{"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":"

Christmas is one of the best-selling seasons for holiday card manufacturers. However I still prefer handmade cards: they’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

You don’t need to be a computer whiz or have highly artistic skills to 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 text-based card with an original snow effect<\/a> on it.<\/p>\n

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If you feel more daring, you could try to design a Christmas card in Photoshop<\/strong>. We’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’s custom shape brushes<\/a> (a tree and some snowflakes) and repeating them on different layers.<\/p>\n

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The second one is a bit more difficult, but looks great. Create a tree made of stars<\/a> and add your personal message to it! It may take a bit longer, but it’s worth the effort. Just think about the face of the card’s recipient when they get something created by you.<\/p>\n

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Finally, don’t forget the internet is full of resources to create your own Christmas card.\u00a0 A quick look at 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":"

Christmas is one of the best-selling seasons for holiday card manufacturers. However I still prefer handmade cards: they’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’t need to be a computer whiz … Continue reading “Tips and ideas to create your own Christmas cards”<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t