Photo Card Creations Blog

Introducing our new LIVE CHAT Feature!

 

We at Photo Card Creations continue to develop new ways to help our customers get exactly what they want and need from our products.  While we think that our website provides plenty of information and ideas as to what you can expect from our hip, modern, unique, high-end, and classic products, sometimes it’s nice to have some one-on-one just to make sure everything is perfect.

Enter our new Live Chat feature.  Accessible from nearly every page on our website, the brown Live Chat icon at the top of the page will allow you to connect instantly and chat with a Photo Card Creations representative.  Need to know what size photo you need to send us for your birth, new baby, or wedding invitations?  Click on the Live Chat icon.  Need some ideas for your custom photo cards, personalized thank you cards, or birthday party invitations?  Click on the Live Chat icon!  Are you planning ahead and want some pricing information on Christmas cards, holiday cards, or wedding save the date cards?  Click on the… well, you get the idea.

And don’t worry if we don’t happen to be available at the moment, the Live Chat feature allows you to leave us a message, and we will get back to you just as soon as possible.

We will continue to add new features such as Live Chat so that we can make Photo Card Creations a pleasant and easy experience for our customers.

Win a $50 Gift Card for Photo Cards at Thoughtfully Simple Website!

The awesome blog Thoughtfully Simple is currently hosting a contest for Photo Card Creations offering the lucky winner a chance to win a $50 Gift Card to use for custom photo cards at Photo Card Creations!  Visit their site to see the nice things they've said about our Wedding Invitations, Thank You Cards, Graduation Invitations and Announcements, and Birthday Party Invitations!!  And be sure to enter the contest to try to win your Gift Card!! 

Photo Card Creations Custom Photo Cards, Invitations and Announcements

Checkout our new Video Montage of some of our favorite Thank You Cards, Holiday Cards, Invitations and Announcements!

Visit our website to see more of our cards Photo Card Creations

Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Celebrity Clients!

We are excited to share with you our NEW & IMPROVED In The Press Website Page.  In addition to the numerous Magazines, Websites and Blogs that we have been featured on, newly added is our "Celebrity Client" section.  Included are 2 recent celebrity clients, actor Alimi Ballard and athlete Jeff Bagwell.  Checkout our In The Press Page or scroll down for more info!

Alimi Ballard, from the hit CBS show “Numbers”, selected Photo Card Creations to print Holiday Cards for his family. The card selected was our "Season's Greetings" Holiday Card, which includes 2 photos on the front & a 3rd photo & personalized greeting inside.  His beautiful family photos were printed directly on our cardstock & were complimented by the festive blue and green holiday colors in the card design.  The cards were printed on our popular, thick 100 lb. White Linen Cardstock.

Another recent celebrity client that purchased cards from Photo Card Creations was Jeff Bagwell.  Jeff is the former 1^st Baseman & current Assistant General Manger for the Houston Astros.  Photo Card Creations printed a unique New Years Cards for the Bagwell family this holiday season.  They selected our popular Cream Linen Folded Cards for their combined New Years Greeting & Moving Announcement.  Their beautiful family photo was printed on the front of their cards, accented with one of our popular photo borders, while their greeting was printed inside.  Our Cream Linen Cardstock is a one of a kind cardstock that is not available from ANY of our competitors.  Our client’s photos are printed directly on this high end Fine Art Cardstock with the Photo Border & Greeting of their choice.  The cards are printed on our top of the line 8 color inkjet printers.

“We are thankful for our celebrity clients!  We know that they have access to the biggest and the best of everything, and the fact that they choose Photo Card Creations is a true testament to the quality and success of our products.” said Allison Thomas, owner of Photo Card Creations.

Photo Birth Announcements are becoming more and more popular as digital photography gains popularity and makes taking and processing photos that much easier!  Birth Announcements are a great way to share your happy occasion with your closest friends and family.  They are much nicer than sending an informal email with photo attachments or a non-photo Birth Announcement announcing the arrival of the newest addition to your family.  Enlisting the help of a professional designer and printer such as Photo Card Creations, will make creating your cards an easy and mindless task, during this joyful but busy & stressful time in your lives.  Announce the birth of your new baby boy, girl or multiples or the arrival of your newly adopted child with one of our custom photo birth announcements.

Personalize your cards with your baby’s name, stats and date of birth & add your favorite photo(s) for the finishing touches on your cards.  With the rollout of our new & improved website in the Fall of 2009, we introduced a brand new line of birth announcements for Boys, Girls, Multiples and Adoptions.  There are dozens of Photo Birth Announcements to choose from.  Check out some of our favorites below.....

Beautiful Beginnings" Folded Designer Card

"He's Here" Flat Designer Card

"Oh My" Folded Designer Card

All of our cards are printed using state of the art printing technology on thick, 100 lb. cardstock.   Our cards are designed using current trends & popular baby colors & artwork.  You can add your own personal touch by customizing the colors, the font style and the greeting on your announcements.  All of our photo cards are available with the greeting of your choice and one or more photos.  Our announcements with multiple photos are gaining more and more popularity as most people have a hard time choosing just one photo. 

Another thing to think about when ordering your custom Birth Announcements is hiring a professional photographer to photograph your new born.  Although most of us can take great photos with our digital cameras, there is a clear distinction between amateur and professional photos.  With expertise in posing, lighting and an artistic eye, a professional photographer can capture photos that even the best of us couldn’t capture!  For those of you in the NY metro area, we recommend Black Dog Photography.  They have studios in Hoboken, NJ and Mystic, CT.  Roy Thomas, owner of Black Dog, recommends waiting until your baby is at least 2 weeks old before having your professional baby portraits taken.  That way, you and your baby will truly have a chance to bond and your baby will have a chance to start to develop some of his/her features!  

Once you have selected your favorite newborn baby photos, contact Photo Card Creations to start working on your birth announcements!  You’ll receive your Announcements very quickly too.  Proofs (of your Announcement Card Layout) are received in 1-2 business days & orders are shipped 3-5 business days after you approve your proof.  At Photo Card Creations, we love paper & we love photos…..and we love creating cards with photos of your special memories!  We are passionate about providing exceptional quality products & customer service.  From Announcements & Invitations to Thank You Cards (and everything in between) let us help make your special occasion even more special! 

New Save the Date Collection!

Love is in the air with all of new engagements happening between Christmas and Valentine's Day!!  What better way to inform your guests of your engagement and wedding plans than with a Photo Save the Date Card from Photo Card Creations!  Many of our Save the Date Card Designs are also available as Thank You Cards, Wedding & Engagement Invitations.  Our photo cards have a hip & modern look to them.  Checkout our Save the Date Card Collection HERE and see one of our NEWEST Designs Below, our BLACK TIE AFFAIR Collection.....

Photo Card Creations reveals NEW 2010 Valentine's Day Card Collection

This month, we launched our 2010 Valentine's Day Photo Card Collection.  With the holidays behind us & Valentine's Day just around the corner, Valentine's Day is a great opportunity to extend wishes of peace, love & joy to your friends & family...especially if you didn't have a chance to get your Holiday Cards out this past season!  Check out some of our favorites below & View our Entire Collection .

 

 

 

In October, 2009 Photo Card Creations was proud to introduce our NEW & IMPROVED Website! Our new site is much easier to navigate around. We introduced a new, easier online Order Form; a new Photo Uploading System; New Pricing; New Product "Add On's" such as Foil Lined Envelopes & Pre-Shipping of Envelopes, to name a few & hundreds of new photo card designs. If you haven't already visited our new website, please check it out at www.photocardcreations.com !

New 2009 Thank You Cards!!

Scroll below to view some of our new photo Thank You Cards that we will be rolling out late Summer/early Fall!

Don't forget to checkout our current line of photo Photo Thank You Cards.

Contact us at info@photocardcreations.com for samples of any of our cards.

 

New 2009 Bar & Bat Mitzvah Invitations

Scroll below to view some of our new photo Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah Invitations that we will be rolling out late Summer/early Fall!

Contact us at info@photocardcreations.com for samples of any of our cards.

 

New 2009 Graduation Cards

Continue scrolling below to view some of our new photo Graduation Invitations and Announcements that we will be rolling out late Summer/early Fall!

Don't forget to checkout our current line of photo Graduation Cards.

Contact us at info@photocardcreations.com for samples of any of our cards.

New Christmas Cards coming soon.....

We are currently working hard on our new photo card designs that we will be introducing late summer/early fall.  Below are some of our new Christmas Card designs. 

Don't forget to also check out our current line of Photo Holiday Cards.

Continue scrolling below to view our new Christmas Cards....and contact us at info@photocardcreations.com if you'd like us to mail you some samples of any of our current or new cards.

2009 New Graduation Card Designs!

Photo Card Creations is pleased to introduce our 2009 Photo Graduation Announcements & Invitations!

These new cards won't be available on our website until our website redesign is completed early Fall so we wanted to make them available to you on our Blog! 

If you'd like to order one of our NEW Graduation photo cards, simply fill out our online order form , select ANY of our existing cards & enter the name of the NEW Graduation Card you'd like to order in 'Special Instructions'. 

Don't forget to enter Promo Code GRAD25 to receive $25 off your order!

All cards are available on our Glossy, Semi-Glossy & White Linen Cardstocks.  Flat cards retail at $2.25/ea. & Folded cards are $2.50/ea.

 

New Photo Card Designs

Hi Everyone! Please checkout some of our new photo card designs below that we are thinking of adding to our website soon!! If you add your comment below, you will automatically be entered into our contest to win 50 FREE PHOTO CARDS (winner will be randomly selected on May 1st). Thanks for your feedback!!!

Contest to win FREE CARDS!

This summer/spring, we will be making some enhancements to our website, creating a NEW and IMPROVED Order Form and adding a bunch of new card designs!! 

We will be adding new Thank You Card designs, Birth Announcements, Save the Dates and Holiday Cards.  We will also be adding some new card 'categories' with more new cards.  These will include Hannukah Cards, New Years Cards, Wedding Invitations & Announcements, Birthday Invitations and more! 

We're still working on our new designs for 2009 but have posted a few of our favorites below.....

CONTEST INFO -We'd love to get YOUR FEEDBACK on our new card designs and have decided to run a fun CONTEST!!  Here's how the contest will work - Take a look at our new designs below and in our previous post (below this post).  Leave your comments below telling us about your favorite new card design(s)!  We will randomly pick a winner on April 30th!  Our lucky winner will receive 50 FREE CARDS (with the purchase of 100 cards or more)!! 

Thanks for your feedback!!

Take a look at some of our new card designs!

Some of our new Thank You Card designs we are working on.......

New 2009 Valentine's Day Cards

We are happy to introduce our new 2009 "Valentine's Day" Cards!!

We are rolling out 7 fabulous new designs!  Please check them out below.

Please note - These cards have not yet been added to our website, so please email us at info@photocardcreations.com if you'd like to place an order.  You can also see pricing information at the bottom of this post.

 

Pricing for Folded cards is $2.25 per card for 50-99 cards; $1.99 per card for 100+ cards. 

Pricing for Flat cards is $1.99 per card for 50-99 cards; $1.75 per card for 100+ cards.

*Above per card pricing includes minor editing to photos, text imprinting on the front/inside
of cards & blank matching envelopes.  Return address imprinting on envelope flaps avail. for
an add'l charge of 40 cents per envelope.  S&H is $10-$20.  Proofs are emailed 1-2 business days
after order is received; order is shipped within 3-4 business days after proof approval.  

Photography studios - don't forget to apply your wholesale discount!

2008 Holiday Card Cutoff Dates

All 2008 Photo Holiday Card orders must be received no later than 12/3 (for all Glossy Cards, Full Bleed Cards, Designer & Flat Cards) or 12/7 for all other card types.

Click Here for more information about our Holiday Season Turnaround Times.

During our Holiday Season (Nov. 1st through Dec. 31st), complimentary hardcopy proofs are not available for ANY photo card orders (this includes Holiday Card orders, Thank You Card orders, etc.). During this time, Electronic Proofs via email are the primary proofing option. Hardcopy proofs are available for an additional fee of $35. However, they are not recommended for Holiday photo Card orders due to the extra time it adds to the Turnaround Time of your order.

Check out our NEW Save the Date Cards

We recently added a new line of photo Save the Date Cards and thought you might want to check them out! Scroll down below for a preview of some of our photo Save the Date Cards and Click Here to view all of our photo Save the Date cards - new and old!

Preview of our new 2008 Holiday Cards!

Later this month we will be introducing our new line of "Designer" Holiday Cards!  Below is a preview of some of our designs below.  Check them out and let us know what you think!

Check out our NEW Thank You Card Designs!!

Now that the wedding season is in full swing, many of you may be looking for some fresh, new products to offer your clients.

Photo Card Creations is pleased to introduce 11 NEW Thank You Card Designs!  Click Here to view our new cards and scroll down to see a quick preview of 'some' of our cards.

We've got a new logo!!

Check it out......

 

Coming Soon-our new Photo Graduation Cards!

Photo Card Creations is pleased to introduce our NEW line of Photo Graduation Announcements and Invitations.  These new Photo Card Designs will be available on our website in May, but we wanted to give you a preview of some of our cool new designs!!  Our Graduation Announcement and Invitation Photo Cards will be available as either 5x7" FLAT Glossy Cards OR 5x7" Foldover Glossy or White Linen Cards. Take a look at some of our cool new designs and check our website in early May for ALL our our new Graduation Photo Card designs!

Reduced Shipping Charges!!!

GREAT NEWS!! 

We have just LOWERED our Shipping and Handling charges!! 

Previous Shipping Charges ranged from $15 to $25. 

Our NEW S&H charges range from $10 to $20.

For more information about S&H, visit the following link New Shipping Charges.

Photo Holiday Card Cutoff Date

Don't forget to order your holiday photo cards in time!!   

Our Cutoff Date for accepting photo Holiday Card orders
is December 3, 2007.  Our turnaround time for getting
your photo holiday cards out to you is about 2 weeks,
so please make sure you allow yourself enough time to
receive and send out your 2007 photo holiday cards.

For more information about our holiday cards,
visit Photo Holiday Cards.

New Photo Holiday Card Design - "Noel" Card

Checkout our new "Noel" Photo Holiday Card design!!!

This card will be one of many NEW photo holiday card
designs that will be introduced during the first week of
November.  The card is a flat 5x7" card printed on thick
glossy coated cardstock.

Checkout our photo holiday card page at Photo Holiday Cards.

To receive some complimentary samples of our new
"Noel" photo holiday card or ANY Of our photo holiday cards,
email us at info@photocardcreations.com.

Introducing our New FULL BLEED Square photo cards

Our SQUARE photo cards have been so popular over the years,
we decided to add a NEW Square Card to our product line.

Introducing our NEW Square Full Bleed Photo Card.  Have your
photo printed edge to edge on the entire front of the card!
These cards are available as photo thank you cards, photo
holiday cards and more!  The are 'foldover' cards and
measure 5x5".  They are available on our Glossy or White
Linen Cardstock.

To see samples of our new cards, visit our Thank You Card page
or our Holiday Card Page.

New Digital Press Photo Cards are a HIT!

A few months ago, we introduced our new line of Digital      
Press printed photo cards.  These photo cards are available with one of our photo borders or as Full Bleed photo cards.

What is a Digital Press printed card, you are wondering?  Click Here for more information on our new Digital Press printing process.

These photo cards have been SUCH a hit, we just HAD to write about them!!! The great thing about ALL of our photo cards is that they are completely customized.  You can use them as photo thank you cards, photo holiday cards, photo save the date cards, photo birth announcements and even as photo invitations.