Holiday card season is here! Once you have your family pictures taken, you get to embark on a whole new journey... deciding what holiday cards to order and print!
Luckily, there are tons of options to fit any style, personality, and budget. Here are 8 great options for where to order your Christmas, New Years, or holiday cards!
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My #1 Favorite for Quality & Price: Chatbooks
Full disclosure - I ordered my cards for three years in a row from Shutterfly before I switched to Chatbooks.
And I LOVE them so much! I'm a huge fan of Chatbooks in general and their cards do not dissappoint.
They are really nice quality for the price point. The designs are more minimal and classy than some of the more traditional options like Shutterfly.
A lot of the things that cost extra at other places are free at Chatbooks. For example, rounded corners and printed return addresses on the envelopes are just included options.
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Tried & True, always on sale: Shutterfly
Shutterfly is one of the most well-known options for printing photo books and gifts, and they do holiday cards too!
Shutterfly has tons of templates and designs for your cards, plus extra features like colored envelopes, gold foil stamping, and custom card shapes.
They also run tons of different promotions, basically - something is always on sale at Shutterfly! Plus, it gives me the chance to try unique products at a discount, which I appreciate (personalized wrapping paper? glass ornaments? personalized address labels? Yes please!)
If you want a tried-and-true option with great customer service, Shutterfly is the place for you!
I ordered cards from Shutterfly for four years. These posts have tons of tips:
Tips for Sending Last Minute Holiday Cards
Get Your Christmas Cards Ordered in Less Than An Hour
How To Winterize Any Family Photo for Holiday Cards
Finding The Perfect Gold Foil Design
Unique, Super-High Quality: Minted
Minted is my new favorite place for exceptional holiday cards! Everything at Minted is unique because it's created by independent designers.
Have you ever been frustrated that you just can't find the type of design you like in a store, or you just want something more unique?
Minted is all about getting good designs into your hands by skipping the big retail middleman. It's absolute eye candy to browse the creative options at Minted... so many pretty things!
Minted offers flat cards with beautiful designs, foil-stamped cards, letterpress cards, and even completely custom cards where you can make a foil or letterpress version of one of your children's drawings! They also have a good assortment of non-photo cards if you didn't manage to get a good family shot this year.
Two more SUPER awesome features of Minted (because I just can't stop singing their praises!)
- They will print your recipient's names and addresses on your envelopes in super cute designs! Check out the Minted Envelope option.
- You can upload your family picture to preview it in all the designs at once. Seriously! Look for the "Find It Fast" option.
Minimalist, Modern & Clean Style: Artifact Uprising
If you're looking for modern, authentic style, you need to check out Artifact Uprising! This company offers streamlined designs that will make you minimalist-loving moms swoon.
Love VSCO Cam on your phone? Same company!
So picture a bunch of cards and products that fit with those gorgeous filters... that's Artifact Uprising. It totally fills a need for beautiful, modern designs (not bursting with cartoons!).
Costco is a great place to get cards! They actually have TWO options for holiday cards, with fairly different purposes:
Cheap Option #1: Costco Stationary Cards
You can order premium stationery cards that are actually printed in partnership with Tiny Prints.
These are your familiar double-sided cards printed on thick cardstock. This is a good product for a great value: cards are sold in packs of 50 for $34.50, or just 69 cents each!
You can pick up your cards in 5-7 business days at your local warehouse to take advantage of no shipping fees. Find those designs here.
The VERY Cheapest option: Costco Photo Cards
Costco also supplies the cheapest option I've ever seen for holiday cards: their Photo Greeting cards.
Recognize that these are actual 6x7.5" photos, so they are one-sided glossy photo paper, not cardstock.
They are $13.99 for the first set of 50, and then $5.49 for each additional set of 25, so just 21-29 cents each!
Obviously, this is a slightly different product and quality from cardstock cards, but they absolutely work for holiday cards.
There are templates for Christmas or just Seasons Greetings, and they are usually ready the next day in the warehouse. We did this one year when I decided spur of the moment that I wanted to do holiday cards, and it was a great, budget-friendly option.
Support Small Designers: Etsy
This is one of the lesser-used options for cards, simply because it's harder to search for your exact specifications. But if you want something really unique or specific, there's TONS of talent in Etsy-land!
Almost every designer on Etsy will customize their cards/font/colors to your specifications. Some designers sell physical cards that they ship to you, so you just need to do your research about the quality of their paper.
However, most sell a finished PDF (so you print it yourself through somewhere like Shutterfly where you can upload a custom design).
Where do you want to print your holiday cards this year?
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Thank you! I was just talking with my husband about if we were doing cards this year and if we had it in our budget! Thank you for sharing some pretty super options!!
Yay! I know you have great photos to use already. If you print them, I totally want one!