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Craft-Inspired Holiday Cards & A Double Giveaway!

November 19, 2014 7 Comments

Craft-Inspired Holiday Cards from Pear Tree Greetings at HandsOccupied.com
Holiday cards have always been a big deal in my family. There’s always a big board in the kitchen every December filled with holiday cards from friends, cousins and extended family. Whenever I’m home for the holidays, a good hour or more is spent seeing how much my cousin’s twins have grown, who kids from the neighborhood married that year, and catching up on all of the latest family news.

As a huge DIYer and knitter, I love it when I find Christmas cards inspired by crafting. A great source for cards like these is Pear Tree Greetings. PS: If I ever have a kid, I’m going to be all over their knitting-themed birth announcements and baby shower invites. So cute!

But we’re here for the holidays, aren’t we? If you’re hosting a Christmas party, they totally have an ugly sweater party-themed invitation featuring papercut snowflake lettering. In case you were wondering, yes, you can customize it for a general holiday party, or even a knitting party if you want.

Craft-Inspired Holiday Cards from Pear Tree Greetings
As the child of parents who love to include a letter highlighting what the fam has been up to for the last year, I really appreciate this photo card with a knitting motif that features plenty of room on the back to include everything your heart desires.

Craft-Inspired Holiday Cards from Pear Tree Greetings
Not so much a knitter? Pear Tree Greetings also has a really sweet HO HO HO card that looks like it was cross stitched. It has panels with plenty of room for your holiday letter-style messages too.

Craft-Inspired Holiday Cards from Pear Tree Greetings
Want your card to survive the great Christmas card bulletin board takedown of 2015? Try this card that doubles as a picture frame and features cable knitting on the back.

Craft-Inspired Holiday Cards from Pear Tree Greetings
If you want to incorporate craftiness more covertly in your card, there’s a card featuring handmade ornaments strung on yarn that would be ideal for a family with young kids.

Craft-Inspired Holiday Cards from Pear Tree Greetings
Another more covertly crafty option is this folded card covered in different mittens. It incorporates knitting here and there in the design, but it’s also got holiday ornaments, trees and snowmen done in a lovely, retro, illustrated style.

Craft-Inspired Holiday Cards from Pear Tree Greetings
My favorite of all their designs, besides the baby shower ones, has to be these amazing knit mitten cards that come die cut in the shape of mittens and strung together – like real life mittens! I’m pretty sure these are going to be our actual holiday card this year, I love them so much. They even say “warm wishes” in an embroidery-inspired font!

Craft-Inspired Holiday Cards from Pear Tree Greetings

Double Giveaway – Win 1 of 2 $50 credits to Pear Tree Greetings!

Normally I would avoid waxing so poetic about something that’s not handmade. When it comes to Christmas cards, your mailing list is long when you’re time is short (hey, it’s the holidays after all). I’m all about making the most of my gift creating time, and the really adorable crafting-inspired designs from Pear Tree Greetings are a creative way to incorporate the handmade spirit in your holiday cards. If you’re loving these designs as much as I am, you can enter below to win one of TWO $50 credits to Pear Tree Greetings and get your hands on some of these sweet cards.

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This post was sponsored by Pear Tree Greetings – thank you so much for supporting Hands Occupied and for carrying card really unique designs like these!

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Heidi Gustad is a craft book author, designer & creator specializing in yarn crafts like knitting, crochet, latch hook & macramé. Her first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is out now.

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Comments

  1. Virginia Bronner

    November 19, 2014 at 9:35 am

    I like the knit mitten cards but not for the holidays, but as a baby shower invitation or announcement.

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  2. Katy

    November 19, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    I like the Shining Bright Foil Christmas cards…so cute!

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  3. Stephanie

    November 19, 2014 at 2:50 pm

    I love the mittens — it’s so cute that they are tied together with ribbon.

    Reply
  4. miranda

    November 20, 2014 at 5:29 pm

    Joy Wreath Vertical is pretty

    Reply
  5. gary

    November 20, 2014 at 8:21 pm

    I love best year foil

    Reply
  6. Nina H

    November 22, 2014 at 1:01 pm

    I love the 4 seasons card

    Reply
  7. Angela

    November 24, 2014 at 10:27 am

    I like the Holiday Cheer Doodle card. It is fun!

    Reply

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