Cool Christmas Cards

Personalized Cartoon Characters

Cool Christmas cards can be personalized with all your family members

Turn yourself and your family members (even your pets!) into cartoon characters! These cool Christmas cards from Personalization Mall feature any greeting with your family name featured across the top of the card, along with everyone's first name personalized below each character. Choose grandparent, adult, youth, or baby figures, male or female, light or dark complexions, even pets!

Cards can be personalized with one of 19 different messages or you can select your own Christmas card wording, and the verse and personalization can be printed in your choice of ink colors and font styles. Click an image to get a larger view and see more details.

All-in-One Christmas Card and Letter

No need to stuff a separate holiday letter in this card

With today's technology, there's no need to print your holiday letter on a separate piece of paper. This fun card design from Shutterfly lets you include a list of highlights from your year right on your card, so you don't have to write an entire letter to let folks know what you've been up to. It's just one of several designs Shutterfly offers with room for Christmas letters.

The front of this 5 x 7 card offers room for three photos and a list of the top 10 highlights of your year. And you can create it all online! Simply type in the text in the provided areas and upload your photos. Then preview your design before ordering. You're done! Shutterfly also offers other creative holiday cards. Visit Shutterfly to see more.

3-D Christmas Cards

Cool Christmas cards for business and personal use

Even though the greeting cards shown on this page are more unusual than the average store-bought card, they're still flat.

So what's a person to do if you don't want a plain old 2-D card? Go three-dimensional! 3-D Paper Graphics offers cool Christmas cards for both business and personal use. Businesses can even include their logo in these pop-up and stand-out cards that come in shapes such as globes, trees and domes.

They fold flat for easy mailing, but when your recipients receive it, they can stand it up to display on a desk, counter or table. Some of them even come with pop-out Christmas tree ornaments, and businesses can include their logo in the design.

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Cool Christmas E-Cards

Send via email, post online, burn to disc or print these personalized creations

You can now create cool Christmas e-cards online with Smilebox. They have hundreds of holiday designs you can personalize with one or more photos and your own text, as well as your choice of music. The cards are FREE to send if you don't mind a few ads, or you can upgrade to the ad-free, full-screen version for only $2.99 per card or $5.99 for an unlimited monthly membership. The premium version also allows you to burn your creations to CD or DVD or print them out. And if you're not sure whether to choose basic (free) or premium, sign up for the free 14-day trial membership and you'll get all the premium services at no cost for two weeks.

These cards are great if you want to go all-digital or if you'd like to include a cool multimedia greeting on DVD with your annual Christmas card.

Ornament Photo Card

Hang it on the tree to share

Folks might have a hard time putting this card on the mantel, but this Christmas card ornament will look great on the Christmas tree! This fun card with candy cane stripes can be personalized online with your own photo and text. To learn more, click the photo or visit Pear Tree Greetings and use coupon code SANTA15 to save $15 off an order of $100 or more.

Tri-Fold Cards

These cool Christmas cards offer more room for photos and text

The great thing about tri-fold cards is that they offer extra space for more photos or text. There are a variety of cards on the market that have space for three or more photos, as well as some that allow you to put a really big photo that spreads out over two panels. Some of the cards also have room for a short Christmas letter. Check out PhotoWorks and Personalization Mall to see more cards like the ones shown here.

Multi-Photo Christmas Cards

Classic photo cards can still be cool

Traditional photo Christmas cards used to only have room for one photo - you'd insert a photo of your family or kids on a Christmas-y background with a standard greeting, and you didn't have many customization options. But these aren't your parent's photo cards. Many of today's photo cards give you space to add two, three or more photos with your custom text. They may not have all the bells and whistles of some of the other cool cards on this page, but multi-photo cards will give your card recipients more pics to enjoy. You can find these designs and many others like these at CardStore, TinyPrints, PhotoWorks and Personalization Mall.

How About a Wooden Christmas Card?

Cool photo cards printed on real wood

Sure, the holiday cards most people will send or receive this year started life as a tree. But how many still have any resemblance to the tree that gave them life? These wooden Christmas cards from Night Owl Paper Goods do. They're printed on eco-friendly birch wood with your choice of photo and text on the front and a 2012 calendar on the back. Night Owl also offers paper cards for the holidays, as well as wooden cards and invitations for weddings and other occasions.

Cool Cards from Zazzle

Funny images and designs

More 3D Christmas Cards

Change the photo with a flick of your wrist

Snapily is another site that can help you go 3D this year. With these cool Christmas cards, you simply choose your card style and upload two digital photos. Then Snapily turns them into a 3D wonder. Their special printing process creates a hologram-like illusion of depth and of animated effects. So your photos will appear 3D, and your card recipient can change the viewed image simply by tilting the card.

Don't Send Cards Out! (Let Someone Else Do it For You)

What's cool about these cards is that they require less work on your part

Cardstore.com and Astonishing Cards both have hundreds of great card selections for you to choose from, but what's cool about these card stores is not just their products, but their service. They do the mailing for you! After you customize and preview your cards online, they send your personalized Christmas cards to everyone on your list. All you have to do is provide the list (don't worry - they won't use the addresses for anything other than sending your cards), and they do the rest. Signed, sealed, delivered, it's done!

Pop-Up Photo Cards

These cards really stand out

At Tiny Prints, you can get holiday greeting cards that really stand out. With their pop-up greetings, the photo on the inside of this design will pop out when your friends open the card, letting your image stand out in style. They have nine different pop-up designs that can be personalized with your own text and names.

Flat, but Fun

How About Some Cool Christmas Stamps to Go Along with Your Cards?

You can show your style on the outside of the envelope, too.

If you're trying to break out of the mold with your Christmas cards, you might also want to take a look at dressing up the outside of your envelope. There's no need to use the same ol' holiday stamps that most of the country is using. There are literally thousands of genuine USPS Christmas postage stamps you can now buy with great designs for Christmas and just about every other occasion. This is just a sampling to give you an idea of what's available. To learn more or see others, click on a design.