So for those of you that follow what I write here, you may remember I wrote about a free canvas portrait offer. Well, IT’S HERE!

I’d have given it two thumbs up, but I had to hold it up for the picture somehow!

I have to say, for a practically free canvas ($17 for shipping)…this thing rules. I should warn you folks

Social Mama with her canvas!

though, your photo will wrap around the side of the canvas, which I like because it adds dimension. But some photos might not look so good when they’re wrapped around (ex. cutting off heads). So you might want to center your picture or choose one with extra room on the edges if the wrap around isn’t your thing.

Overall, I’m excited about my canvas photo, next time I might splurge and get a frame too now that I know they come out so nice. I’ll probably go and register some other email addresses with ParentSociety.com and order another canvas. This could end up being my default gift for those hard to shop for people.

Not sure when this promo will be over, so you should probably go to ParentSociety.com, sign up as a member and get your free canvas photo before it ends.

P.S. How stinkin’ cute is my cousin with his Mickey ears?

Ok, so we’re not down to 48 hours just yet, but I figured my readers deserve an advanced heads up.

Don’t miss your child’s chance to be February’s CuteKid an win part of the $5,000 in prizes! And if you forgot, Gerber Life is sponsoring The CuteKid contest this month along with the Photos of Love Gallery contest and giving away free child ID kits when you fill out an application for Gerber Life!

The CuteKid of the Year, Kaley, was the January 2008 winner. 2009 could bring great things for a February winner!

Check out last year’s February winners. Could your kid be this year’s winner?

Don’t wait until it’s too late! Before you know it, all the great Gerber Life offers will be gone along with your shot to be the February CuteKid winner.  Good Luck!

Gerber Life teams up with TheCuteKid.com and Sponsors Contest

February 25, 2009 – New York, NY – TheCuteKid.com™ announced today that Gerber Life is sponsoring the February monthly CuteKid Contest and TheCuteKid.com’s free “All You Need is Love” gallery.

Gerber Life is giving $5,000 in prizes to the monthly CuteKid contest winners as well as a $500 prize for the free gallery contest winner. Gerber Life is also giving CuteKid members a free Child ID Kit with application as part of the sponsorship.

TheCuteKid.com monthly contest is open for entries until February 28, 2009 at which time a panel of professional talent and casting agents will determine the winners. Winners will be announced the second week of March.

The free gallery that they are also sponsoring is open to all CuteKid members and will run through March 15, 2009. Photos are voted on by members and members may vote once a day for their favorite photo, the photo with the most votes will be the winner. The winner will be announced on or about on or about April 1, 2009.

“We’re excited to bring such great new things to our members by partnering with brands they know and use every day,” said Greg Byrnes, VP of Marketing. “The child safety ID kit from Gerber Life is something every parent should have in an emergency.”

For more on the contest, how to get a free ID Kit and how to enter the contest or gallery, visit TheCuteKid.com.

Gerber Life Insurance Company provides quality life insurance for families with a limited budget. Gerber Life offers child whole life insurance, adult term life insurance and adult whole life insurance and many more affordable plans. Visit GerberLife.com for more information.

TheCuteKid.com is the Internet’s most respected and largest growing child and baby photo contest and parent network with over 1.7 million members. The contest is judged by Entertainment Industry Professionals, top Talent Scouts and Casting Agents. TheCuteKid.com is the Internet’s leading source for Entertainment Professionals to scout for new child talent and will be awarding over $100,000 in prizes for 2009.

Do You Have a CuteKid™?

So considering I got some great feedback from the canvas portrait promotion I told you all about, I’m back with another deal!

Did you know that this month CuteKid members get a free Child ID Kit from Gerber Life? That’s right party people, all you have to do to be eligible is be a member of TheCuteKid.com (yes, ofcourse it’s free to join!). We all hate to think the worst could happen, but shouldn’t you be prepared if the unthinkable happens?

Once you become a member, it’s really simple to grab your free Child ID Kit from Gerber Life. Go to your member homepage (up around the right hand corner of the screen). Once you are there, there’s a link to receive your offer from Gerber Life in red directing you there under the ‘My Rewards’ header. Voila!

Gerber Life is sponsoring The CuteKid contest for February as well as the All You Need is Love gallery. If you missed my post yesterday, one of our CuteKids is a Gerber kid too! Don’t miss out on winning part of the new $5,000 in monthly prizes! Enter the February CuteKid contest before it’s too late!

To add to our ever growing list of cuties, we just got word that two of our kids are featured in ads for some great brands!

Marisa from Minnesota was recently featured in the Target toy catalog. What a dream job for a kid! And with such a big name like Target to add to her modeling resume, we’re sure we will be seeing her do great things. Congrats Marisa!

Emily from California is another CuteKid who is currently on the Gerber website! She is currently in a video on the Gerber website. She has done work for some other places outside of Gerber as well including Kohl’s and Pediped Footwear. Congratulations to Emily too! We look forward to seeing her in an upcomming issue of “Baby Couture” as well.

As promised, Social Mama is going to give you a little insight into what goes on behind the scenes of a CuteKid of the Year Photo Shoot! Earlier this month, Kaley visited New York to do a little modeling for Carter’s Footwear and The CuteKid!

During the shoot she got her very own “I’m a CuteKid” shirt which she just loved wearing. Think your kid is as cute as Kaley? Check out The CuteKid Cafe Press shop where your cutie an get Kaley’s cute look too! There’s a huge sale going on store-wide too so don’t wait until it’s gone to get your CuteKid gear!

That’s just the tip of the iceberg you’ll find at The CuteKid Cafe Press shop. We couldn’t leave out parents of CuteKids! There’s gear for them and other great gifts too!

Speaking of a CuteKid, I’m sure our MySpace friends would like to know who the Sleepy Kids winner is!

He Must have been Really Sleepy!

So I was surfing around the other day and came across this deal on ParentSociety.com. Just for signing up to be a member, which is free by the way, I was eligible to receive a free 11×14 canvas portrait of my choice. All I had to pay for was shipping ($17.95)! Let me tell you, these canvas portraits, from what I can tell, look really cool. Check out the free canvas portrait deal.

I did a little research on canvas portraits and found out that this really is a great deal. Canvas portraits (11 x 14) retail for at least $35 a pop, not including shipping.

So my inner shopaholic won out and I purchased one. I’ve heard good things about the Canvas People company, which is the partner of ParentSociety for this promotion. I’ll keep you updated when I get my canvas portrait and how good it is.

I didn’t persay find this for Social Finds Friday…but nonetheless I thought you should all know about our newest gallery contest. It’s a Valentines Day theme photos of love-type contest. It’s sponsored by Gerber Life so you should totally check it out.

The photo with the most votes will win $500! Also, members can sign up to get a FREE child ID kit from Gerber! Check out the All You Need is Love Contest and if you aren’t a member yet, you definitely need to get on that!

Lets get some fun happening in here in honor of Valentines day. We want to know the cutest thing your kid ever did or the best valentine your kid ever gave you. Ready, set, go!

Exciting news, we just confirmed that all of the Baby Gap and Gap Kid casting call winners are members of The CuteKid! Congratulations to our Baby Gap casting call winners, Jaci Rae and Caleb as well as our previously mentioned Gap Kid casting call winners, Kellen and Jovana!

Just goes to show that anything can happen when you’re a CuteKid! It’s an exciting time for us here at The CuteKid, so many of our members are making it big and landing great talent gigs!

Just recently we had Chase from New York land a Fisher-Price ad and Cruz from New Jersey became the face of a new Crayola toy comming out this month!

CuteKid always keeps you updated on the latest casting calls like the Gap casting call. Check back on our casting call page to check for the latest casting calls!

Want to be our next spotlight? Keep your photos on The CuteKid fresh, agents are always looking. Who knows, your cutie might be the next face of Baby Gap or Gap Kids!

Winner Wednesday strikes again! We just got word that the Gap Kid Girl winner from the Gap casting call is also a CuteKid! Jovana, age 10 is the Gap Kid Girl winner and she is from Illinois.

This Gap winner loves playing softball and basketball and would love to one day be a teacher or veterinarian. Somehow, we think modeling is in her future though!

We can’t wait to see more from this Gap Kid Girl and CuteKid. As we’ve seen with some of our other CuteKids, sky’s the limit!