How to Make a Great Year-In-Review Holiday Card
Year In Review Holiday Cards
Did you get caught up in the holiday rush this year? Didn’t get a chance to send holiday photo cards? Don’t worry, that’s what year in review cards are for. Stand out this month and send a card that recaps the year with all your highlights and big news. Mixbook offers lots of options for summarizing the past twelve months so it reads short and sweet or as detailed as you’d like. Here are our five favorites:
Christmas Collage 2020
Christmas Collage 2020 offers multiple photo boxes to feature the year’s best moments. Add highlights, celebrations, milestones, and your holiday greeting on the back.
Rustic What a Year Card
Looking to include more of your year’s story? Rustic What a Year leaves plenty of room for an in-depth look at all the great milestones.
Calendar Year in Review
Pictures speak a thousand words right? Well, display your year in review with a photo to represent the memories from each month! Let your photos do the talking!
Modern Year in Review
This theme is very unique. Created as a landscape 8x4 card, your year in review greeting card will look special from all the rest. Pick four photos and include short snippets under each featured photo.
Just like with the amount of content you share, the nature of the content matters too. Holiday cards are meant to make people feel warm and fuzzy, and too much bragging can make people feel inferior or put-off, which is clearly at odds with the intention. But at the same time, you want to believe that the friends and family you’re sending cards to are some of your biggest champions, sharing in the joy of any and all accomplishments you’ve had. Here’s how to strike the perfect balance between humility and pride, for a year-in-review card that everyone enjoys receiving in their mailbox.
Share the Big Milestones, but Include a Few Follies Just because you share the good things that happen to you doesn’t mean you’re sending out a brag card. But remember a little humility. For every cross-country record broken, promotion awarded, or trophy won, make mention of something either slightly self-deprecating or just plain silly. For example, you might say: Joey managed to earn honor roll every semester! He’s also whittled his detention rate down to half of what it was this time last year! Or, about your cherubic 2-year-old, you might say: Sam is walking and talking up a storm! And he’s also dropped from 3 tantrums a day to 2 – progress! Of course that’s my sense of humor – yours might be far different, but you get the idea.
Skip the Photoshop Ugly sweaters, funny faces, and crying babies. We love them all! The best Christmas memories feel real, so why shouldn’t the photos that represent them? And speaking of photos…for crying out loud, include pics of everyone not just the kids! The idea that people only want to see smooth-skinned, fresh-faced youngsters is bogus. I love the kids, sure, but it’s likely that I’ve loved the old folks for far longer – and I want to see you! And, no, I’m not calling you old.
If You Airbrush Anything, Make it Your Ailments If being ill or in and out of the hospital was a big part of your year, you obviously can’t write a year-in-review card without including some mention. But do your best to make it positive. Instead of talking about all that was endured, focus on the good stuff: if the outcome is still unknown or the story is not entirely happy, focus on the strength you’ve gained along the way – or the importance of caring family and friends in the process. Nobody wants to hear about the kids’ bouts of chicken pox or a botched hip replacement on a Christmas card.
So don’t stress about getting cards out to mailboxes before Christmas or the holidays. It’s perfectly normal and frankly unique to send a year in review holiday card. Give the people a peek of your amazing year and wish them the same going into the new one.
Happy Mixbooking! Keep it real.
