Hey, big spender. Did you know you can save $70 on an order of 50 holiday photo cards by using Nicole's Classes templates?

One of the great things about being a designer is that I get to save money on all my printed materials, because I do the design myself, and then print with a trusted printer. And if you use Nicole's Classes card templates, that savings is passed on to you. Let me show you what I mean.

By researching a little bit online, I found that high quality stationery holiday photo cards (that means the nice photo cards on thick card stock, rather than photo cards printed at a photo lab on regular photo paper) at a quantity of 50 (which is a fair average number of cards ordered) often costs about $2/card, or $100. 

If you purchase a card template from Nicole's Classes and plug in the photos and info yourself in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you can expect to pay about $30 total if you print with Overnight Prints, which is a printer I recommend. (I can't give an exact amount for their cards since they are always discounted at different rates, depending on the current promotion, but at the most, you would be paying $31.) This includes envelopes, which you'll want to remember to add on to your order. (AND you can get rounded corners for $1, which I LOVE.)

To be totally clear, this is a savings of about $70.

If you don't own Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, it's okay! You can still save! For an additional $15 fee, a designer on our team will plug in your info and photos for you, and send you the file that you'll need to print. This brings your total up to $45, which is still a $55 savings.

If you need to order more than 50 cards, don't worry---the more you order, the price per card goes down. So for example, if you order 100 cards using Nicole's Classes + Overnight Prints, you're looking at about $40 total (or $55 if you use our designer service), only about $10 more.

I haven't included shipping and handling in the price breakdown, but looking at several holiday card companies and Overnight Prints, it looks like shipping and handling is about $7-$8 across the board.

So how about this year, you save on your holiday card and have an extra $70 to spend on the kids yourself.