Affordable holiday photo cards?

[*newmomma*]

Anyone seen any great deals for their Christmas cards? I need to get about 50 and am not sure what would be a good price.

[KarenLud]

I just ordered mine from costco.com. 50 prints for $14.99! We had birth announcements done there and I was pleased.

[youngmommy]

http://freebies4mom.blogspot.com/2009/11/50-free-photocards-shipped-free-too.html

The link to these 50 free photo cards was posted in the deals thread a couple weeks ago.
It expires tomorrow though, so you have to order right away. HTH!

[jel143]

I just ordered 100 for $15 from samsclub.com

[Melbel]

I have been happy with the quality at Costco and at $15 for 50 cards, it is very affordable. For a custom card, you can pay about $15 to have someone on www.etsy.com design a card, then print the jpg image at Costco, Sams, etc. You can design a card yourself for free at www.scrapblog.com (save, publish then export as a jpg image) then print whereever you want. Scrapblog has a new option to export a high resolution file for about $5 IIRC.

[PAfirsttimemom]

Guess I overpaid at Shutterfly compared with these deals (especially free!). They are running a deal buy 50 cards and get 25 free. Then there's a free shipping code, too (SHIP25), which expires Dec. 3. I am pissed that I did my order and forgot to go through ebates, because I could have gotten $15% cash back! My total with tax was $41.87. So it would be about $35 if you do the ebates for cash back. Also, I had chosen the 5x7 size, which is a little more expensive than the 4x8, so you could get a little cheaper deal than I did if you go with that other size.

[PAfirsttimemom]

Damn, just noticed that Shutterfly is 20% cash back from ebates.com for Cyber Monday! I missed out but maybe someone else can take advantage.

[mariza]

I got tired of the previous photo cards we've done and wanted something different this year (and cheaper) so I decided to make my own.
I signed up for Shutterfly and got 50 free prints so I did a picture of my kids and added a holiday border to the 4x6 size. Shipping was about $3.60
Then I went to AC Moore and got 5x7 folded white cards for $6.xx (with coupon) black photo corners($2.50), a $1 snowflake stamper and a $1 red ink pad. Printed a greeting inside the cards last night on my computer. I also got 4x6 collage prints from Walgreens to slip inside the cards. (I didn't want them fixed to the cards because I only plan on sending the extra pics to family & close friends, not our entire Christmas card list)
It was very easy to put together and my cost for 50 cards was about $15 and I feel like they are a little more personalized.
I know it's hard to visualize, maybe I'll try to take a picture later when I've fully assembled some and post it.

[jenmcadams]

I'm planning to make my own (photoshop) and then print them at Costco.

[WatchingThemGrow]

We got the Peace ones from Sam's and were surprised to get lined envelopes for $30/125 cards. And...3/4 of them are in the mail :cheerleader1:

[almostmom]

What size do you print at Costco - 5x7?

[GaPeach_in_Ca]

Costco cards are huge - 6 x 7-1/2 inches.

I designed my own in photoshop and got 75 for $25 at Costco. I also made matching stickers for the adress labels. They came out great! They were $12 for 80. I'm very pleased.

[cindys]

I did the promotion from seehere.com for the 50 free photo cards with free shipping...They turned out really great..

"newbaby" code is still working, I believe..I do think though that they might be charging for shipping but its only $3.xx....

[almostmom]

So even when you design your own (which I've done on Scrapblog) you print them as cards, so you get the envelope and everything I guess?

Last year I printed just photos of my design at Costco that were 4x6, and got my own envelopes. I'll look into printing it as a card instead. Is that pretty clear on the website?

Also, do you need additional postage for such a big card?

Thanks!