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Here is the link to the second section if you still need more ideas. Post your own Christmas card photo here.
Happy Holidays!
Our second year married, my husband and I pretended to be asleep in our bed. I took a separate picture of our dog in a Santa costume then, using Photoshop, superimposed him in a thought bubble. The card read, "The Nemecs were nestled, all snug in their bed while visions of Jack danced in their heads."
Last year, our third Christmas together, we made milk mustaches and had a plate of cookies in front of us and were toasting with champagne glasses filled with milk. On a fluke, the dog stuck his tongue in the glass as the camera went off, and the picture was hysterical. It read: "Wishing you a milky white Christmas."
By Melissa
We dressed our new baby in a red hat and red converse hightops and a diaper. We strung Christmas lights and garland around her crib and propped some stuffed animals around her. "Merry Christmas from Our Crib to Yours!"
By Kelly
This year we are using the following Photo. Our card will say:
"Remembering the reason for the season... Happy Birthday Baby Jesus!"
By mom2mybs
Here's ours from last year. We got a file box and wrapped the bottom and top separately. Added some tissue paper and popped our then 6-month-old daughter inside. The rest was pure luck! The expression on both their faces is priceless. We still giggle every time we see this picture.
Here's our first Christmas card Photo last year of our daughter who was 4 months old. I just put it on a Photo card with a Santa that read "HO HO HO".
By Angela
We try to do a unique card every year too. We are a big sports family, so I dressed our oldest son in his football uniform with a Santa Hat, our middle daughter in her soccer uniform with a Santa hat, then our youngest son in his tee-ball uniform with his Santa hat. We sat basketballs, bats, gloves, baseballs, soccerballs all around. The caption was: "Merry Christmas from our HOME TEAM to yours!"
Last year, I took our Santa hats to the beach and had the Kids stand by the surf in their swimsuits. I put it in black and white and colored in the Santa hats. I ended up not using this one because I got an impromptu shot that was better. We went to the mountains to a Christmas Tree farm to choose and cut down our own tree. This was the first time we had ever done that. I took my camera just to document the day and snapped a pic of the kids by our choice of tree. I used the caption "We found the perfect tree. Hope you have a perfect Christmas".
By Lisa from Taylorsville, NC
We did the bubble bath pictures and highlighted the hats and rosied up their cheeks. We typed "wishing you bubbles of fun this holiday season" We got a ton of great feedback!
By Maria
Sometimes you don't know you have the right picture until you look them over later. We had given up on getting our one-year old in a Santa Suit and our dog with reindeer antlers to pose and look at the camera at the same time. We tried everything including props such as a dog treats and a Christmas ornament for him to toss. After over 50 pictures of him pulling the dogs antlers, taking off his hat, falling over, and sobbing we decided to pack it in. The next morning we came across this gem - a little Photo enhancement and Voila!
By Amanda
Last year we had a 3 year old and a new baby of 2 months. I thought posing them in Santa hats would be really cute but somehow it failed. Madeline the 3 year old was mad that she was having to pose and Max the baby was fed up and hungry as well. So, despite all efforts I ended up putting the picture of her pouting and the picture of him screaming together and titled it "Better Not Pout".
This year we took a picture of a neighbor's Nativity Scene and superimposed a picture of our daughter dressed as Mary. The Outside says "It's Christmas". The inside says "Be Mary".
By Kelly
We did the "Santa, I can explain" one.
By Stacey
One of my twins was determined to catch the other under the mistletoe one way or the other!
By Debra from Alabama
We wanted to do something different for our Christmas cards/picture this year. The outcome was "Incredible!" I made the costumes and had a friend (who happens to work for the local newspaper) come over and take the picture in our living room. We cleared out the furniture and just had a fun Photo shoot. Then I used my Photo editing software to add everything else in (and remove my living room wall!)
By The Eastman Family
Cut your heads out in a paint program or Photoshop and paste them into a picture. We then added the Santa hats.
This idea came from one of your readers from a couple of years ago. We placed my grandson in front of the fireplace with his pajamas on. A pair of red velvet "pants" (really only 2 velvet tubes I sewed from left over fabric stuffed with fiberfill) were placed coming from the chimney. We placed old boots on the floor and tucked in the pants.
By peggie
This is the shot I used for my 2003 Christmas picture. On my card I wrote: " He's making a list, and checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice. Santa Claus is coming to town!" I thought it was so cute!
By mysixpack
Last year we used one of the ideas posted here - the silent, peaceful one :)
By Mia
We used the little bakers idea last year. We got so many comments on the card! Thanks for the idea!
By Jen L
One of the cutest Christmas cards we did was take a Photo of my two girls dressed as angels (ages 8 and 10) and my infant son swaddled in a white blanket in a manger so it looked like baby Jesus with the angels looking over him. We just took the Photo at the church in front of the pulpit and used the candle lighter robes for the girls. The church had the manger from the nativity scene. I have gotten so many complements on this and have even been asked for the original so that an a friend could blow the Photo up and use it as decoration during the holidays!
By Nebraska Mom
Here's our card from last year. We had my son, who was 7, reading The Night Before Christmas to his 18 month old twin sisters.
By Amy
Something I did with a little cutting and pasting last year.
By Tim
We've been trying to come up with new ideas for years now. We've done the snowman with the kids' faces in the snowballs, we've done the "Ho Ho Ho" with the faces in the O's. Last year, we set the kids up with some musical instruments in the basement with a white sheet as a background, then cut out the photos and superimposed them on a Photo of a Christmas tree I found on the web (our tree wasn't up yet). The caption read "Have a Rockin' Christmas!"
By Pete
We were not at the beach, but at the library swingset. But we loved this picture of all of our feet in the sand.
By Nichole
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01/09/2012
Christmas 2011
I came up with this idea based on another idea shared on this website. Love this site...I come to it every year to look for ideas.
By
12/21/2011
With two working kids (one in college, one in high school) and many different commitments for all of us, it is very hard to find time for all four of us to get together to pose for a card. So we improvised with a "Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Rock" theme. I think it turned out pretty good and everyone got a great laugh.
By
12/02/2011
Absolutely incredible! I am so inspired now! I love them all!
Bless you and thank you! Robyn
By
11/11/2011
I printed the Merry Christmas off and the most challenging part was to get my youngest to stop running off...
By
11/08/2011
Here's is one from an idea we got off your website - we loved this idea. The kids wore their comfy pajamas and my friend borrowed us his Santa suit. My husband dressed up, I hung some mistletoe and we set up the camera. The kids did their fun little acting and we got a perfect shot. :)
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11/03/2011
Here's another from our family. I still have one more to share and will post it when I can find it. This one is our kids baking. Our youngest was far too busy to pose pretty for a picture, so I took the suggestion from someone on here and let them bake away.
By
10/30/2011
Here is another one from our family. We love A Christmas Story so we made the famous flagpole scene our own.
By
10/30/2011
Our son got a black eye at school a couple days before we were going to do Christmas pictures, so we took advantage of the eye and changed our idea to a jail theme. My husband is a police officer, so we had access to our props and had such a great time with it! You published a picture of ours years ago - the 3 children in the bubble bath, rosied up cheeks and Santa hats - we love this site and try and get ideas from it every year!
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10/04/2011
Our Christmas cards have become very popular over the years and everyone wants to be on our list to see what our annual photo will be, so the pressure is always on us to "out do" the previous year's photograph. In this photograph our oldest son has gift wrapped his little brother to send away to Grandma. We received cheerful calls from all of the grandmas, great-grandmas and everyone wanting to accept the gift on behalf of grandma shortly after the cards were sent out.
By
06/16/2011
We did this last year based on ideas we got from this website. The caption read, "He knows if you've been bad or good, hoping you all made the "Nice" list this year." Thanks for the ideas!
By
06/16/2011
Based on ideas from this website, we did this as our Christmas card last year. People are still talking about it. Thanks for the ideas.
By
12/07/2010
My husband picked up this inexpensive Santa costume at Lowes, we lit a fire, got the baby naked, and started snapping away. Tip, my husband got dressed in the Santa costume in front of our son which I believe helped him be more receptive and comfortable with Santa (Daddy).
By
10/14/2010
I wanted to get a picture of the girls in front of the tree, so I asked my oldest to give her sister a hug, turned out a little rougher than I wanted, but we used it. "Spreading the Holiday Joy, whether you want it or not!" It still makes me laugh!
By
04/07/2010
The inside of the card is done with a newspaper cutout font to look like a ransom card- It says "Dear Santa,
Give me everything on my list or else!"
The Harrison Family
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12/05/2009
I used an idea I saw on this website to create this picture for our 2007 Christmas card. Thanks for the idea!! We made lots of cookies because it took several shots to get it right. To get him to make that facial expression, I asked him what a cow says. When he said moo, we snapped the picture.
By
12/04/2009
We try to do a unique card every year. I have "tweaked" some of the ideas on this site to make them my own. This is the front of our card for this year.
Last year we did the Duct Tape version, only the front of the card was very elegant & read "Silent Night" the inside had the caption "Why yes. Yes, it is" & there were my 3 kids, mouths taped. (They LOVED this one!)
One year we had the kids sitting around plate that read "Cookies for Santa", with a box of raisin's on it. Each of the kids were eating a cookie & there was a note that read "Dear Santa, Thank you for the cookies" but we crossed out cookies and wrote in raisins. (As if they had secided they'd like to eat the cookies, so they left raisins for Santa instead) It was very cute!
By
11/25/2009
We used one of the ideas for our cards last year. The first year we used the mistletoes. Everyone loves to see our cards each year. Now they expect something again this year...still reflecting on that one.
By
11/18/2009
I Spy Card
Everyone loved this card that I made with things we collected over the year, some pictures, and greens that I was using to decorate the house! Couldn't get my kids to smile for a picture but they were so excited to collect things for the picture and help arrange them. Here is the caption:
__ and Dad love to play I Spy, it's true,
So we have decided to play I Spy with you.
We found some toys and things from our travels,
Some baubles, some shells and ribbon that unravels.
Some personal junk that we found in 2008,
'cuz all (family name) collect stuff, about that we can't debate.
If you want to play it's easy to find,
The following things we couldn't leave behind
3 strands of beads that we brought home from New Orleans;
2 toys from Story Land - one, a dog in a pouch and the other, a drum;
A glass bottle that we found on our camping trip in New Hampshire;
favorite train, his cars and a plane;
3 Pet Shop animals;
2 medals - one for soccer one for running;
A prize that we won at the fair for things from our garden;
ticket to Cousin's volleyball game - Go Huskies!
A fossil imprint that we found in Fort Worth, TX;
11 shells and 1 barnacle from the beach in Corpus Christi, TX;
orange spider ring from Halloween;
A pin from the president that we elected;
2 earrings for some newly pierced ears; and
Snow flake ribbon.
Thanks for playing our game, we hope you had fun!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, we wish to everyone!
By
11/05/2009
We have been fortunate to live on the coast around the world for the last 10 yrs, so we always try to incorporate that into our photos. This one is from 2005 in Savannah GA. We just took a shovel, carrot, hat and scarf. We found shells and small twigs on the beach to use to decorate the "sandman". It has been a favorite for years since!
By
08/29/2009
We got a lot of great feedback on this card and Regis Philbin even held it up on the show, Live with Regis and Kelly...said all of their names and read the captions :Santa Hats: $12.00, Red Tape: $4.00, Silent Night: Priceless
By Barb (Guest Post)
01/10/2009
Our last name is Gray and we live on a farm so we took this picture and quoted the Christmas song "Sleigh Ride"...there's a birthday party at the home of Farmer Gray, it'll be the perfect ending of a perfect day.
By bellamome (Guest Post)
12/18/2008
The year our daughter turned 2 we went to Disney before the holidays. Florida can be tricky---80 degrees in the am and then below 50 degrees at night, so during the day you might be wearing shorts and at night you are wearing woolen mittens. We bundled up our daughter from top to bottom with hat, mittens, tights, boots and a big warm furry jacket...needless to say she could barely move. After waddling out of the cabin on our way to a campfire, she scrunched her face & said "I'm done" and that was our picture...with the caption "let it snow, let it snow".
By Mary (Guest Post)
12/14/2008
We had such a hard time taking christmas pictures of our kids this year. My son was tired, and he got mad and tried hitting our little baby. He got into trouble and started crying, and our eldest daughter was just plain frustrated with it all. We didn't take many pictures, but made the most of the pictures that we did have.
On our Christmas card, we put "Hope your Holidays are better than ours"
We had so many responses from our friends and family that they loved it!
By angie (Guest Post)
12/12/2008
I got this idea from a magazine years ago but only tried it last year - I have three kids and took pictures of them posed as the letters for the word PEACE - my 13 year old holding my 3 year old to make a P, all three of them to make an E, etc - we then photoshopped them all on one page to spell out the word. It was so cool and everyone loved it! (And I did not have to worry so much about the perfect expressions as each child was in several letters!)
By Tiffany (Guest Post)
12/12/2008
This is ours for 2008. I made my fiance go to the mall and take a picture with Santa. In the final card I wrote, "Wishing you love this Holiday Season"
By Beth (Guest Post)
12/07/2008
This was our Christmas card for 2007. It didn't take us as long as you might think.First I made the card in black and white then posted the kids in the sleigh from another picture and it was in color...by accident. I then went back and
painted the dogs nose and sweater.
By Lui (Guest Post)
12/03/2008
We often travel to the Caribbean in winter, so one year we brought a Santa hat with us and made a snow man out of sand and items we found on the beach.
By Rebecca (Guest Post)
12/03/2008
The best one I ever did. Had my 2 year old, naked facing the tree, so you just get the "bottom" shot, wearing a Santa hat (too big) and standing on a small wooden chair - pretending to be decorating the tree. I took this in black and white- vintage style w/ the hat colored in tinged red. Picture Caption: The naked truth... Inside, "We love Christmas."
By kelly (Guest Post)
12/02/2008
We used an idea we found on the internet last year -We all dressed in red and put santa hats on the cats with the caption Happy Mistletoes - everyone loved it.
By Jersey Mom (Guest Post)
12/02/2008
I have three kids. The two boys had santa hats on that said Naughty. But then I had the boys cross that out and write" I can explain" and "it was Jon" on their hats. On my third child's hat, a girl it was written"Nice". Then on my new choc lab puppy's hat we wrote "very, very naughty". EVERYONE LOVED IT!
By Lizzie (Guest Post)
12/01/2008
Here is yet another idea for a christmas card cover. Include the family pet!
By Lizzie (Guest Post)
12/01/2008
Here is another idea. Put your new baby under the tree in a stocking!
By Gail (Guest Post)
11/26/2008
My boys, ages 1 and 2, only cried at the photo session. Every picture is quite shocking. I'm too traumatized to think of a humorous, pithy greeting to accompany our bundles of, er, joy, screaming their fool heads off for the camera. Any ideas?
By Wendy R. CA (Guest Post)
11/25/2008
Lots of fun ideas at our home. We've done the "got eggnog" photo (frosting works better for the photo) and the 007 theme as we transitioned to 2007. We dressed in James Bond spy attire. This was a huge hit! We even used the Verizon "Can you hear me now?" with my boys on cell phones and Santa on a cell phone too! One year the front of our card said something like, Eggnog $2.95, Gasoline $3, Round trip airfare $400. On the inside it had a photo of our boys hugging and said, "Brotherly Love - PRICELESS." We've taken a photo of my husband & I under the mistletoe kissing & the caption said, "what happens under the mistletoe- stays under the mistletoe." I still haven't had a good idea for '08 - but we love commercial themes as you can tell.
By Katie (Guest Post)
11/22/2008
Last year we took a picture of each of our three children in their favorite sports/hobby gear. There were three separate pictures: a dancer, a cheerleader and a hockey player. Each child held a different card: Merry Christmas and 2007. It was a great way to celebrate their individuality.
By Jen C. (Guest Post)
11/19/2008
Last year I was very pregnant at Christmas with our first son. It was common knowledge to all who knew us that I had been on bed rest since Halloween. My husband and I set up the camera to take a picture of us laying in bed, me in pajamas holding the remote. Our caption said "Happy Holiday's from our bed-rest to yours!" We also added a recent ultrasound picture! Everyone loved it!
By
11/17/2007
The year before that we took pairs of adult size jeans, stuffed them with filling, safety pinned rubber boots to the end of them, then posed my two girls infront of the Christmas tree laying down on their bellies. We just put the fake legs on top of theirs and pulled the feet over their shoulders to look like their legs were twisted over their shoulders. It was hilarious, and on the inside of the card we wrote Merry "Twistmas". You couldn't see their own legs and you wouldn't believe the people that asked us how they did that(like it was their real legs twisted over their shoulders!)
The year before that we wrapped large boxes in colorful wrap, cut a hole in the top just large enough for the girl's heads and cut out the bottom. They simply "put their boxes on" and we put a large bow on top of their heads, posed them in front of the tree and it was a cute and fun Christmas photo.
Lori in Mississippi
Another year we took a normal photo but had billy bob teeth in and did a quote about smiling. A different year, we used green ink and made a handprint tree, using the baby's handprint as the top and the adults as the bottom (the prints have to face outwards and each person does the opposite hand for the sides of the tree except the person on top) we also printed our cat's under the tree, it was really nice.
Good luck, we may try a twisted version of your twisted idea this year (we have to incorporate 19 people!)
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By Lisa
Another year, they circled around a scrawny evergreen tree out in a field (A Charlie Brown tree) we put one ornament on the tree.
Another year they all dressed like old fashioned Christmas carolers. We took the photo outside with them holding music and candles, singing "Oh" of course.
All these were done in black and white or sepia toned. (12/03/2004)
By Kathy
When he was little we did a black and white photo at a tree farm with him peeking out from behind a tree with his Santa hat on. This would be cute to stack family members behind a tree. For this year I still hope to get a hold of a small Santa costume for our son so we can sit on his lap. Thanks for the fun ideas!
By Shelley
By Cathy
I stuffed some red pants and put them into some black boots. I stood this up inside the fireplace and dressed my son in red pajamas, had him stand beside the fireplace with his hands on his face like the "Home Alone" kid. This won 2nd place in a local Chirstmas photo contest.
My husband wore his Santa suit in the background with my son and our cat in the forefront. My son was eating a cookie and our cat was drinking milk from a mug with a sign reading, "Dear Santa, these cookies & milk are just for you!" This won third place.
My son held mistletoe over his head while his twin sisters kissed him on each cheek simultaneously. This won honorable mention.
I bought the wooden letters "J" "O" "Y" painted them white and had each child hold one to spell "JOY". I took each child's picture individually so they would show up better and printed them on the computer on to cardstock in black and white. I attached this to red paper then put this on white cardstock and then wrapped red gingham ribbon around the bottom and put "Heavenly Joy" on the front as well. Then I put the bible verse Luke 2:10 on the inside.
Hope some of these might help.
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We've stuck tongues on metal poles (AKA Christmas Story) and used: "We double-dog dare you to have a good Christmas."
I've made fake police mug shots from the North Pole Police Department: "It would be a crime for you to have a bad Christmas."
One year I dressed up in a fancy apron and Santa hat, and held a big spoon over a bowl. "Not a creature was stirring?" (11/17/2005)
By Amy in NC
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By Laura
Another time I dressed the two kids up as elves working on the naughty and nice lists. I put them at a table with the sign "Santa's Workshop" behind it. The caption read "Have yoursElves a merry little Christmas" in a playful font.
The year we moved we had the kids (ages 6 and 4) stand in front of the fireplace each holding a sign that they wrote. The little one's said "Atenshen Santa" and the older one's said "Our chimny has moved." (What made this so cute is that I told them what to write, but they did the spelling on their own!) Inside the card I put our new address, so the holiday card was also our change of address notification. Everyone loved it.
The year we got the best feedback, however, was when we had professional portraits taken at the beach. There happened to be one photo of the two kids looking down at a starfish in the dunes. I printed the following Christina Rosetti poem on vellum and put it on top of the photo with a ribbon holding the two things together at the top. The poem: Love came down at Christmas...love all lovely, love divine. Love came down at Chrismas...star and angels gave the sign.
Hope these ideas help!
By Sharon from PA
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Another was the mother dressed as Santa going down a backyard barb-a-que fireplace with the kids sleeping with milk in front of a fire. Both photos were merged in photoshop.
Last year we sent out a photo of myself, my wife and 27 year-old daughter with Santa hats, a live camel with Santa hat and a camel driver in front of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
Another of the neighbor's was "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", two kids looking suprised as real mommy was kissing Daddy in a Santa suit in front of the tree.
By Lynn from Wisconsin
Their last name is Byrd. She took a picture of her 4 girls with phones at the ears. Caption: "Four calling Byrds"
She took pictures of her girls in a cotton field with caption: "Have a cotton pickin' Christmas."
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Editor's Note: Most Christmas lights are made with lead and have warnings about keeing children away from the cords. Be sure that you have lead free lights before trying this tip.
By Karla
I've had my baby in a decorated gift box in a Santa Suit in front of the fireplace--very cute. I've also had my baby lay on a blue sheet with cottonball clouds. I laid some handmade glittery wings down on this sheet, peeled him down to his diaper, and laid him on top of the "wings" to be a little angel--very cute.
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One year, we did the manger scene with everyone dressed up in the part.
I think the cutest one was when they were little and looking through the glass of a Christmas display & catching their expressions. My youngest at the time was about 2 & he was actually licking the glass (yuk!), abut was so cute.
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Another time we put all of them outside holding the plastic candy canes. they all looked adorable!
Another is when my nephew was 2 he loved candy canes. there was a house next door that had a light up dandy cane so one night we took him over and told him to lick the candy cane and he did! they snapped the picture and it was so cute!
Someone i knew had everyone with duck tape on their mouths with the caption silent night (11/29/2006)
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