Shopping for Christmas stationery online can be a lot of fun. Sites such as Zazzle offer you thousands of choices for Christmas letter paper, cards, and even envelopes designed for the holidays. But what looks good online may not always work so well in real life unless you remember a few simple pointers when selecting your letterhead.
1. Pick a design that allows plenty of room for text.. Amateur artists can get carried away with their letterhead artwork and forget to leave enough room for your Christmas letter. Be sure to pick something that will give you enough space to print your holiday letter on one or two pages.
2. Avoid paper with dark background designs. A dark background will make it difficult for people to read your Christmas letter. Most professionally designed letterhead available at office supply and stationery stores has a light background designed for easy readability, but watch out for dark or bright colors when shopping for letterhead designed from amateur art.
3. Select a design that makes it easy to format your text. Unless you’re comfortable creating text boxes, wrapping text around objects or manipulating tabs or indents in your word processor, try to select Christmas stationery that has even borders, not a design that juts into the main writing area of the paper in multiple places. Best choices are letterheads with banners across the top or bottom, with a border design that has a similar width around the whole page, or with an image in one corner so you can format most of the text around it.
You may also want to try using Christmas letter templates, which are pre-formatted Word documents that allow you to type your letter right in the document you’ll be printing, so there’s no guesswork when trying to print your text onto preprinted stationery. You can find Christmas letter templates at sites such as Christmas Letter Tips.com.
