We’re keeping today’s Project fun (and hopefully simple!) in honor of Thanksgiving. I want you to either:
Pick your Christmas picture (if you’re including one in your cards,) or
Take a picture while everyone is gathered for Thanksgiving
See? Fun and easy. Tomorrow you can send it in to Costco, Target, or your card company to get it ready for your cards. But for today, just enjoy looking through all those pics on your computer (or your phone,) and remembering how blessed you and your’s have been this year.
Tell us all what you are doing for your photo: professional, a snapshot, something you found from this summer? Or maybe you’re skipping the whole card thing – good for you! Tell us that too! For everyone who comments, I will enter you into a drawing for a $10 gift card to Shutterfly.com Here is what we did this year on Shutterfly – it was super simple (and did I mention, it’s DONE!?!)
Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving! I really do include you my friends as one of the things I am most grateful for!
This year like every year, I take pics of my kids and put a few on a custom made card. I usually use Shutterfly or Snapfish. I wait until like the first or second week in December when the printing companies offer great deals and then I snatch up the best one. Last year I got ALL my Christmas cards for free with a special promotion from My Publisher and they were double sided and gorgeous!!!
We are skipping the cards this year. Not a Scrooge just cutting back on the stress this year.
We are using a picture my husband and I had taken at the Air Force Ball in September to give away. We also have family photos scheduled in Dec. 🙂 I gave up the Christmas cards a few years back and that was so refreshing. I’ll send smilebox via FB and through email addresses–much less stress and cost!
Decided to use a picture that I had of my grandsons when they came trick or treating this year. Took it to Sams Club today and they are having a special of 100 cards for $15 and they will be ready for pick up tomorrow afternoon.
I always take a photo of us in front of the tree for our card. I find that it just make things easier than trying to come up with something different each year. Using my remote for the camera, I’ll snap about 100. My son seems to smile better if I let him hold the remote. This year, I’ll do a black and white theme with red bows and have already made the cards using black and white gingham fabric. I am cutting the list down quite a bit because the fabric only made 49 cards, and I refuse to go back for more. I do portraits for others on the side, so I use my time as gifts for my friends at Christmas so that they can have nice pictures for free.
We are skipping photos with this years Christmas cards. We are having professional photos done in the spring, so they will either get mailed out then or saved for next Christmas.
We decided to forgo sending out Christmas cards this year (not in the budget), but I’m going to put an e-card together & post it on FB. I chose a family photo we took this summer… it was the first time all six of us were together after my surgery – and since we haven’t been all together since then, the photo has taken on special meaning.
We had a professional take our photo (including our Lab) at the end of last winter, so we are good to go!
We used a photo taken of the whole family (including dogs) while on a vacation in September and a few photos of our son in a Santa hat and (so not in range of any of the Christmas decorations we put out for the photo).
We live in Military housing and they had a lottery to have Christmas photos taken for free and we were one of the winners. I plan on using one of the photos that we get as our e card photo this year.
I generally use pictures that I capture myself through out the year. IF (thats a BIG IF!) I do cards this year I already have 3 pictures picked out for the photo cards that I generally order at Costco. =)
I’m loving this Christmas project! I had pictures made in June….IF I choose to include pictures, I will use one of those. I will be writing a family newsletter this year, and each person’s section will have a picture (also taken in June), except for my parents and then a family pic included as well…I will have color copies made at Office Depot, most likely. My plan thus far is to make cards for family and close friends and insert my youngest son’s school picture and a snapshot of my oldest son (his school pic was not order worthy). All other cards will be store bought with the newsletter inserted.
Annemarie insisted on a family photo shoot back in August, so we’ve got dozens of photos to select from. We’ve chosen one really nice “Christmas card-y” pose for the middle of the card, and then we’re going to surround it by “out-takes” that reveal our family’s true character a lot better than one frozen smile look.
My college roommate is an aspiring photographer in the DC metro area and she took some pictures of my family a couple weeks ago. We ended up getting one really great one (and with a 2 yr old and a 3 year old, that is a major feat!) so we decided to show it off by doing photo cards.
hi, kathi! that card is beautiful!! we FINALLY had some family photos taken a few weeks ago – outdoor shots – and there’s one that will be perfect for a christmas card. our photographer also does card design so i’m going to send her a few ideas RIGHT NOW.
there. done and done 🙂
thanks for the help, kathi!
I actually already ordered and received our Christmas photo cards from Shutterfly. I chose a design that featured several photos in the shape of a Christmas tree.
We will be doing pictures ive snapped through this past year and ordering on costcos
We had photos taken by a photgrapher outside. Love Shutterfly. Use them for a lot.
I have decided to order photo cards this year from Costco. Using professional pics that we took last month!
Love Shutterfly! =)
Happy Thanksgiving!