Design your holiday newsletter on your computer as a self-mailer, seal with a decorative sticker, address and mail without an envelope.
For people who live in warm climates or near the ocean, create a sandman dressed in “Frosty” attire with a twist: straw hat, chili pepper nose, seaweed scarf and two eyes and mouth made out of shells. Then gather everyone around your creation for your holiday portrait.
Print your greetings on paper, roll, tie like a scroll, and insert in recycled 16 ounce plastic soda bottles. Use your paper shredder to cut up old holiday wrapping paper or buy paper shreds to put in the bottle for color. Apply a self-stick mailing label and postage for a greeting that won’t get lost in the holiday shuffle.
Show off your children’s artwork by designing a greeting to be inserted and glued or stapled into holders they designed and created.
Instead of the usual staged holiday photo with the hastily mounted decorations or the fake backdrop, why not send a truly off-beat card? Take a photo of everyone at the beach sporting bathing suits and Santa caps.
Use a digital camera, or scan conventional pictures and create photo postcards on paper made for this purpose.
Set up a Website showing off your holiday wishes to family and friends. There are many places that will host a site for free.
For long-distance relatives and friends, set up a camcorder during dinner at a holiday or group gathering to allow those not there feel as if they were part of the fun. Ask the attending guests to record personalized greetings for a “card” they’ll keep forever.
Send electronic greeting cards to family and friends connected to the Internet. Most services are free.
Use your computer’s clip art or desktop publishing program to create completely original and personalized cards for each recipient.
But why send a greeting card when you can send a "greeting cake?"