Cardthartic Spring 2024 Release

Spring 2024

Bright & Happy Magnets

84 total designs — Sold individually

2.5”x 3.5” ultra-strong button style

Packaged in hanging cello bag

Wholesale $2.50 each Retail $5 each

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SEE ALL 750 DESIGNS ON CARDS, BOXED NOTES, MAGNETS, AND MINICARDS IN BIG BOOK 2024 OR @ CARDTHARTIC.COM

DETAILS

Cards are 4.5” x 6.75” with branded envelopes $12.75 half-dozen whsl $4.25 each retail

Magnets are 2.5” x 3.5” packaged in hanging cello bags $2.50 each whsl $5 each retail

One Dozen FREE – SPRING SPECIAL –when you purchase a $350 mix of any Cardthartic cards, boxed notes, m agnets, and minicards by July 1, 2024.

BD #94178

There was a time we’d get all gussied up and go celebrate your birthday ...

That ship has sailed, sister. Happy Birthday!

BD #94176

Wishing you a day surrounded by beauty ...

and filled with love. Happy Birthday

BD #94174

Ever notice how some of us are great listeners and others love to talk, talk, talk?

BD #94177

Wishing you a day that makes it abundantly clear ...

how much you are loved. Happy Birthday

BD #94175

Once a star ...

Always a star. Keep shining!

C #94173

Such a beautiful soul …

As I was saying ...

How fortunate we are that she graced our lives.

Filling Envelopes with Empathy

Contributing Cardie

Paige Baker

The sweet new Little Reminders design to the right was inspired by Contributing Cardie Paige Baker . As our Creative team was developing this Spring ‘24 release, the very active Cardie Community member — and author of two popular cards — happened to email us that she’d been “looking for just the right card for just the right friend. My best friend from high school — godmother to my son and I to hers — has ovarian cancer,” Paige wrote. “I send her a card a week and know her inside and out, but we can’t see each other right now (damn cancer) so a perfect card is needed to take my place.” We’ll have to wait and see if Paige finds the new design “perfect,” but we’ve no doubt the dedication on the card back is. It reads: “ Honoring Paige’s Love for Pam ”

If you follow Cardthartic, you’ve likely read Cardie Newsletter stories about what an amazing gift for honoring emotions Paige has. More than sending cards, it’s like she’s filling envelopes with empathy.

“Dear Fairy Cardmother,” she wrote in her first email to us five years ago now. “Yes, I use a lot of cards because I am a trust and estate lawyer and so am always looking at final moments and giving comfort and solace and tissues. It is a privilege to be able to do this,” she said, “an honor really. When I shop for cards, I don’t necessarily have anyone in mind but, from past experiences, I know there will be many future moments of need.”

In the years since, when these “moments of need” arise, Paige has been known to choose a card, pen her message, and — before slipping the card into its envelope — thoughtfully snap pics. She’ll drop the shots in an email to us with the Subject line: Today’s Card Adventure! and, inside, provide a kind and concise summary of who will be receiving that particular card and why. You can imagine what learning our cards’ destiny means to a card publisher. Priceless!

some people, we really long to

see It’s been too long apart for you and me!

BD #LR609

In 2021, after losing her dear friend Beth to “mean, mean pancreatic cancer,” Paige shared, “Beth’s sweet husband called to say thank you for the cards over the last year. (Near the end, I would send something every two days.) Tim said he would reach in the mailbox and there would be another sage green envelope from me. ‘In that way,’ he said, ‘though you sent the cards to Beth, you also sent them to me.’”

In his own note to Paige, that gracious man may have spoken for all who know her when he wrote, “Words simply cannot express how much your prayers, encouragement, and cards meant to Beth and the rest of us. She treasured them and I read the last ones to her. During our darkest hours, your lovingkindness was a warm light and a treasure. God bless you, Paige.”

You don’t look a day older than you did yesterday. Happy Birthday to You!

BD #LR610 surprise!

Wishing you grins and giggles all along the way. Happy Birthday!

LITTLE REMINDERS

robins

Tere are moments we’d like to last a lifetime, and days we wish would speed by. Te wisest among us learns that the best we can do with our time is slow down, look around, and appreciate the beauty of each day.

Wishing you a good, long day to feel loved and appreciated.

Happy Birthday time

Cardie-inspired!

Best known for their beautiful birdsong, robins are seen as good omens. Tey lift spirits with their positive energy and show us how to move forward with tenacity and grace.

Wishing you a lovely day surrounded by those who make your heart sing.

Happy Birthday!

pussy willows ey symbolize hope and resilience. How do they make it through the harshest of winters and, come springtime, be the first to bloom?

By being as strong as they are gentle, sticking together, standing tall.

With you all the way.

We love that more and more of our card messages are coming from Cardie Community members. With the release of the new pussy willows design, Cardie Penny Schiller has blossomed into a Contributing Cardie, for it was Penny who planted the seed and then tended and nurtured the card into being.

Contributing Cardie Penny Schiller

Over the years, Penny has proposed dozens of icons she’d like to see on Meanings of Life designs. When she submitted the Introduce Yourself form in the Meet Fellow Cardies section of cardthartic.com several years ago, she wrote, “I’m a gardener by day, and I also enjoy taking my hands out of the dirt to send love in an envelope!” Then, in February ‘24, when she read the Cardie Newsletter featuring the Meanings of Life sun design, Penny emailed us that “the glorious SUN came out on Cape Cod today after what feels like seven years of gray skies.” Her Cape reference led us to ask if she bought Cardthartic at The Heritage Museum and Gardens in Sandwich, MA. She replied, “My husband Luke and I have been Heritage members since buying our home in 1993, and live a couple of miles away. We would go more often if our hands were not always in the dirt!

“I’m thinking Heritage needs some pussy willow bare root seedlings,” Penny said. “I have been personally trying to bring PWs back to the Cape. They used to be everywhere. The same thing happened where I grew up on Long Island: Development mowed them down. Awful.” That led to, “Hey, don’t we need a pussy willows card?!” We happily agreed.

The following week, our mailperson here on Miami Beach delivered a sweet box of a dozen pussy willow branches direct from Penny’s home on the Cape! “I forced these branches in my house,” she said, “but normal bloom will open with some warmer temps soon. The PWs will be fabulous this year. The native I have gets really large silver catkins like nothing you see in stores or florist shops. It’s a stunner. And when you see it with a crazy blue sky behind it, it is magical.” Does anyone reading this have any doubt?

“I’d like to dedicate the pussy willows card ‘To a hopeful Mother Earth,” Penny proposed, “and the most important person on it, my sweets, Luke.” And so it is.