Customized Thank You Cards
I love the Hot Hues thank you cards that Target carries. I have bought them for years. The cards don’t seem to be as thick as they used to be, but the colors and designs are still great.
I wanted to somehow easily customize some thank you cards for Elias’s first birthday without going with a custom print job. I immediately thought of the Hot Hues cards.
I selected one of my favorite photos from Elias’s party, cropped it to 3×4, put two on a 6×4 canvas in photoshop, saved it as a .jpg and uploaded it to Walgreens. You could do this on Snapfish or Shutterfly, too.
I printed a bunch, cut them in half, adhered the photos to the cards using my handy Xyron 900 and viola! Perfect, adorable first birthday thank you cards.
(If you don’t have a Xyron creative station, you could adhere the photos using a glue stick or double-sided tape.)
I will be writing these thank you cards on my flights to and from Dallas today. I love the thought of family and friends receiving their card in the mail!
You could easily do this for any holiday – or even just because. There are so many possibilities!
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Great cards! These will look adorable on the friends/family's refrigerator 🙂
What a perfect idea!!!! :O)
Love it! Once again, you are a genuius! Thank you for the great idea.
Ok little I didnt do anything for a thank you…..but I want one!!!! xoxox Mom (Safe travels)xoxo
That is so neat!
I live in Dallas!! Come see me!! 🙂
Cute! I was looking in Target last night for some thank you cards and came across those hot hues!! They are adorable! Thanks for sharing your idea!
you're so stinkin' creative. so did that machine just make the photos into stickers, or do you run the photo and the card through together and it sealed them?
Beautiful,Jessica. What a great idea!!
I love this idea and will be using it in a couple of months when my baby turns 1. I need something that is quick and easy cause my time is very limited and this is perfect. Thanks so much for sharing this idea 🙂
Hey Jess, LOVE THE NEW DESIGN, been busy and will check back to get caught up, but wanted you to know loving the new look :)!
Great idea!
Happy Belated Birthday!! He's so cute!
I love those cards too! What a great idea to put a pic. on them.
I love the Hot Hues cards too! Great idea to add the picture to the front!
What a wonderful idea! I have always wanted to get one of those sticker machines…and now I have a VALID reason to do so! 🙂
I also wanted to thank you for mentioning the free Jessica Sprague online course – I enrolled and LOVE it! Such simple things to learn and she instructs in such an easy-to-understand way. So thank you!!
Happy travels.
Simple but really nice! Love the orange! x
What a great idea! Simple and unique. And, LOVE the orange cards! Just might have to try this myself!