SENDING A SENTIMENTAL HOLIDAY CARD TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Minted helps you embrace the spirit of the season and spread it to your loved ones through custom holiday photo cards. Minted’s holiday card collection offers you:
- Various designs, card shapes and silhouettes, printing formats, and luxurious paper options
- Numerous customizable options from images, texts, fonts, to colors
- Unlimited round of edits
- Envelopes included in each order
- Free recipient address printing with Address Assistant
- Text Us Your Photo service for design recommendations
UNIQUE AND TIMELY THEMES TO CONSIDER
- Peace, Love, & Joy: In these times sharing a message of “peace, love, and joy” is more important than ever. It encourages family and friends to find peace in their life, love the ones around them, and search for joy in the little things. On Minted, you can find a variety of designs that convey this sentiment. Some designs, like Botanical Swash by Robert and Stella, display “peace, love, and joy” in bold typography. Others convey the message in a more subtle, simplistic way, like this Pure Peace design created by fatfatin that weaves the peace sign into your selected imagery.
- Family: With more time spent at home, families have become closer than ever as they overcome challenges and uncertainty together. Whether your family is close by or staying connected virtually from afar, it’s important to express gratitude towards loved ones. Sort through our sentimental Christmas cards that speak to the value of family. You might consider the design We're Merrier Together by Lisa Assenmacher, which allows you to feature a large family photo. Or perhaps, Candid by Annie Clark is a good fit, as it conveys the message “Here’s to what matters most.”
- Lighthearted: To help lift spirits, you may consider choosing a sentimental holiday card that has a more lighthearted message.Some cards offer playful puns that speak to this year.
- Hope: As uncertainty lingers and the coronavirus pandemic continues, it’s important to remain hopeful about the future. On Minted, you can find a variety of designs that convey a hopeful message in different ways. For a more simple and typographic option, you might consider this Hope Heart design by Kim Dietrich Elam that replaces the letter “O” in “HOPE” with a giant heart silhouette where a picture can be inserted. Or perhaps you’re looking for a card that speaks to looking forward, like Bright Days Ahead by Sara Hicks Malone.
- Multi-Photo: Since face-to-face interactions have been lower than usual this year, friends and family will enjoy seeing pictures and faces they may not have seen in a while. Plus, with so much time spent at home, you’re bound to have a lot more family pictures together. Whether you want to use casual home photos or professionally shot images, you can find a variety of multi-photo designs on Minted to showcase all your pictures. The 6-photo Little Moments of Togetherness by Mansi Verma is the perfect way to showcase multiple photos on one card. If you have even more photos, you might consider the 12-photo, film strip style design Proof by Robin Ott.
FOCUS ON PERSONALIZATION THIS YEAR
As you begin planning for the holidays, consider sending out a personalized holiday card in lieu of a more generic boxed set card. Sending a personalized card will help you better connect with friends you haven’t had as much contact with in the last six months. Share personal messaging that is close to your heart and feature images of your family.
On Minted, there are numerous ways to personalize your card to make it feel special and unique to you.. First, when you’ve selected a holiday card that you love, you can choose from a variety of size options and formats, including postcard (4.25” x 6”), petite (4.25” x 6”), classic (5” x 7”), or grand (6” x 8”). Once you’ve selected the perfect size, make the card stand out from the rest by adding a special shape. Choose from a variety of options including rounded corners, waved frame, classic frame, ticket shape, and more.
Then it’s time to select the color theme for your card. Whether you want a more traditional green and red color scheme or a more simplistic black and white scheme, there will be a variety of themes to choose from based on the card you selected. You can even customize further by selecting your favorite foil color to match the color scheme you love. This year we have festive red and green foil options to choose from.
After that, you can then begin customizing your greeting, adjusting the text to include your family name and any special note or message that you would like to include. This year, you might consider including copy like “Sending love from afar” or “We laughed, we cried, we Zoomed.”
Finally, once you’ve finished the front of your card, you can begin customizing the back of your card by choosing from one of our many themed templates. Select a photo template to include more photos on your card, or add a recipe template to share your favorite holiday recipe with family and friends.