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November 29, 2016 · 6 Comments

Our 2016 Christmas Cards

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Christmas season is in full swing around these parts and I’m so dang excited I can hardly contain myself. The house is decorated (and I’ll start sharing later this week!), we’ll be starting our activity advent in a few days (sharing that tomorrow!), and I’m getting ready to mail our Christmas cards!

I don’t even know how to contain myself right now. I’m like freakin’ Buddy the Elf – jumping around and screeching about everything and singing Christmas carols nonstop. It really is the most wonderful time of the year, isn’t it?!

Our family's 2016 Christmas cards from Minted. They're so cute, and they make it so incredibly easy for you!

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If you’ll remember, we’re working with Minted this year for our cards and I’m so incredibly pleased with how they turned out. We went with the Simply Stated cards with the “Religious” text (when you go to customize it, there are several options as to what your card says) – we always love a simple card that really lets the photo shine, and this is a great one.

My favorite part of the whole process was the fact that they will address the cards for you for free. Free! I never love how my handwriting looks on envelopes (I’m perfectly capable of writing like an adult until it actually matters, then my writing looks like a second grader’s) and I always consider printing my own envelopes but it’s just such a pain! Minted has a ton of options for the design you use to address your cards, and it’s totally free to have them do it for you. We had them address all of the ones we knew for sure we were sending and then left the rest blank because we know we’ll have a few others that will come to mind later. It makes the process so much quicker because now all I have to do is pop the cards in the envelopes, seal ’em, and I’m done. I’m a major advocate of anything that makes my life easier this time of year.

Our family's 2016 Christmas cards from Minted. They're so cute, and they make it so incredibly easy for you!

Our family's 2016 Christmas cards from Minted. They're so cute, and they make it so incredibly easy for you!

We’ve always had a really fun tradition of taking a Christmas photo every year, and this year we had my dad snap one for us. Jack wasn’t thrilled with having to sit still and participate, but I promised him a piece of candy if he did a good job so he stayed relatively patient. It always makes me smile to look back at photos from years past and see how our little family has grown (and grown up!) and I cherish holding on to all of our old Christmas cards!

Oh, and there’s another awesome touch – we ordered customized stamps. I mean, seriously – can you even handle the cuteness?

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Our family's 2016 Christmas cards from Minted. They're so cute, and they make it so incredibly easy for you!

I’m planning on sending these later this week and I’m already looking forward to my yearly tradition of checking the mail every dang day and looking for Christmas cards. With the level of excitement I have surrounding this entire season, I basically I turn into a 7-year-old every December.

I’m curious – do you still send Christmas cards? Sometimes I feel like it’s a dying art! It’s one of my favorite traditions of the whole Christmas season so I can’t see us stopping anytime soon, but we get fewer and fewer every year.

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  1. Sophie says

    November 30, 2016 at 12:17 am

    I moved in with my boyfriend this year and this is our first Christmas together. I was already suggesting him to send Christmas card to our friends and relatives.

    We have got great ideas now after reading this article to make our own Christmas cards. Thanks for that Amanda.

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    • Amanda says

      November 30, 2016 at 6:44 pm

      I’m glad! Christmas cards are always so much fun! 🙂

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  2. Alice says

    November 29, 2016 at 1:41 pm

    We do! I just ordered ours so I’m looking forward to it arriving in my mailbox so that I can send them off to our friends and family!

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    • Amanda says

      November 30, 2016 at 6:40 pm

      Yay! So much fun!

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  3. Jamie says

    November 29, 2016 at 11:40 am

    I love sending Christmas cards! Our anniversary is in late November, so every year I ask my mother-in-law to do an anniversary photo shoot, then we use those pics for our cards. However, I had a lot of people mention that they toss Christmas cards but like to keep the photos, and that they “felt bad” throwing out our card when our photo was on it. So the last couple of years, I grabbed cards at Hobby Lobby on super clearance after Christmas, then stuck a 4×6 in them the next year. That way, they toss the card, keep the pic. And it’s a little easier on the wallet too!

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    • Amanda says

      November 30, 2016 at 6:39 pm

      That’s a great idea! We did that one year too – it was definitely cheaper!

      Reply

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