Christmas Card Craziness!

I'm learning to let go. Slowly. A bit white knuckle-y. Hopefully with a bit of humor, too.

I get stuck on how I envision things. I want things to be perfect. In this perfect view, I can whip up some handmade/designed cards in a flash and be infinitely pleased with the results.

In real life? I just stare at the screen, get mad about the color calibration, get frustrated about not having any decent pics, and then give up.

Last year I used new scrapbooking and photo-editing software my husband bought for me. I spent hours working on the card (the software was new!). The result? Decent.

This year, I'm letting go.

Shutterfly has made it easy. They have 100s of choices in a plethora of themes and color schemes. I LOVE the big 5x7 cards, because you can really see the pic and it leaves lots of room for fun designs, as well.

Shutterfly also makes picking out your card easy. With all the choices, it's nice to narrow them down with a few simple clicks: you can search by number of pics you want to use, by the main color you'd like the card to be and the kind of card you'd like (size, flat, folded). I know we're only using one picture, so it was easy to find my two favorites:
We live in a city. We do! Indianapolis counts!!


Love the border around the picture!

It was fun to get the family in on the decision, too. I narrowed it down to about 10 of my favorites, then Miriam picked these two. Chris likes the city one, which is the one I'm leaning toward, as well. Once we get our digital photo, though, I'll pick the card that works best with the pic!

Wanna check out your own Shutterfly cards? Here are some good starting points:
Christmas cards

General Holiday Cards

Too busy to send Christmas cards? How about doing photo Thank You cards?
Kill two birds with one stone: Christmas-y and Thank you-y!

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