Gift ideas
Personalized Christmas Gifts from Photos: Ideas for Everyone on Your List
Personalized Christmas gift ideas made from your photos, for parents, grandparents, partners, kids and pet lovers, with tips on ordering in time in Canada.
The hardest people to shop for usually have everything they need. What they don’t have is your family’s beach photo as a watercolor painting, or their dog in a Santa hat on a mug. A gift made from a photo is personal by default, and it doesn’t need you to guess a size or a favorite color.
Here are ideas for the people on most lists, and what to know about ordering in time.
Festive styles
Two of our styles are made for this time of year:
- Merry Christmas puts a fluffy red Santa hat on everyone in the photo, pets included, and leaves the rest as it is. It’s an easy way to make a holiday card photo out of one you took in July.
- Winter Wonderland moves your photo into a snowy forest with falling snow and soft, frosty light.
For something cozy that isn’t tied to December, Storybook gives a photo the warm look of a children’s book illustration.
For parents and grandparents
A photo of the kids or grandkids is the gift here, and the style is a bonus. A soft watercolor of a family photo on a canvas print is ready to hang, and an acrylic photo block stands on its own on a mantle or bookshelf with no frame or nails needed.
For your partner
Pick a photo with a story: the trip, the first apartment, the day you got the dog. We have more ideas in personalized gifts for couples.
For kids
Kids love seeing themselves as characters. Try Chibi Anime, Blocky (built from chunky cubes, like a block-building video game) or Superhero, then make it a puzzle. The 48-piece size is made for small hands.
For pet lovers
A pet in a Santa hat on a mug is hard to beat, but there’s a lot more you can do. See our custom pet portrait gift ideas.
Stocking stuffers and family gifts
A photo keychain and a mug are the small ones. For a gift the whole household opens together, a 500 or 1,000-piece puzzle of a family photo gives everyone something to do over the holidays, and a set of four coasters suits a couple or a new home.
Ordering in time for Christmas
Everything we make is made to order, so it takes longer than something off a shelf. A few things to know:
- Check the estimated delivery date. Each product page and the checkout show an estimated delivery date for an order placed that day. We take 1–3 business days to check your image and send it to production, and then it’s made and shipped.
- Order early. Couriers are at their busiest in December, and made-to-order gifts can’t be rushed, so the earlier you order, the better.
- Combine gifts into one order. Shipping is a flat CAD$10 per order, and free on orders of CAD$125 or more, so it pays to order for several people at once.
- We ship within Canada. You can send an order straight to the person it’s for.
Previews are free and take under a minute, so you can try a few photos and styles tonight and order once you’ve found the one. Start on the styles page.
