Family Christmas cards are the very family oriented Christmas cards that families often send to one another, and to relatives of their own families. Family Christmas cards are often personalized with photos of the family or of the child or children, and also may include personalized notes and memos about the various members of the family. Because these Christmas cards are very family oriented, you will not find them being sent among casual friends, or to business associates. Family Christmas cards are a joy to create and personalize, and are almost always treasured by the chosen recipients.
You may be wondering how to design your family Christmas cards. Let's begin with choosing the basic theme. If you have young children, perhaps you could have them pitch in with the creation of the Christmas cards by asking them to draw a specific picture, perhaps on a certain part of the card. Stick with traditional Christmas card colors: red and green, silver and red, gold and green, blue and silver, etc., but dress the theme of the family Christmas cards up with special decorations and drawings added by your children. Another popular idea for family Christmas cards is to add a photo!
Many family Christmas cards have photos of the child or children in the family added to them. A popular type of photo to use is one of the children in a Christmas setting, such as a photo with Santa, or a photo of the children holding presents or sitting under the Christmas tree. If you do want to use a photo for your family Christmas cards, remember this guideline: if your photo is busy, with colors and/or props and/or the individuals in the photo, then choose a very simplistic style of Christmas card to complement it. On the other hand, if the photo you'll use on your family Christmas cards is a very simplistic and bare, then use a decorative, lavish card to stylize it.
Ideally, you should mail your family Christmas cards six to eight weeks before December 25th. This ensures that barring any mail errors, or worse yet, lost mail, your cards are in the hands of beloved family members and friends a few weeks before Christmas. If you are going to be mailing any of your family Christmas cards overseas, or even to Canada, then you may want to mail those cards out two to three weeks earlier.