Saturday, October 1, 2011

Holiday Custom Cards

After creating Holiday cards for the past few years for friends and family, I have quite a few designs in my collection.  

All of them have been printed at Costco and here's why:  In my opinion, Costco is the cheapest and easiest place to get Holiday cards.  I know that the card-stock look is very popular right now (compared to the photo finish), but I can't bring myself to pay over $1.30 per card when at Costco it's only 26-29 cents per card!  These are cards that most people throw away (not me, I keep all mine, but I'm a little weird!).  And it all depends on how many you're sending out - I like to send out a lot of cards - it's how I keep in touch with everyone.  The pricing for Costco is $14.99 for the first 50 cards and each additional 25 only costs $5.49.  They come with nice envelopes, and it only requires one stamp to send in the mail.  The size is fairly large - 6"x7.5" and I really like the quality for the price.  

One downside to Costco's Christmas cards is that I don't love the stock designs to choose from on their website, but it's not a problem because you can upload your own custom card using their blank template.  

Here's where I come in. :)  

$5 - choose a design from my card gallery and I'll customize it with your family picture(s) and text
or
$15 - custom card design - you choose size, colors, fonts, pictures, and the custom design 

Everything's on a first come, first serve basis.  And I'm only advertising on my blog (maybe Facebook) and by word of mouth.

{Fine print:  Some of my designs have never actually been used, and the others have only been used once.  If you love a card but don't want anyone else to use it, then I will accommodate for the current Christmas season.  I'll also be careful to not having multiple people use the same card in the same season.  Make sense?  And the payment part is easy, you'll just send me a check in the mail or give me cash when you see me, whatever's easiest.  And don't be shy, I really do love to do this as a hobby, so I'd love to do one for your family.}  

Contact me at whitneyhale@gmail.com for more details.    

For my gallery of Christmas cards VIEW HERE or I posted a picture of a few of my designs below.  I'll be adding to my collection as the holiday season goes on, so keep checking back.


3 comments:

Chrissy said...

Your designs are so cute! Good luck, I hope you do really well with this!!

Katie said...

I will definitely be using you. Loving the 6 picture collage and the snowflake middle. Once I decide on pictures...I will let you know which I'd like.
I keep all of our cards too! We love looking back through them when we pull out Christmas decor.

Steph said...

wow, these are so good!! love all your designs!!