Do you send cards to your friends and relatives at Christmas time? I like to I think it is fun to send them and to receive them.
What kind of cards do you send? I seem to send a mixture of cards sometimes I send photo cards and sometimes I send traditional cards with a photo just slid inside.
If you like to send photo cards where is your favorite place to get them?
The best place for Christmas Cards
Thu, 11/21/2013 - 18:07
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The best place for Christmas Cards
I got 10 free for shipping on shutterfly a while back so I just put together a quick couple of pictures. They turned out really cute and I like getting things for almost free.
My husband & I like to send out Jacquie Lawson e-cards to family & friends... Her e-cards are just amazing & well worth the subscription cost (check them out)... We also try to send out a newsletter w/a photo card that I've made (digiscrap!) - with either a New Year or Christmas theme - to family that don't live nearby.
I just ordered two different sets of holiday cards to send to our friends and family, mostly family and they double as wedding announcements. I got a set from Snapfish that says "Merry & Married & Wishing You Merry" that I loved instantly. My top website is Shutterfly and they have SO many great deals for free stuff like allllllllllll the time, it's ridiculous! I highly suggest Shutterfly for all your photo/stationary printing needs, they're a lovely company. Snapfish is a close second.
I love the designs that Tiny Prints has and Minted. They are very pricey but the cards are great quality and great eye candy!
I got them designed. Now to order them. I used Marisa's Merry & Bright kit to make them.
It doesn't have our names because we actually sign them - I feel something is lost when you don't.
you guys are so cute! I love the cards, especially the little cat at the bottom, love!
I usually make my own cards - I'm huge into stamping and card making. I only have 10 people that I send cards to so it doesn't take that much. I had to cut down on making them so elaborate since they were starting to cost too much to send in the mail. Now I just make flat(ter) cards so that they take a regular stamp. Here are some of the cards I've made in the past (I haven't uploaded pics to galleries for a couple years):
I love those, Cat! Super cute.
Kaleena I love your card it is so adorable.
Thanks, Amber.
Kaleena, your card is AWESOME!!
I want to make something like that too, if I still have time.
We had our phtographer take family photos of us before Halloween and I still haven't seen the proofs yet. ARGGHH!
I'm running out of time!
That is a long wait! We had our photos taken on November 4th and I had the proofs on like the 8th or 10th... You do live in Atlanta though so I imagine that your photographer is a lot busier than ours
I get overly excited for Christmas so I really like to have the cards ready to put in the mail box on December 1st.
I ordered our cards from Costco's new greetings by Costco line - they aren't printed at the store but some where off site. I am very pleased with the results and would say that they are comparable to places like shutterfly (where I have gotten cards before). Also the price was great 75 cards for around $51. I am very happy. Online it says they will take 7-8 business days to be processed then shipped to your store - I ordered them very late last Thursday night and went and picked them up last night - great turn around time.
I loooove receiving ánd sending Christmas cards! I usually design them myself and sell them at Zazzle, so it's easy to order my own designs with great quality printing.
To a few special people (the ones who will appreciate the effort) I send handmade cards.
I used to make them all by hand (about 50 each year), but since I witnessed a friend tossing the cards she received that day right into the dustbin (Quote: "Why on earth do people save those cards?" Unquote) I cut down the 'handmade card' list drastically. No need to say that particular friend is no longer on that list
Kaleena and Cat, I absolutely love your cards!
Is there anyone saving the cards, like me?
@ Antoinette: I know how you feel, but I don't let it bother me. I make them because it makes me happy. What they do with them afterward is up to them, but I just don't want to know about it.
I would love to do a "family portrait" card, but the one time I tried, my cat scratched the crap out of my arm waiting for the timer to go on my camera. I haven't tried since...
Up until recently, I didn't do cards at all. I was turned off in high school because everyone passed them out and I would get about 20. This is striking, because I didn't really have friends. Most of them were from people who spent the rest of the year either ignoring me or bullying me. And adulthood seemed to give me cards from people I never talked to. So I absolutely HATED cards. They were impersonal and just something people "did."
I'm starting to enjoy making my own for birthdays, and probably next year I will make and send to a few people that I really care about. Making them has become like a small paper-craft gift for the person. That, I can do.
I always save cards. I have a huge bag full of them, thinking that I'll do something with them some day. So many of them are creatively inspiring! My husband thinks I'm nuts for saving all of them, but then I saw the pin on pinterest where you punch a hole in them and put them on a ring to keep them all together. I ended up doing this with our wedding/shower cards and all the cards we got when our boys were born. He now thinks those are neat keepsakes.
I'm sad to say I ended up going the Walgreens route again this year, so I had to choose one of their designs and just threw in some of our old pics. Stinkin' photographer still didn't get us the proofs. They look cute, but not as cute as I would have done on my own
Kaleena, I will definitely have to remember Costco for next year. I saw the sign when I went to ours last weekend, but didn't ask because I didn't have the photos yet. So they printed your design for you?
Oh yeah, Walgreens photocards are the cheapest I've found too. I got 80 printed, with envelopes for less than $40. Plus I submitted the order on Monday evening and picked them up yesterday morning. Talk about instant gratification!
@Cat... your handmade cards are awesome!
I save my cards too, and my husband also thinks I'm crazy for doing so. I have tried to sit down and go through my stash to get rid of some... the best I did was throw away the envelopes to get rid of some of the bulk, haha. I also save wedding invitations, birth announcements, etc. why are we so attached to these things?!?! lol... sometimes I wish I could be like the throw it in the trash lady, but I don't have the heart.
I've never sent out Christmas cards in bulk before... just a few Hallmark ones to my closest family members. This year I think I'm going to do a digi card via email. I'll save the printed ones for when we have kids.
ohhh SO glad to see I am not the only one with the its just so beautiful I HAVE to save it syndrome! I love my illness! Gotta save them all lol. I like to hand make cards too ...I also attach a little info on the back of mine saying its a handmade card meant to become an heirloom and to please consider passing it on to someone who will keep it and enjoy it, as opposed to dumping it ...this helps people realise the work and effort that has gone into it ...some have even framed them up and given them to someone else to treasure which is nicer than dumping them. I like that
@Janae, I think I found another use for old cards! I saw on a blog where you take a new cardstock card in a coordinating color and cut off the front of the card and glue it on to the cardstock card. Presto, new card with no old writing! Plus I guess you could stamp the same message on the inside or cut out the old message too, if it would work, but I think this is a great way to get new life out of a used card that will look cool too! Now to try it!
@Tiffany: I made it sometimes, mixing the pictures on industrial cards to paper scrapping stuff:
Last year I haven´t made any card, as I still had lots of extra made on previous years, but this year I´ll maybe going back to the habit of hand-mading cards...
I send handmade cards to family and close friends and I buy cards for everyone else. I never send photo cards.
For whatever reason I missed this question when you posted it Tiffany. - sorry about that.
Yes they printed my design. I did it at home. In photoshop made both sides the size they needed to be then uploaded them on the photo section of Costco's website. Finding the one that is blank for whatever you want on BOTH sides took an extra second or two but I think it was well worth it and plan on going this same route again this year.
I made this, thanks to a very wonderful electronic cutting machine, my Cricut Explore:
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It's a 3D box card, that fold flat to mail.