Holiday Stickers: you, but as Santa

Every December, chats fill up with the same trees and snowmen from default packs. Holiday Stickers offers a different way to send greetings: upload your own photo and get a sticker that turns you or your friends into festive characters. 🎅

It is a Telegram Mini App, so there is nothing to download. Nearly 400,000 people have used it over time, but it lives on a seasonal clock: peak traffic arrives at the end of the year, and in summer it is quiet.

How a photo becomes a holiday sticker

The concept is simple. You pick a photo, and the app turns it into a sticker in holiday style, with the face from your picture becoming part of a festive look.

You will not find that sticker in any public catalog. It exists only for you and whoever you share it with, which is exactly why it gets more laughs than any stock image. 🤶

Photos that work best

• Close-up portraits. The face should fill a good chunk of the frame, or fine details get lost.
• Sharp shots. A blurry party photo turns into a blurry sticker.
• Plain backgrounds. The simpler the background, the cleaner the cutout.
• Big expressions. A grin, a surprised look, a wink. Stickers are about mood, and a neutral face falls flat.

If you are making stickers of friends, ask first. Not everyone wants to see their face on an elf in a hundred-person group chat. 😄

Turning results into your own pack

Finished images are easy to gather into a custom sticker pack. Telegram has this built in: when you send a photo, you can turn it into a sticker and add it to a new or existing set.

1. Make several versions in Holiday Stickers with different photos and expressions.
2. Save the results to your device.
3. Create a set with Telegram's sticker editor and add the images.
4. Share the pack link with family or coworkers.

A static Telegram sticker set holds up to 120 stickers, which is plenty for the whole crew. ⭐

Where these stickers shine

The family chat before the holidays: grandma as a snow queen will get more reactions than any glittery e-card. The work chat: a shared pack with the team's faces breaks the formal mood during the last week of the year.

And a greeting for someone you have not talked to in a while. A personal sticker shows you spent a minute on them instead of forwarding a generic picture.

Before you upload

You are sending the app a photo of a face, which counts as personal data. Leave out pictures of children and documents, and only use other people's photos with their consent.

The app is seasonal, so outside the holidays it may respond slowly or not offer every mode. Make your stickers early in December rather than on the night of the 31st. 🎄