Yes, your ugly sweater party invite can be a video card: the hosts' real faces, cut out of one photo, dancing in light-up sweaters and singing. On Tangy Limes, use Ugly Sweater Party (it fits three faces), rewrite its HAPPY HOLIDAYS headline into the invite, and text one share link to the whole guest list.
A paper invite tells people there's a party. Three hosts doing the robot in reindeer sweaters tells them what kind.
How to make the invite
- Put the hosts in. Upload one photo of the three of you. The faces are cut out, and you tap to choose who goes on which dancer. Give the robot to whoever owns the most extension cords.
- Rewrite the headline. HAPPY HOLIDAYS becomes UGLY SWEATER PARTY. Or SWEATERS MANDATORY. Or JUDGING IS FINAL.
- Watch the preview. It's free and has your faces in it. If a head looks big for its dancer, shrink it. If the wrong roommate got the robot, swap them.
- Send it with the details. The headline is the hook. The time, the address and the dish rule go in the message you send with the card, where people can copy them into a maps app on the way over.
Message to copy and fill in: Ugly sweater party at ours. [Day], [time], [address]. Worst sweater wins. Bring a dish or a worse sweater.
What's in the card
Ugly Sweater Party opens at a tacky office holiday party with tinsel on every surface, a fake tree, a disco ball, and three dancers in light-up Christmas sweaters with pom-poms, ugly on purpose. Then a living room crammed with decorations and a toy train circling the tree, where someone in a giant reindeer sweater with a pom-pom nose does the robot. Then a rooftop at night next to an inflatable Santa and a can-can kick line in sparkly striped leggings. It ends at a snowy backyard bonfire, all scarves and mittens.
An intro shows your names, then those four scenes, set to an original song. The faces are real cutouts from your photo, with no AI changes, and only the mouths move. So pick a photo where all three of you look like yourselves on a good day.
Make the song the invitation
You can also get a custom song for the card, for $9.99. You say what it's about (the day, the dress code, the prize for worst sweater), it's written to fit the card's dance, and you can change every word before you pay. Then your own three faces sing the dress code at your friends.
Getting it to the guest list
Make one share link and paste it into the group chat. It opens a plain web page that plays the card, so guests don't install anything or sign in to anything. You can also email it from the card page, for the friend who won't join group chats on principle.
Posting it instead? Save it square for an Instagram post, or tall for Stories.
Other cards that work as invites
House Party Invite already says YOU'RE INVITED. It's square and fits three: an open front door with balloons at dusk, a kitchen counter piled with pizza and chips, a living room turned into a dance floor, and a backyard with string lights.
Holiday Boy Band fits four, for when hosting is a committee. Fake snow, lasers, matching white outfits, then a cozy living room in ugly sweaters, Santa's workshop and a snowy mountain resort.
The preview costs nothing, so make it now and look at it. If it makes you laugh, keep it for $1.99, one time, no subscription. Spend the rest on extension cords.