Gold Foil Holiday Card Inspiration

It's almost time to start thinking about the holidays! New at Minted this year are gold and silver foil pressed holiday cards – and they are gorgeous!! I curated 2 inspiration boards for minted.com featuring their new gold foil cards. The first board was inspired by Laura Hankins' beautiful holiday card Snow Fancy and the 2nd board I made includes a lovely design by Kelly Ventura called Shimmering Peace. Check out the rest of Minted's foil pressed holiday card collection right here. Enjoy the eye candy!

Snow Fancy Foil Holiday inspiration board by Hooray Creative

Shimmering Peace Foil Holiday board by Hooray Creative

New Year's Photo Cards

I've been busy working on the last of my holiday designs for the upcoming 2013 season. Voting is now open for two Minted design challenges: The Happy New Year's Card Challenge and the Quickfire Holiday Minibook Card Challenge. I have a few designs entered into each competition, so please check them out. As always, feel free to click on the image links below to vote for my entries. Also, please rate some of the other designs in the challenge to ensure your votes are counted.

Here are my NEW YEAR'S PHOTO CARD entries:

Noisemakers by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Art Deco New Year by Hooray Creative for minted.com

New Year Seal by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Classica by Hooray Creative for minted.com

...and here are my HOLIDAY MINIBOOK entries: Gilded Year in Review by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Pine and Flurry by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Painted Pine by Hooray Creative for minted.com

The minibook is an exclusive Minted product – a unique card format with chic grommet binding and tabbed pages with fully customizable text and photos.

The Big Holiday Card Challenge

As most of you know, I design stationery part-time and enter Minted design challenges whenever I can. Every year they host a competition in search of the best and freshest holiday photo card designs. It is the mother of all challenges and the truly talented designers are handsomely rewarded with big cash prizes!  The holiday card challenge grows bigger and more competitive each year, as new designers join the Minted community. There are 3348 entries this time around and many of the designs are AH-MAAAZ-ING! I put my best foot forward and submitted 25 designs to the competition. I had fun experimenting with different styles, typography and illustration. The stakes are high for this challenge, so I would be forever grateful if you could help me out and vote on my entries. Voting is open until June 24th and my designs can be found at the links below. You can rate designs on a scale of 1-5 and Minted sells many of the high-scoring designs. I love 5's of course! To keep the voting system as fair as possible, Minted asks that you try and vote on some of the other designers' entries as well right here . Thank you all so much for taking the time to look through my designs!

Joyeux Noël by Hooray Creative

Holiday Trimmings by Hooray Creative

Statement by Hooray Creative

Most Wonderful by Hooray Creative

Ribbon Happy by Hooray Creative

On the Slant by Hooray Creative

Candy Cane Heart by Hooray Creative

Merry Always by Hooray Creative

Frosted Window Panes by Hooray Creative

Offset Joy by Hooray Creative

Stacked Christmas by Hooray Creative

Happiest Holidays by Hooray Creative

Painted Wreath by Hooray Creative

Merry and Married by Hooray Creative

Christmas Lights by Hooray Creative

Making Spirits Bright by Hooray Creative

Merry and Bright Seal by Hooray Creative

Be Joyful by Hooray Creative

Seasonal Details by Hooray Creative

Retro Peace by Hooray Creative

Stately Name by Hooray Creative

Botanical Wreath by Hooray Creative

Glitter Be Merry by Hooray Creative

Merry Everything by Hooray Creative

Angled Be Merry by Hooray Creative

Here are just a few of my favorites at a glance!

Holiday Entries 2013 board by Hooray Creative. See more Minted.com

If you made it all the way through my designs, seriously, thank you so much for the support. Don't forget to rate a few more holiday cards here – or all 3348 entries if you're really ambitious!