STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD AND SEND PERSONALIZED CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS
This year, turn your favorite family photo into a cherished keepsake that can decorate a loved one’s tree for years to come. Christmas card ornaments stand out from the pile of ordinary holiday cards with unique shapes and designs that glow up the season.
Personalize your Christmas ornaments with your pictures. Minted's selection of Christmas photo ornaments are designed exclusively for Minted by our community of independent artists. Each Minted’s Christmas card you order will come packaged with a luxe 10-inch-long ribbon that your friends and family can use to transform the holiday card into a hanging decoration for their tree, wreath or other display. Whether you want your card featured on the Christmas mantle or Christmas tree, our Christmas ornament cards have got you covered.
You could fill a Christmas stocking with all the reasons why personalized paper Christmas ornament cards are a great idea for your holiday correspondence. First off, you are essentially sending two gifts in one with a Christmas card ornament. Your warm holiday wish comes through in the form of a greeting card, and then that note doubles as a unique Christmas ornament that can be draped on a tree. With paper Christmas ornament cards, you don’t have to worry about expensive glass baubles falling off the tree and shattering on the floor. Because the ornament is flat, there is more surface area for all the custom details you crave, like a photo, personalized family name and a greeting of your choice. Minted’s Holiday photo ornaments are printed on hearty paper stock to ensure that they last for future tree decorations that continue to delight, year after year. How many of your past holiday cards do you think your friends and family have saved for future Christmases? Fusing Christmas cards with ornaments is a great way to level up your season’s greetings.
Hanging ornaments together as a family is one of the most memorable activities when it comes to holiday decorating. With the right ornaments, you can turn ordinary trees into personalized works of art. Just think of your photo Christmas ornament bringing a little extra joy to the tree-trimming experience for your loved ones. You can order as few as 15 Christmas ornament cards, in case you want to send them exclusively to your closest family and friends so that they can have uniquely personalized decorations for the tree.
HOW TO CREATE PERSONALIZED CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS WITH YOUR PHOTO
Minted provides a number of options for personalizing your photo ornaments so they match your vision for the holiday décor your loved ones will admire. From paper quality and coloring to ornament shape and theme, take a look at some of the design levers you can pull for photo ornaments that rock.
- Select a Shape: Our ornaments are all sized at 5.25” x 5.25” and include a custom square envelope they can be mailed in. Filter through over 75 different designs and then tweak the design further by adjusting the exterior shape to have a scalloped, rounded, floral, or snowflake edge. A preview screen on our site allows you to toggle between the ornament shapes to quickly see how your design looks in each style.
- Select a Color Theme: See a design you like, but wish it came in a different color? We have various color schemes for each design that pairs nicely with the theme. Easily see what your ornament card looks like in colors like berry, peppermint, almond, snow, winter forest, sugar plum, and so many more.
- Photo vs No-Photo: An ornament is intended to draw your attention to it as it hangs on the limbs of a Christmas tree. Both our photo and non-photo ornament cards have beautiful designs that will make them stand out on the tree. Whether you choose to highlight one family photo or piece together a collage of many photos, we provide design templates for each.
- Customize Your Greeting: Choose between assorted holiday, Christmas, New Year, or religious greetings. Popular greetings include, “Merry Christmas”, “Joy”, “Happy Holidays”, “Peace on Earth”, and “Cheer”. Don’t like any of them? Use your own! Edit the font size and styling to insure your entire message fits on the card.
- Back of the Ornament: A paper Christmas ornament has two sides and we let you customize both! On the back of the ornament you can opt to have plain white, a solid color, or a holiday pattern. In addition to the color selection, choose to add custom text or even an additional photo. Because both the front and back are customizable, you have plenty of options where your photos, family name, and holiday greeting will appear. Minted also offer a free personal website for you to create and share through a QR code at the back of the card.
- Paper Options: Minted prides ourselves on the premium paper stock we offer our customers. A premium paper insures the ink colors and photo clarity remain at maximum quality. You may want to consider our pearlescent paper for your ornament Christmas card, as it will have a slight gloss and shimmer that will pair nicely with the glow of Christmas lights reflecting off the paper. Other paper options we offer include a 100% recycled paper option or a fine cotton-textured stock. The choice is yours.
- Add Custom Foil: Make your holiday greeting or family name shine by adding custom gold foil text to almost every design we offer. Select designs will also feature other elements of the card that are printed with gold foil, silver foil, rose gold foil, or even glitter foil. We even have red and green foil to make the season merrier. After all, what kind of ornament doesn’t have some sort of element of glitter or shine to it!
Each Minted’s ornament card design includes a small hole punched in the top of the card. This way your recipient can transform the card into a Christmas ornament by stringing the 10-inch-long ribbon (included in the envelope) through the hole punch. Then they can simply hang the card on a tree limb, door handle, wreath or above the fireplace next to the stockings.
WE MAKE IT EASY TO SEND
Once your design is complete, Minted is here to make sure sending out your Christmas card ornaments is as pain-free as possible. Each personalized ornament order comes paired with a custom square envelope that will fit the ornament and ribbon snuggly. If you want to jazz up the envelope, we can assist you there as well. Choose your envelope color from a list of options, and you can even opt for envelope insert liners that are patterned to match the design of your photo ornaments.
We know that hand-addressing each envelope can be a pain — and if you have mediocre penmanship, it can even make your holiday card look less professional. Take advantage of our free recipient addressing service and we will custom print addresses right onto each envelope for you! We even provide over 100 design options to choose from on how you want the addresses printed. Some festive designs that are particularly suited to Christmas card ornaments feature reindeer, Christmas trees, Santa hats and holly.
When we send you your personalized ornament cards and envelopes, all you’ll need to do is put a return address sticker on the envelope and add a stamp! Believe it or not, we can actually help with those two steps as well. For an additional fee, Minted can print a return address on each of your envelopes, or you can shop our custom SkinnyWrap product. SkinnyWrap is a thin 7.25” long adhesive strip that can seal your card shut and also display your return address in a stylish fashion. We also have quite a few festive designs you can filter through to complement your photo ornament cards.
OTHER USES FOR OUR PHOTO CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS
While we agree that these ornaments offer a unique and creative alternative to the traditional holiday, there are other uses you may want to consider as well. Below are a few ideas on how you could order them as a Christmas gift.
Gift for family members/friends: Are you attending a family reunion or big holiday party this year with your closest friends? Instead of bringing a bottle of wine or other holiday gift, why not create beautiful photo ornaments that can be gifted to all in attendance. Perhaps there is a funny or memorable picture that everyone would enjoy seeing? You could customize the text to highlight the family reunion and list all who attended, the location of the party, and the date. Because the ornaments include a free envelope, it makes it easy to hand these gifts out to everyone inconspicuously. You can also use the photo ornaments as your greeting cards accompanied by the gifts for each family member/friend. Let everyone know they can open them on Christmas!
Gift for a classroom/teacher: What a great holiday gift idea for a kindergarten or elementary school class! Highlight a class photo on the ornament and gift one to every student, the teacher, and the principal. Text on the ornaments could include every student's name, the teacher's name, the school name and location, and the graduation class year. You could even recreate this gift each year and your child would have a collection of holiday ornaments that reminded them of each year of their schooling.
Gift for Coworkers/ Organization/ Teammates: You may be the new employee of the month at your company or Most Valuable Player on your softball team if you were to gift everyone a fun photo ornament this holiday season. Possible ideas include featuring a team photo, a funny picture of a boss/co-worker, or simply creating a non-photo ornament that includes some group achievements or a year-recap on the back.