Summary
25x Xmas cards with each person getting something unique to them, based on their experiences and our relationship
I wanted something different for Christmas cards this year – not just ‘nice’ cards, but for each recipient to receive something truly unique to them, that speaks to our personal shared history. They had to be physically printed, real cards – not cop-out ‘e-cards’ (charged at outrageous 99.9% profit margins).
Process
- Use MidJourney to create 1 card for each person (see below)
- Open each image in new tab (to get the high-res preview)
- Save Image as…
- Go to Moo.com which does ‘every christmas card unique, at no additional cost‘ (and is a high-quality printing company)
- Order 25 x Xmas cards (linked from front page as one of their winter products)
- Upload all your images
- Total cost: ~$45
Details / prompts
For each person, I thought of something that would have personal meaning to them, and then added ‘christmas’ or ‘snow scene’ or ‘winter’ to it.
e.g. for Scottish friends with cats:
“scottish cats one tabby one ginger in santa hats looknig at xmass tree causing trouble” (sic)
“scottish cats looknig at xmass tree causing trouble” (sic)
e.g. for someone with a puppy that likes to rip-up wrapping paper at xmas:
“woman swearing at xmas tree and pitbull terrier running excitedly”
Additional notes
- Moo.com was essential to this – many printing companies were charging $10 per card, or “minimum print run: 250 identical card” – but moo is famous for not being tied to the archaic ‘every print must be the same, for no technical reason at all’ business models.
- A lot of the cards were more personal than this – but would make no sense if you don’t know the people involved – so I’ve picked from the more generic ones