Comments on: Create Your Own Christmas Card Database: Tutorial

By: Cindy Q

Cindy Q — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:44:09 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I like that it was step by step and so simple. By the way, I choose to handwrite a sentiment inside the card to make it personal. Merry Christmas!

By: Darvin @ Recycling Christmas Card

Darvin @ Recycling Christmas Card — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:48:44 +0000

I'm a big Excel person, so I know how helpful it can be in keeping track of and simplifying things. I never thought to use it to track my Christmas card database though. Great idea! Thanks. .-= Darvin @ Recycling Christmas Card´s last blog ..Christmas Card Crafts =-.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:41:08 +0000

Thank you for the reply, Corrie. I like your suggestion since it’s still really hard for me to throw photos away…..but I don’t like clutter either! I don’t scrapbook, but I’m sure I could manage to put together a couple of pages of an album. My kids are teenagers now so I don’t exchange photos with friends as much. As I’m busy running kids everywhere and running a business, I’m trying to simplify my life as much as possible, hence the ecards .

By: Corrie @ "Cents"able Momma

Corrie @ "Cents"able Momma — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:07:47 +0000

That’s great, Jennifer! I’m sure your friends appreciate that .

By: Corrie @ "Cents"able Momma

Corrie @ "Cents"able Momma — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:07:14 +0000

I usually make a 2-page scrapbook page with all the pictures that I’ve received that year. I’ll cut the pictures down so they all fit.

It can be tough to throw them away, but understandable. If you’re not doing anything with them, they just create clutter. I don’t expect people to keep the picture I send out of my boys .

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:55:50 +0000

To be honest I don’t send many Christmas cards any more. Only to a few older relatives who don’t use computers and would miss getting a card. For everybody else, I keep in touch through email and Facebook throughout the year anyway, so I just sent e cards.
I’m never really sure what to do with pictures of other people’s kids…..I’m not going to frame them or pt them in an album so should I keep them ( and never look at them again). It seems rude but most practical to toss them after I’ve looked at them. Any suggestions?

By: Jennifer Moore

Jennifer Moore — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:55:02 +0000

I do 130 Christmas cards every year and I hand-write every envelope and sign every card. I think if my friend doesn’t have 2 minutes to address a card & sign it, that is so tacky! I do work F/T, so I make the time to do all 130 cards. I pop in a movie or two and listen to it while I do my cards… I also use Christmas postage stamps, use holiday themed return address labels and add stickers to the envelopes… and a red ink pen. The process take about 4 days (a couple hours each day), but I love the way they look afterward and I know my friends appreciate the time I took on them.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:07:38 +0000

WOW- I am so impressed. The thing I love about these blogs is that I am finding out I am not the only anal one in the world. I have been using this format for many years and it is the BEST! Im so impressed that you shared step by step for everyone. What a great gift. .-= Mindy´s last blog ..Road Trip- Part 3 =-.