Create your own Holiday Cards

Holiday Cards exist all over the world

What is a Holiday Card basically? It is an individually designed piece of paper which is sent to friends and family with best wishes for an important event like Christmas or New Year. The sending of most traditional holiday cards arises from the religious festivals that they celebrate. So, in western countries the holiday card with the largest sales by far is, of course, Christmas holiday cards. In the west the other main holiday cards that are frequently sent are Easter cards, Saints’ Day cards and, in North America although not strictly speaking religious festival, Thanksgiving cards. Across the rest of the world, as well as in the west, there is also a tradition of sending Hanukkah holiday cards, Hindu holiday cards, Muslim holiday cards and even Bodhi Day holiday cards for Buddhists. You see, your religious affiliation does not play a large part in this nice little tradition. Holiday cards bring joy to every addressee.

Being creative and design your own card

The tradition of sending these cards is very popular, especially in the USA. Just look at the USA; it is estimated that just short of 2 billion Christmas cards are sent annually. It’s not very often that anyone sends holiday cards to just one or two people that they know, more likely we’ll send out holiday cards in multiples of ten. Realizing this holiday card manufacturers generally produce packs of 5, 10 20 or even more holiday cards; which can result in waste if there are any holiday cards with designs or messages in them that we don’t like. One solution to this problem is to make your own holiday cards. In past times this meant either buying holiday card making kits or laboriously cutting out things, sticking them onto card and handwriting messages. Whilst that could in itself be rewarding, for many people was simply to time consuming for the busy lives they were leading. Today, using an online printing company you can design your own personalized holiday cards, have them printed for you onto paper or card of a quality and price that you select - and then have them dispatched to you for sending out when the holiday period comes along. You have full control over the graphic design and text content of the holiday cards and can relax safe in the knowledge that the holiday cards will be printed to the very highest of standards; giving you holiday cards that have a professional publishers touch to them. The better online holiday card printing companies will allow you to either use their online software to produce the designs for your holiday cards or allow you to upload to their system a holiday card you’ve already created in a software package you prefer to use. It is important to check the formats of your own file; otherwise the printing company will not be able to work with your file. It is common that the company publishes all possible formats on their website; so check these out to back up your individually designed cards.

Let’s not forget the postcards

For holiday cards, we have various possibilities but what about postcards? They existed first and people sent it from their vacation destination to show friends and family which great time they spent. The exact date of the first holiday card is unknown; however, in 1861 a Philadelphian patented the postcard, showing that there was clearly a demand for them around 150 years ago. Typically around 6 inches by 4 inches and printed on a thin card; one side of the card has a scenic view of the place where you are vacationing away from work or university, although it could be an amusing or even irreverent take on vacation life in general. The other side of the holiday postcard is left blank and on one half you write the name and address it’s to be delivered to using the rest of the space to write a short message. Online printing companies can get personalized postcard designs dispatched to you in as little as 24 hours, so providing you’re going to be in the vacation destination for a few days - you could create your own design for holiday postcards and then send those out, rather than buying someone else’s. Imagine being able to put a photo of yourself looking great on vacation, on the golf course or just relaxing with the family - letting everyone see what great shape you’re in and how well you’re feeling. The possibilities of designing your postcard are boundlessly; so give your fancy full scope and send postcards which are “different”.