My 2025 Halloween Card

 

Years ago, if someone had told me I’d find more joy in sending Halloween cards than Christmas ones, I wouldn’t have believed them. Yet, here I am, completely hooked! Halloween card design comes with far less pressure. Unlike the intense holiday rush in late December, late October feels refreshingly relaxed, giving me more creative freedom. Plus, recipients seem to cherish these spooky cards more than Christmas ones, which often get lost in the holiday shuffle.For my 2025 Halloween cards, I’m thrilled to share a design inspired by the eerie yet captivating Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily. As a fan of graveyards, crypts, and catacombs, I was disappointed that I was not able to visit this site during my Italy trip, but its haunting imagery makes the perfect card cover.

 

I had a blast decorating the envelopes with five unique Tim Holtz stamp sets, paired with his striking ink products.I’m so passionate about crafting these cards that I’ve already planned themes for the next three years! I hope you’re as excited for Halloween as I am—here’s to a spooky, creative season!

I haven’t blogged about all of the Halloween cards that I’ve made over the years, but I have about these two. If you’re interested just click on the highlighted links below.

Halloween Card 2024

 Halloween Card 2011 

Happy Halloween! My Card for 2024

 

I think that I probably enjoy making and sending Halloween cards more than any other card that I send throughout the year. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy sending Christmas cards as well, but there is something about Halloween that makes creating cards fun. I don’t have to limit myself to the holiday exactly; I can choose anything that I consider suitably spooky to share by way of my card. I have found so many strange, unusual, and downright bizarre things over the course of the past couple of years that I have my Halloween cards planned out for the next decade.These cards went into the mail over the weekend, and I’m pretty pleased with this one. When you first look at the front of it, my guess is that most if not all of you would not have the painter Vincent van Gogh popping your head first thing. But it should, and now it probably will, because this is an early work by van Gogh. I loved doing the research on this, the details of which are contained on the interior of the card.The envelopes are something I enjoy doing as well. Truth be told, it is a rare day that an envelope goes out of this house without some sort of embellishment, even if I’m paying the tax man. I just can’t let a plain envelope go. As a consequence, I have accumulated a lot (an embarrassing amount) of Halloween rubber stamps, largely those produced by Tim Holtz, because his are among the finest, cleverest, easiest Stamps to work with. 

Those that I used on the envelopes include:

Framed Frights

Mr. Bones

Unraveled

Sketch Manor

Mini Blueprints #7

I was disappointed that the post office didn’t come out with a stamp with a Halloween theme this year, so I had to stick to those from years past. I know that with each passing year, it gets more and more expensive to mail things, but that’s not going to stop me. I love doing it, and I do believe the recipients are pleased as well.

Happy Halloween!

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