Are we too early to browse Christmas cards? How else to decide? If you have browsed the range of gorgeous designs for darling Minted personalized Christmas cards, you know the amazing options. And remember, you need not have a family photo to create custom cards. Personalizing with your name on the front feels special too. Personalized Minted Christmas cards with an all-in-one design may even be more budget-savvy than you imagine.
Personalized Minted Christmas Cards
What to do should you find yourself without a flattering photo of you on a beach, near the Eiffel Tower, or cradling a new grandchild? Deep breath. Photos will likely never be able to reflect what is truest in our lives. It’s totally okay if the obligatory family photo for the Christmas card is absent this year.
Feel free to skip “picture perfect.” Three seasons ago, we used the self-timer on a smart phone for a ridiculous 5-minute photo shoot.
Let’s face it. Your friends probably would welcome seeing you (looking like the you they know) in your natural habitat.
Not that your friends don’t want to see you happy on a beach. But do we ever stop to wonder why we want to broadcast the shiniest, perfectly lit sunset sky moments and not our vulnerable, gritty, everyday ordinary gorgeous selves?
It is why our silly 5-minute photo shoot card felt right. It truly happened in the middle of an ordinary day of renovation projects.
If You Capture a Photo for Your Minted Personalized Christmas Card
It took us all of five minutes to snag our photo and about five minutes to upload it to Minted. For that card’s design, I skipped the option of adding additional photos. PEACE TO YOU RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE made it extra personal to me. Have a quote or scripture that always lingers in your thoughts? Customize your card with it!
Another idea that is mostly headache-free? Personalize a card with: a favorite photo you took, that snowy landscape, or your home’s exterior. Our renovation progress is what we were celebrating that year. Here’s what our dining room looked like in its before…
and during…
You may recall we were careful in the removal of the built-in china cabinet and repurposed it in our kitchen.
A glimpse of mauve carpet (above) made us smile.
How’s that for keepin it real? If you have grandchildren or young children involved in sports or the arts, you may have a wealth of possibilities for a personalized holiday card.
As emptynesters, it was renovation progress dear to our hearts that year.
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Holiday Essentials Keep it Streamlined
I am all for easy peasy. Thanksgiving week is typically when our tree goes up, and pre-lit wreaths will emerge from basement boxes.
Every single year, I experience holiday decor inferiority freakout as a blogger.
How will express creativity, reinvent, and still stay true to my sensibilities?
How to birth something worthy of social media posting?
Such freakouts may push content creators beyond healthy limits of nervous system regulation, doncha know.
The pressure can even cause one to question whether any of the trappings even belong.
That’s when contemplative silence and stillness help. Christmas music and advent devotions help. Praying for help especially helps to return us to our senses and awaken our hearts.
Christmas Decorations More Timeless Than Trendy
I can rely on these essentials each year because they aren’t trendy or disposable. If you’re frugal and practical as I am, timeless always feels right. These decorations won’t look silly in a decade.
How to decorate with sacred little gold boxes?
Truly there are endless options. I placed them on a brown transferware china on our entry’s console:
You could also embellish a special gift with a heart. What about threading ribbon through the top for an instant Christmas tree ornament?
I also love the idea of writing a special message inside. Could it be a prayer request if you’re keeping the little heart box for yourself? Maybe an affirmation?
Since they are hinged boxes, it’s easy to slip photos or love notes inside. Best of all, they don’t feel like seasonal decoration. They need not be packed away after Christmas!
Old School Organization
An essential I use for the holidays and beyond? This customized journal/notebook from Minted. I have ordered these time and time again.
You could add photos of loved ones on a notebook’s inside cover…instant prayer list or blessing list…BOOM.
My notebook is for lists which help manage the holiday details of hosting, cooking, baking, and shopping. Could I just as easily use a Notes app on my phone? Sure. Except.
I find uncommon joy from pen and paper. It’s satisfying to cross off a completed task on the list. Be totally rad and old school!
Psst. Phones run out of juice. A hard copy means I’m not inconvenienced by “the ease” of technology.
Even if you’re not a list maker, this journal notebook makes an excellent gratitude journal. I jot down inspiring quotes, ideas to research, and bits of poetry.
What About This Year’s Card?
I have always loved the Met collection of cards from Minted which require no photos…
But I also love this Bouquet of Joy design:
YOU: That’s it? That’s all of the essentials?
ME: I wasn’t kidding about easy peasy! A notebook, quality-made personalized Christmas cards, and small timeless embellishments to display all winter.
If you made it all the way here, thank you for traveling here to the land of ahhhs and ads and affiliate links. I know the structure of these posts can be disruptive, and I do try to dial back the number of ads appearing between images.
With abundant competition online (mostly thanks to Google and Ai), it’s trickier than ever to earn income for the hours of creation behind the scenes. Most folks don’t realize a blog requires full-time hours and endless pivots with platform and algorithm fluctuations.
I am ever grateful for your support pinning images and quotes and reading me in every post.
Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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