Crane

Check out one of my Christmas cards now available at Crane.com!

Christmas Garland

New Minted Holiday Designs

My newest Minted holiday card is now for sale.  I love the photo they selected!

Joy

Joy to the World

Holiday Photo Card Time

It's that time again!  I know it's only the beginning of June, but in the stationery business that means holiday photo card preparations are in full swing!  I love entering Minted's design contests and the holiday challenge is always the most thrilling.  This year there were over 2300 amazing submissions.  I would really appreciate your votes for mine as well many of the others that made it to the top 700.

And, as a little incentive, Minted has a $500 gift certificate up for grabs! Everyone who rates at least 50 entries will be entered into a drawing for a $500 credit on Minted*. Ten additional voters will be chosen at random to win a gorgeous Minted T-shirt. Take a quick break, and help reinvent the traditional holiday card.

Here are my 2011 designs:

http://www.minted.com/design-rating/28016

http://www.minted.com/design-rating/29981

http://www.minted.com/design-rating/27119

holiday photo cards

My apologies (to Facebook fans, especially) for all of this Minted talk!  Holiday cards are my favorite to design and their latest contest has some major rewards!  So, even though I was on vacation for 10 days and this was the last week of school for my kindergartner, I had no choice but to find time to create and enter designs for the 2010 holiday card challenge.  These are my 7 designs.  Right now, Minted is having a first round voting phase to eliminate 75% of the 1300+ designs that were entered.  Hopefully some of mine will survive this round!  I'll let you know when official voting begins.  Wish me luck!!

Christmas photo cards - pinwheel holiday

Whew - I'm finally finished with my family Christmas cards!  I never wait until this late in the season because it's just too hectic this time of year, but I changed my mind at the last minute and decided to finally take the plunge into letterpress.  Fingers are crossed that they turn out as beautiful as I hope because I want to expand into that market in 2010.  I'm already working on fresh, modern wedding designs.

Anyway, this was the card I was originally planning to send out (with more current photos - those are from last year), but I'll probably want to send the completely different letterpress cards instead - especially since they cost exponentially more!  This digital design isn't for sale on Pen + Parchment because it can be quite time-consuming to crop and layout the photos, but it can be ordered by special request.  Feel free to contact me for more information about this digital photo card or custom designed letterpress holiday cards.

elegant holiday photo cards

All-in-one digital photo cards are definitely the newest trend.  In this economy, holiday cards adorned with layers and bows have become a luxury that many customers just can't afford.  Here are some of my favorite elegant digital holiday photo cards. . .

Sweet Scrollwork by SanLori

Merry Little Christmas by littleday press

Vintage Holiday by Stacy Claire Boyd

holiday photo cards

My new digital holiday photo card collection is now available at Pen + Parchment and should be available at several other partner retailers in the coming month.  My littleday press line is professionally printed on 110lb smooth white card stock.  100% recycled stock is also available by request.  Looking forward to a fun (and hopefully busy) holiday season!

holiday photo cards

I wish I had been able to dedicate more time to Minted's most recent holiday card contest, but with the chaos of a final summer vacation and back-to-school prep, I just wasn't able to really focus. I did enter four fun designs, but I doubt any of them will be winners this time around. There weren't that many entries total, but there were several other really beautiful designs. I would love your votes (anyone reading this blog?) if, for nothing else, some encouragement and respectable scores :) As usual, designs not selected for sale by Minted will be available through Pen + Parchment and other littleday press retailers this fall.

Here are the direct links:

http://www.minted.com/design-rating&id=6503

http://www.minted.com/design-rating&id=6403

http://www.minted.com/design-rating&id=6455

http://www.minted.com/design-rating&id=6458

joy

"Joy" was one of the winners of the 2009 Holiday Card Design Challenge! This was one of my favorite entries. I hope it sells well on Minted.com this Christmas season! I will be adding the rest of my new holiday card designs to Pen + Parchment this fall.