personalised christmas cards

[cos]

Does anyone know printers who will turn a childs drawing into a christmas card?

I think almost any of them will - I went to place called Clearaprint in SE London that turned my dsd's drawing into a rubber stamp and we made our own cards, wrapping paper and gift tags with it. We'll be using it again this year. Look up printers in your local Thompson or Yellow pages and give them a call. Do it now though, they charge more for rush jobs!

There are a number of CDROMs you can buy to design your own greetings cards. I know NOTHING about them, so I may be talking rubbish here, but I would have thought you would be able to scan the picture in and turn it into a Christmas card that way.

and also have you heard about stamps where you can get your own photo printed next to the stamp? It's a fab idea. I've got some with me and my baby next to some Christmas stamps.

That sounds fantastic, where to you get the stamp photo thingy done?

agaazaa, pick up a leaflet from Post Office, or try their website, they are called Smilers.

yes you can get the leaflet from the post office or they're on www.royalmail.com/smilers - fab Christmas pressies for grandparents _ i think they cost around £15

cos, I went one step simpler and took my stepson's drawing to Staples and had it reduced and xeroxed onto thick red paper which I then folded in half to make a card. Whole process took about an hour and was super cheap. It was a very popular xmas card.

Scan it into your PC and print it out on card?

If you have Publisher (part of the Microsoft Office suite) you can scan the picture and they make fab cards. we did all our wedding invitations that way. Scanned a picture of us drunk and happy, then personalised every one of them. We printed it out onto nice paper, then it's just a case of folding them yourself. Christmas cards this year will have a picture of the sluglet doing her littlest elf routine.