I’m so excited to share this post!! I was contacted by Paperless Post back at the start of November & given coins on their website in exchange for an honest review. So Day 4 of Blogmas 2019 is all about some gifted, digital, Christmas cards!
The first week of December is when I traditionally send out my Christmas cards to friends & family. As the month progresses, we receive physical cards in the mail that my mom hangs up in the kitchen. Every time I visit my Nana’s house during December, her Christmas card wall gets more and more filled up.
It’s safe to say that Christmas cards have always been a huge part of my Christmas, and I don’t think that will ever change! There’s nothing like popping on a Christmas film or Christmas playlist and filling out your cards while you watch/listen.
We’re still in the Information Age, and technology is quicker and more innovative than ever. It’s no surprise that you can now send digitalized, animated holiday cards, save the dates, flyers, or invitations. Paperless Post makes all of that possible. There are so many gorgeous designs and ways to customise all of these options.
How it works:
You start off by purchasing coins–cards are typically 2 coins, and adding or editing some details will tack on a few more. I’d estimate that 25 coins will get you around 5 cards based off of my experience. (My cards averaged 5-7 coins based on some of my personalisations.)
You get approximately 20 coins for free just by signing up, and you can earn a few more when you get friends to do the same! That’s at least 3 cards right there, so why not try it out?
Your dashboard will help you navigate and better your experience: you can import contacts from email accounts, view your favorites (the cards you’ve hearted), and check on messages & replies from what you’ve sent out. It didn’t take ~too~ long to figure out how everything worked!
The process:
I’m going to take you through some of the steps that I did when I sent out one of my cards! There’s a lot you can do to embellish, enhance, or jazz up the design of the card, envelope, fonts, colours, etc. Here’s a 30-second video that shows parts of the evolving process 🙂
As you can see, I was able to customise everything from the backdrop to the envelope colour. There’s also an option to preview your card, and you can get that sent to your email for free.
One of the great things about these digital cards is that your friends and family can respond to you! I got a notification (& an email) that one of my girlfriends had messaged me back, and that’s a feature you can easily work with on the website or in the app itself.
After creating a few cards on my laptop, I decided to try it out on the app as well. The process is just the same, and it might even be more convenient for you. You can even save a draft and come back to it later.
A few issues:
- You can’t get a preview of the exact way your card will look when you’ve added a personalised message.
- When editing the font type or size (on desktop & on the app), the only word that will be edited is the one to the right of your cursor. A quick fix for this is to highlight whatever text you want to change and work that way until you’re happy with the result!
A few of the designs I will be sending out…
There are some big designer names here, as you can see, and that’s one of the reasons why I was excited to try Paperless Post out! You can even get some of these in physical form, over at Paper Source.
Day 4 of the 12 Days of Blogmas, 2019 is complete! I hope you all liked my review of these gifted, digital Christmas cards 🙂 You can head over to Paperless Post’s website, or download their app, to pick out and send some Christmas cards yourselves, if you fancy! All in all, my experience with Paperless Post was easy and enjoyable. I hope you check them out this holiday season!