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Do you love a Victorian themed Christmas? Check out this beautiful Victorian themed Christmas card! Looking at this picture makes you feel as though you’ve traveled back in time to see two little girls and their pup, eyeing the Christmas tree and wondering what presents will soon be underneath it.

With their prettiest dresses and locks all done up, they’re surely ready for a visit from Santa. Notice the tree, lit with candles, as they were before electric lights came into play! Card measures 5 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches and comes with a white gold foil-lined envelope for even more of a stylish touch…enjoy!

These great San Francisco themed Christmas cards feature the Golden Gate Bridge at night. Lights twinkle under a full moon, the city just beyond. It’s hard not to love a city as beautiful as this one. If you love San Francisco as much as me, this card is perfect for you.

To add even more flair, consider the option of personalizing your cards with your family or company’s name on it! We also offer custom envelope imprinting, so be sure and check it out when ordering. Card measure 7 7/8″ x 5 5/8″ and comes with a silver foil lined white envelope.

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your branches green delight us.
They’re green when summer days are bright;—
They’re green when winter snow is white.
O, Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your branches green delight us!

This gorgeous Christmas card features a beautifully lit up Christmas tree in the middle of a forest on a dark night. It’s glow can be seen in the lake’s reflection, and the result is a simply stunning look for your holiday greeting. It brings back memories of a simpler time, and the true meaning of Christmas shines through. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

It is next to impossible that two snowflakes are exactly alike, as they grow at different rates and in different patterns depending on the changing temperature and humidity within the atmosphere that the snowflake falls through on its way to the ground.  Initial attempts to find identical snowflakes by photographing thousands of them with a microscope from 1885 onward by Wilson Alwyn Bentley found the wide variety of snowflakes we know about today. It is more likely that two snowflakes could become virtually identical if their environments were similar enough.

We are mesmerized by the beauty of the snowflake, and this card highlights their fantastically unique design. This exquisite navy blue and white Christmas card features an intricate design of a snowflake which has been laser cut to reveal the white pearly paper underneath. A silver bow holds the inner and outer card together. This square card measures 5 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ and comes with a white, silver foil lined envelope.

Here’s a great card to have friends and family laughing this Christmas. It seems like just about everyone’s in court for something, these days. Well, Santa is no exception, as he is seen here in this funny Christmas card…

Was Santa pulled over on a holiday run for speeding? Perhaps not having the toys his elves made submitted for proper safety testing? Not wearing a net cap in the candy kitchen? It’s hard to say what Santa could ever do wrong, which makes this card just that much more hilarious! Atleast he has a reindeer witness to back up his story!

If you love to laugh, this card is just what the doctor ordered. This card measures 7 7/8″ x 5 5/8″ and comes with a white, gold foil lined envelope. Have a very, merry, Christmas!

Is it just me, or is anyone else reminded of the Coca-Cola Polar bear with this card? He’s just adorable, only it looks like he may have indulged in one too many candy canes this year! If you love animals, this wildlife Christmas card is the perfect choice for you.

Did you ever wonder what the story is behind all of those candy canes and how they became so popular? They started out completely white, over 350 years ago. Beginning in Europe, they eventually made their way to the US. No one knows who invented the stripes that we have on candy canes today, but Christmas cards prior to the year 1900 showed only all-white candy canes. Christmas cards after that time period seemed to show the candy cane we’ve come to know and love today. It was also around that time period that candy-makers added peppermint and wintergreen flavors to their candy canes and those flavors then became the traditional favorites. Although, these days, you can get them in just about ANY flavor! Enjoy your candy canes and this great holiday card, too! Happy Holidays!

Have a yearning for a Christmas card with a bit of nostalgia? This card is the perfect choice to set your card apart from the rest! It features a painting done in 1886 by Lizzie Mack, entitled, ‘A Christmas Tree Fairy’.  The scene is set for Santa’s visit, as a little girl has slipped off to dream of a Christmas morning filled with all of the toys on her list. What a warm reminder of the beauty of childhood and the anticipation the Christmas holiday would bring!

This card will leave your friends and family feeling warm and fuzzy, and check our options for personalizing when ordering!

If you are someone who loves to save old letters and Christmas cards, you already understand what a potential future treasure trove your old Christmas cards will be to you one day. Just think: if you can get such a kick out of looking at old photos and holiday greetings, your someday grandchildren and great-grandchildren might find it even more fun to see them.

A large part of why millions of people worldwide send Christmas cards to their family and friends is to stay in touch and to send out holiday greetings and well-wishes. After all, the “trend” of sending Christmas cards is now well into its second century…and still going strong.

Another reason that so many folks wouldn’t even consider not sending out Christmas cards one year is because the cards themselves are memories in the making. They make a fantastic snapshot of the times of the family who might be sending the cards For example, it’s rather likely that at one point or another, you’ve looked at old Christmas cards and said to someone,“oh look at this old family photo on the card; can you believe that little Susie Q hadn’t even been born yet?” Or perhaps your family is the kind who can date a photo on a Christmas card going by the house that the photo was taken in (“that’s definitely the house in Springfield. Oh, I haven’t thought of that house in years.”). And of course there’s the ever-popular past-time of being both amused and slightly embarrassed by the clothing choices you might’ve made 20 years ago, as in “wow, I wore some really big glasses back then. Those were very stylish at the time, if you can believe it.”

The numbers are staggering.  Each and every year during the holiday season, mailmen all over the country and world are kept very busy delivering holiday greetings to everyone on your block (and the next block, and the next block…).  Typically, most households receive Christmas cards from friends and family, but often other cards will appear in the mailbox.  You guessed it:  I’m talking about those Christmas cards that are sent by companies or businesses.

For example, just this past Christmas, we received holiday greetings from our vet, our lawn service company, the tax accountant we use from time to time, the realtor who sold us our house, the attorney who worked with us on buying our house and setting up wills, our child’s pediatrician, and our family dentist.   My husband would like to add our congressman to the list, but I am not sure that a card from the Distinguished Gentleman from District 8 truly counts as a business Christmas card.  The cards were just as handsome as those sent by friends and family, even if the message came from a business.

While no one will argue that the motivation behind a business sending out Christmas cards to their client or customer list might be viewed negatively by some, but others would argue that they rather like knowing that they mean enough to their dentist or realtor to receive holiday greetings.  And, in the end, who doesn’t like getting mail from a business that isn’t a bill or invoice?  Especially mail that wishes a Merry Christmas and a very happy new year – that’s happy mail no matter who the sender.

Many times each holiday season, we ponder the question: is Christmas too commercial? You may have noticed there are fewer religious messages (or any acknowledgement of the Savior’s birth at all) on Christmas greeting cards these days. I’ve even noticed the ones that do acknowledge the true reason for the season, are often hideous or are not quite the message I’m looking for. I have to look really hard to find nice ones. Am I just looking in the wrong places?

Despite the occasional trouble finding the card of my dreams, this brings up one of the many beauties of photo Christmas cards. You can add any picture and any phrase you’d like. Religious or not. It also means a lot more to have a personalized card like that. Think about it…When you receive Christmas cards in the mail, which ones do you notice? Which ones mean more? A certain family member of mine saw me writing this blog post and answered “the ones with the money in them.” That’s not quite what I meant, but had to laugh anyhow. Somebody’s getting a lump of coal in their stocking!

I’m sure I’m not alone in that when I receive Christmas cards with pictures and/or a personal note, those mean so much more to me than a pre-printed impersonal message.  I can also put the photo greeting cards in a photo album.  The recipients of your Christmas cards are likely to enjoy such cards from you, too.