Whether you have chosen to create a card that is more like a work of art, or have decided that “less is more” applies to your card style, today is a good day to begin assembling them, writing messages, and preparing any photos.

Today’s Countdown to Christmas Challenge is to take the envelopes you have already addressed and go through each one, preparing each card and photo for its recipient. This is a process that will more than likely take a few days to finish. Remember that the goal is to have the bulk of the Christmas “work” done before December, so be diligent!

Visit the 100 Days to Christmas Facebook page and give us the status of your Christmas cards.

Pull out the list you created for your Christmas cards from your holiday planner. Thankfully, you have already rounded up all of your friends and family’s addresses because today is a good day to begin to address the envelopes!

The Countdown to Christmas Challenge for today is to find a quality pen with a nice color of ink. Gather the envelopes together and begin to write addresses on all of the cards. This will give you a chance to think about what you might like to say to each person in the note you will jot to them when you begin to assemble your Christmas cards. To save yourself some time with the return addresses, use Christmas Mailing Labels* where all you need to do is to type your name and address into the first square, and then copy and paste into all of the rest of the squares. When you are finished, print on adhesive backed paper and cut on the lines for simple and festive return address labels.

* Available as a download in the 100 Days to Christmas 2011 eBook.  Members to ListPlanIt.com can print or download a blank Christmas Mailing Labels in Holidays & Occasions for your return addresses.

How many people are on your mailing list? Visit the 100 Days to Christmas Facebook page and join the conversation.

Now that you have a list of people to whom you will send your Christmas cards, you need to make sure you have the correct and updated address for each person.

The Countdown to Christmas Challenge for today is to check your address books, pull up whitepages.com, search on Google, and call your mother if need be, to find the addresses of the friends and family that you have either lost touch with or have moved. Be sure to update your address management system so that you’ll have it for next year.

Tomorrow ends this week’s giveaway. . .ListPlanIt.com would like to give  away 3 Download Memberships to participants at 100 Days to Christmas!  Members to ListPlanIt have access to hundreds of lists and planning pages that they can download to their computer, type their own information into the spaces of the page, save to their computer for future reference, and/or print!  You’ll find lots of pages in our Holidays & Occasions section to get you on the right track for the holidays.

You have several ways to enter to win:

1) leave a comment here and tell us why you’d like a membership to ListPlanIt.com,

2) tell your friends & followers about 100 Days to Christmas 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) subscribe to 100 Days to Christmas‘ RSS feed using a reader or by email (and get our daily posts delivered straight to your inbox) and leave a comment here,

4) blog about 100 Days to Christmas, then leave a comment here linking to your post.

5) follow 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, “A membership to ListPlanIt.com will help me get organized for the holidays and throughout the year.”

One of each of these per day please. You have until Friday, September 30 at 6 pm EST to enter.

You don’t even need to have your Christmas cards yet in order to make a list of the friends and family to whom you would like to send holiday wishes. My family has lived in Kansas, Tulsa, Poland, New Orleans, Connecticut, Oklahoma City, Italy, Great Britain, and Maine, and I have collected friends all along the way. Christmas cards are a great way to stay in touch.

Today’s Countdown to Christmas Challenge is to create or print out a Cards to Send* list from ListPlanIt.com or create your own, and begin to list everyone to whom you think you might like to send a card. You can always pare down the list later, if it is too overwhelming. This way you have a general idea of how many cards you need to buy or make. Be sure to add these pages to your holiday planner!

This week, we have another fun giveaway. . .ListPlanIt.com would like to give  away 3 Download Memberships to participants at 100 Days to Christmas!  Members to ListPlanIt have access to hundreds of lists and planning pages that they can download to their computer, type their own information into the spaces of the page, save to their computer for future reference, and/or print!  You’ll find lots of pages in our Holidays & Occasions section to get you on the right track for the holidays.

You have several ways to enter to win:

1) leave a comment here and tell us why you’d like a membership to ListPlanIt.com,

2) tell your friends & followers about 100 Days to Christmas 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) subscribe to 100 Days to Christmas‘ RSS feed using a reader or by email (and get our daily posts delivered straight to your inbox) and leave a comment here,

4) blog about 100 Days to Christmas, then leave a comment here linking to your post.

5) follow 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, “A membership to ListPlanIt.com will help me get organized for the holidays and throughout the year.”

One of each of these per day please. You have until Friday, September 30 at 6 pm EST to enter.

If your intention is to always send out Christmas cards, but it seems like you never have time, then this is your year! The trick is to begin planning early. If you wait until December to think about Christmas cards, you will be way too busy.

A little research is in order for the Countdown to Christmas Challenge for today. Maybe you have clippings that you saved from old magazines with some cute card ideas. Maybe you have saved a few of your favorite cards that friends have sent in the past. Maybe you just need to Google “Christmas cards” to get the creative juices flowing. Be sure to jot down your ideas and findings on ListPlanIt’s Holiday Card Planner* and place it in your holiday planner.

• List of Possible Christmas Card Options
• List of Ideas for Creative Holiday Correspondence

Visit the 100 Days to Christmas Facebook page and tell us your favorite Christmas card ideas!

This week, we have another fun giveaway. . .ListPlanIt.com would like to give  away 3 Download Memberships to participants at 100 Days to Christmas!  Members to ListPlanIt have access to hundreds of lists and planning pages that they can download to their computer, type their own information into the spaces of the page, save to their computer for future reference, and/or print!  You’ll find lots of pages in our Holidays & Occasions section to get you on the right track for the holidays.

You have several ways to enter to win:

1) leave a comment here and tell us why you’d like a membership to ListPlanIt.com,

2) tell your friends & followers about 100 Days to Christmas 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) subscribe to 100 Days to Christmas‘ RSS feed using a reader or by email (and get our daily posts delivered straight to your inbox) and leave a comment here,

4) blog about 100 Days to Christmas, then leave a comment here linking to your post.

5) follow 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, “A membership to ListPlanIt.com will help me get organized for the holidays and throughout the year.”

One of each of these per day please. You have until Friday, September 30 at 6 pm EST to enter.