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Postby shutterbug on Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:36 am

I am in the stage of designing my Chrissy Card for family and frineds.

Who designs there own Chrissy Card? Please show us?
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Re: Show your Chrissy Cards

Postby Geoff on Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:38 am

shutterbug wrote:I am in the stage of designing my Chrissy Card for family and frineds.

Who designs there own Chrissy Card? Please show us?


Call me a humbug but I think Chrissy cards are over rated. Who has time for them? :) I haven't sent any out for ages and still have the same number of friends who we either see or speak to over this stupid time of year!!

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Postby johnd on Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:40 am

Not quite a Chrissy card, but did my own calendar. Printed at local Xerox shop yesterday for $18 for 14 page calendar. The PDF is 70MB, so a bit big to upload here. Chrissy cards will certainly be the go next year for me.
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Postby shutterbug on Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:43 am

I usually design a couple every year and send them to family, friends and clients. I send some as cards and some via email.

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Postby birddog114 on Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:44 am

I received lot free blank cards from many organizations and marketing people since sept. and I used them if I require to, but so far I only sent card to someone who had sent me, and use the free blank cards.
Why should we bother?
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Postby Glen on Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:30 pm

Vince,

I am with Geoff in the bah humbug stakes these days, but you did bring my mind back to the last one I sent out. Back in the nineties one of my businesses was a phone sex company and my partner was a dead ringer for the girl shown below. This was my Christmas card one year. I can email you the artwork if you, your wife and kids would like to use it :wink:


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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:32 pm

Glen - I have been soooooooooo bad and want to be a lot more - phone numbers welcome :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby shutterbug on Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:42 pm

hahahahahahahahaha :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby birddog114 on Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:44 pm

Glen,
Can I order them in mass production so I can send them to all the politicians here in Australia/ USofA/ Britain? :wink:
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Postby Aussie Dave on Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:45 pm

Being our 1st year as Parents, my Wife & I couldn't help but take photos of our Twins for an Xmas card.

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I posted this photo here a few weeks ago (which some of you may remember). We used the same photo and had it printed as 6x4's and stuck them to the front of all our Xmas cards.

I'm sure many people think it's sappy and overdone/over-rated, but for some people, it's a good way to share the joy amongst family & friends in the festive season.....and also another excuse to take photos :wink:
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Postby Glen on Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:47 pm

Chris, $5 a minute


Birddy, interestingly enough, many, many government departments were caught calling our lines :shock: Their favoured time for calling was 7.30 -8.30am, probably very lonely at most government departments then
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Postby shutterbug on Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:47 pm

Dave...that looks great...family and friends will love it.
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Postby johnd on Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:49 pm

Aussie Dave wrote:I'm sure many people think it's sappy and overdone/over-rated, but for some people, it's a good way to share the joy amongst family & friends in the festive season.....and also another excuse to take photos :wink:

Dave, I don't think it's sappy or overdone. I reckon you'd have got a good few oohs and aaahs when the envelopes were opened.

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Postby Glen on Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:50 pm

Dave, that is as cute as a button! Beautiful. :D
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Postby birddog114 on Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:51 pm

Glen wrote:Chris, $5 a minute


Birddy, interestingly enough, many, many government departments were caught calling our lines :shock: Their favoured time for calling was 7.30 -8.30am, probably very lonely at most government departments then


That where the taxpayer's funds were gone into. I noticed that on one Govt. account with their server's logs of of phone calls during one quarter of the year.
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Postby shutterbug on Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:52 pm

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Postby Aussie Dave on Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:00 pm

johnd wrote:I reckon you'd have got a good few oohs and aaahs when the envelopes were opened.
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Indeed we did, and of course we were very proud. We even had 2 international phone calls from relatives overseas that we haven't spoken to in a long while....and they just had to call up and say how much they loved the photo :D
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Postby shutterbug on Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:05 pm

The cards are sooo personal and its cheaper them a decent Chrissy card.
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