The funny Christmas card of outtakes

How the outtakes fit

The layout is fixed and forgiving: the card photo sits on the left with its proper caption, and three polaroid-framed outtakes — tilted, the way they come out of the shoebox — stack on the right. You drop in four photos and type four short captions in the browser editor; the tilts, frames, and print margins are already handled. If your year produced more than three outtakes, congratulations, and you can save the rest for next year’s card.

Caption well running dry? The funny wording topic and the cards-from-the-dog topic both have honest-one-liner energy you can copy in one tap.

Fronts that pair with it

Any of these fronts can carry the outtakes back — a serious front with a truthful back is the classic pairing:

• Peppermint Stripe
• Polaroid Pile
• Pajama Party

Questions people ask

How many photos does the outtakes back need?

Four: the presentable shot, and three outtakes that can be as blurry or as chaotic as they like. Each outtake is a tilted polaroid with its own caption line, and the captions are where the joke lands — two to eight words is plenty.

What should the outtake captions say?

Tell the truth in the smallest possible words: take 14, the dog had other plans, we gave up and ate cookies. If the well runs dry, the funny Christmas card wording topics have outtake lines you can copy in one tap.

Can I print the outtakes back at a photo counter?

Yes — it prints on both card sizes, 5×7 and 4×6, wherever photo cards are made. The print size guide lists the exact trim and the counters that take each size.

Print sizes and where to print covers trim, bleed, and home-printer settings.