Make Truly Custom Holiday Cards Easily With Basic Invite

This post is presented in partnership with Basic Invite

This is my favorite time of year. The Holiday Season. Oh, and I consider the holiday season to span from October 1 (when you can really start getting into Halloween with no judgement) and January 3 (my birthday). It’s a time for decorating, eating, having fun with friends and family, and sharing traditions. One tradition my family, and many others, have is sending out Christmas cards. A holiday card is a way many people show what the family’s been up to over the past year, how the kids have grown, how the dog has grown, or to share a favorite memory with your friends and family. Once my family’s Holiday card had a photo of me “washing windows” on the top of the John Hancock Building. It was actually a photo op on the observation deck (completely fake and indoors) but my mom got multiple calls from elderly family members telling her how irresponsible it was to let me hang out on the side of a skyscraper. I consider it the best Christmas card we ever had.

This photo was taken in 1997, just to explain my clothes, the quality of the photo… literally all of it.

You express yourself through the cards you send, and you can get the most customization when you use Basic Invite. With over 500 Christmas and holiday cards to choose from, and virtually endless custom color options, Basic Invite allows you to create the perfect card that fits your style exactly.

Whether you’re sending office Christmas party invitations or kids holiday party invitations, or you want to show your style with modern holiday cards, Basic Invite has it all, and it’s easy to take any template and truly make it your own.

When you choose a template, you can then customize each color on your card from over 180 options. This really sets Basic Invite apart from other services. Imagine finding a design you like, but the color palette isn’t for you, or the colors of the card don’t match your outfits in the photo (seems persnickety but this is a scenario that would bug me forever). With Basic Invite, you can swap each and every color to something just right.

Oh, are you worried that when you change the colors of a template it might not look right actually printed out? Basic Invite will print out a sample and send it to you to make sure it’s exactly what you want before you place a final order. Not just an image on your screen (where you know colors aren’t always true to life) but printed out, on the actual paper used for your card, in your hand to make sure it’s perfect.

When it’s time to send those cards out, Basic Invite has your back yet again. Not only are there over 40 different colors of envelopes to choose from, but they offer this cool address capturing service that makes it super easy to get your cards out to all your loved ones. All you have to do is share a link on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other social media platform to request your friends and family’s addresses, and the contact info will be stored in your account on Basic Invite, then you just select it when designing your card. And forget hand addressing all your cards, because Basic Invite offers recipient address printing at no cost on all Christmas card orders.

Once the holiday season is over, you still have to send thank you notes, or maybe an engagement announcement if you got affianced under some mistletoe. My birthday is nine days after Christmas, so I could be in the market for birthday party invites. All of these and more are available on Basic Invite.

It gets even better, because right now Basic Invite is offering 30% off with the code holi30.

Head over to Basic Invite and start customizing your cards for every event (and I mean every event - they have a card for everything).