It's Frugal Friday!What to do about Christmas cards?
In the last couple of years I have been doing photo cards from Costco. They cost $15. That's not bad, but I need to cut costs further this year. I was going to make some prints of a family photo we had taken for the church directory, but I discovered it had been taken in such a way that when I had prints made up it cut part of my husband out of the photo...back to the drawing board!
I discovered that Picassa, our photo program, will take four photos and make a photo collage from them. Great! I printed a test run to see what it would print out like and it looked like it would print out with the four photos in a square, leaving a strip of blank white where I could write a message. I sent it in to Costco for a trial run. It didn't work. It got stretched out, pixilated, cut off my husband's head and my daughter's head! Sigh. Back to the drawing board again.
By the way, all these test runs were free. We had a bunch of free photos coming to us from Costco.
So, ok, we have no suitable family photos for this year's Christmas card. I honestly don't feel like making the effort to do one...just one more thing to add to my already busy schedule. So I am just going to order cheap Christmas cards from Christianbook.com. They have some really nice ones for a really reasonable price. You can just go to the search box on my side bar and type in Christmas Cards and it should take you there.
I'll send regular cards with a short personal note typed up on the computer this year. Maybe next year we'll have a decent photo we can send...In the mean time, I'll save a little money by not doing a photo card.
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