My brother is currently in the US Army and is deployed to Iraq. He is looking for ways to stay in touch with family and friends. We’ve come up with two ideas. First I am setting him up his own blog, but many of our older family members still do not use the computer so that will not work across the board. For our second idea, we are going to make photo cards that he can send out to each family once every 3 months or so.  He wants to be able to take pictures while he’s in Iraq of himself and put them on the cover of the cards. I’ve been looking for cards at a reasonable price and I found a website I think has great deals.

Cards Direct has easily customizable cards. All you have to do is pick the general card you like and then you can put your own picture on the outside and your own words on the inside and outside. So really you have complete control over your final product. There is a minimum order of 25 cards which is not that many if you are sending them out across the entire family.  The prices are reasonable too, and not only that, but they offer some great extra features – 4 Lines of Personalization free, a custom verse, and free shipping. They estimate this to be a $65 value for FREE!

Here’s the card I found that I think we’re going to use. I really like the green border and think it looks very “armyish.”  If you are looking for custom photo cards, you too might want to check out Cards Direct.