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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! And of my favorite things to do each year is to send out customized holiday photo cards to our friends and family. I love getting Christmas photo cards in the mail too!
Last year when we moved to Kansas City we didn’t do much in the way of Christmas decorations since we moved the weekend before Christmas. So it was SO nice to have our friends and family’s holiday photo cards out in our home to bring us a little bit of Christmas cheer! Sending holiday photo cards can also be a great way to lift someone’s spirits who is struggling during the holiday season.
One of my frustrations with creating customized holiday photo cards is it can be so hard to truly customize everything. Some sites allow customization of colors, but not words, etc. That’s why I’m so glad I found Basic Invite! I’m sharing them with you guys today on the blog because I just couldn’t keep them a secret!
Customized Holiday Photo Cards
Family Photoshoot
We recently got fall family photos done and I know a lot of people who do them every year for a Christmas card photo. That’s exactly what we do and I love that we have the memories from each year, watching our loved ones’ families grow! Here’s a look at last year’s family photos and tips on how to coordinate family photo outfits! We keep an extra of our own Christmas cards to look back on each year. It’s so nostalgic to pull out our old Christmas cards and look back on how much things have changed and how much we’ve grown!
Custom Stationery Samples
It can be hard to order stationery or invitations of any kind online, when you don’t know exactly how they’re going to look once they’re printed. One year I designed our Christmas cards online and ordered them from a pharmacy photo department, and they printed horribly! The colors were so off and you could hardly see our faces in the photo.
Basic Invite has a ton of gorgeous stationery and invitation designs to choose from. I love that they have the option to order samples of your card before ordering in bulk. I ordered 5 holiday photo card samples this year just to see what they would look like in person before ordering a large amount.
They even send a color swatch guide with your samples and have over 180 colors to choose from. That means if your colors are slightly off, you can adjust the customization without reordering samples. I chose a lot of blue in our design this year since we were all wearing a little bit of blue in our family photos!
Custom Holiday Card Design
Basic Invite has a ton of holiday cards to choose from! I love all of the beautiful designs. The best part is, if you want to change the wording, colors, use foil, or change pretty much any little detail, you can!
One of my frustrations with other holiday card companies is that you can only change so many design elements. You may be able to change the color or the signature but you can’t change other details. But with Basic Invite, they’ve solved that problem. I was able to customize the font colors, background colors, and signature placement and size on many of my samples. Ours turned out so good!
Addressing Customized Holiday Photo Cards
It can be so painstaking to capture each of our family or friends’ home addresses each year. We typically try to keep track of them but when people move (which has happened frequently in the past few years), it can be so hard to track down everyone’s information.
This year I’m going to use Basic Invite’s address capturing service which makes getting your loved ones’ addresses super simple! All you need to do is share a personal link to your family and friends via social media. Then Basic Invite will collect all of the contact information for you! They even offer address printing on your customized holiday photo cards and invitations at no additional cost, which is unlike any other company I’ve used before.
Our Christmas Photo Card
Now I just need to decide on a Christmas photo card to send out this year! I think I know which my favorite is, but I’m curious what you guys think. Send me a DM to let me know which one is your favorite! You can also get in touch with me to ask me about our experience with using Basic Invite. Right now you can save 15% on any order from Basic Invite using the code 15FF51 I’m so excited we finally found a fully-customizable stationery company to use for our holiday cards each year.
