Things You'll Need:
- camera
- online photo account such as Kodak Gallery or Shutterfly
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Step 1
Consider choosing a family photo that's already been taken during the year to send out with your holiday cards this year. Beach pictures, Halloween costume photos, or a family picture from an event such as a birthday party or wedding may end up being the perfect shot for a holiday card. Look through your photo files!
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Step 2
Select a holiday card format. Websites like Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery and others offer photo cards that simply need you to choose a photo to include. These holiday photo cards often have different color and style formats, so if you choose a card you like, it will be easier to select a family photo to match.
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Step 3
Condier the environment. Save paper and stamp money this year by creating a simple Christmas e-card. E-cards can be sent to all your family and friends for whom you have email addresses, and can include a family photograph. Put your kids together in matching Christmas pajamas and Santa hats for a cool, casual shot to include on your e-card. Hallmark’s website has a lot of great e-card choices. When you have to use paper cards, look for Christmas cards that are made from recycled paper.
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Step 4
Choose the unusual! One really unique, fun idea is a bathtime photo with kids. Line up your young kids in a big bathtub (this is perfect if you have a clawfoot tub) filled to overflowing with bubbles. Have the kids wearing Santa hats and make “mustaches and beards” out of bubbles. If the kids are lined up peeking out over the edge of the tub in their Santa ‘outfits’ it makes a really clever holiday photo!
