I’m aware there’s still a long way before Christmas but you must admit that time moves fast when you don’t pay attention to it. That’s why I try to prepare for X-mas as soon as I can so that I don’t have to rush to the stores in town to buy presents and Christmas Photo Cards.

This year, I decided to use a new website that offer digital photo cards which sounds kind of cool and definntely original. Basically, it’s a personalized Photo christmas Cards where you can take any photo of a yourself, your entire family, a friend, even your dog, choose a card style, write a message and they will print it on a card for you.

For novices like me, the website also offers hundreds of tips on picture-taking to help people take that perfect photo and turn it into a card. I found interesting and useful the section on taking photos with your cell phone camera, which was always giving me a headache. Along with Christmas Photo Cards, you can also purchase Photo Card Holders to showoff your brand-new card. Gotta try it!

Call me old-fashioned (I’m 33 by the way), but I still like to send out invitations when I’m going to have a big party. The kids these days would probably just send out an invite over facebook or an SMS, but that lacks the personal touch that I appreciate so much. A card is simply more personal than the Internet or a cell-phone message.

The unfortunate thing is that a lot of the commercial cards you find on stores out there are boring or worse, they might end up offending someone. Often you’re faced with a choice between cards with a picture you like, but the words printed don’t really match what you’d like to say, or a cool message with the wrong picture.

Well, that was the case until I found a great online resource that allows you to fully customize your own Photo Cards and Invitations. For example, if I was planning a killer pool party to help my friends beat the summer heat, I can add some pictures from our family’s last trip to the beach and add some text that invites them to my “home-made oasis” with cool drinks and a nice palm tree shadow.

The best thing about this website is choice. There are a variety of themed cards, whether they are for birthdays, weddings, religious holidays, and the like. And the creative way that the service is offered allows you to select a picture and provide the text so that it sends exactly the message that you want.