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31 Holiday Cards to Inspire You This Season

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If you’re taking the DIY route on holiday cards this year but are blanking on what to do, you’re in good company. HOW Twitter follower Ben Lee recently expressed the same and asked whether we had any inspiration for him. Well, we do now. Have a look at the holiday card design below to inspire your creations this year.

Play Up the Type & Lettering

Make type the star like these creatives did:

holiday card design by Vintage Vectors Studio

Design by Vintage Vectors Studio

holiday card design by mary kate mcdevitt

Design by Mary Kate McDevitt

Editor’s Note: McDevitt is joining Bobby C. Martin Jr., Jennifer Kinon and Veronika Burian as one of Print‘s 2016 Typography & Lettering Awards judges. See more of her work here, and be sure to enter your typefaces, design type-centric pieces or hand lettered projects, before extended deadline Dec. 2, 2016! 

 

holiday card design by christina kwiek

Design by Christina Kwiek

 

holiday card design by qian sun

Design by qian sun

 

holiday card design by simple thoughts paper co

Design by Simple Thoughts Paper Co

 

holiday card design by Epic Layers Inc

Design by Epic Layers Inc

 

holiday card design by Stevanus Kurniawan

Design by Stevanus Kurniawan

Go Geometric

Use shapes to get your message across like these designers did:

holiday card design by Yiwen Lu

Design by Yiwen Lu

 

holiday card design by wood campers

Design by Wood Campers

 

holiday card design by tara tsang

Design by Tara Tsang

 

Tell a Story

Take this opportunity to tell your friends, family or clients a story, as the designers of the pieces below did:

Design by Serg Osokin

 

Design by Simon Laliberté, Jonathan Rouxel and Mourad 

 

Design by Dylan Mierzwinski

 

Illustrate Your Heart Out

Take some time to draw the sugarplums dancing around in your head.

holiday card design by Nick Matej

Design by Nick Matej

holiday card design by Mork Work

Design by Mork Work

 

Design by Sam Soulek

Design by Sam Soulek

 

Design by Tom Froese

Design by Tom Froese

 

holiday card design by Olivia Moore

Design by Olivia Moore

 

Design by Olga Zakharova

Design by Olga Zakharova

 

Design by David Moyer

Design by David Moyer

 

holiday card design by Sarah Corbett

Design by Sara Corbett

 

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Design by Hilli Kushnir

 

Let the Lines Out

holiday card design by Krista Hansen

Design by Krista Hansen

 

holiday card design by Daniel Haire

Design by Daniel Haire

 

Design by Yiwen Lu

Design by Yiwen Lu

 

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Buck Tradition

Delight your holiday card recipients with some out-of-the-box thinking, like these creatives did:

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Design by xoana herrera

 

holiday card Design by Joseph Veazey

Design by Joseph Veazey [Did you know that Veazey was a 2016 PRINT New Visual Artist?]

 

Design by Joseph Veazey

Design by Joseph Veazey

 

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Design by Justas Che and Anna Jarmolowicz

 

holiday card design by Ginger and milk

Design by Ginger and Milk

This was originally published in How Design.

 

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