Super Simple Holiday E-card

A green solution to a Christmas conundrum for the holiday season is a holiday E-card. This is sure to help check off one more to-do this holiday season. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Kwanza, Hanukkah, winter solstice, or nothing at all this is a card that you can send to your loved ones to let them know you are thinking of them this holiday season.

The time-saving part of this card is that you don’t have to sign it if you don’t want to because you can send it in an email. Hopefully whoever you are sending it to knows what your email is or has you saved in their address book. However, you can also print them out and sign them and send them in the mail or print them out and send them. I prefer to send them in the mail because that is what I normally do, but you do you. Whatever is going to help you this holiday season be a little less stressed is the way to go.

Details

You can even go a little bit further and add some glitter with some Stickles or add something stamped. Another way to personalize this card is to add a picture with your card of the family. I usually do this every year either putting in Santa pictures, school pictures, or just a picture of the family together.

This card is made for 7 X 5 inches but you can print it out on a standard piece of cardstock and put 2 images in your printing settings. Or if you want to be really efficient you could print out 4 from it. Whatever you want to do with the PDF file is up to you. I prefer to use cardstock but you can use photo paper if you want a glossy finish when printing.

If you are using this as a holiday E-card I would use the jpg. image download as it will be easier to send that digitally. If you are going to download it and print it out I would use the PDF format. As this looks the best printed out.

Materials

E-card

• Email

Traditional Card

• Photo paper or Cardstock
• Envelopes
• Family Photo (optional)

Tools

E-Card

• Computer

Traditional Card

• Stickles (optional)
• Pen for Signing (optional)

Steps

E-Card

• Download the jpg. the file provided to you on this post
• Attach the image in your email and along with an optional message to your loved one and send it. If you need more assistance with this please inquire with your email provider.

Traditional Card

• Download the pdf file provided to you in this post.
• Print out the pdf with your pdf reader and preferred settings on either cardstock or photo paper.
• Add your desired details of signing the card, decorating the card, or adding a family photo with the card.
• Put your card in an envelope, address it, add a stamp, and put it in your local mail.

That’s it! A card that can be super simple, to help you be a little less stressed this year. Or if you still want to do a little extra you still can. If you do this holiday E-card make sure to let me know in the comments below or in your favorite social media by tagging @mamaofthedrama. Questions, concerns, or comments are all welcome.

I hope you are staying happy and healthy this season especially with the pandemic still going on. Hopefully, this will help you be a little less stressed during this very unpredictable time and allow you to spread some holiday cheer no matter how far your family or friends are this seasons. If you are going to see family virtually or in-person this can be one less thing you have to worry about.

Until next time…