Locally Printed Holiday Cards

Let Your Personality Shine Through and Make It Personal

When it comes to holiday cards, shopping local isn’t only good for your community, it can provide you with unique, personalized communications that will be treasured and shared.

Print shops may not be the first place you think of when you think shop local, and yet, these are businesses that hire creative designers and can provide personalized service. Many of them will even deliver your cards once they are done.

Likewise, local art galleries are also a source for unique cards or art that you can combine with your holiday letters.

Design your Own

Creative souls may want to design their own holiday cards. With online templates, it can be easy to do. You can pull from a variety of public clip art, your own art or purchase designs from local artists and create a card that is unique to you and your family.

However, printing off 50 of those colorful cards from your home printer can cost a fortune in ink cartridges. It also leaves you with a lot of folding and collating. It’s why you can turn to local print shops. An advantage to being able to personally deliver a card and talk to someone about what you want is that they might be able to make suggestions to help you achieve the exact look that you want.

Addy Fulmer of TPI Solutions, a print shop in Massachusetts, encourages people to shop local and print local, and they network with other local, small businesses who can also provide specialty cards or stationery.

“If you have an idea for your holiday card, we can make it happen,” she wrote. “We can design it, print it and even mail it if you so desire.”

It’s an offer you’re likely to find from any of your local print shops.

Photos

Perhaps you want to send out a photo postcard. Consider hiring a local photographer to capture your family in several different fun holiday poses wearing matching outfits or silly hats. Once you have the photos, you can design your own card or take them in to a print shop and ask them to put them together in a lovely design.

Customized Items

Another bonus to having your holiday cards designed by a local shop is that you can turn to them for other customized goods. Ask them to make you matching gift tags or wrapping paper. Maybe you want notecards that you can use throughout the year or blank thank-you notes to use after the holidays are over.

The sky is the limit when you call upon the talents of your local print businesses