WHEN IT COMES TO PICTURES, THE MORE THE MERRIER
Planning your annual holiday mailer but can’t decide on which family picture to highlight? We have all been there! Why settle on just one image? With Minted, we have plenty of unique card designs that artistically arrange all your favorite photos from the year into beautiful collage Christmas cards. Often times we will summarize year-in-review highlights with words and text. Why not paint a visual picture of your year with a multi-photo holiday card? After all, they do say that a picture is worth a thousand words.
Browse through our collection of designs sourced from independent artists living in over 100 countries. Because these contributing artists differ in culture, geo-location, age, and artistic training, the designs we sell on our site are equally diverse. You will become enamored with how 3,4,5, and 6 of your uploaded images will be intertwined with vivid colors, shapes, and lines to create a memorable collage of imagery on your Minted Christmas card.
FROM CHAOS COMES ORDER
You may be thinking, how can I showcase 7 or more images on a 5” x 7” holiday card and have it not look like a total mess? With Minted, you are in good hands. Below we have highlighted a few ways you can pull off a sophisticate multi-photo Christmas card.
Words + Images Format: Sometimes an overwhelming number of images can cause a sense of panic, as your eyes struggle to focus on just one element. Explore how our designs intertwine imagery and festive words like “joy” and “merry” in artistic ways that are pleasing on the eyes.
Creatively Shaped Images: Not all images have to be square or rectangle. Some of our multi-picture designs arrange a collection of images into the shape of a heart, peace sign, or a Christmas tree. Use your personal photographs to build a shape that we can all associate with the holidays.
Geometric Look: For those that appreciate order and symmetry, you might want to gravitate toward some of our more geometric designs where 3,4,6, or 9 images are all equally sized and perfectly fill the front of the Christmas card. You could even experiment with adjusting all the photos to be black and white or sepia for an even more uniform look. Our photo upload tool can apply these filters to your images with ease.
Use the Card Backing: No one said you had to jam all 17 images on the front of your card. Use all the space on your Christmas correspondence wisely and strategically. With Minted, any of our flat cards can have images, text, and designs printed on both sides of the card. In fact, we offer more than twenty design options for the back of your card which feature multiple image options.
Fold Over Cards: If you are still struggling to include every image you wanted to highlight, simply make your card bigger. Instead of a flat card, transform your card to a fold-over card with the click of a button. Now you can include an assortment of images on the front of your card, inside your card, and on the back of your card! You could have a collage featured in all three places if you wanted.
UNRIVALED PERSONALIZATION FEATURES FOR PHOTO COLLAGES
Once you have settled on a design, the personalization process can truly begin. Our online customization tool will allow you to easily adjust color schemes, edit and move text, select envelope colors, and set styling for your recipient addresses. Watch your holiday greeting begin to change in front of your eyes. You may want to read through some of the design trends we are seeing this year, in case you want to incorporate them into your card.
Select the holiday card size you wish to send. We offer the classic 5” x 7” card, but also a petite option, and postcard option. Any of our card designs can be updated to include custom gold foil text. So after you have arranged your family images in the perfect layout, add a gold holiday greeting or family name that will shine just as bright as the smiles in your images. We also allow you to select the cardstock that your card will be printed on. Our Smooth Signature paper option is made exclusively for Minted and has a luxe cottony feel. For the environmentally-conscious shopper, we provide our Recycled paper option that is made of 100% recycled paper goods. If a thick high-quality presentation is your aim, our DoubleThick and TripleThick cardstock should be explored.
Let your design creativity play out on the packaging of your card as well. Minted’s free recipient addressing service will collect the addresses you wish to mail and professionally print them on envelopes in the styling of your choosing. Select a style that coordinates with the design of your card, or choose from dozens of other holiday-themed options that feature reindeer, snowflakes, holly, and more. Once your envelopes are addressed, seal them closed in a fashionable and unique manner using Minted’s SkinnywrapTM labels. These 7.25” adhesive labels wrap around the top left corner of your envelope to decoratively seal it closed while also broadcasting your sender address. There are even some SkinnyWrapTM designs that can incorporate a personal image.
In summary, with Minted you could theoretically have 10+ images on your collage Christmas cards. You could then enclose those cards in festive envelopes, and seal the whole holiday deliverable shut with custom home-address labels that also features a personal photo.