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Alternative to cardstore.com?

stefnet — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:38:36 -0800

What is the best alternative to cardstore.com for custom photo cards and addressing capabilities? The Christmas joy of our friends and family depends on you! For the past three years we have been making our Christmas cards on cardstore.com. The quality is good and all of our addresses are imported there from a spreadsheet with customizable fields. I usually had them stamp, address, and send the cards out (and before you say "oh how impersonal!", people universally love our cards, especially the funny ones - we follow a funny card/historic card cycle).

I don't want to use something else because I had everything set up nicely, but this year I'm getting errors when trying to upload images and the whole site just seems wonky. I haven't changed anything on my end. I've always used Macs to access the site and nothing is different about my network. I tried both Firefox and Safari and tried uploading different images. Nothing works.

I'm going to contact their help line to see what's up, but maybe there is another, better service that I'm overlooking. Can you recommend any card service that:

1) Lets me upload a custom image for the front.
2) Lets me customize the interior (ideally would let me upload a inner photo, but if not, would let me alter both sides of the interior).
3) Stamps, addresses, and mails cards without my intervention.
4) Lets me upload info directly from a spreadsheet to populate the address database (this is the big pain since we have a long list of people).

Preferable you have first-hand knowledge of the quality of the cards and service. I'm used to these things going out like clockwork with cardstore.

Please help us or else there will be a new Rankin-Bass special... "The Year Without Stef's Christmas Card".

I CAN HAS HOLIDAYS?

phaedon — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:56:09 -0800

Looking for a store that sells professional, customizable, high-quality Christmas cards. Quality and efficiency is everything. I work for an entertainment company that would like to be able to send cards to clients and prospective clients. Cards have to look modern (not overly-religious, sleek design), made of quality paper, preferably include a corporate logo that I supply, and include some kind of standard message, that again, I supply. Are there any online stores that could turn around a batch of such cards by Christmas? Cost-effective solutions a plus.

Crafty Cards

seanyboy — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 01:32:58 -0800

Ideas for birthday Cards. I'm pretty clumsy, and have little / no artistic ability, but I like to make my birthday and (in five months time) christmas cards. Does anybody have any simple / easy recipies for good birthday cards. I tend to make really tiny cards with either bits of magazine pictures or small leaves stuck on them. It's all getting a bit boring, so would love some new ideas.