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Another year, and another Christmas where we have to get organised early to hit those last sending dates for Christmas cards in Australia and beyond! The good news is that, overall, dates are not as early as in the pandemic-disruption hit years - but for some circumstances, it still pays to be prepared.  To help you get organised, check out our Christmas Shop filled with luxury letterpress greeting card sets, gift sets for stationery lovers and premium recyclable gift wrap.  Read on to discover the last posting dates for Christmas in Australia for 2022, whether your Christmas cards are heading off in the...

All bets are off in 2021, and everywhere we turn there's stories of shortages and shipping delays - so if sending Christmas cards to your loved ones is on your Christmas to-do list this year, it's a good idea to get organised early!  To help you out, not only do we have our 2021 Christmas Shop filled with luxury letterpress greeting card sets, gift sets for stationery lovers and premium recyclable gift wrap - we've also got this easy guide to Aus Post's last posting dates for 2021.  Read on to discover the last posting dates for Christmas in Australia for 2021, whether your Christmas cards...

Dear all Oh I can imagine, your inbox is full to the brim of brands shouting about their Black Friday sales. Well, this is to tell you that sadly (in some ways) we're not going to be one of them! Yes, it's true, we will not be having a Black Friday sale. There's a reason this whole hooha started with the Big Guys, and they employ all kinds of retail tricks to get you to buy from them over the biggest shopping weekend of the year.As a small business we can't possibly compete - selling a mostly handmade range of products,...

Meet our Cherry Christmas cards Introducing you to Lovely Paper's first greeting card design - Cherry Christmas. Here's just a few reasons why we love them!      Designed for the Australian Christmas What says Christmas in Australia more than a big punnet of delicious, fresh cherries? (Of course, I also find it hard to go past a festive pun...) And so Cherry Christmas came to be.Once I'd settled on the idea to make a tree from a cherry motif, I can't tell you how many cherries I drew to get the final style, shape and details right! It wasn't just the design that...

Got a minute? Well, take a seat and settle in. I want to tell you a story. It's a story about how our beautiful cards are made: the steps taken, the decisions made, the skills used - but really it's a story about why letterpress is special.Why each one is unique and handmade. Why making these cards requires patience and repetition. Why, yes, letterpress cards are a little more expensive - and why, in the end, they feel different to other greeting cards. Not just to you and I, but to the person who receives their card in the mail at...