{"id":9954,"date":"2009-12-10T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/tips-and-ideas-to-create-your-own-christmas-cards\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:17:58","slug":"tips-and-ideas-to-create-your-own-christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tips-and-ideas-to-create-your-own-christmas-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips and ideas to create your own Christmas cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is one of the best-selling seasons for holiday card manufacturers. However I still prefer handmade cards: they&#8217;re cheaper, you have fun while creating them and they imply a personal effort \u2013 which is always better than a standard card you can buy at the nearest mall.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to be a computer whiz or have highly artistic skills to <strong>create your own customized Christmas cards<\/strong>. Some basic Photoshop knowledge is more than enough to come up with a nice, unique design. You could start by a simple <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-add-a-snow-effect-to-text-in-photoshop\/\">text-based card with an original snow effect<\/a> on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/12\/snowtext-09.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/12\/snowtext-09.png\" alt=\"Tips and ideas to create your own Christmas cards\" height=\"206\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you feel more daring, you could try to <strong>design a Christmas card in Photoshop<\/strong>. We&#8217;ve published a couple of tutorials on the blog to help you out. The first one is the easiest: a simple question of taking advantage of Photoshop&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-create-a-christmas-card-in-photoshop\/\">custom shape brushes<\/a> (a tree and some snowflakes) and repeating them on different layers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/12\/xmas-card-04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/12\/xmas-card-04.jpg\" alt=\"Tips and ideas to create your own Christmas cards\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second one is a bit more difficult, but looks great. Create a <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-create-a-christmas-card-in-photoshop-2\/\">tree made of stars<\/a> and add your personal message to it! It may take a bit longer, but it&#8217;s worth the effort. Just think about the face of the card&#8217;s recipient when they get something created by you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/12\/card09.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/12\/card09.png\" alt=\"Tips and ideas to create your own Christmas cards\" height=\"307\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, don&#8217;t forget the internet is full of resources to create your own Christmas card.\u00a0 A quick look at <a href=\"http:\/\/browse.deviantart.com\/?qh=&amp;section=&amp;q=%93Christmas+icons%94+by+sniffels.#catpath=customization&amp;order=9&amp;q=christmas\">DeviantArt<\/a>, for example, will reveal dozens of wallpapers, icons and other eyecandy to easily make your custom cards more attractive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is one of the best-selling seasons for holiday card manufacturers. However I still prefer handmade cards: they&#8217;re cheaper, you have fun while creating them and they imply a personal effort \u2013 which is always better than a standard card you can buy at the nearest mall. You don&#8217;t need to be a computer whiz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tips-and-ideas-to-create-your-own-christmas-cards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tips and ideas to create your own Christmas cards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2683],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-9954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionideas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335235,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions\/335235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}