Create Your Own Personalized Photo Ornament
Author: Santa | Filed under: Christmas Cards Sunday Jun 6,2010by Debora Dyess When I was a kid (more years ago than I care to recount) my daddy always made sure we each had a personalized Christmas ornament every year. He used a fine liner paintbrush and model car paint to meticulously write our name and the year on a Christmas ball, along with some [...]
Paper Christmas Cards
Author: Santa | Filed under: Christmas Cards Sunday Apr 18,2010Not long ago, when someone mentioned ‘Christmas cards’, you knew right away what they were talking about – a nice illustration and touching text, all wrapped up in a colored envelope and delivered to your mailbox. That was, of course, before the days of e-cards. Now paper Christmas cards are not always the greeting of [...]
Santa Yourself!
Author: Santa | Filed under: Christmas Cards, Christmas Fun for Kids, Christmas Humor, Christmas Videos, Elves, Santa Claus Tuesday Dec 1,2009If you’ve Elf Yourself-ed too many times to find it funny anymore, grab your digital photos and head over to FunPunch.com to check out their “You’re the Star” ecards for the holidays and Santa yourself. They’ve got some great free ecards for the holidays that let you add your own photo. Put on a Santa [...]
10 Christmas Craft Ideas for Your Used Holiday Cards
Author: Santa | Filed under: Christmas Cards, Christmas Crafts, Christmas Fun for Kids Thursday Oct 29,2009Americans send about 2.1 billion cards during the holidays, and most of them end up in the trash after the holidays. Here are some ideas for reusing your old cards. 1. Bookmarks – This is an easy craft that’s great for readers. Simply cut your old cards into long strips about one to two inches [...]
Add a North Pole Stamp for Fun
Author: Santa | Filed under: Christmas Cards, Christmas Fun for Kids, Christmas Letters Saturday Oct 17,2009It’s fun during the holidays to pick out just the right Christmas cards or create your own holiday photo cards. But once you stick these carefully selected greetings in an envelope, all cards pretty much look the same – like boring rectangles of paper. The US Postal Service found a way to liven up our [...]
How to Get a Santa Postmark
Author: Santa | Filed under: Christmas Cards, Christmas Fun for Kids, Christmas Letters, Santa Claus, Santa Letters Tuesday Sep 29,2009One of the busiest U.S. post offices during the holidays is the one in Santa Claus, Indiana. The only post office in the world named after Santa Claus post helps keep ol’ Kris Kringle’s magic alive by offering special “picture postmarks” during December. The city has been offering a picture postmark every year since 1983. [...]

