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Photo Insert Christmas Cards – Great Ideas You Could Use This Year
With photo insert Christmas cards we can personalize our cards with memorable images and at the same time be extremely original. Here are a few ideas for you to use this year.
- Went on holidays, took photographs and placed them inside the draw? Those forgotten pictures will serve you very well this Christmas. Choose your favorite ones, cut them accordingly, place them on your photo insert Christmas card neatly, write a fantastic message and you will have your friends and family smiling.
- Make your own from scratch. Buy some nice colored cardboard, ask your children to draw their favorite Christmas themed pictures, stick some glitter around the edges, place an image of the whole family and your card is ready to go.
- Ask your children to recreate a scene of their favorite Christmas film. Take lots of photos so you will have a nice range to choose from. Upload them to your computer, retouch them if you have the skills and print them out (if the quality of your printer is not very good, take them to a professional printing place).
- Think of funny situations that will make your family laugh this Christmas. Photo insert cards are easy to find but they are not worth much if the photo you add inside is dull. Maybe the family pet with a Santa hat on, or a picture of your kids after they have eaten chocolate fudge cake!
- When the family lives far away a photo insert Christmas card can be really convenient. If they have not had the time to visit you, you can use the insert cards to show them where you live and your surroundings.
- 3D Christmas cards will give the wow factor to anyone who receives them. A good idea would be to cut out small pictures of your family and glue them to different parts of the card. A photo insert with double surprise!
- With Photoshop you can create backgrounds, add fake “make-up” and props, change tonal ranges and turn black and white pictures into color ones and vice-versa. If your family has seen all your pictures before, if is for sure they have not seen these new versions you are going to create for them this Christmas!
The beauty of photo insert Christmas cards is that you are free to embellish them as you see fit for each one of your family members, colleagues and friends! Hope you have fun!
10 Fun Photo Christmas Card Ideas For Your Family Holiday Greeting
What are you going to do to make this year’s photo Christmas cards really stand out?
Scavenger Hunts – How to Find Fun Ideas For a Photo Scavenger Hunt
Photo scavenger hunts can be a great way to get party-goers actively involved in having fun. If you are planning a party for teens or adults, there are many possibilities for coming up with some neat ideas for photos you will have your scavenger hunt participants taking.
If you’ve never participated in a photo scavenger hunt before, let me explain how it works. Unlike most scavenger hunts where you bring back physical things that you’ve had to find, with a photo hunt, you just have to bring back a picture. Nowadays, most people will have a digital camera, even if it is just on their phone, so it makes the game easy for everyone to play.
This can change the traditional scavenger hunt game quite a bit. For example, you don’t have to send your groups out to photograph different objects they need to find. You can instead have them photograph themselves doing different tasks.
For a bit of retro fun, set each group up with a single Polaroid camera. Since Polaroid film is a bit expensive, you can make thriftiness part of the game, and it will also help keep the game short and fun. Make one of the rules that only a single packet of Polaroid film can be used by each group. So that would be 10 totals photo.
Planning the Photo Scavenger Hunt List
This is where the fun comes in. You should feel free to mix things up a bit. Make a list of tasks that can be done indoors and then some that can be done outdoors. Be sure to pick a couple of challenging locations too. And naturally, most of the stuff on your list should probably be a bit silly. Or if you are having a bachelorette party, you could try for a little risque.
If you find yourself stumped for ideas, think about the kinds of games you played as a kid that were physical and that would probably be pretty funny (and possibly embarrassing!) to do as an adult.
Here’s a short list:
Charades Statues Pillow Fights Light as a Feather
Then you task your party-goers with specific instructions based on these games. They go out and play them and bring back photographic proof! For example, have them prove that the party levitation trick (Light as a feather) actually works. Or tell everyone to go out and play Statues as specific types of statues (comic book characters, American presidents, etc). Or have everyone come up with a phrase for charades and then each person has to be photographed doing a different word in the phrase.