Christmas Cards [Archive] - Sweet Shoppe Community

lovely1m

11-08-2012, 03:24 PM

Anyone done theirs yet? Any good ideas for them? Show it off, please!

I haven't decided what to do yet. Take a new picture. Use one from vacation this year like I did last year. Something different. I don't know.

yari

11-08-2012, 03:30 PM

I haven't done one this year yet but I have an idea of what I want to do, a picture of just the kiddos in the desert. Last year I did an infographic card and I loved it.

k23m

11-08-2012, 04:38 PM

I havent done ours yet either but I will be watching here for ideas!

kristijoy

11-08-2012, 04:42 PM

I made this hybrid card last month. I just love it! No way I'm making 60 of them though!!! :w00t:

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/500/medium/H-9-Card-1.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=248316&title=hybrid-card&cat=500)

Traci Reed

11-08-2012, 05:35 PM

I'm hosting a webinar about Christmas cards on the 15th! There's details about it on my fan page!

adrianka

11-08-2012, 05:38 PM

I'm skipping them this year, but I'm going to watch this thread to see what you guys come up with. :-)

lovely1m

11-08-2012, 05:51 PM

I'm hosting a webinar about Christmas cards on the 15th! There's details about it on my fan page!

Wha?!?! How'd I miss this? Must have been too caught up on the Hardcore Gratitude.

dana

11-08-2012, 05:55 PM

i haven't decided yet - but will hopefully get some pics this weekend!

marlathrall

11-08-2012, 06:31 PM

I think I'm going to design my own Luxe card this year and print them with mpix pro... I have or outfits all picked out, but still need to take our picture... I will probably do that either this weekend or next week.

I have decided to cut back on our list. Last year, we sent out like eight. I'm thinking fifty this year.

Elsie

11-08-2012, 08:15 PM

clearskies

11-08-2012, 09:27 PM

Mine are done. Ordered them last night.

I changed it up this year...5x7 instead of the usual 4x8. It's also the first time in years that I didn't design it myself.

And seeing as the website won't let me have the picture, I'll have to wait until I get them to post one...

isaacsmom

11-08-2012, 09:50 PM

I'm going to combine baby announcement and Christmas cards this year -- so if anyone has some fabulous ideas -- I would love to hear/see some ideas! The baby will be here on Nov 21st, so I think I'll take some pics of the 3 kiddos together for the card.

Amber1279

11-08-2012, 10:12 PM

Heather - we got a combo card years ago that said "Our Christmas gift came early, that's why this card is late"

clearskies

11-08-2012, 10:42 PM

We had two friends last year who did a Christmas card on the front and a baby announcement on the back...

rach3975

11-09-2012, 01:01 AM

I'm considering sitting it out this year, too. Our relatives have never been big card senders and fewer friends send them every year, so the 30 or so I've been sending feels like too many. DS has a few relatives who live too far away to see the kids and like getting a yearly photo, so I may just send a hybrid card with a photo inside to those few people. (And when I say "few," I'm talking under 5.)

I'm going to combine baby announcement and Christmas cards this year -- so if anyone has some fabulous ideas -- I would love to hear/see some ideas! The baby will be here on Nov 21st, so I think I'll take some pics of the 3 kiddos together for the card.

With a Nov. due date you should be good. DD was due Dec 25th, but by Dec. 4th the docs were saying she'd be born within a few days. I'd been just about to send cards, so I made the mistake of deciding to wait and prepared a combined announcement and New Year's card. She made us wait until 12/26, so no card for us that year.

SeattleSheri

11-24-2012, 02:00 PM

Bumping this thread hoping that since a couple of weeks have passed, there are some more cards to show off. I haven't started mine yet.

kelley

11-24-2012, 02:04 PM

I haven't done mine, but I'm going to take a pic of the kids with a strand of lights around them and then plop it into one of the gorgeous cards from Kristin's gorgeous Christmas collection bundle :)

NeverendingJen

11-24-2012, 02:10 PM

I turned this layout into our card. the journaling is on the back of the card and on the front it says Merry Christmas from us instead of the our year thing

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/500/christmas-card-layout.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=258872&title=our-year-2012&cat=500)

YepBrook

11-24-2012, 02:14 PM

Here's mine:
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/516/11-20-kcb-xmasrejoice2_WEB.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=258280&title=merry-christmas-21&cat=500)

I usually do one with the whole family in it, though... so I'm having some second thoughts. :) I might post this digitally on Facebook and send out a different one with all of us on it. It depends on whether I can get a photo of us all in the next week or so!

Arual

11-24-2012, 03:01 PM

I came here to love on Brook's Christmas card but I see she already posted it here for you! I think it's absolutely STUNNING!!! I love every single bit of it!

maryinaz

11-24-2012, 06:33 PM

This is the third year that I've done a collage of photos from the year and a bullet list of highlights. Everybody seems to love it and it just gives a quick glance as to what our year was like. It's also just really hard for me to get the four boys at their ages to take a Christmas photo. So it's much easier just to take photos from throughout the year of them doing all their activities.

I used Shawna's photocard collages this year and it made it much easier!

Oh and then I print them myself.

jbarksdale

11-24-2012, 06:47 PM

I've made some Christmas cards so far. I bought some mustaches for our family photo that I will use to make a photo card and send it to some family members.

YepBrook

11-24-2012, 06:59 PM

I came here to love on Brook's Christmas card but I see she already posted it here for you! I think it's absolutely STUNNING!!! I love every single bit of it!

Thanks, Laura!

lovely1m

11-24-2012, 08:38 PM

This is what I ended up doing. Its the front and back.
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/652/card10.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=257411&title=christmas-cards&cat=500)

YepBrook

11-24-2012, 09:36 PM

Hey, Mari... where do you get them printed? I'd love to do mine double-sided this year. Then I could do a back side with a photo of the whole family. :)

NeverendingJen

11-24-2012, 09:39 PM

Hey, Mari... where do you get them printed? I'd love to do mine double-sided this year. Then I could do a back side with a photo of the whole family. :)

vistaprint does double sided, thats where I ordered mine so I could do that

YepBrook

11-24-2012, 09:42 PM

vistaprint does double sided, thats where I ordered mine so I could do that

Are they good quality? I got a card from Vistaprint from a friend a few years ago and it was grainy. :confused:

maryinaz

11-24-2012, 09:49 PM

emmasmommy

11-24-2012, 09:52 PM

here are ours. just ordered them from persnickety!

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/516/christmas-cards-web.jpg

NeverendingJen

11-24-2012, 11:18 PM

Are they good quality? I got a card from Vistaprint from a friend a few years ago and it was grainy. :confused:

I've only had good results with them so far, btu I've not ordered cards, just other stuff.

YepBrook

11-24-2012, 11:41 PM

I did double-sided from them a few years ago and they were great. I also did my son's graduation announcement insert double-sided and they again were amazing.

Could your friend's picture have been lowesolution?

Hm. It's possible? I thought she chose one of their designs and just inserted her photo but maybe it was hers. She did send out 100+ though (she is a mommy & me teacher and on staff at our church so she sent them to everyone in her classes), so maybe she ordered inexpensive postcards instead of christmas cards? They were on postcard-type cardstock.

I trust you gals though! I will look into them. :) I've been doing Costco, but I'd rather have a nice thick cardstock than a photo-paper card.

marlathrall

11-25-2012, 12:00 AM

Here's ours:

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/500/sm2012christmascardfancy.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=258032&title=2012-christmas-card&cat=500)

I'm getting it printed through mpixpro and am going to do the luxe card. It's actually going to be ornate shaped, so most of the empty parts won't be there. lol. I kinda love it on my computer screen. Hopefully i will like it as much printed.

SeattleSheri

11-25-2012, 12:07 AM

Hey, Mari... where do you get them printed? I'd love to do mine double-sided this year. Then I could do a back side with a photo of the whole family. :)
I would HIGHLY recommend WHCC. It's free to become a member and you get 5 free 8x10's when you sign up (for color calibration). They also send you samples of their different card stock options. I always get my cards printed there. They have loads of shapes (including round cards that can be made into ornaments). Two-sided cards on semi-gloss card stock start at $16.55 for a set of 25 (includes envelopes and shipping).

SeattleSheri

11-25-2012, 12:09 AM

Oh and I love all of the cards! They are all fabulous!

Sherri Tierney

11-25-2012, 01:03 AM

These are awesome! I usually go all out with fun photo cards but I think I'm going to skip them this year. I have box after box of store bought cards sitting in my stash. I think I'll just send them out and toss a few 4x6 prints in the envelope. It feels like the lazy way out and, as a scrapper, I always feel more is expected of me... but, really, I don't think anyone even looks at them. No one ever comments on them, or even mentions that they got the cards. It feels like a huge waste of time. Gosh, I feel like Scrooge. LOL! I've done some cards over the years that I absolutely love but I'm just not feeling it lately.

MommaTrish

11-25-2012, 01:36 AM

mine and I'm ordering them through Persnickety
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/652/christmascard2012.jpg

KimberlyMorris

11-25-2012, 01:55 AM

I just finished mine and ordered them tonight.

Front
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/kimscrapable/test-8.jpg

Back
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/kimscrapable/test-2-1.jpg

lovely1m

11-25-2012, 10:41 AM

Hey, Mari... where do you get them printed? I'd love to do mine double-sided this year. Then I could do a back side with a photo of the whole family. :)

Vistaprint. Its really cheap. I also got them on linen paper. They have lots of options, but its still cheap. This is the 3rd year I have had them do them and I have liked them every year. I'm not sure what's up with your friends, I really liked all of mine.

nesser1981

11-25-2012, 11:19 AM

We had two friends last year who did a Christmas card on the front and a baby announcement on the back...

Thats a great idea! I need to do Harper's announcements still.

Arual

11-25-2012, 11:39 AM

You all make beautifullll cards!!

Arual

11-25-2012, 11:44 AM

What size do you like to make your cards? Im working on mine and I can't decide what size I want to do. I was hoping to be done last week but that just didn't happen, oops!

Sherri Tierney

11-25-2012, 11:46 AM

I just finished mine and ordered them tonight.

Front
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/kimscrapable/test-8.jpg

Back
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/kimscrapable/test-2-1.jpg

LOVE!!!!! I am going to steal some of those jokes to tell my kiddos. :)

carriesmom

11-25-2012, 03:48 PM

Here is mine. I haven't gotten it printed yet. It will either be Vistaprint again or Persnickety.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/arwen2117/christmascard2012.jpg

emmasmommy

11-25-2012, 05:15 PM

i did mine 5X7

lovely1m

11-25-2012, 05:20 PM

me, too. 5x7. It seems like a nice big size, but not huge.

NeverendingJen

11-25-2012, 05:43 PM

What size do you like to make your cards? Im working on mine and I can't decide what size I want to do. I was hoping to be done last week but that just didn't happen, oops!

I did 4x8 this year, but I normally do 5x7

marlathrall

11-25-2012, 05:55 PM

I think mine will be 5x5.

carriesmom

11-25-2012, 06:16 PM

Mine is a 5x7, I did a 4x8 or a 4x6 before and it was too small and I don't like the long skinny ones.

tettletop20

11-25-2012, 08:23 PM

I did mine 5x7 and here it is:
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/500/christmas2012_Sm.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=259058&title=christmas-card-2012&cat=500)

I used Winkflash and have for the past couple of years. I used a coupon code for 40% off and got 70 cards (inc. envelopes) for $30.

Jenn Barrette

11-25-2012, 09:39 PM

These look awesome!

Here is mine -

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o117/davejennava/Nov%202012/small.jpg

jacinda

11-25-2012, 10:07 PM

This is Brooke's one to give out to her friends at school:

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/516/Christmas-card2.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=257264&title=christmas-card&cat=500)

Arual

11-25-2012, 11:11 PM

Thanks for answering me on the size, I greatly appreciate it!
My next question... I know I know... Im full of them lately... but do most of you do postcard style or do you do fold-style?

carriesmom

11-25-2012, 11:14 PM

Thanks for answering me on the size, I greatly appreciate it!
My next question... I know I know... Im full of them lately... but do most of you do postcard style or do you do fold-style?

I do postcard style. This year it will be full color front and back.

rach3975

11-26-2012, 12:31 AM

I do postcard style. It's less expensive and doesn't make me feel like I should be adding a personal message to each card.

emmasmommy

11-26-2012, 07:35 AM

I do postcard style. It's less expensive and doesn't make me feel like I should be adding a personal message to each card.
exactly

AmberK

12-01-2012, 07:46 PM

bumpity bump. Has anybody else finished their christmas cards yet? I need to get a pic of the boys for our cards and get these started.

jessica31876

12-01-2012, 07:55 PM

Ohhhh this has inspired an idea for me. I was struggling doing my daughters card for her because I was trying to fit all three in one photo and it is not working. I might try something more along this line. My daughter loves what I came up with but I used the photo of the baby only in it and she wants the whole family on the card.

I turned this layout into our card. the journaling is on the back of the card and on the front it says Merry Christmas from us instead of the our year thing

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/500/christmas-card-layout.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=258872&title=our-year-2012&cat=500)

Misty Cato

12-01-2012, 08:27 PM

Here's mine. I modified one of Shawna's templates.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m240/mistycato/Cato2012web.jpg

Milmomma

12-01-2012, 10:07 PM

I fell in love with the snowglobe as my daughter has been in love with them this year. So I got the template and made one with one of the photos I took. I'm doing 7x5 postcard style. Just trying to figure out the best place to print... Its basically coming down to Persnickety's. :)
http://persnicketyprints.lifepics.com/ImageDisp.aspx?filespec=3CB20BE209F0DD9D52E3B4C253 EB90C4C6F1071430F3ACB95B4C8B791716C865FA9E014F1F3B 7B26E36926DFFD8B39887D78B299CE7C77B48EEDBF7DCDF81A C8485837027B961472E78FAE2D4445FE3B9DFBCCEDF60D9101 587A3D93A4AB63A154253652D958D6D3CAA0C6DE6A83372EA9 04985C54873E93E6127994FCEBA6999D8727ACB823CC46DB2B 1EBC6E70CC5B775EC94C58CA1183B6BE8F4D878E94BB&lastmoddate=12/1/2012%2010:47:23%20AM&maxSize=650&w=45826DE567C116C1FD574C93447FF08A&o=E2C1CF110173B3C3D2D0F0DAF7AE342C&a=02BBC9A062052140B7FD4C67F6686A24&rkey=793&SlideShowHeight=440&SlideShowWidth=660&SlideShowMatte=F5F2F5

digideb

12-01-2012, 10:57 PM

Here's ours!
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8342/8235994315_2348e160ea_c.jpg

Ronisdragon

12-01-2012, 11:23 PM

These cards are so great! You all are making me wish I was doing cards! We don't really have many people to send them to so we aren't doing any. If we have a baby in the future, I am definitely doing cards no matter how few people there are!

kscwgirl

12-01-2012, 11:47 PM

Here's ours.. did 5x7 folded from vistaprint. I do a monthly recap in the inside.

http://i48.tinypic.com/14c7cao.jpg

Freckles

12-04-2012, 01:58 PM

Love all the cards here!
@Jacinda: great idea to do a seperate one for the children to hand out at school! *writing down on my to-do list*

Jengerbread88

12-04-2012, 02:46 PM

http://i.imgur.com/f2OZq.jpg

I just went with the snowglobe since I only decided last night that I would actually send some out. Also, in the interest of time, (please don't shun me!!!) I printed them at Wal-mart. I know they're not as good of quality, but none of my friends are going to notice the difference unless they're comparing my cards side-by-side, and it was fast and cheap. Mine are 4x6, and I bought plain 4x6 envelopes that I'm going to dress up with a little washi tape.

I printed 10, and I highly doubt I'll send out even that many. I live with my parents, so I can just hand them one, and I'll send one to my grandmother and one to her sister/brother-in-law, but with my grandfather recently passing, I don't have one to send down there, so I'll be lucky if I send out 2 or 3 cards this year...

origami

12-04-2012, 05:11 PM

kresta

12-04-2012, 05:53 PM

The front:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y80/Kresta/VP-2012-Cmas-Card-web.jpg
The back:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y80/Kresta/VP-2012-Cmas-Card-p2-web.jpg

HeatherKS

12-04-2012, 07:18 PM

I think this is the final draft of ours. :) It will be a 5x7 flat.

http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq332/camrynsmom2/christmas-card-2012.jpg

nesser1981

12-05-2012, 12:19 AM

Love all the cards! Next year I'll be going with two-sided cards again so I can include my newsletter on it. :)
This year I went for our card on one side
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v715/v_usaf/christmascard2012-copy1.jpg

And Harper's Birth Announcement on the other.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v715/v_usaf/Harpers-announcement-copy.jpg

Tracyfish

12-05-2012, 07:15 AM

here's ours...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/Tracyfish/ChristmasCard2012copy.jpg

Leontine78

12-05-2012, 08:28 AM

Here's ours.....I love these kind of photos and I was happy to make them myself this year.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h156/Leontine78/kerstkaart2012final-web.jpg
(I hope this works, because Photobuckert changed layouts and can't see any pictures)

DeepGirl

12-05-2012, 09:44 AM

These are mine... also for English speaking friends... Got them printed already.

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/570/Zora-thumb.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=208179&title=2011-christmas-card&cat=500)

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/607/Dadka700.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=252447&title=christmas-postcards-for-2012&cat=500)

hollyxann

12-05-2012, 12:07 PM

I still don't have ours done yet. I am trying to wait on pictures but I'm thinking I might go sans picture this year.

SmallFry73

12-05-2012, 12:55 PM

We are taking our photos this weekend, so mine will be late! I'll share as soon as I get them made.

JuliaM

12-05-2012, 08:52 PM

Here's mine. The photo is a temporary placeholder. We're not decorating until Saturday so I'll swap it out with a photo from this year after that. Since I've decided to send "green" Christmas cards this year (emailing instead of mailing), I don't have to worry about printing them.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FFZzddBc1nc/UL_4LRqeANI/AAAAAAAAD8I/ghHUZjgN6MI/s700/Christmas%25202012.jpg

AmberK

12-12-2012, 10:12 PM

Finally got mine done and printed! Now I just need to mail them out :)

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/500/Christmascard20121.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=261168&title=christmas-card&cat=500)

kristijoy

12-12-2012, 11:59 PM

Here's mine! I like to go the cheap route and print it on a 4x6 photo. Walgreens had 50 for $5! :thumbup:

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/500/H-1206-Picture-XMAS.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=260327&title=photo-christmas-card&cat=500)

MSDragonfly

12-13-2012, 05:33 PM

Here is mine... It wasn't until I went to make them that I realized I hadn't taken even one group shot of our kids this year... ::bad mom:: Anyway, I made them 4x6 and went the super-fast, super-cheap way out... One-Hour Photo @ CVS. And aside from being a little on the thin side, the photo quality surprised me! (especially for $0.10 ea)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8338/8270009945_33a84547f8.jpg

Oh, let me add the downside to my "cheap" route - it's hard to find 4x6 envelopes and I didn't want to order them and have to wait. I ended up at Michael's paying twice for the envelopes than what I did for the cards! Live & learn... lol

kristijoy

12-13-2012, 05:59 PM

Txcorey

12-13-2012, 06:16 PM

I love everyone's cards. I went super simple this year-just wasn't in the mood to do an extravagant card even though I had a kit picked out and bought. I still like them though.
https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/data/500/Christmas-card-2012-for-web.jpg (https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=261156&title=christmas-card-2012&cat=500)

Jengerbread88

12-13-2012, 08:01 PM

Oh, let me add the downside to my "cheap" route - it's hard to find 4x6 envelopes and I didn't want to order them and have to wait. I ended up at Michael's paying twice for the envelopes than what I did for the cards! Live & learn... lol

I had found a box of envelopes that were just over 4x6-- I think it was like 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 or something? I don't remember what they were called (they had a specific name), but I found them at Walmart at the same price as all of the other boxes of envelopes (I think I paid like $3.50something)... they had them in white, cream, or multicolored.

Jengerbread88

12-13-2012, 08:20 PM

Found the box... they were called Social Envelopes, 4 3/4" by 6 1/2", and they were closer to $4.30 for 50 of them.

SeattleSheri

12-13-2012, 09:56 PM

Here is my card. I had it printed 5x7 with rounded corners on pearl card stock, which is really pretty and shimmery.

Front
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg148/seattlesheriscraps/Photos/20121207_Xmas_Front_600_zpsbde9e536.jpg

Back (if the names look off kilter, it's because I removed our last name for purposes of posting here)
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg148/seattlesheriscraps/Photos/20121207_Xmas_Back_600_zpsb24ddc39.jpg