I really wanted to do a new year's card this year, but damn, they get expensive! But then I thought, wait, last year I did a 5×7 photo card, and I liked it for the size and all, but… it was just a 5×7 photo that looked like a card, really….
So, instead, I took one of our family portraits, uploaded to flickr, opened it in picnik, and designed the card using their borders and text options, and saved it back to flickr, where I'm going to order only as many as I need, for 59 cents a piece, as opposed to $1+ per card, and then only available in batches of 25. WORD UP.
I'm picking up a 'proof' tomorrow at Target, just to make sure it looks okay, and then I'll order the rest tomorrow.
Just thought I'd pass that tip along….
(Oh, and flickr friends, that "holiday card" you see is not our actual holiday card. I did that to freak out my mom. :))
I did this with baby shower invitations, except I used Publisher, Snapfish and 4″x6″ prints that we printed at Walgreens for $ .19. They turned out fantastic and Walgreens threw in the envelopes for free. Sweet deal!