Still too early to browse Christmas cards? How else do we decide? If you have witnessed 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 counts as personal too. Customized at Minted Christmas cards with an all-in-one design may be more budget-savvy than you imagine.
Loveliest Christmas Cards Customized at Minted
What…no flattering photo of you on a beach or near the Eiffel Tower or cradling a new grandchild? Photos rarely reflect fleeting moments but not always what is most authentic in our lives. It’s okay if that obligatory family photo for a Christmas card is absent this year.
Feel free to skip “picture perfect.” Four seasons ago, we used the self-timer on a smart phone for a ridiculous 5-minute photo shoot.
Let’s face it. Your friends are happy to see you looking like the you they know in your natural habitat.
Not that friends don’t truly want to see you pulling in your gut, posing with that foot in the weird Instagram-mandated position on a white sand beach. *ahem* But we need not broadcast only the shiniest, perfectly lit sunset sky moments?
Our silly 5-minute photo shoot card that I still love, ticked the right boxes. It truly happened smack dab in the middle of an ordinary day of renovation projects where I needed a shower but couldn’t be bothered.
Photo for Your Minted Personalized Christmas Card
It took us five minutes to snag the photo and another five minutes to upload it to Minted. For the 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 of a 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 some degree of holiday decor inferiority freakout.
How to express creativity, reinvent, and still stay true to my sensibilities as a blogger?
How to birth something new and worthy to share?
Such freakouts haunt some content creators, doncha know.
But not me. Not anymore. If there will be holiday trappings, any at all, they will be natural and personal to us, not for any show.
For me it’s a holy season with plenty of contemplative silence and stillness. Christmas music and advent readings belong. Living in prayer returns us to our senses moment by moment.
Christmas Decorations More Timeless Than Trendy
I rely on these essentials annually because they aren’t trendy or disposable. If you’re a frugalista as I am, timeless always feels right. Decorations won’t seem 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. A prayer request maybe should you be keeping the little heart box for yourself? 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 them 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?
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 the holiday essentials you got?
ME: Wasn’t kidding about easy peasy! A notebook, quality-made personalized Christmas cards, and small timeless embellishments to display all winter.
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Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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