Anyone Else Doing Personalized Christmas Cards This Year?

That would be great if I had the room to set up a craft table, in here. Alas, 80% of the apartment is filled with our futon. LOL I had a friend one year, who designed nice personalized cards on the computer, and got a response back from a recipient saying he felt sorry for the downturn in the economy, because it was evident the poor guy couldn't even afford to buy Christmas cards!! CAN YOU IMAGINE the nerve of some idiots? LOL Some people don't know effort if it bites them on the you-know-what!

Kids are so dang cute!! Reminds me of the story of the mother who had a child tell her that his little bro was writing on the new wallpaper. The mother wanted to get mad at him till she saw that he had written "I Love My Mommy" on there. She took a picture frame, removed the back, and glued it to the wall. :)

Yeah, he was an idiot, all right. That idiot would be deleted from my Christmas card list from that point on since he calls you "poor" simply because you put more effort into your cards than anything store bought. He sounds like my husband who thinks that the more money you spend, the better the gift. Of course, caring more about "the thought" can backfire. When my kids were little (my youngest was around 4 or 5) I told them that I'd prefer a hand-picked dandelion as a gift over anything store-bought. My youngest son took that a bit too literally and, one summer, he picked every single flower I had growing in my yard and brought them in to me. "These are for you, mommy." How could I get angry at that? Naturally, he got a big hug and I just told him that next time we should leave some flowers out in the yard because they make the neighbors happy, too. He just said, "Okay" and trotted off. Your apartment sounds like one I had a long time ago. But, since it was only me in it, it wasn't too bad. I could use my kitchen table as a craft table and no one cared that they couldn't eat on it.

Thanks, but by "personalized" I meant with your names printed right on the cards, in the design process. The charitable ones, nice though they are, are mas-marketed cards, not created for any family in particular.

There are some really nice designs out there. I am amazed at how far Christmas cards have some. Some are real works of art.

Yes, I know. It's just the closest thing I could think of to a personalized card. We buy one design actually, and we write almost the same thing on all of the cards. It makes it kind of a personalized card that we've printed and made ourselves.

If it wasn't for Vistaprint, I wouldn't be able to afford them either. I spent about $20 for about 40 cards, but I only send about 40, so $20 isn't bad. I know it sounds expensive, but I find I really get what I pay for. I'm definitely sending you one, so watch out for my angel cards, in December.

I'll be looking for your card! I spend one dollar on 15-20 cards, so about $5, IF THAT, since I have those free ones that I send as well. I send between 40 and 50.

There is still plenty of time. Go to vistaprint.com and design something. You can have them shipped super-fast, or regular longer shipping. There is still a bit of time to get them, and then to send them out, but if you want personalized cards, you'd better act fast! :)

The nice thing about vistaprint is that you can upload your whole design 100%, or you can use their templates. I am not as much of a designer as you, so I use the templates, but I cn still be creative to a point. However, there are plenty of options included, where you can create your own designs from the ground up.