Corporate Christmas cards — how to order with a logo and beat December

December corporate mail is a sea of identical print-shop cards: stock Santa, half-page logo, "The Team" signature. The client opens it, puts it down, bins it. A handmade card works differently — because it visibly cannot be sent to a thousand people. This text is for companies that want to send wishes to their twenty, fifty or hundred most important clients — and want those wishes standing on someone's desk until February.

What exactly I offer

Series of handmade Christmas cards from my studio — stylistically consistent but not identical: the same layout and palette with small differences in detail, because every piece is made separately. Your logo goes in discreetly: embossed on the inner leaf or on a plaque on the back — never as the main motif. The card should look like a gift, not an advert. Inside: printed wishes or space for the board's handwritten notes, your choice. The printed sentiments are in Polish by default; English inserts are available for international clients.

Pricing

• 20–49 pieces: €9 per piece
• 50–99 pieces: €7 per piece
• 100 and more: individual quote

Included: series design (you approve a prototype before production), the logo insert, envelopes, individual packing, and an invoice. For comparison: "premium" print-shop cards cost €2–4 but are print; mine are handwork, which at this price point has no mass-market competition — because it cannot be mass-made.

Deadlines — here is the catch

Handwork cannot be "reprinted". Fifty cards is about two weeks of my work, and December is taken by retail orders. So the calendar looks like this:

• September–October: the best moment to ask; full choice of styles, unhurried prototype approval;
• by 30 November: the last call for corporate orders;
• December: only ready-made series, if any are left.

The process

First: you write via the business form with the volume, budget and deadline. Second: within 24 hours I reply with a style proposal and a quote. Third: I make one prototype — you approve it or send notes. Fourth: series production and bulk shipping, or — for the cost of postage — direct dispatch to your clients, with notes.

Why it pays off

Let us count cynically. Fifty cards at €7 is €350 — less than one business dinner. But a dinner is eaten by one person, while a handmade card lands on a desk everyone walks past. Handwork has one more advantage: it feels wrong to throw away. A store card vanishes on 27 December; this one stands until February, reminding everyone who sent it.

If you are planning to send cards this year — write now. September enquiries get the full choice; November ones take what is left in the calendar.