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Best Places To Make A Family Christmas Card In Detroit

A good Christmas card can make or break the capstone for your own year! Customized greetings and stationary allow you to also send your friends and family members a personalized touch this holiday season with your own Christmas cards, many you can personalize and create right here in Metro Detroit. There are also a few great online options when it comes to creating a card that will be the talk of the holiday season, so we'll share those as well. Whatever you do or wherever you choose to go this Christmas, give it your own personal touch to let them know you care.
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Catching Fireflies
419 Detroit St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 531-6293
catchingfireflies.com

This quaint little gift store, with three locations throughout Metro Detroit in Ann Arbor, Rochester and Berkley, is certainly a one-of-a-kind shop. For the best in personalized gifts, Catching Fireflies has you covered. Whether you want to create a top notch Christmas card or perhaps send along something else personalized that still screams you and your personality, Catching Fireflies has what you need. Plus, you can get your Christmas shopping done quickly, too!

Nest Detroit
460 W Canfield St. #101
Detroit, MI 48201
(313) 831-9776
www.nestdetroit.com

In the heart of Midtown Detroit is a store filled to the brim with all sorts of personalized nick knacks, gifts and greeting cards. This holiday season, if you want to not only send a greeting that will show off your personality, but also help to support a local Detroit brick and mortar store staffed by fun and creative people, then Nest Detroit is the place for you.

City Bird in Midtown Detroit
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City Bird Detroit
460 W Canfield St.
Detroit, MI 48201
(313) 831-9146
www.ilovecitybird.com

Sometimes, your own personal design might not be the right touch for your perfect Christmas greeting. If you're looking for some of Detroit's best artists and creative folks to lend a hand this year, City Bird Detroit is just the place for you. This Midtown Detroit store specializes in selling some of the coolest and most interesting creations and greeting cards from some of the Motor City's most innovating gift creators. Never give out a bad gift again with City Bird Detroit on your side.

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Write Impressions
407 S. Washington Ave.
Royal Oak, MI 48067
(248) 541-8921
www.writeimpressions-mi.com

When it comes to creating actual greetings, be it with a photo of you or your family or a personalized holiday message, with everything from each fine detail to the next thought out, there's no better option than Write Impressions. And with their convenient location right in Royal Oak, you can stop into their shop and work with their team to be sure that your Christmas card is looking absolutely perfect before you have them printed and sent out to everyone on your mailing list. Please check out their website to see some of the other work they've done for happy Metro Detroiters.

Detroit On Canvas
(888) 533-6278
www.detroitoncanvas.com

If you want to print out a bunch of Christmas cards with your own image, but don't want to spend a fortune doing so, then Detroit On Canvas has all of the tools you'll need. Just give them a call to describe the type of order that you'd like, and they help to custom create a new order for you that will have your cards as the talk of the holiday season. Plus, for larger orders, Detroit on Canvas offers bigger discounts for the more that you buy, so if you're going to create a Christmas card for your office or extended family, these folks can get you an amazing deal! Give them a call to find out more.

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Michael Ferro is freelance writer and a graduate of Michigan State University where he majored in Creative Writing and received the Jim Cash Creative Writing Award. Born and bred in Detroit, he currently resides in Ypsilanti Township. Additional writing can be found at Examiner.com.
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