Christmas Connections offers a generous selection of personalised Christmas cards

Christmas Connections has a generous assortment of personalised Christmas cards available for browsing, customising and purchasing. Our cards are perfect for Christmas. Whether you're looking for personalised Christmas cards to celebrate the joy of the season with for family, friends or colleagues, you'll find your perfect match here with us.

making personalised Christmas cards is easy!

To get started with our collection of personalised Christmas cards, select the "Our Designs" link from our homepage. Next, you'll be presented with several categories: traditional greetings, corporate Christmas cards, cards that give you the option to add your own photos, and of course, our best sellers, which are always a hit with our customers and their friends and loved ones.

How to choose your own personalised Christmas cards

Each category will present full pages of available personalised Christmas cards. You can click on the thumbnail images to see a larger view of the card, as well as any pertinent details, such as card finishing and accents, and the dimensions of the card itself. You'll also be shown the available purchase options, which include how many cards you'll receive for a set price.

Once you have found a Christmas card design that you like, click "Add to shopping cart". Now you'll have the opportunity to customise your personalised Christmas cards! The first option you're presented with is the ink color. The default ink color is black. For an additional charge, you may have your choice of red, green, blue, red or burgundy ink instead. A fancier option that is for additional cost would be to choose red, gold or silver foiling. When you have made your selection, click the "Next" link located on the righthand side of the page.

Now you'll be presented with several choices for your holiday greeting. Again, make your desired selection, and then click "Next".

Typeface refers to the font that will be used for the text on your personalised Christmas cards. There are a variety of fonts available, with each being shown in a high quality sample image. Certain fonts look better with certain types of personalised Christmas card.

If you would like to have your chosen charity mentioned on your personalised Christmas cards, select it and then tick the "Print Charity Accreditation" box. If you would rather not have this information included on your greeting cards, leave the box unticked.

Add your own designs to personalised Christmas cards

Artwork is an optional feature for our personalised Christmas cards. For an additional charge, you may include a photo or image of your choice. However, be aware that the image will be reduced to a single color. If you need to include an image with its original colors intact, please call the number listed on the page.

Finally, you may personalise the text that will be printed on your personalised Christmas cards. The default selection that you chose in step two of the personalisation process will be shown here. You are free to change the text to say anything you want it to say. You may also have your name and company name printed, along with your address.

Completing your personalised Christmas cards order

The final step is to preview your personalised Christmas cards. Make any changes needed by clicking the back button, then view the PDF proof to submit your order to your shopping cart. Finally, follow the checkout instruction.

Our Corporate Christmas Cards selection

We keep businesses in mind when stocking our selection of Christmas cards. While our personalised Christmas cards are an excellent option for anyone who is looking to spread some Christmas cheer with family and friends, it is understandable that companies want to do the same, without being as personal and intimate with their messages. Our line up of corporate Christmas cards provide you with the greetings you'll need at the workplace this holiday season.

Why choose Corporate Christmas Cards?

Most Christmas cards are designed with sending messages to close friends and loved ones in mind. For many reasons, these types of Christmas greetings may not be appropriate for employees and colleagues. Furthermore, with most companies being as diverse as they are, not everyone will be celebrating Christmas, and many company executives or owners may wish to choose more neutral greetings to send out to everyone. Our collection of corporate Christmas cards includes those cards that touch directly on Christmas, as well as cards that refer to the holiday season in a general way. As always, each of our corporate Christmas cards and their greetings can be customised so that they fit your exact needs.

Designing your Corporate Christmas Cards

Designing your choice of corporate Christmas cards is very easy. Browse

through the corporate Christmas cards category and click on thumbnails to view larger images. When you have found a card that suits you, click "Add to cart". Now you'll be taken through the design process. Here, you can choose exactly how your corporate Christmas cards will look. Select ink colour, whether or not you would like your charity accreditation to appear on your cards, add optional images and artwork, enter your company name, and then click to Preview Your Card. View the PDF proof to see a high quality sample of the finished product. When you're ready to submit your order, hit Next, and then follow the order and checkout procedure.

How to word your Corporate Christmas Cards

When wording corporate Christmas cards, it's best to keep messages short and sweet. A simple "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" or "Season's Greetings" will suffice nicely. Don't forget to include your company name.

Tips for Corporate Christmas Cards

Choose corporate Christmas cards that are best suited for those you are sending them to. If you are sure that everyone celebrates Christmas, then choose Christmas themed corporate Christmas cards. If you're not sure, choose neutral greeting cards that reflect on the winter and holiday season.

How to design Personalised Christmas Cards

Many people often turn to plain, store bought Christmas cards because there's no effort required, aside from signing your name and mailing the card. Many people think that they can't obtain personalised Christmas cards without a lot of materials, a lot of work and a lot of money. But as Christmas Connections can surely show you, this is simply not the case. With the right design templates, a series of personalisation options and colours, you can have beautiful Christmas greetings to share with those closest to you.

How the right design can make the best Christmas card

When picking out and designing your Christmas cards, you should first consider the type of message you want to send. If you are religious and wish to share not only the spirit of the season but the true meaning behind it with everyone on your Christmas card list, then you should select a Christmas card design that has a reference to the religious aspects. You can also customise your greeting, either by choosing one of the greetings we have to offer, or making your own greeting during the design process.

Picking and choosing colors

Traditional Christmas colours are red and green, with the red being a little bright and the green being darker and more subdued. But there's no need

to stick strictly with red and green! As you have probably seen from our extensive gallery of personalised Christmas cards, we incorporate many different colors into our designs, including yellow, gold, silver, purple and blue. There's no reason why you can't use all of these colours and still show off your Christmas spirit. The trick is to use designs that reflect the Christmas season, and to pick colours that are deep and work well together. Don't shy away from purple and blue because they seem too dark. Instead, use those colours and add highlights of silver and gold in your foil and ink options to brighten things up!

Selecting the right typeface

Typeface is where a lot of people get stuck in the process of designing Christmas cards. While their eyes may be naturally drawn to one type of font, they may also understand and accept that the font they have their eyes on may not be the best one for their style of Christmas card. Try to pick a font that follows the mood of your card.

Design Christmas cards with kids in mind

Children often make up a portion of our personalised Christmas card recipient list, even if we do not realise it. While we send cards to families, those families almost always have children of varying ages. Try to include them in the Christmas spirit by selecting cards with whimsical and child-friendly designs.

About our charity Christmas cards

Christmas is the season of giving. Christmas is when we take the time to reflect on our relationships with family and friends, and renew them through the spirit of the season. But while we're focused on selecting the perfect present for our spouses, our children, our parents and other relatives, and our closest friends, there are many others in the world who are not as fortunate. We support many charities with our Charity Christmas cards, including the British Heart Foundation, Save the Children, Willow, Noah's Ark Appeal, Great Ormond Street, and new for 2008, the Breast Cancer Care. We have a full listing of the charities we support and encourage you to donate to available on our website. With eleven total charities to choose from, there is surely one that you can make a donation to when you order Charity Christmas cards from us.

Things to know about our charity Christmas cards

Our charity Christmas cards are no different than any of our other Christmas cards. This is because all of the Christmas cards in our vast collection have the potential to become charity Christmas cards. Even the business Christmas cards that companies use can be charity Christmas cards. It is as simple as choosing a charity to donate to during the individual Christmas card's customisation process, and then electing to have that charity and your willingness to contribute to it mentioned it. Why would you want to tell others about your charity Christmas cards? In addition to being proud of the fact that you're helping those less fortunate than yourself, your willingness to step up and donate to a good cause may encourage and influence others to do the same.

How to design your charity Christmas cards

How you personalise your charity Christmas cards is up to you. All of the cards are ready for you to tweak to perfection. You'll have the option to specify the ink colours (used for the text on your cards), whether or not to include your charity accreditation, upload your own personal photo or original artwork for inclusion, and specify and/or make your own personalised greeting.

Picking the right charity Christmas cards

One big deciding factor in the type of charity Christmas cards you should select is who the cards are going to. For family and friends, our galleries of traditional Christmas greetings and quirky and contemporary greetings may be right for you. If you are a business, then take a look at our corporate Christmas card collection: we have a great selection of company Christmas cards available.

What our charity Christmas cards include

All of our charity Christmas cards include everything you will need to send holiday greetings to friends and loved ones. From our personal Christmas cards to our business Christmas cards, each one is designed to its fullest potential, with high quality images, vivid inks, beautiful foil accents, glossy and matte finishes.