This post is sponsored by VistaCreate.
I can almost hear you thinking….. A graphical editor? What does it have to do with the holiday season? We come to Thrifty Nifty Mommy for advice, practical information about family life, recipes, and giveaways; come ‘on!
Just give me a minute of your time as this instrument is worth your interest. During the holiday season as well as any other celebration time throughout the year, VistaCreate will quickly become your #1 source of inspiration for preparing the tiny, yet so essential, details that bring the festive mood to your home or event.
VistaCreate menu templates provide tons of ideas to list your favorite dishes and desserts for Christmas, your child’s birthday, and other holidays you’ll have with your family– all year round. More than that, it will provide original, professionally designed holiday cards to send wishes or invitations.
You’ll find VistaCreate is perfect for saving time, energy, and money.
What is VistaCreate?
VistaCreate is an online graphic design tool you can easily use to craft beautiful visuals for personal needs. What I like most about this instrument is its affordability: VistaCreate annual subscription is just $10 per month!
Starter plan | $0
What’s included:
- 100K+ design templates
- 1M+ creative assets / royalty-free photos, videos, and vectors (no direct download of photo and video, only for use in the editor)
- Brand Kit with colors, logos, and fonts (only 1 available)
- Styles feature
- Free fonts, music, animations, backgrounds, and objects
- 10 GB storage for files and projects
- Direct posting to Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest
- Post Scheduler (NEW feature since 11.08.2022)
- Logomaker
- PNG Transparent
Pro plan | $13/mo (or $10/mo if paid yearly)
The whole Starter pack plus:
- 70M+ creative assets / royalty-free photos, videos, and vectors (no direct download of photo and video, only for use in the editor)
- Team account up to 10 members
- Background removal feature (since 04.08.2022 in Pro plan)
- Unlimited number of Brand Kits (create as many Brand Kits as you’d like)
- Resize feature (one-click resize to multiple formats)
- Unlimited storage for files and projects
- Sticker Maker
- Version History (only 15 last versions are shown, each version is kept only for 3 months in a user acc, so after 3 months it will disappear from the versions list but the design will be still available for download)
Great For Beginners Or Pros
I like that you don’t need to be a professional designer or artist to create lovely images for social media, eye-catching cards to awe your friends with, or mouth-watering menus for family holidays and any other occasions. When you come to VistaCreate, whether in a browser or on a mobile phone, you get thousands of trendy templates at your fingertips that you can customize any way you want.
Professional designers select and regularly update Vista’s massive library so you have original cards or any other visuals to impress your guests. All you need to do is choose a menu or card design you love – and make it look yours with a few clicks in Vista’s user-friendly editor.
Features at a Glance
Ready-Made Templates
VistaCreate offers a massive library of bright, beautiful templates. The only problem is the challenge of choosing which specific template to use and resisting the temptation of taking all the gorgeous options. Given that the tool has 100K+ templates for about 80 different formats, get ready to train your tenacity and prioritization skills.
You also get free access to the whole library and can explore it to your hearts content. VistaCreate even provides the opportunity to create a team account so a group of people can design a card or other visual asset together. (Sounds like a new idea for a pastime with friends, right!?)
Original and Creative Assets
Besides the templates, you’ll find 70M+ creative assets like royalty-free photos, videos, and vectors to customize holiday menus, cards, and social media images in the best way possible. You can even animate your card here as well as add interactive objects to bring your designs to life – kids and friends will love it!
Browse endless high-quality images, and choose illustrations, animations, and music to get inspired by tons of ideas for creating top-quality visual content to surprise everyone during celebrations.
A Drag-and-Drop Editor
Every template you choose from VistaCreate’s library is easy to customize in their online editor. No worries about your design skills, or lack there-of: The interface is intuitive and easy to use. You get editing instruments right away and can do everything for visuals to fit your family style and mood.
Not only are you welcome to add objects or remove details from chosen templates, you can also upload your own pictures to the editor and then use them for designs. Do you have favorite family colors or maybe even a logo? Add them to your cards for spectacular results!
Instruments to Customize Designs
Sounds great so far, right? But what exactly can you do with templates to change them? The instruments available are numerous:
You can remove backgrounds from any image, design custom photo grids, resize and crop files, change colors, add frames or speech bubbles, and more. Feel free to flip and rotate images, apply beautiful filters, blur them, add texts of different fonts, and even add music for your holiday content to become special.
One more thing to like about Vista is the unlimited storage for files, which remains available for download long after creation. This means you won’t have to worry about your creative work disappearing once the holiday season is over.
Free Download and Sharing
Once your design is ready, you can share it with your social media followers on Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram directly from Vista, or, choose to save it to your device in the preferable format to use later.
You can print cards and other designs to decorate your holiday party or give to relatives as gifts or greetings. It’s also the perfect way to create beautiful invitation cards with Vista and send them to guests.
If you have the time and resources, you can invite relatives to a celebration via traditional postage but online invitations via email or messenger is the best option for cards with interactive design elements or if you want to save time on delivery and waiting for a response.
Final Thoughts
VistaCreate is a savior for busy moms willing to take care of everything during the holidays and not miss even the tiniest details to create a festive mood for themselves and their loved ones. Holiday menus, cards, invitations, themed posters – VistaCreate makes everything a breeze to create!
Leela
Monday 26th of December 2022
It looks like an amazing product.
Maria Egan
Saturday 24th of December 2022
It is neat that there is something like this for those of us that are real beginners in learning how to use these graphic design tools. I always like having templates to look at.