Comments on: Holiday cards – your preferences?

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:39:18 +0000

I love making hand-made cards and try to whenever I can, although some years I am just too busy. I never should have started it, b/c family and friends grow to expect it and there is a lot of pressure to send out nice cards when people are saying “oh, we can’t wait to get your beautiful hand-made card this year”. Yikes!!

By: kgirl

kgirl — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:03:54 +0000

I’ve always saved the cards too, but I’ve never sent any out. Every year I say I might, but then I don’t.

By: Mom on the Go

Mom on the Go — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:56:57 +0000

I’m a photo and newsletter person. When I remember, I get the photo-with-greeting card that is the length of a business envelope to make my life simpler. (Can be with photo studio or just from Kodak kiosk and your pic.) Grandparents, aunts and uncles on all five sides (Ken’s parents are divorced, we know only his stepfather’s people) report that they enjoy the pics and the stories.

Now to write the newsletter…

By: Jody

Jody — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:14:09 +0000

We do Target/JCPenney/Portrait Innovations portraits at Christmas-time, partly to get a family photo for the grandparents as a Christmas gift and partly to send as a card. Every year, I contemplate upgrading my camera and trying for a TinyPrints-style photo card, but now the formal portrait is a tradition and I’m having a hard time changing the format.

I send out a newsletter with the card. It used to be a quarter-page of 8.5×11, but now it’s an entire page, only with much bigger font. Probably about half of the cards go out to elderly relatives and the tiny 9-point font just seemed cruel.

By: DaniGirl

DaniGirl — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:21:36 +0000

Me too, Julie! I’m totally convinced now — and they do ship to Canada!

By: coffeewithjulie

coffeewithjulie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:35:40 +0000

Thanks to everyone for letting me know about Tiny Prints. I am TOTALLY doing that! (provided they ship to Canada, of course). LOVE IT — best of both worlds … some news, some photos.

By: Angela ( jhscrapmom)

Angela ( jhscrapmom) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:04:25 +0000

this was last years ( i missed christmas so sent out a new year’s card)
http://www.tinyprints.com/personalize/540201/Starry%20Holiday%20|%20Christmas%20Cards/saved/10e611f461623389b6d842cfa430310d121d48d8.html
hope that worked

By: Angela ( jhscrapmom)

Angela ( jhscrapmom) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:00:03 +0000

tiny prints is where i get mine done every year. it links right up to your flickr account ( the link is right on the bottom right hand corner of the flickr home page) and offers a bajillion options. i ordered my cards this week and they should be here by the 17th of november. i did the single photo card thing last year with three portraits of the kids ( loved it:))) but got alllllll kinds of fancy this year with my card, using 6 shots – front, inside and back!! if i can figure out how to link my card to you, i will.
http://www.tinyprints.com
but do it through flickr as it links to your account easily. go and play even – it is a ton of fun!!

By: Nat

Nat — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:05:58 +0000

My favourite by far were the ones we got made at from iPhoto … but my friend Julie (far far craftier than me) makes these wonderful photo/cut with ribbon thingies… I just don’t have the time … or the talent.

We didn’t do card this year… not sure what I’ll do this year.

By: Shan

Shan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:46:40 +0000

I think we’re going to do a newsletter this year. We love getting them. It seems weird, though after all the blogging. I’ll see what I come up with. I’m also planning on some pictures. My brother shot some beautiful family pictures for us. Now to pick which ones to print.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:43:10 +0000

Torn -I like photos from relatives & friends but a tree is a tree RT @DaniGirl: Holiday cards–your preferences? http://bit.ly/1Uirhc

By: Christine LaRocque

Christine LaRocque — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:39:30 +0000

I make my own RT @DaniGirl: Thinking ahead: Holiday cards – your preferences? http://bit.ly/1Uirhc

By: Christy

Christy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:16:20 +0000

I love photocards to see pictures of families we don't see often RT @DaniGirl: Holiday cards – your preferences? http://bit.ly/1Uirhc

By: Rebecca S

Rebecca S — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:56:30 +0000

photo cards for family/friends, store bought for colleagues etc RT @DaniGirl: Holiday cards – your preferences? http://bit.ly/1Uirhc

By: Ari

Ari — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:37:31 +0000

I don’t send out any cards. Mainly because I don’t have many people to send them too, but also because I never know what to SAY in the cards.

Maybe if I had a family with kids I could send out a newsletter with it or something but til then it’s just me, saying “happy holidays, love Ari.”. Blah.

That being said, you should do a picture one for your card, maybe not necessarily of the boys but something Christmas-y?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:36:02 +0000

Before kids, I just gave out whatever cards were cute. Now, I do a photocard with the kids for family and friends! For some people that I do a ‘courtesy’ card for (not really close with them) I still find fun, pretty cards.

By: Fawn

Fawn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:28:30 +0000

Oh, and the newsletter goes IN a traditional Christmas card, but I’d LOVE to get organized enough to do a photo card (REAL cards like the TinyPrints ones, not the Walmart strip).

By: Fawn

Fawn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:25:47 +0000

I started a yearly newsletter back when I was in high school because I’ve moved so many times, it was exhausting to write the same things over and over again to everyone. (In the days before e-mail!!!) Now I know that people look forward to them!

I also love getting a nice chatty newsletter from friends. I find it a little disappointing when a card is just signed and there’s no extra information — for some friends, we really only touch base once a year these days, so I really look forward to it. (Although one person insists on recording the events of every single month in agonizing detail. That’s NOT a newsletter, in my opinion!!)

I always include the links to my blog and my hubby’s, but a lot of people aren’t into reading blogs. (I know, I know! Hard to believe!)

By: mrsgryphon

mrsgryphon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:26:42 +0000

Started working on our cards last night, actually The last couple of years I’ve designed my own photo card, and then emailed them out to everyone as a .jpg. I’m conflicted this year, since I’d like to get the design done in time to get them printed and sent out (“real” mail is way more fun to receive than an email, but I still have about 40 thank you notes to send for the already-six-months-old baby’s gifts, so the odds of Christmas cards getting done are slim!!). I do love receiving cards, but so many of them are just signed, without a note or a photo, and I feel extraordinarily guilty about all the paper and resources used to send those ones. I’d much rather receive a chatty email, but I guess Uncle Angus isn’t really into chatty emails and I should just be thankful I hear from him at all, right?!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:24:43 +0000

I like to send and receive Christmas cards. I like when there is a photo or note enclosed. I love the tradition of writing a Christmas letter to people I do not see very often. I still have a Chirstmas letter my Aunt had sent to my mother many years ago in my recipe box. It’s funny when I come across it I love to take the time to read it, they have both since passed away but I feel a closeness when I read the Christmas letter. I try to take the time to write a few Christmas letters and l always include a photo of my daughters.