Christmas Cards

[badbeachbuggy]

I've been designing my Christmas cards today as photobox have a buy one get one free offer on until the end of the month. I make up a montage of stuff that's been going on with me and the wife through the year...



...this was last years...

[Mrs Trackside]

What a great idea! I'm always bored by Christmas cards, but I've got a Photobucket account. I'm going to go look into this now.

[lightningghost]

A lot better than the written round robin

"This year we spent a lot of time on our yacht thinking about how much better off we are than you..."

[cvp]

Fantastic idea !

[UKBob]

excellent idea!

Erm... does photobucket print cards (I may have missed the point??) - where can one get cards professionally made/printed?

edit... ahh, photobox!

Edited by UKBob on Monday 23 October 14:12

[GetCarter]

Photobox do

[GetCarter]

bugger

[haze]

Super idea, I have just bought my batch of crimbo cards. Mind you they were charity ones, so purchased for a good cause.

[badbeachbuggy]

You can get charity ones from photobox to your own design

[haze]

badbeachbuggy said:

You can get charity ones from photobox to your own design

Now you tell me! Will remember this info for 2007 Christmas cards.

[nick_bbb]

Another year, another card...

[GetCarter]

Nice!

Got mine delivered today... stunning quality.

[Gemm]

BonusPrint are doing 30% off Photo Cards offer atm. I've ordered their Photo Card before (it was a free offer) and the quality was very good.

http://www.bonusprint.co.uk/pages/30-off_photoCard...

EDIT: Offer ends midnight, 6th November.

Edited by Gemm on Monday 5th November 21:14

[V6GTO]

I like redheads too

Martin.

[M-G]

I was sitting here thinking I must sort out my cards for this year, then remembered that you had produced the montage last year. Thought I'd have a search on the forum, but in the end didn't need to as it was top of the list!

how do you pull it together? using a contact sheet in photoshop or another way?

Cheers
Mark

[nick_bbb]

Manualy in photoshop, I drew a grid of white thin rectangles and put all the photos behind them

[TonyHetherington]

Ah so it's quite a manual process, then?

Looks great though

[GetCarter]

TonyHetherington said:

Ah so it's quite a manual process, then?

Looks great though

I did one of the housebuild... took blimmin ages. Works well at A2 mind

[tim-b]

GetCarter said:

I did one of the housebuild... took blimmin ages. Works well at A2 mind

wow, nice pad. i'd love to build my own house one day! iirc you mentioned it's carbon neutral?

[GetCarter]

tim-b said:

iirc you mentioned it's carbon neutral?

It would be if it wasn't full of tech kit!

It uses sustainable timber (from Lapland), argon filled windows, solar panels, lots of LED lighting, a ground source heat pump and we get our water straight from a river. Eventually I want to add some wind generated power, but technology is a bit rubbish at the moment.

It came in £80k over budget and I aged 80 years getting it built.