Houzz Call: Show Us Your Original Holiday Card

Calling all designers! We want to see your original Christmas and Hanukkah card designs

Vanessa Brunner November 30, 2011

Houzz Contributor

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Getting cards in the mail through December makes the anticipation of the upcoming holidays so much sweeter. Opening pleasant surprises in the mail is always fun, and seeing what creative cards your friends and family have come up with is even better. Of course, if you're lucky enough to be on the mailing list of a designer, architect or other creative person, you may end up with a bonafide piece of art in your mailbox.

If you create a beautiful holiday card each year, we want to see it! Share a scan or photo of your holiday greeting here, and it could end up in an upcoming ideabook for the homepage.

Gary Hutton Design

San Francisco designer Gary Hutton is known for his amazing annual holiday cards. Each unique card is a result of a collaboration between Hutton and graphic artist Tom Bonauro. The alliance has been blessing the San Franciscan design world with stunning holiday greetings for the past 25 years. Each package — such as the one above from 2010 — includes a graphic wrapping, a printed greeting, and a quirky object (a piece of chocolate, beeswax, soap, and even Swarovski crystal). These greetings have started to gather a bit of a cult following. They've appeared in a book by Amy Sedaris; Director Gus Van Sant is on the list, and Michael Stipe of R.E.M is a fan.

Noel Cross+Architects

Noel Cross of Noel Cross Architects sends out a simple holiday card with a pencil illustration by his mother. Before she passed away, she left him a collection of wonderful art — including this drawing of a barn near Milpitas Calif. she sketched in 1947.

Cross had it made into notecards, then added the wreath and personal notes by hand. "We're pretty low-tech," he says. "And we love a good hand-drawn sketch."

Munger Interiors

Sisters and interior design team Amy and Elizabeth Munger of Munger Interiors in Houston, Texas, stick to something simpler for their holiday card.

This year they came up with a basic trifold with a holiday message to send out to clients, family and friends. The bold color and cheerful feel of the card echoes the sisters' interior design style as well.

Show us your card! Do you design your own holiday greeting? Upload a scan or photo in the comments below, and it may end up in an upcoming featured ideabook!

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accustomed2u

Letter from Father Christmas!

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Mariana Pickering (Emu Building Science)

well this is embarrassing but...

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nanakeroyd

This is my husbands latest painting. I had him photograph it, printed out into card and wrote All Creatures Great and Small, Merry Christmas...this is of a fawn behind our back yard last summer. She came to visit us today...all grown up with her winter coat. I make our cards every year, sometimes my art, sometimes his. If my art is from a childrens story i have written, i enclose a condensed version of the story. Makes our cards more personal.

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