Looking for some unique and handmade Christmas cards for 2022? Well, look no further! Here are 10 amazing and creative ideas for you to try out.
1. Hole in my Pocket
Architect and artist Allistair J Burt is known for illustrations with a fantastic sense of humour. In recent years he’s started to develop retail products, including some wonderful Christmas cards. Made from thick 330gsm, FSC credited paper stock, these cards have a light satin coating on the outside, while the inside is left uncoated, making it easier for you to write a message. Each card is individually scored, ensuring a clean fold, and comes with a simple 100% recycled brown envelope.
2. The Completist- Handmade Christmas Cards 2022
The Completist creates unique and colorful printed paper goods and accessories to brighten any desk. Their products are inspired by the things they stumble across that give them a dopamine hit – anything from a 1996 Dries Van Noten runway show to 1960s Saul Bass movie posters. This year they have a great selection of Christmas cards and wrapping paper starting at just £1.
3. Sean O’Brien
Based in Brighton, Sean O’Brien is an illustrator and animator whose clients include FT Weekend, Djøfbladet and Ferment Magazine. We love the colourful Risograph cards he’s selling on Esty this Christmas, of an Ice Skater, Snowman and Broken Snowman. There are some lovely A4 prints here, too.
4. Wild Collection by iyouall
London-based iya studio has been winning respect for its client work over the last 12 years, and it also has its own interior design store, iyouall, which offers this Wild Collection of Christmas greeting cards for 2022. These cards take the brand’s signature glyph pattern and lets it swirl across the page with a shimmering touch of festive spirit. Designed in-house by the iya studio team, the cards are beautifully foiled by Typoretum, using metallic foils with Wild Papers from GF Smith.
5. Katie Leamon
Katie Leamon is a design-led card and stationery brand rooted in the desire to create a beautiful, practical design with tangible craftsmanship. They have a beautiful collection for 2022, all sustainably made and handprinted on their tabletop press. These cards are inspired by vintage memorabilia and typography, including Victorian Christmas cards and patterns.
6. Hollie Fuller
Hollie Fuller is a freelance illustrator and maker from Lincolnshire whose playful approach to image-making is inspired by people, things and the mundanities of everyday life. This year she has four A6 festive card designs available to buy from her website, either individually or in multipacks. Printed in the UK on 300gsm stock, each card comes with a recycled kraft envelope, plastic-free, in a hard-backed envelope.
7. Ellis Tolsma
Ellis Tolsma is a freelance illustrator who loves playing with shapes, colours and materials in her work. This year she has a couple of lovely Christmas card sets, each coming in a choice of six, 12 or 24, on her site. The format is A6, printed on high-quality 350gsm sulphate board. She’s also working on a Riso printed A3 calendar, coming soon.
8. Natàlia Juan Abelló
Natàlia Juan Abelló is a freelance illustrator and surface pattern designer from Barcelona, based in Saddleworth, Greater Manchester. For the last four years, she’s been designing a set of four cards every year, so she now has quite a collection in her shop. You can buy them as a set, individually, or create your own bundle of four cards.
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