For those, I use the Midori MD Cotton Letter Pad. While I don’t include notes in all 40 cards, I do include some hand written notes. To address the card I tend to play it safe and use markers rather than pencils or fountain pens, which could smear if the envelope got wet, and who doesn’t love a metallic address anyway? I use the Sakura Pen-Touch 1.0mm markers in Copper, Silver, Gold and Black. Here’s a quick (and I mean quick, it’s only a minute long) tutorial on how to create a card using the app. Seriously, creating a fast, high-quality Christmas card does not get easier than this. I whipped up the card on my phone in about 60 seconds using their free card templates (I used the Holiday 30 design), took another 2 minutes to place the order in the app and they showed up at my door in two weeks. So getting back to “fast and done” means I use the Project Life App (which is free, yay!) who teamed up with White House Custom Color as their printer, to quickly create and order my Christmas cards. It’s one of those things that I happily pay more for higher quality than cheap but inferior prints. With most printers, the photo comes out way darker than it did on the screen, but White House Custom Color does a phenomenal job at printing true-to-color photos. One of my jobs (I have a few: student, mom, cosmetologist, photographer, blogger, etc) is portrait photographer, and I always want my photos to look the same on my screen as they do on my client’s wall. My favorite photo printer of all time is White House Custom Color. This is one of those things that I consider “fast and done” to be better than “slow but never finished”. Our family is huge, and it would be impossible for me to hand-write 40 long Christmas cards and get them out on time. The other reason I love picture cards is because we send so many of them. So I dragged the kids to the park with my camera, (which frankly is my fourth baby because I love it so much) took some quick photos the kids did not appreciate sitting still for, edited them fast, made the card and got them ordered. I don’t know why I didn’t realize it was so close, but it clicked in my head that Christmas is on its way, and I don’t even have my Christmas cards ordered yet. Two weeks ago it hit me-Thanksgiving is next week. Too much stuff in my brain, and not paying enough attention to the calendar. Where am I going with this? Well, this year I’m in my senior year of college, a full-time mom, homeschooling and blogging full time and somewhere in-between all of that I completely forgot about my Christmas cards. I would put the tree up sooner, but my hubby made a rule that I have to wait for the day after Thanksgiving or the first snow, which ever comes first (he’s a party pooper like that). Presents are usually planned and purchased in July or August, Christmas cards ordered in the beginning of November, and the tree put up the day after Thanksgiving. Usually I’m a plan ahead kind of gal when it comes to Christmas. I love Christmas cards because they usually come with a new photo of my nieces and nephews, so I always include a photo of my kids on our Christmas card. While I love keeping up with all of the littles in my family on social media, nothing can replace that tangible photo of the kids on my fridge. Really, I wasn’t lying, my family is enormous. My family is huge, I’m one of six kids and my hubby’s one of seven kids, so between us we have 33 nieces and nephews with another one on the way. Christmas cards are part of why it’s my favorite. Christmas is my favorite-always has been, always will be.
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