1. Make sure there’s enough room for your letter. Amateur designers sometimes get carried away with their stationery artwork and forget to leave enough room for text. Be sure to pick something that will give you enough space to put your entire family letter on one or two pages.

2. Choose a light-colored background. 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. Pick a paper with a simple border. Unless you’re comfortable creating multiple text boxes or manipulating tabs or indents in your word processing software, you’ll want to choose 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, rather than preprinted stationery. Templates such as the ones we offer here allow you to create your annual holiday letter in a Word document that has already been set up for your text. So there’s no guessing what the final product will look like when you print it on stationery from the store. See our Christmas letter templates here.

Using a printable Christmas template for your annual holiday letter to family and friends is an eco-friendly way to make sure you’re not wasting paper – or running out! You’ll always have just the right amount.

What is a Christmas letter template?
A Christmas letter template is simply a document with a holiday design that has been set up for you to customize with your own content. Typically, they are saved as Microsoft Word documents, so they’re easy to edit. You simply download the document, open it in Word, and replace any sample text with your own. Basic templates may just have a Christmas background design inserted into Word with the text box already set up, or more advanced templates may include a place for you to add your own photo, or may be formatted as a newsletter with multiple columns, boxes and areas for you to write your own content.

Why Use a Christmas letter template?
If you’re concerned about our natural resources, a template makes sense for several reasons. First, you’ll never have to worry about having leftover paper that you can’t use. With a downloadable Word Christmas template, you’ll never have excess.

Second, you can always choose recycled paper. If you buy Christmas letter paper at the store, you may have a hard time finding a design you like on recycled paper, or the recycled content may not be up to your standards. With a printable template, you can print your holiday letter on the paper you prefer.

Third, there’s no shipping or packaging involved. Your stationery isn’t hauled across the country in gas-guzzling freight trucks or packaged in non-biodegradable plastic. So your purchase is greener and cleaner than stationery from the store.

You can find inexpensive printable Microsoft Word Christmas letter templates here at Christmas Letter Tips.com or at our partner site, ChristmasLetterTemplate.com.

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Clicking the Buy Now button will take you to a secure checkout page where you can purchase this template with a credit card or your PayPal account. You do NOT need a PayPal account to make a purchase.
NOTE: You will need Microsoft Word 97 or newer to open this document.

Why Choose Our Printable Christmas Letter Templates?
- No Wasted Resources. When you buy stationery at the store, you have to buy exactly the amount in their package, whether you need that many sheets or not. With a downloadable Christmas letter template, you only print what you need.
- Easy to Use. Your Christmas letter template is saved as a Microsoft Word document, so it’s easy to edit, and there’s no guess or measuring to figure out if your text will line up with the artwork on stationery you bought at the store. You’ll be able to see exactly what your Christmas letter will look like before you print it.
- Immediate Delivery. As soon as your secure order is processed, you’ll get an email with a link to download your template, so you can customize and print it immediately.

Clicking the Buy Now button will take you to a secure checkout page where you can purchase this template with a credit card or your PayPal account. You do NOT need a PayPal account to make a purchase.
NOTE: You will need Microsoft Word 97 or newer to open this document.

Why Choose Our Printable Christmas Letter Templates?
- No Wasted Resources. When you buy stationery at the store, you have to buy exactly the amount in their package, whether you need that many sheets or not. With a downloadable Christmas letter template, you only print what you need.
- Easy to Use. Your Christmas letter template is saved as a Microsoft Word document, so it’s easy to edit, and there’s no guess or measuring to figure out if your text will line up with the artwork on stationery you bought at the store. You’ll be able to see exactly what your Christmas letter will look like before you print it.
- Immediate Delivery. As soon as your secure order is processed, you’ll get an email with a link to download your template, so you can customize and print it immediately.

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Clicking the Buy Now button will take you to a secure checkout page where you can purchase this template with a credit card or your PayPal account. You do NOT need a PayPal account to make a purchase.
NOTE: You will need Microsoft Word 97 or newer to open this document.

Why Choose Our Printable Christmas Letter Templates?
- No Wasted Resources. When you buy stationery at the store, you have to buy exactly the amount in their package, whether you need that many sheets or not. With a downloadable Christmas letter template, you only print what you need.
- Easy to Use. Your Christmas letter template is saved as a Microsoft Word document, so it’s easy to edit, and there’s no guess or measuring to figure out if your text will line up with the artwork on stationery you bought at the store. You’ll be able to see exactly what your Christmas letter will look like before you print it.
- Immediate Delivery. As soon as your secure order is processed, you’ll get an email with a link to download your template, so you can customize and print it immediately.