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Christmas in July – Christmas Card Templates

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I NEED to be thinking about this. July is half way over. This seems to happen every year. It’s like we go from December to July, and then it’s December again. I am always at a loss for what happens to all of the other months.

Christmas cards take planning and time. There are outfits to coordinate, scheduling of everyone in the family, and you need to book with a photographer in time to get your pictures back for Christmas.

Many photographers now offer an option to purchase a digital file, so that you can design, print and send out your own Christmas cards. All you need is your own card template to use.

As someone who usually ends up sending out her Christmas cards on Christmas Eve, I speak from my heart when I say it is NEVER too early to start thinking of Christmas. Every year I say it will be different, but I don’t think I have EVER got them out early. But YOU can be different, and I will help you. Those who can’t, help those who can.

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Feel free to use this for your own Christmas cards. Photographers feel free to use it for yourself or your clients. Just please do not share or sale the template by itself to anyone. If you would like to share it with your friends, please give them the link to this post.

Mommy and Me Card Templates

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Where was all this cool stuff when my boys were little? I love these and think they are perfect for anyone. I think an even better name for them would be “Contact Cards”. They are perfect for any age really, and you don’t even have to have kids. Give them to your friends at school, coworkers, an old friend you run into in the grocery store (Oh, I am hearing the words to a song…”met an old lover in a grocery store…” – yeah, you might not want to give one out there), or you’re at a family reunion and want to keep in touch with everyone but not write your information down 20 times.

Think you would feel a little weird whipping out a card when it is not really for business? I probably would at first, too, but it is so practical. And if that doesn’t make you feel any better then think about all the trendy moms you would be joining the ranks of in the latest craze. One day everyone will probably be thinking, “Who doesn’t have a contact card?”

These go by many names: mommy and me card, contact card, calling card, or business card (trust me…we all run a business whether we work outside the home or not).

Here are some ideas of what you could include on your card:

name
telephone number
address
e-mail
blog url
facebook url (If you haven’t created your own url yet, be sure to do that.)

I have a couple of files for you to download to make your own.

If you have an image editor that reads psd file, that is probably the best way to download the template

[dm]4[/dm] – Best for people who have an image reader that reads psd files and with a faster internet connection since it is a larger file. The main advantage to this file is that it is a layered file.

[dm]3[/dm] – This file can be used in any image editor. You will just have to have a little working knowledge on how to insert your image and information over mine.

Printing Instructions: To print you will either need to find a lab that prints business card size files or use an actual business card printer. Another option would be to put several on a larger blank image (like an 8×10) and printing it as an 8×10, and then cutting them yourself. This may even be the best option since printing as an actual business card usually involves a certain quantity.