Showing posts with label printers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label printers. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 November 2008

The Christmas Preparations Begin

Well, today the preparations for christmas have begun for me. I've spent all this afternoon designing our christmas cards. I've taken some photos of Chili and put a santa hat on him in photoshop (because he's not a hat cat and there was no chance of me getting him to actually pose with a hat on! believe me I've tried in the past!). The plan was to then get these printed by one of the number of photo printer/product websites and here are the few I would recommend from past usage.

1. Photobox - this is a great site that I've used for many years. The prints are always of fantastic quality (as long as the pictures you upload to it are of course) and they have an ever expanding range of photo products, including, very reasonably priced photo books, canvas prints, postcards, greetings cards, calendars and diaries and even clothing and home items like cushions.

2. My new favourite is MOO.com. Moo are a fabulous little creative printing company and it was their mini photo cards that initially captured my attention earlier this year. They also have a quickly growing range of photo products: Mini cards (and accessories such as card holders & now the brilliant mini card photoframes, Business cards, Christmas & Holiday cards, Stickers, Postcards, and Notecards. I've always been really impressed with their service. I love their friendly email messages and the fact that they offer some off the shelf designs that are wonderful in themselves.

After checking out both sites I went with Moo for the printing of our christmas cards and I can't wait for them to arrive.

I really like to design my own christmas cards. I used to hand make them when I had more time but It got a little crazy when I was actually having to start making cards in July/August due to the every growing number of people in my life so this year I thought I'd use some my photography instead. I don't know why I didn't think of it before really. I did a photoshoot last weekend for my work collegue and took some pictures of her 2 year old son for the purpose of making christmas cards from and it gave me the idea to do my own.

Here is one of the 4 designs I've gone for... I'll not show them all or you won't get a surprise when you open my cards otherwise!