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Everyone loves to get pictures in their Christmas cards and letters. It is perhaps the best part! To have a chance to see a family’s progression and growth is part of what makes Christmas cards so special.
The Countdown to Christmas Challenge for today is to make an appointment with a photographer for your family’s Christmas portrait to be taken so that you can get the pictures back in time to send with the cards. If a professional photographer is not your style, then make an appointment on your calendar to take a family photo out in your yard or in another meaningful spot.
List of Steps to Taking Family Photos for the Holidays
Visit the 100 Days to Christmas Facebook page and tell us your best tips for great family photos!
This week, since we’re on the topic of Christmas cards, I’d like to introduce you to Sarah Luke Creative. Sarah Luke is a mom and Etsy shop owner. She has created so many beautiful designs for Christmas cards. And the unique thing about this shop is that you buy the design and can print yourself or have the cards printed. (100 Days to Christmas readers can get 10% off printing services at Sarah Luke’s store. Be sure to mention 100DaystoChristmas.com for your discount). We are giving away 5 Christmas card designs from Sarah Luke Creative’s Etsy shop this week! The winners get to choose the design they like best. You have several ways to enter to win:
1) leave a comment here and tell us which design you would choose,
2) tell your friends & followers about this week’s giveaway on Twitter (it’s easy to do with our share buttons below) and leave a comment here linking to your Twitter handle (be sure to follow @100Days on Twitter, too),
3) blog about 100 Days to Christmas, then leave a comment here linking to your post.
4) “like” our page on Facebook and tell our entire community that you are going to participate in this week’s giveaway by leaving the following message on our Facebook wall, “The key to a Merry Christmas is starting early at 100DaystoChristmas.com!”
5) pin this page to one of your Pinterest boards. Leave the link to the pin below.
One of each of these per day please. You have until TODAY, Friday, September 28 to enter.
Even if you can’t get everyone in the family together for a group photo, it is still possible to make a photo card. My sister in law couldn’t get her family together to take a single picture so she collected pictures of all the individual family members and put them onto a family Christmas Card. It was great.
Great point, Amy! In fact, I’ve used PicMonkey.com to create a collage for our family and it is so easy to do. That would be a fun way to put a photo together for your family Christmas card.
I still enjoy sending out christmas cards every year even though I know that less and less people seem to be doing this nowadays. My little girl is going to have her birthday just before christmas and I was thinking of putting her birthday picture on the cards this year.
In fact, I am going to visit the cologne christmas markets 2012 versions and maybe I could take some lovely pictures there to use on next year’s cards. If I plan in advance like this every year then I will always have great card to send out.