I have added five gift boxed personalised Christmas cards to my shop including a design exclusive to The British Craft House. There are designs in traditional Christmas colours and also some with a more modern feel.
More Christmas designs to be added soon!
It’s never too soon to get organised for Christmas with my reindeer and robin designs!
We all had a smaller than usual celebration in 2020, so let hope that we can have the great big family get together we’re all craving this year!
My reindeer and robin designs are getting an upgrade for 2021 and will be featured on Christmas cards and gift tags, with personalised place setting cards and bunting added to the range.
Every design is hand stamped with antique brown coloured ink and is hand coloured with a red sparkle highlight.
All my designs are made using 100% recycled card, made in the UK.
My cards can be preprinted with your own personal message inside. This additional service is only £2 per set and if you’d like to preprint the inside of your cards, I’ll send you an additional bespoke link to process. Just add a note to your order.
All my Christmas cards come in sets of 8 but I can always look at a bulk buy price, so do get in touch if you send lots of cards.
Gift tags come in sets of 10 and are supplied with pre-cut lengths of 100% cotton baker’s twine.
To get you started with your planning I’m offering an exclusive 10% off robin or reindeer gift tags and also as an introductory offer on my personalised place cards. This offer is only for my blog readers! Enter BLOG10 at checkout, the minimum order is one set of reindeer or robin tags. This offer is only available via my blog and will run for the month of July 2021…..
The place cards are personalised and can be ordered in sets of 2 upwards.
The bunting is also strung on baker’s twine and there are lots of options available. I’ll be adding this design to my shop any day now, so do look out for it!
Can you think of something else you’d like to use my designs on? I’m always happy to work on bespoke orders, so don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Pick a reindeer or robin theme and go for it!!
Merry Christmas (in July)!
Tracey xx
As thoughts turn towards the festive season and I start adding Christmas items to my British Craft House shop, I had a question for you – do you still send Christmas cards?!
As a card maker, I don’t really have an excuse not to! And if you have read any of my previous blogs you’ll know I’m a big fan of sending cards just because! But over recent years I’ve had more and more conversations with people who have moved away from sending Christmas cards, whether it’s because it’s too time consuming at an already extra busy time of year, they prefer the ease and efficiency of sending an email to stay in touch or because they are trying to be more green.
So, if you’re sitting on the fence this year debating whether to make the effort, let me tell you why I think you should consider keeping the Christmas card tradition alive! Christmas cards are a great way to stay connected, and this year that’s probably going to be needed even more than ever. And it’s not just about reaching out to close friends and family – we all have friends and acquaintances who we wished we had more time to stay in touch with, and Christmas serves as the perfect opportunity to touch base with people and let them know you are thinking of them and what you have been up to over the last year. Admit it, who doesn’t look forward to that one family Christmas card every year that comes with a full on annual letter for you to have a good old nose at what certain friends have been up to?!
Everyone knows how busy the festive season can (usually!) be. In ‘normal’ times, it’s pretty impossible to attend every holiday party, dinner and festive drinks as you find your social calendar inundated with ‘pre-Christmas catch ups’ so for those you can’t fit in, sending a card is a great way to send best wishes for the holiday season without running yourself into the ground! In fact, the first Christmas card commissioned in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole came about because of this (you can read more about this here) and featured three generations of the Cole family raising a toast with the central
messages of the festive season being celebration and charity.
Studies have proven that receiving a card can spark an emotional connection and generate positive feelings, increase self-esteem and help to stave off feelings of loneliness and isolation. As the year draws to a close and it seems unlikely that we will get to celebrate Christmas as usual this year, it seems an even more important time than ever to think about sending a card. And lucky for you, you are spoilt for choice with a massive range of cards available for all tastes! If you are looking for something handmade I have a selection of mini Christmas cards available, or take a browse through the wide selection from my fellow card makers on The British Craft House here. Charity cards are a great option if you want to use the opportunity to donate to your favourite charity at the same time as sending some happy mail or if you want to send cards whilst keeping the planet in mind, check out somewhere like the Thoughtful Human and their range of plantable cards! There are also some great ideas on how to recycle and up cycle your own Christmas cards once the holiday festivities are over here.
So there you go, hopefully some incentives to have you reaching for the pen and stamps this festive season – let me know below if you still send Christmas cards and I’ll leave you with this fun Christmas card fact: do you know why robins appear so frequently on Christmas cards? Because during the mid-1800’s, Royal Mail post men were nick named “robin redbreasts” because of the red waistcoats they wore as part of their uniforms, so robins began appearing on cards as symbols of the men who delivered them!