Free and Inexpensive Christmas Cards **UPDATED!!**
ByI love receiving photo Christmas cards from my friends and family every year. It’s so much fun to see how families grow and change each year.
The past couple of years I’ve been a little bit stingy when it comes to spending money on photo cards and postage. Instead, I just wrote a nice Christmas letter…attached a picture of the boys and sent it to family and friends in the form of an email.
Cost? Zero.
A nice way to send a Christmas card/letter? Eh…it was okay…just a little bit boring.
This year I think I’m going to do something a little bit nicer. You may remember that I told you about Smilebox here, which is a super fun and FREE source to embellish your photos to create scrapbooks, cards, recipe cards and etc.
I’m thinking…why shouldn’t I use Smilebox to easily create a cute photocard…then email that to friends and family? I could make it animated…I could put music with it…I could add all kinds of fun features…for FREE!
If you want to learn more about creating a free ecard using your personal photos, videos and music, click on the button below:
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You can spend just a little bit and get some nice photocards from Vistaprint. Right now they are running a 50% off sale. All you have to do is upload your photos into their pre-designed cards. Very nice!
OR…
You can have a specially designed card made any way you like with any colors you like and any design you like for a very reasonable price at Delight Design:
I’ve seen the Christmas photo cards Char (owner of DelightDesign) creates each year and they are AMAZING. Incredible. And so reasonably priced.
**UPDATE!!** Char just contacted me and said that if you email her (char at delight-designs dot com,) for photocard details and mention Heavenly Homemakers…and you’ll receive 50% off your order! WooHoo!! That is an awesome deal!
So…what do you usually send out for Christmas each year? Do you write a Christmas letter? Do you send a photo card? Neither? Both? Share your ideas!
I have always written a cute Christmas poem about the whole family and their doings and included a photo. However, this year needs to be different. In the first place, my husband has had his salary cut this yr. by 15% and is due to be layed off due to work going to Mexico this year, so financially, it is out of the question. Plus, as the kids age, that photo is turning into such a fight! I am very interested in your email…maybe that would be an option.
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You can get 50 free from Freebies4mom. Of course that doesn’t help with the postage! :)
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I forgot to say we always send out a photo card. My dh won’t let me send out a letter… but I love to read them. I put the letters and photos, including ours, in a special scrapbook at the end of each season. It’s fun to look back at previous years!
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I just ordered through the 50 free through Fugi Film and wasn’t charged any shipping. They didn’t ask for any credit info! The offer is good through November 30. Use this promo code when you check out: freebies4mom-1109
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We thought about forgoing the cards this year, but decided that so many in our family enjoy them that it was worth the little extra that they cost! Last year I was able to get them all for free through a deal online. I am hoping for the same this year!
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We do photocards, we having a family photo taken every year, so we use that. I buy the cards, the day after Christmas @ 75% off, and store them w/the Christmas decorations. We buy our stamps on a roll, so we don’t miss the stamps! We might do a letter this year. It’s still up in the air!
Nothing beats getting cards in the mail. I couldn’t do emails, so many get lost or deleted.
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I got 50 Free photocards with free shipping (they actually arrived next day even though I didn’t select this option! Even better I did them early so I can hand them out at Thanksgiving instead of paying for postage!
http://freebies4mom.blogspot.com/2009/11/50-free-photocards-shipped-free-too.html
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I have always enjoyed vista print but liking these other suggestions too… Thanks for sharing..PS Love your new kitchen theme (post below) HA HA HA
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I usually handmake cards and then paste in a typed “letter” about what we’re up to. I enjoy the card-making but do like the idea of sending photos – something I’m horrible at.
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At Vistaprint, you can get 100 postcards free (you do pay shipping). You can put a photo on the front and write a short note on the back (ours last year told folks to go to our family website for the extended update letter). This was less postage and just as cute! My husband even edited a few of our photos together so we could upload it as one image to Vistaprint. Great deal!
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