Coordinating Christmas Cards
Don’t turn sending out Christmas cards into a begrudged “should.” Find the fun by figuring out how cute you can make them. Sending Christmas cards seems to being a dying tradition. However, I get such joy out of sending and receiving cards! Thanks to modern technology, you can revive this tradition—with ease and joy! If you don’t want to address all those cards, send electronic cards; they can be printed off by the recipient. You also have the option to create an e-card, send it off to be printed then mail the copies yourself.
Read on for the top trending colors to mingle in your merry pictures, along with some outfit ideas to inspire you and alleviate the fear of photographing a color-clashing clan. All you have to do is choose your favorite and recreate it. Hopefully, you can ditch the worry this joyful holiday season and be encouraged to send Christmas greetings to all your friends and family! They will be so impressed.
Season’s Greetings
A go-to for family holiday cards is a Christmasy theme and color combination. Matching the family is a snap if you keep most of your clothing simple and stay away from huge prints—except buffalo plaid, of course! This motif consists of grey + buffalo plaid + black + denim + brown boots. When you have muted layers, it’s easier to slowly build your wardrobe from there. Throw in a Christmas tree background and you are good to go!
Winter Wonderland
Not feeling like “Christmas colors and ONLY Christmas colors”? Sometimes, I like to go for a more muted “New Year” look because I’d like for the people receiving my cards to keep our family picture up, even after Christmas. That’s where muted tones, like these picked for Winter Wonderland, come in. You can keep fur and browns but opt for more pink, gray and navy instead of red and green. With this scheme, you create a card people can keep up through Easter!
Evergreen Family
As already mentioned, super subtle colors have been trending the past couple of years. If you want to do something that’s very woodsy and outdoor-oriented, not to mention extremely easy to match, I recommend going for the muted greens and browns, like on the Evergreen Family palette. It also makes hunting for a location extremely easy. Just go outdoors!
Happy Holiday
Put a modern spin on your usual Christmas color combo. Yes, you have your reds and greens—but you also have black and grey. Black wasn’t really a huge shade to use within a picture day color palette until a few years ago. Now, people will throw on pajamas and black hunter boots and head out to some evergreen trees to take family photos! One of the reasons I chose to show pajamas instead of an outfit for this color combo is because pajama photo sessions are extremely popular right now. It totally portrays the comfy Christmas look we all currently see on Pinterest. And it is so easy!
Last-minute photos can be done! We procrastinators need all the little helps and advice we can get! I hope these few ideas to successfully coordinate a last-minute photo session for you and your family are a big help.
Alexandra Hombs is a freelance writer and designer who lives in Riverside, MO, with her husband and two children.