My pick for a Christmas ecard for coworkers is one with the coworkers in it. On Tangy Limes you upload a team photo, the faces get cut out, and three or four of your colleagues dance through a short music video with an original Christmas song, mouths moving to the words. You post one link in the team chat. The whole thing runs about 40 seconds, short enough to watch between meetings.
I like it more than the usual group card, the one where everyone writes "Happy holidays!" in slightly different handwriting and you can't tell who meant it.
The office one: Ugly Sweater Party
Ugly Sweater Party fits three faces, and it opens at a tacky office holiday party. Tinsel on everything, a fake tree, a disco ball, and three people in light-up sweaters with pom-poms doing cheesy synchronized pointing. So your first scene is just your office, if your office tried harder.
Then a living room crammed with decorations and a toy train circling, where one dancer in a giant reindeer sweater with a pom-pom nose does the robot. Then a rooftop at night with an inflatable Santa and string lights, everyone in sparkly striped leggings doing a can-can kick line. It ends at a snowy backyard bonfire in ugly scarves and mittens.
Three faces means you have to choose. Some ways to pick:
- The three people who actually showed up to last year's party
- Your manager, plus the two people who sit closest to the printer
- The coworker who never turns their camera on, now dancing on a rooftop in leggings. They can't mute this.
For the whole team: four faces
If three is too few, two cards fit four.
Merry & Bright opens in a living room with a tree covered in gold lights, four people in matching green pajamas doing a shoulder shimmy. Then a kitchen with trays of cookies, aprons and wooden spoons, a snowy yard at night in puffy coats, and a fireplace where everyone sways and claps like a gospel choir. Putting the finance team in matching pajamas is a gift to everyone who isn't on the finance team.
Holly Jolly Family is plaid pajamas by a huge tree, a snowy yard full of blinking inflatable snowmen, and a kitchen where everyone tosses gingerbread cookies in ugly reindeer sweaters. It says "family" on the label. If your company has ever called itself a family in an all-hands, you're covered.
What to write on it
The big headline says HAPPY HOLIDAYS or MERRY CHRISTMAS, and you can type over it. For coworkers, keep it funny without needing a meeting about it afterward. Some that work:
- HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
- MERRY CHRISTMAS. PER MY LAST EMAIL.
- SEE YOU IN Q1
- WE SURVIVED ANOTHER YEAR OF THIS
- OUT OF OFFICE UNTIL JANUARY 2ND
Type the names into the intro too, like "To the support team, from the third floor." Then turn on captions for anyone watching on mute at their desk with one eye on their manager.
Faces, sending and the boring part
One photo from the offsite covers it, since the faces in it get found. No group photo? Use a few separate ones, including the badge photos. The faces are real cutouts with no AI changes, so everyone looks like themselves, for better or worse. You tap to choose who dances where, and you can shrink a head that came out too big or paint back hair that got clipped.
To send it, make a share link on the card page and paste it in the team chat. It's a plain web page that plays the video, so nobody installs anything or signs in. You can also download the MP4 for the big screen at the party, or email it to up to five people from the card page.
Christmas is Friday, December 25. Send it before your team scatters for the holidays, while people are still pretending to work. The preview is free to watch. Keeping a card is $1.99, paid once, and a pack of 3 is $4.99 if you also want one for New Year's and a separate one for your boss. Nobody gets signed up for anything monthly.