I love getting photo Christmas cards, but even though digital photography has made holiday photo card preparation less of a guessing game, I keep hearing hair-raising tales about taking pictures of your kids for this annual display of joy and perfection.
It seems if your children are young, it’s hard to find a season when at least one of them isn’t sick and/or looking sickly. The older and busier they get, the harder it is to schedule a photo shooting session when everyone can be there at the same time. The tension and pressure on these photo dates can leave some looking grim and others shedding tears.
Not to mention the scenic preparations. Not only do your kids have to look all bright and blissful, but the background has to look like Wonderland. Do you knock yourself out cleaning and staging your household photo background for “the Christmas card photo date?” Or, do you pray that on the date you’ve set for your outdoor shoot, the sun and wind and flora will cooperate?
Designs like #F19DW, Straight Up Pink
Christmas Photo Card, allow you to upload 3 individual photos of your kids.
Ready for the solution? Here it is – don’t rely on a perfect single photo of the whole group all together. Instead, choose photo Christmas cards that allow you to upload two or three photos, each to its own separate space on the front of the card! How simple is that?!
Now you can go back and zoom in to that great picture of little Billy with the missing-tooth-grin on his first day of back-to-school; you can show your glowing little ballerina posed for her winter recital; and you can show your new high school grad in the famous cap and gown. This plan allows you to show each youngster at their best and projecting their own unique personality. As a bonus, these pictures tell a story about your family’s activities over the past year, perhaps saving you from having to compose the dreaded “Holiday Letter”.