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Bird Christmas Cards (1 Viewer)
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Katy Penland
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I "make" my own birdie Christmas cards each year. I buy what are called "photo cards" at Wal-Mart and insert my own 4 x 6 photo. Some of the photo cards are blank inside and others have a pre-printed message and they come with envelopes. Cheaper than buying commercial ones and a lot more personal (IMHO, of course). 
Here's the one I sent out last year. The black-looking lines inside the red borders are actually gold; don't know why they scanned as black, but you get the idea.
The cards cost 10 for $2.88 and the photo reprints are 12 cents each, plus 37 cents for postage = 77 cents per card to mail out. The money I save goes to my favorite charity: My camera's film fund.
Here's the one I sent out last year. The black-looking lines inside the red borders are actually gold; don't know why they scanned as black, but you get the idea.The cards cost 10 for $2.88 and the photo reprints are 12 cents each, plus 37 cents for postage = 77 cents per card to mail out. The money I save goes to my favorite charity: My camera's film fund.
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buckskin hawk
Oklahoma Birder
Katy Penland said:I "make" my own birdie Christmas cards each year. I buy what are called "photo cards" at Wal-Mart and insert my own 4 x 6 photo. Some of the photo cards are blank inside and others have a pre-printed message and they come with envelopes. Cheaper than buying commercial ones and a lot more personal (IMHO, of course).
The cards cost 10 for $2.88 and the photo reprints are 12 cents each, plus 37 cents for postage = 77 cents per card to mail out. The money I save goes to my favorite charity: My camera's film fund.
Great Idea and such a good pic.
Katy Penland
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Thanks, ladies. :t: When living in CA, I used whales or dolphins photos I'd shot. This year, though, I'm not doing a bird or any wildlife but a real-life cowboy riding in a snowstorm. (So I guess that's a kind of wildlife, huh? )
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snowyowl
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I really like that idea and will definitely be looking into doing the same thing next.Katy Penland said:Thanks, ladies. :t: When living in CA, I used whales or dolphins photos I'd shot. This year, though, I'm not doing a bird or any wildlife but a real-life cowboy riding in a snowstorm. (So I guess that's a kind of wildlife, huh?
Mary Evelyn
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Katy Penland said:I "make" my own birdie Christmas cards each year. I buy what are called "photo cards" at Wal-Mart and insert my own 4 x 6 photo. Some of the photo cards are blank inside and others have a pre-printed message and they come with envelopes. Cheaper than buying commercial ones and a lot more personal (IMHO, of course).
The cards cost 10 for $2.88 and the photo reprints are 12 cents each, plus 37 cents for postage = 77 cents per card to mail out. The money I save goes to my favorite charity: My camera's film fund.
Really lovely Katy and more so because you took the time to make them yourself. :clap:
Loved the Robin one too Kas. o
Maybe BF could make and sell cards using some of this (and previous years) December photo comp. entries - could give us all some nice Christmas cards to send and make some money for BF on the way... just a thought.
buckskin hawk
Oklahoma Birder
Katy Penland said:Thanks, ladies. :t: When living in CA, I used whales or dolphins photos I'd shot. This year, though, I'm not doing a bird or any wildlife but a real-life cowboy riding in a snowstorm. (So I guess that's a kind of wildlife, huh?
Was he out birding?
Marmot
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We seem to be getting quite a few this year with the European Robin on, I think all our friends and relatives know we love birdwatching.
Saying that we have sent 2 cards overseas one to USA and the other to Malaysia and they both have a European Robin on. Well it has always been the bird that you associate with Christmas in the UK.
Saying that we have sent 2 cards overseas one to USA and the other to Malaysia and they both have a European Robin on. Well it has always been the bird that you associate with Christmas in the UK.
Katy Penland
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LOL, no. Birds were smarter than he was; they were all hunkered down for the day.buckskin hawk said:
He was one of the Hash Knife Outfit Pony Express Riders who, every year, does the historic mail relay run from up here on the Rim to Scottsdale, AZ, stopping at all the little towns' post offices on the way. In "real life" he's a cattle rancher (aged 74) but he and a bunch of other dudes, about half of which are, or are retired, sheriff deputies saddle up to commemorate the first mail carrier service in the US. Any mail posted that morning from the post offices gets carried in their old leather saddlebags and specially postmarked.
The first winter I was here and heard of this, I decided to photograph the two riders as they handed off the saddlebag, only I hadn't counted on it being an almost total white-out snowstorm! Here he is in one of the shots:
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buckskin hawk
Oklahoma Birder
Look at the expression on the horse's face. Bet it is wondering why they are going this direction after all I bet it isn't the way back to the barn.
