Photo Christmas Cards
Every Christmas you send Christmas cards to all of your friends and family and they send them to you. Most likely, at the end of the holiday season, all of those Christmas cards get thrown in the trash. A great alternative to those boring, impersonal store bought Christmas cards is a Photo Christmas card. Photo Christmas cards are the perfect way to send a professional looking, personalized Christmas card that friends and family will not be able to resist keeping.
Photo Christmas cards are fairly easy to create and the process can be a lot of fun. If you have a digital camera and photo printer you can create them yourself from the comfort of your own home. You don't have to have a digital camera and photo printer. You can still create Christmas photo cards by having a photo-processing center do them for you. There are many photo processing centers available online or at any number of local retail stores. Having your photo Christmas cards done at photo processing center will cost more up front but it shouldn't cost any more than the cost of the ink and paper required to create them yourself at home.
When making your own photo Christmas cards at home, there are several different formats that you can use. It is your design so use your creativity and imagination and make a truly unique card. One idea is to use a traditional bi-fold format and cut a Christmas shape out of the front of the card. You could use a snowflake shape, a Christmas tree shape, or even a bell shape. Whatever you heart desires. Then find a picture that you like and attach it to the inside of the front cover so that it shows through the shape you cut out. Another idea for a homemade photo Christmas card is a popup card where the picture pops up when the card is opened. You can also create a card using photo manipulation software such as Photoshop. Make the picture itself into a photo Christmas card by adding a margin to the right, left, or bottom of the picture. Then write a personalized Christmas greeting in the margin that you created. This kind of photo Christmas card can also be done professionally at a photo-processing center.
The kind of photo that you use for your photo Christmas card is completely up to you. A nice family photo is always a hit, especially with the older generations. Another idea, if you don't have children, is to use a picture of your pet doing something silly like wearing a Santa hat. Pictures of you and your friends at a party or get together are perfect for creating photo Christmas cards to give to your friends. The sky is the limit. It just depends on your personal taste and the people you are sending your cards to.
Christmas cards don't have to be boring and impersonal. Your friends and family will appreciate a Christmas card that you have put your own time and effort into. It gives them something to look at long after the holiday season has passed. Christmas photo cards are a lot of fun to make and they are much more personal that any card you can buy in the store.