Minted’s Charming Christmas Cards
Minted invited me to select, once again, their award-winning personalized Christmas cards. I was delighted, as I worked with Minted last year, and the cards were beautiful, and easy to incorporate my own photos into their award-winning designs. Still, the greatest part about this early Christmas card review is that I have the motivation, and the deadline, to get my cards done the week of Halloween.
Once again, I went for the yearline card, which allows me to add one large photo on the front, and four smaller photos on the inside. The perfect solution for those of us with lots of kids, and no single great “family shot” where no one is blinking, frowning or looking the other way. There is a box that allows you to select where you want the photo to appear on the card, and an icon to upload the photos.
This year, I choose “Snowflake Window Holiday Card,” designed by Stacey Day, in Birmingham Alabama. The gorgeous part of this card, is that a snowflake appears on the front, directly over the picture.
Once your photos are in place, you move on to the “caption” area. In the Yearline card, there is space to write a “caption” to tell the story of your year; an express version of the “Christmas letter. ” I use the space to add funny things the kids say, such as “Mom, I’m glad you married Dad, or I would look completely different.”
This year my quotes went over the text limit, again, but there is a warning message on top that relieved me of stress: “If your text is cut off or placement is off, please don’t worry. A professional designer will make sure your text is clean and legible.” And that is exactly what my designer did. Everything fit.
And this is the picture:
The effect is stunning, as the snowflakes literally jump off the page, and appear to look as if they are part of the actual picture.
Thank you Minted, for making that one holiday stress so “stress free.” Is it time to watch the Bishop’s Wife yet?
Minted provided me with 25 free cards to try. I purchased an additional 75 cards.
[...] completely different.” Learn more about how easy it was to create my card, and more details about the process, here: Bookmark to: Hide [...]