiving is a special time full of memories that people like to capture in their photos.

This year we have a fabulous new offering for everyone making the most of the Fall season with new Fall Fancy Collages, Autumn-themed Stickers and a new Autumn Leaves Frame to wreathe your photos in the fiery colors of the season.