Anyone making their own Christmas cards this year?

I also love making my own, but i have had no time for scrapbooking etc
so i will prob just get some store bought ones or make photo cards of Kyrah at the store to send out!! I am also making online photo books for our parents as xmas pressies they look fantastic, i just have to finish them and send them away

georgi- your aviator pic is gorgeous!!! very pretty

I think we're going to use(once we take them) our family photos as Christmas cards this year. I already experimented with Kodak and sent one of Jayden to her grandmas. They loved it. But, it wasn't how I want them, or her to look. But, I hadn't thought about actually "making" any Christmas cards. But that's because I never send any out.

I really wish I was creative! I am just no good at that sort of thing! I think the photo cards you can have done are wicked though!!!!!

Georgi wrote:Funny you should mention photobooks as pressies, we are creating calendars of Theo for both sets of Grand Parents, I thought that would be a nice personal touch and something useful!

Could you tell me how you did this?I would love to tdo this as well for the parentals!

I don't know about in the US but last year I did some photo gifts as presents. It was so easy! I did it on Kodaks website but I think other companies do it too. All I had to do was upload the pics to their website and choose what gifts I wanted with which photo. There's some really cool things on there like mugs and mousemats and all sorts of things you can put a pic on. They do calanders too!

Oh yeah!Of course!

You can make the calendars through Walgreens too.

I also do homemade Christmas Cards. Usually photo cards spruced up.

The calendars are a great idea. I will have to do this!!!

Also this is a great website to use.

www.shutterfly.com

Last year my friend used it, and she didn't even have ti sign the cards, it was already there All she did was stuff and address the envelopes.

I made a ton of Christmas cards last year. Number I sent out? 0! I made them before I found out I was pregnant, and then I was so sick I barely crawled to the store to get presents for the kids. lol.

My close friend spent the summer in Greece for a college grad student exchange thing. She had a group she was there with, and a ton of pictures. For Christmas presents for her friends this year she made books to give them about their adventure at snapfish online. She showed them the other day, they were gorgeous. They werre actual printed and bound books, and the paper was nice and heavy and just gorgeous. She made a dozen I think, and said they were only $9 each. She said it was very easy, you upload a place the pictures in page designs already set up, and then type what you want to say in the boxes.

I would love to do the books you are talking about. What program would I use?

I am doing photo cards w/ Owen on them but I would love to give some meaningful gifts like the calendar, etc too!

I had thought about doing Christmas ornaments with his hand print on them for the grandparents. I LOVE ornaments and collect them like crazy. Sorry - I guess that is a little off topic!

snapfish link

Here is the link, you upload the photos and create the whole thing online.

Those sound like cool Christmas present ideas. Not off topic!

Thanks - I'm going to play with the photo book idea.

I just called a local painted pottery place and the large ornaments cost $13 but I'll bet I could do them myself for less. I think I'll go there this weekend and see what the ornaments look like. It may be worth the money if they look really good!

geat idea Lou lou, we use to do this with the kids at work, we would just use plaster or paper mache or salt dough!!
I am doing my photo books through shutterfly, the same website as tiff put up its fantastic i have to get them finished next week so i can get them back before xmas as it takes 2 weeks delievery as its an american site and im in Aus!! I have seen one done as my friend got one fro her son for his first birthday and they are great quality

also you can do stubby coolers with photos for dad etc through the snap fish one i did that for fathers day and mugs witha collage of photos!!

I usually make my own X-mas cards. If not self-made, I buy them and then write a newsy letter on the computer on fancy paper and print it with a photo and put it in every card so people know what we have been up to all year. I usually send about 40 cards, half of them written in German, half of them in English.

What I like to do and what I did as Thank You Cards after my baby shower, I make my own cards. I did teabag folding (you can do fantastic ornaments) and then I glued them to a card stock card and used rubber stamps to print thank you (or merci, or Danke) on them. They looked fantastic.

My Mum does teabag folding and her cards are amazing, maybe I should try and do some myself as I have someone at hand that can show me exactly what to do!!

Yeah, Georgi, those are really fun to make. I made a bunch when I was pregnant. There are a couple of websites out there that really explain well different medallions and also have teabag tiles ready to print in millions of cool colors and styles. If you want I could send you the web addresses....

Yes please that would be fantastic because I know my Mum would also love that!! Sound's great