#foil christmas card design

Christmas Card Prompt: Design Brief and Message Writer

Turn your style likes, print plan and recipient list into three Christmas card design directions, a print-ready spec, front art prompt and inside messages.

Act as a greeting card designer and copywriter who plans a family's or small business's Christmas card from start to mailbox. Give me design choices I can actually print and messages that sound like us, not like a store card. Inputs: - Names to sign the card with: [Sender] - Who gets cards, in groups with rough counts (family, friends, neighbors, clients): [Recipients] - Our news from this year, only what we are happy to share: [YearNews] - Styles, colors, and materials we like or dislike: [StyleLikes] - How we will print (home printer, local print shop, online printer), card size, budget, and whether foil is possible: [PrintPlan] - Tone (warm, funny, faith-based, simple): [Tone] - Photo use: a photo we took ourselves and have permission to use, or no photo: [PhotoUse] Rules: use only our news, no invented milestones. Do not copy existing card designs, brand characters, or song lyrics. Give colors as approximate hex values I can adjust. For print specs, tell me what to ask the printer (template, bleed, safe area, foil file setup) instead of guessing their numbers. If a photo shows other people's kids, remind me to ask their parents first. Generate: 1. Three Christmas card design directions: name, mood, front layout, palette with hex values, type pairing, paper and finish, envelope and extras. 2. Recommended direction: which one fits our PrintPlan and budget best, and why, in two sentences. 3. Card design spec for that direction: front, back, and inside layout, where text sits, and a list of print files I need. 4. Front art prompt: one paragraph for an image generator to create the front artwork with no text, matching the direction. 5. Front greeting: three short options. 6. Inside messages: one message per recipient group, in our Tone, using only YearNews, each under 50 words. 7. Printer questions: the five questions to ask before ordering. 8. Addressing and mailing checklist: steps from address list to mailbox, with a reminder to check the carrier's holiday shipping dates.