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10:05 pm Posted by Kristy |
This holiday season, you may find yourself walking a fine line between enjoyment and stress when choosing your holiday cards. With so many sources to check out and even more designs to choose from, it helps to have the exact photos you would like to use in mind before you start shopping online holiday cards.
Holiday Card Design Options
Non-photo Holiday Card Design First you’ll need to decide whether or not you want to personalize a card design with one of your own photos. You may decide to use a non-photo holiday card and simply include a photo enclosed in the envelope. This strategy works especially well when you want to send different photos to different people on your list, or when you have multiple photos to send.
 Got Mistletoe by Susan Cahill |
 Holiday Picture Message by Lauren DiColli Hooke |
Multi-Photo Holiday Card Designs If you can’t decide on one photo in particular, many card designs allow for such “collages” as part of their design. You may choose to go this route if you have a large family and don’t have a single great photo of everyone together, if you don’t particularly love any one of your photos, or if you want to share an image along with a family photo (e.g. such as a new house, a new baby, a new pet or a recent vacation!)
 Poinsettia Christmas by Simon + Kabuki |
 Pine Cones Are Fun by Linda Facci |
Single Photo Holiday Card Designs When you have a high quality photo you want to share, a single image photo card can have a wonderful impact. In this case, you’ll need to choose between a design that gives either full-scale coverage to your photo, or a design that incorporates the photo into other design elements.
Full-scale coverage photo card design:
 Merry Christmas Scrolls by Simon+Kabuki |
 Christmas Even by Vita Mechachonis |
Photo incorporated into photo card design:
 String Lights by Genevieve Gail |
 Ornate Holiday by Linda Facci |
To find some great choices for photo-friendly holiday card designs,browse the huge selection of designs at www.LookLoveSend.com. Their collection includes non-photo cards as well as a wide variety of options for photo cards, and personalization is easy to do online. You can customize your message as well as your photo, and when you order more than 50 cards, shipping is free!
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8 Nov |
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12:42 pm Posted by Kristy |
Do you know someone with the tendency to turn a very special day into an “event,” or worse, a theatrical spectacular? Know anyone who wished their wedding invitation could be made into a commercial or put on the cover of People magazine?
Certainly most people who bothered to blog or tweet about Kim Kardashian’s divorce felt this way about the October 9-10 aptly named E! network television show, “Kim’s Fairytale Wedding.” They chalked up the quick divorce as no surprise. Most felt it was an expected ending to the perceived money-chasing, ratings-driven, unscrupulous business opportunity that was hyped for Kingdom Kardashian.
Many of us probably privately felt that while we would never ourselves engage in this level of opulence and manship, we all probably knew someone personally who, if able, would.
Psychology experts seem to agree that a general cultural phenomenon is increasingly responsible for driving divorces like Kim’s and Kris’s: a narcissistic culture where individuals do not successfully make the transition from “me” to “we” when it comes time to marry. Covered in a recent CNN article Narcissists Want Weddings Not Marriage, experts and psychologists claim that America’s “cultural obsession” with weddings is on ample display with popular shows like Say Yes to the Dress and Bridezillas.
But not to diminish the importance and scope of planning that a wedding deserves, consulting psychologist Stephen Fabick acknowledges in the CNN article, “The wedding is, on the one hand, a healthy way of making a public commitment to each other and acknowledging that you’re part of a web of family and friends that helps to nourish the relationship.” On the other hand, he continues, “it preps like a cancer, where the focus is on the show and not the long-term or reality of the relationship.”
The more you can remember the ultimate meaning of the day the better. Work through your decisions for each and every element–from which photo to use in your save the date cards to the car you’ll drive away in–knowing that it’s not a show, but rather an celebration of “we.”
Stay tuned later this week for Part II of Keep It Real for specific ways to keep wedding planning focused on your relationship rather than the event. Get inspired today by some of the lovely wedding invitation messages available through www.looklovesend.com. You’ll find an extensive selection of wedding invitations complete with coordinating save the date cards and ceremony programs in variety of styles. If you are planning a wedding for 2012, enter the 2012 Wedding Invitation Sweepstakes for the chance to win a complete wedding invitation suite valued up to $1500.
