Holiday Wrapping Paper Entries

Minted is launching their first-ever personalizable holiday wrapping paper collection. They asked the Minted design community to come up with modern, unique, personalizable gift wrap designs that should include photos and/or custom text. I entered 11 designs into Minted's Outside the Box Holiday Gift Wrap Challenge, though the first one displayed in this post is my favorite! Voting is now open. To rate my designs, click on the image links below or look for Hooray Creative right here. Thanks for checking out my work!!!

Festive Floral customizable gift wrap by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Blue Spruce customizable gift wrap by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Holiday Mashup customizable gift wrap by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Snowflake and Stamp customizable gift wrap by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Candy Cane Stripes customizable gift wrap by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Holiday Icons customizable gift wrap by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Holiday Line Art customizable gift wrap by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Rustic Joy customizable gift wrap by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Modern Garland customizable gift wrap by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Candy Cane Ribbon customizable gift wrap by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Hanukkah Stripes customizable gift wrap by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Featured Save the Date Card

Just this past week, I was super stoked to see my save the date photo card included in two lovely Minted marketing emails. The featured design, Photogenic, is available for sale on minted.com in multiple colorways as a 5"x 7" save the date card and also in a postcard and magnet format. Here's to hoping the extra marketing promotions result in a sales boost for my card! Check out the eye candy below:

Photogenic Save the Date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Photogenic Save the Date magnet by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Father's Day Greeting Card

Minted recently announced special awards for their So Special Greeting Card Challenge Special Prize Winners. I was completely taken by surprise when I learned my Dad Diagram greeting card won "Best Father's Day" card. Woohoo! Check out Minted's post about the rest of the greeting card award winners on their design blog, Julep.

Dad Diagram greeting card by Hooray Creative on minted.com

Holiday Minibook Winners

Minted recently announced the winners and editor's picks from their Quickfire Holiday Minibook Card Challenge. I am super excited to have 2 of my designs (Painted Pine and Gilded Year in Review in the Top 20 and 1 additional Editor's Pick (Pine and Flurry). There were some fabulous designs in this challenge so I am thrilled to be a winner among such a talented bunch. All 3 of my minibooks will be included in Minted's holiday card collection for 2013. See the chosen designs below:

Also, definitely check out the special prize winners on Minted's design blog, "Julep" right here! Congrats to all the winners!

Personal Stationery Challenge

It's that time again! Voting is now open for Minted's Quickfire Stationery Gifts Challenge. Personal stationery  makes a great gift and I'd love to have a few designs for sale on minted.com for the holiday shopping season. Show your support by clicking on the image links below and rate my designs on a scale of 1-5. High scores preferred! ;)

STATIONERY FOR THE LADIES: Handpainted Botanicals

Chic Monogram

Modern Geometry

Copper

Vintage Bird

Watercolor Stripes

Blooming

Growing Vines

Abstract Floral

FOR THE MEN: Metropolitan Man

Fancy Man

Highlighter

Anchor Illustrated

Bold Chevrons

...AND A FEW FOR THE KIDDOS: In the Clouds

Hello Around the World

Garden

Vintage Race Car

Handdrawn Hello

As you can see from the variety of my designs, I tried a lot of different approaches in hopes of hitting on a fresh idea. Some of entries are more successful that others, but I think there's something for everyone. If you have a favorite, feel free to leave a comment or feedback. Thanks for looking at my work!!

Calendar Challenge

Here are my entries in Minted's calendar challenge. These calendars feature your photos and allow for personalized text on each month.

Pastel Stripes calendar by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Handpainted Pattern calendar by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Watercolor Brush calendar by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Modern Stripes calendar by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Summer Party Inspiration

Here's a little bit of summer eye candy today! I made this inspiration board featuring my Sweet Type party invitation, which is available for sale on minted.com.

Sweet Summer inspiration board curated by Hooray Creative for Minted.com

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!

Holiday Party Invitations

I recently entered a few designs into Minted's Holiday Party Invitation Challenge. I pulled these designs together rather quickly, but I was pretty happy with the outcome of my "Modern Botanicals" party invite (pictured below). Voting is still open for this challenge right here, so feel free to go rate some designs. I love high scores! ; )

Modern Botanicals holiday party invitation by Hooray Creative

Modern Winter inspiration board curated by Hooray Creative for minted.com.

...and here's all of my holiday party entries for Minted.  top left to bottom right: Cheers & Sparkle, Modern Botanicals, Fireworks, Chic Martini, Holiday Soiree.

All designs by Hooray Creative

Watercolor Love Minibook Featured

Hooray! My Watercolor Love Wedding Invitation minibook has been featured in a marketing email AND on the homepage of minted.com.

  and on the home page: Purchase Watercolor Love on minted.com

Minibooks for Minted

I'm super excited to have 3 minibooks now available for sale on minted.com. I originally entered several designs into Minted's Lifestages Minibook Challenge and came out with 2 editor's picks and a winner. My Tropical Date minibook took 15th place – woohoo! This particular design was inspired by the tropical destination wedding I have always wanted. The minibook is an exclusive Minted product – a unique card format with chic grommet binding and tabbed pages. The minibooks I have for sale are intended to be used as wedding invitations or save the dates with fully customizable text and photos. I have also designed matching respond cards, thank you cards, skinnywrap labels and envelope liners that can be purchased in addition to my minibooks on minted.com.

Tropical Date minibook cards by Hooray Creative, available for sale on minted.com

Modern Union minibook cards by Hooray Creative, available for sale on minted.com

Watercolor Love minibook cards by Hooray Creative, available for sale on minted.com

Tropical Date minibook

Tropical Date, matching skinnywrap label and envelope liner

For anyone unfamiliar, Minted is a global community of independent designers and online retailer of fine paper goods, including stationery, party décor, art prints and much more. Minted holds frequent crowd-sourced design competitions, in which submissions are voted upon by designers and consumers alike. Winners and curated editor's picks are then sold on minted.com.

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