Christmas Greeting Photo Card Ideas | Season Greeting Picture Ideas
One of the most important Christmas traditions is the sending of greeting cards to our friends and family. However, cards available in stores are almost always the same or at least on the same theme.
But this year, you can bank on uniqueness... Indeed, here's an alternative that allows you to customize your photo Christmas cards and dazzle your family, friends and all relatives' eyes!
What am I talking about? Well, Christmas greeting photo cards of course :) Maybe you have even already sent that type of card to some of your close relatives in the past.
This lens will cover a few different Christmas card photo ideas that will help you to make the most out of your greeting cards this year.
Black and White Photo Christmas Cards
Come back in the past...
The first Christmas greeting photo card idea is a black and white design. If you want to opt for a dramatic difference, you definitely will want to go for black and white photos.
Your digital camera is probably equipped with a black and white feature; otherwise, you may choose to use a photo editing software as most of them come with this feature.
If you have no skills to use such features, the store where your cards are made will surely provide this service free of charge.
Custom Photo Christmas Cards, Anyone?
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Modern Christmas Photo Cards: Have the Whole Family on Them
And go for a natural posed photo!
Most people traditionally just have their kids's photograph on these cards. A good way to keep your kids occupied is to let them participate to this job. Be sure to emphasize the traditional side of the holiday.
For example: wear Santa boots or gloves, use the Christmas tree as background and take a picture of your family making a snowman in the garden or picking pinecones.
You can even take a picture of the whole family when you go shopping for gifts.
Rather than taking the basic posed, pretty photo for the card, you can catch your kids in their natural environment making things they enjoy to do, or have them bring the things that are very important to them so it can show off their true personalities. This might even get you the prize for the most funny Christmas card photo poses.
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Creative Photo Christmas Cards
Scrapbooking or not scrapbooking? That is the question...
You might even want to go with the Christmas scrapbooking idea...
Select several of your photos and crop them, placing the pics on a sheet of Christmas scrapbook paper and use that as a card. If you do not know how to make this, you can go to a card making store as they have a lot of holiday themes.
You can even make the card more funny even if you have already ordered the standard card, you could easily go down the scrapbooking aisle at the hobby store and buy little things to stick on your cards.
What I like to do is consider who I am sending the card to, and if they appreciate particular things or collect things such as cows, you can take the tiny package of cows that you find and stick one to each corner of the photo that you placed in the center of the card.
Whenever you aren't goof at crafty things, I would suggest you to find a photo editor with Christmas decoration option.
Make your own Christmas Photo Cards
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Buy Christmas greeting photo cards online
If you are like me, not so skilled at designing Christmas photo cards with Photoshop or any other graphic editor, I would suggest you to buy ready-made original and beautiful cards whether at your local retailer shop or online.
For instance, Zazzle has a huge collection of Christmas greeting cards available. The biggest problem would just be to select one design... (click on any item below to learn more).
Custom Christmas Greeting Cards Online...
... or offline.
There are several companies on the cyberspace that offer great Christmas cards at low cost, but they are not cheap on the look of the card.
A lot of them also allow you to make the card that fit your needs. Their collections range from classic to vintage Christmas photo cards templates. And many of these companies allows you to use their own photo editing software as you probably will need one to touch up your photos.
So make this Christmas an even more particular one with your card sending.
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- KimGiancaterino KimGiancaterino Dec 23, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
- Just got my photo cards in the mail. I love receiving them too. Christmas Squid Angel Blessings!
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- prosperity66 prosperity66 Dec 23, 2009 @ 6:34 pm
- Wow, Kim! I'm honored!
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- praise praise Dec 20, 2009 @ 6:20 am
- Nice lens with lots of ideas and beautiful cards. 5*
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- prosperity66 prosperity66 Dec 20, 2009 @ 6:33 am
- Thanks :)
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Nov 28, 2009 @ 1:46 pm
- This is a wonderful lens. Blessed by an angel!
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- prosperity66 prosperity66 Nov 29, 2009 @ 4:24 am
- Thank you so much Pat :)
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- aj2008 aj2008 Nov 18, 2009 @ 11:18 am
- What a lovely idea - Squidoo Angel Blessings for you!
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- prosperity66 prosperity66 Nov 18, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
- Another day in heaven, thanks to you, AJ :)
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- prosperity66 prosperity66 Nov 18, 2009 @ 2:42 am
- Thanks everyone for the kind comments :)
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- kimmanleyort kimmanleyort Nov 17, 2009 @ 12:06 pm
- Aesthetically beautiful with lots of great ideas. 5*
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