Little cards of fun

Happy Monday to you all, I hope you are reading this after a lovely weekend and looking forward to this last week before Christmas. I spent a lovely long time yesterday looking around festive posts and pretties online and I particularly loved all the cards I came across in my virtual travels.

Here in England we don't have a family holiday card as such which includes a family photo and I think is this is such a shame. There have been some gorgeous personalised cards available this year and I wanted to share a few of my favourites with you today before I shared my own handmade cards.

(Country Heart)

This card could easily become a decoration for the following years.

(Violet Pickles)

I love the simplistic illustration on these personalised family cards.

(Rifle Paper Co.)

The ornate detail on this illustrated card is gorgeous and Rifle Paper have an endless amount of beautiful designs don't they?

(Olliegraphic)

I would absolutely love to send these and really considered it this year but the shipping cost sadly made me reconsider. Aren't they super cute?

For my own cards I always try and make my own for immediate family each year. I wanted to have a blue and red theme to match my wrapping this time and bought individual cards and envelopes from my favourite stationery shop Paperchase. However, I had the decorations for the front of the card in my mind from October but held off from buying them because I was hoping to see them in store and save myself the shipping costs. Of course when I came to order online, as I hadn't seen in store they no longer sold the product - typical! So I had to have a little rethink and ended up going with the Santa and Drummer designs below attached with a little dainty ribbon.

I forgot to take a photo of the opposite combination (red cards/blue ribbon) but I was pleased with both colour ways. I also hope people can detach the decorations and add them to the Christmas tree next year. How about you, what do you send as Christmas cards? I have so many inspiration pictures saved in a folder and always find it hard to make up my mind. Would love to know what you do each season.