Festive Friday 2019

It's all go here this week, the inbox and outbox are both full as today is Festive Friday! A special day for the greeting card industry to send our Christmas mail, creating a festive whirl of post arriving in the first week of December and getting us all in the mood for sending Christmas cards.

Following on from last year's lovely sparkly Nordic winter skies design that inspired the beautiful Pearl Drops collection for Portfolio Cards, this year I've chosen my favourite design from the Christmas Luminaire collection created for Katie Phythian Design. Bringing some Christmas peace and joy this little dove illustration will begin winging its way around the world today.

FESTIVE FRIDAY 2019 | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above clockwise from the top left: my desk looking organised early on - not so organised now! loving the christmas stamp designs this year, the lovely luminaire dove, some samples going out this week, close up of the hand finishing, two cutie robins peeking out from the penny kennedy christmas box,  posh choc to keep us all going!

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Christmas Edit 2019

Ooh the weeks are flying by! With Festive Friday & Black Friday popping up on the calendar for the 29th of this month it means that Christmas really is around the corner. Thought I'd get in the spirit this week with the now traditional Karika Nova Christmas Edit.

There are some really lovely relaxed colours, gentle captions and subtle finishes this year. Dulux's calming choice for colour of the year 'Tranquil Dawn' is making an appearance - I love how this is then spiced up with a zingy Christmas red. Lovely captions like 'Peace on Earth' 'Warm Wishes' & 'Joy' are especially welcome when considering the noisy world news at the moment. The shift to eco friendly materials is also perhaps creating a change from the more usual blingy festive finishes - I'm loving the natural themed prizes in the Anthropologie crackers below. I'm very much enjoying shopping Christmas this year, here are some favourites I spotted whilst out and about.

CHRISTMAS EDIT 2019 | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above clockwise from the top left: magical christmas woodland unicorn pack from oliver bonas, lovely personalised christmas card set from papier - driving home for christmas emma block, seasons tweetings from stop the clock, anthropologie bespoke crackers - love that the prizes in these are honey, tea and wildflower seeds - what a great alternative to plastic! to a dear daughter by five dollar shake, bit of fun with sparkly sprouts from oh squirrel, a playful feather trimmed mistletoe snowscape gift bag from john lewis, meri meri reindeer napkins, snowscape robins gift bag from john lewis, inspired illustration and sentiment from the hidden pearl with this peace on earth card, bit of sparkle with this ho ho ho card from oliver bonas. 

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Pearl Drops Christmas

After the bonfires have finished this week we've all started talking about Christmas, a good time for Christmas samples to arrive! Following on from Pearl Drops, a delightful effervescent greetings range created in a new collaboration with Portfolio Cards this year, is Pearl Drops Christmas. The festive cards feature a unique sparkly foil on crisp white environmentally friendly board. The Pearl Drops design style uses delicate fine lines, glistening gems, beautiful foiling and fizzy confetti-like drops to illustrate those special Christmas moments. The classic icons inspired by all things twinkly feature a frosted tree, nativity scene, Santa's sleigh and starry skies. Each design is hand finished in the UK and is packed with a silver envelope and excitingly available in the shops this Christmas!

PEARL DROPS CHRISTMAS | EMILY HAUCK KARIKA NOVA

above: a selection of designs from the pearl drops christmas collection I designed for portfolio cards, launched at pg live 2019, available to stock direct from portfolio cards. The unique foil is certainly tricky to capture in a photo - pop over to instagram to see some sparkly close ups soon. 

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