If you're like me and can't afford to spend $75 for 35 cards at Tinyprints, this is how you create something similar for half the price and almost twice the cards.
Resources:
~PicMonkey - free picture editor
~Google Drive - free with Google or Gmail account
~Costco - yearly membership fee
1. Upload a picture to PicMonkey and play around with the tools until you get the desired effect. I wanted something a little vintage, a little weathered. You then save the newly altered photo to a folder on your computer. Easy enough.
2. Open up your Google Drive and create a "Presentation." This allows you to easily paste a photo as a background and add text on top of the photo. Google has hundreds of font options to choose from, so I felt I had a more personalized experience, given that I could manipulate the size, style, and color of text in any number of ways, which you cannot do when you choose a card already designed.
3. Save this one slide presentation as a .pdf in a file on your computer.
4. Go to the Costco Photo website and choose the Holiday Card option which allows you to upload your own photo. I got 50 cards for $35 with rounded corners for free (this is an add-on on other websites) and our return address printed on the envelope - for free. (Also an add-on on other websites.)
And this is how you create your own Christmas card for half the price.
