New Holiday Cards at Minted

Hooray! My 2013 holiday assortment is now available for sale at minted.com. The collection includes all sorts of christmas cards, new years cards, holiday ornament cards, corporate cards, postcards, minibooks, gift tags, personalizable wrapping paper, etc. The banner below is just a small sampling. (click on image for larger view)

Top Left to Bottom Right: 1 Joyful Script, 2 Ribbon Happy, 3 Retro Snowflakes, 4 White Noel, 5 Pine and Flurry, 6 Most Wonderful, 7 Gilded Year in Review, 8 Stacked Christmas, 9 Noisemakers

Holiday Ornament Card Featured

Woohoo! One of my new holiday ornament cards is currently featured on the homepage of Minted.com and was recently spotted in a Minted marketing email as well. Check out the rest of the holiday ornament card assortment here. They're super cute! I plan to send these out for Christmas myself. :)

Baby Shower Invitations

It's time to vote again! I have 5 designs entered into Minted's On the Way! Baby Shower Invitations Challenge. I admit I was a little bit out of my element on a baby shower themed challenge, so I just went for clean typography and sweet illustrations. I'm not sure if these designs will resonate with expecting mommys, but I think they're cute. :) Please feel free to click on the links below and vote on my entries. As always, thanks so much for checking out my work!

Sweet Garden Shower by Hooray Creative for Minted

Floral Baby Border by Hooray Creative for Minted

Cloud 9 by Hooray Creative for Minted

Giraffe Family Portrait by Hooray Creative for Minted

Baby Blocks by Hooray Creative for Minted

Please make your vote count and rate some of the other designs in the competition as well, right here.

Holiday Gift Wrap Winners

Some good news this week! I had 2 winners (6th and 12th place!) and 4 editor's picks in Minted's Outside the Box Holiday Gift Wrap challenge. Minted will be launching it's inaugural collection of unique, personalizable gift wrap for the upcoming 2013 holiday shopping season and I'm so pleased to be included! My 6th place design scored a rating of 4.0267, which is a personal best for me. Hooray! I'm also celebrating another little milestone with this challenge – I have finally reached a total of 55 Minted awards. I've been trying to crack 50 for awhile now, so these gift wrap wins were extra rewarding. :) See the rest of the winners from the gift wrap challenge here.  Some great stuff in there. I personally can't wait to buy some wrapping paper!

Left to Right: Festive Floral, Holiday Icons, Blue Spruce Holiday Gift Wrap

Left to Right: Modern Garland, Snowflake and Stamp, Holiday Line Art Holiday Gift Wrap

Save the Date Cards

Voting is now open for Don't Forget! Minted's Save the Date Challenge. This is one is one of my favorite challenges, so I have designed bunch of photo and non-photo save the date cards for brides and grooms-to-be. Please check out my entries and show your support by voting. Click on the image links below to rate my designs on a scale of 1-5 or go to minted to vote right here. Thanks!!

Destination New York save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

In the Loop save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Tropical Love save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Touch of Class save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Sweet Embrace save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

State your Date save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Elegant Script save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Floral Engagement save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Retro Script save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Yes! save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Perfect Type of Love save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Classic Romance save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Photo Shoot save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Finally Gettin' Hitched save the date card by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Minted Holiday Card Winners

I received exciting news this week!!!!!! 2 of my designs in Minted's "Oh What Fun" Holiday Card Challenge placed in the Top 40 out of 3348 entries! Minted's annual holiday card challenge is very competitive and many talented designers enter, so I am extremely honored to be in the winner's circle this year. Thank you so much to everyone who voted, liked and/or commented on any of my holiday designs. I am forever grateful for your support!

12th place: Most Wonderful available at minted.com

25th place: Ribbon Happy available at minted.com

1 Merry Always 2 Stacked Christmas 3 Happiest Holidays 4 Making Spirits Bright 5 Merry and Married 6 Be Joyful

All 6 of these designs are or will be available for sale on minted.com very soon!

Congrats to all the winners in this challenge! See the Top 10 or check out all 3348 submissions! Also, see my 12th and 25th place designs in Minted's blog posts detailing the Top 11 - 20 winners and the Top 21 - 40 winners.  Hoping I can be lucky enough to crack the top 10 next year!!

FYI: My Rustic Joy holiday photo card, that won 11th place last year (see blog post), is now available for sale in my Zazzle shop, right here.

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.

Children's Art Prints

Voting is open for Minted's Good for You Children's Art Challenge. I experimented with some different design and illustration styles and made 3 personalizable art prints that would be lovely for a nursery or child's room. Please show your support and visit the links below to vote for my entries!

Sleeping Koala art print by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Submarine art print by Hooray Creative for minted.com

Cloud Nine art print by Hooray Creative for minted.com

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

Art Print Wins 2nd Place!

Exciting News! My art print, The Fields, came in 2nd place out of 835 submissions in the Minted Art: CALL FOR ENTRIES challenge. One of my highest scoring designs yet, which took me by complete surprise, but I'll take it! I love abstract fine art so this piece is very me. It will soon be available for purchase in a variety of sizes on minted.com.

The Fields, by Hooray Creative - art for minted.com

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

Irish Wedding Inspiration

I made this inspiration board for a wedding invitation suite I have for sale on Minted.

Classic Claddagh board by Hooray Creative. See more unique Minted wedding invitations

Purchase my Classic Claddagh wedding inviation suite right here