Photo christmas cards

[StillWearingOddSocks]

Have you ever ordered these online from your own photos? I've been looking and they all seem really expensive...or are my price expectations unrealistically low? I think 50p a card must be the absolute tops or it will get silly.

Any tips or knowledge please?

I got the christmas card stress

It's way too expensive even doing it online.

I bought a cheap printer that does photo prints. OK -the printer is a cost but you could easily get second hands on ebay. I now can print photos about 9p each and I stick them on plain cards bought from a craft shop using double sided tape.

I did 30 of these cards in an evening!!

I use super simple photo editing software and add the Merry Christmas text and baubles onto the photos (so saves me having to do something creative with the cards - as I'm super lazy).

Having your own printer means you can do this every year!!

I ordered some calendars from snapfish and got 100 free prints, stick them on some plain cream cards from hobby raft at 3.99 for 50 and have made my cheapest cards ever! Will never shop buy again!

It does cost a fortune. I don't think we've ever managed to do it for less than £60...

YY to sticking prints on the front of plain cards - I also did this for thank you cards for DS. I managed to buy some cheap cards and it cost about 50p per card including 2nd class stamps. A lot of places do 50 free prints for new members - try money saving expert for a list of sites that do this.

Poundland and cheap card shops do 6 Xmas photo frame cards for a pound. I have a few of these, take a festive snap of the kids in front of the tree to send to relatives, the photo slots in. It looks good and they can keep the photo afterwards.

www.poundland.co.uk/christmas/christmas-wrapping-and-cards/christmas-cards/photo-frame-christmas-cards-6-pack

I do a 4 x 6 photo stuck on to the front of a plain 5 x 7 card (from The Works) - but I get the photo printed through Snapfish where you can edit a Christmas frame on to them so that it says Merry Christmas too! Then I print inserts on to paper with another photo and some clipart pics to stick inside so I don't even have to write them

Thanks so much for all these ideas...I'm now thinking about buying a printer that can print from the ipad and doing them stuck on card...

Really appreciate the advice and sorry for late reply...was checking in and discussing all your ideas with DH and didn't realise my reply hadn't posted properly

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