Tuesday Tip – Create Memorable Holiday Cards
We’ve barely cleared Halloween, and the stores have had Christmas stuff out for about a month now (sorry Thanksgiving). Today’s tip is to help get you on the road to personalizing your season’s greetings.
Make Homemade Cards
Stuck for ideas? Check out your local craft store for seasonal card-making classes and demos. Invest in a few simple seasonal stamps, and use good paper. A heavier stock of paper makes a card feel more elegant. Stamp a festive design onto the card stock, add a greeting and you’re set. Jazz up your creation with embellishments like buttons, ribbons and glitter. Cut up old Christmas cards and recycle images on your new cards.
Check out E-Cuts Cards templates from Scrapbook.com. For as little as 99 cents, you can simply download a template to your computer and print them as many times as want.
Add confetti as a great envelope stuffer. Last year, I found in Jo-Ann’s dollar section a bag of silver snowflakes (they called them sequins, with a little hole in the middle to add a brad to). I used as table confetti, but would work just as well in a festive card. Over at Partycheap.com, they have a variety of confetti, from traditional shredded tissue to Fanci–Fetti, which feature themed shapes.
Don’t have the time to do everything from scratch? Fake it. Many card retailers are jumping on the DIY bandwagon and selling kits with everything you need to assemble a card, embellishments and all. All you have to do is set up an assembly line to put everything together. Check out Oriental Trading for this 53 piece winter greetings card kit.
Go Online
Upload images to a photo Web site like Snapfish and Shutterfly and personalize photo cards using your favorite images.
Email your holiday greetings by creating an e-card or a newsletter. Sites like Smilebox allow you to personalize your e-card with uploaded photos, videos, and music. Create newsletters in a program like Microsoft Word, insert photos and holiday clip art into a document, save and email.
Most pharmacies and discount stores have Kodak or other kiosks that let you create seasonal cards on the spot, using photos saved on a disk or flash card.