FOIL-PRESSED HOLIDAY CARDS
Holiday cards are about expressing your style just as much as wishing happy holidays to your loved ones. With so many items to cross off your Christmas countdown checklist, it’s important you create the perfect holiday card early so it can be in the mail by early December. Designing a customizable Christmas card is where you get to show your style and taste. Foil Christmas cards and holiday cards are beautiful, stylish, and smart. Foil pressing adds a luxurious gleam to your cards that can’t be matched. Learn more about foil printing and the customizable options on our foil pressed holiday cards in the sections below.
What are Foil Stamped cards?
You may have seen elegant lettering that reflects light on wedding invitations or birth announcements. These were probably foil pressed cards. Foil pressing goes by many names, including foil stamping, hot stamping, foil printing, foil blocking, and more. No matter which name you choose, they all refer to the processes of binding thin metallic foils to paper.
Civilizations were doing archaic versions of foil printing almost a thousand years ago. It mainly came in the form of pressing gold leaf into leather book covers for decoration. Since books were all handmade and rare to come by, foil printing was as well.
In fifteenth-century Europe, printing suddenly became easier and more accessible through the invention of Johannes Gutenberg’s movable type printing press. Additionally, this press was the predecessor of modern letterpress techniques. As books became more widely spread, the demand for gold leaf foil-pressed book covers did as well. This also made the price of gold skyrocket.
In modern-day, foil pressing is done by a machine instead of by hand. However, it still requires the handiwork and close attention of a craftsman. While there are different variations in the technique, modern foil printing follows this structure.
First, a computer-generated design is printed as a film negative and placed on top of a photosensitive plate. When exposed to light, the design hardens and stays raised on the plate and the rest of the space is washed away. This creates a die, or the specialized stamp used for foil pressing.
This die is inserted in a printing press specifically designed for foil stamping. Next, the die is heated up. Paper is fed through the press as foil is placed between the paper and the die. The hot die presses foil into each sheet of paper. This causes the foil to bond to the paper’s surface so that it can’t come off, creating the finished foil pressed card.
You may have noticed that some cards have printed photos or designs as well as foil pressed designs. For example, a foil-pressed save the date card may have “Save The Date” written in foil letters on top of the couple’s picture. In this case, the couple’s picture was first printed normally onto all of the cards. Then, these cards underwent the foil printing process to add the foil lettering on top.
Why Choose Foil pressed Holiday Cards?
At Minted, we use real foil so that your foil pressed holiday cards are nothing short of perfection. Our exclusive foils will make your card shine, elevating them to the epitome of luxury. Our foil’s glimmer will give your cards a new and unprecedented dimension of depth. Backed by a rich and complex history, foil pressed stationery at Minted is guaranteed to be elegant and contemporary.
All of our foil pressed holiday cards can be customized to your liking. This year we’re offering a wide range of chic foil colors: red, green, gold, silver, rose gold, bronze, glittery silver, glittery gold, ice blue, and black. Gold and silver are the most classic colors. They can be used on foil pressed cards of all styles, and pair especially well with Simple & Minimalist or Classic & Elegant cards. Rose gold and bronze foils are unexpected, and will capture the attention of your friends and family for weeks. Glittery silver and glittery gold will create a bolder shine. Their gleaming nature makes them match well with photo cards of young children. Ice blue and black foil colors are much edgier. These may appeal to young couples or people who want cards in a Bohemian style. Lastly, red and green foil will be the hit of this holiday season. Beautiful, festive, and new to Minted this last year, red and green foil are the quintessential elements you’ll want for an elegant Christmas card.
In addition, the foil pressing process does not use any ink. This means that foil can be printed atop paper of any color and it will still show up. Because of this, foil printing opportunities are endless and can be incorporated into cards of any kind.
Another reason to choose foil pressed cards this holiday season is that foil pressed products are completely recyclable. This makes foil Christmas cards a great option for those who focus on sustainability.
Customizable Features
At Minted, we are dedicated to providing you with fresh and unique designs that you can personalize to match your vision. For that reason, we offer many different customizable options so that you can create your perfect holiday card.
This year, we are offering more foil colors on our foil pressed holiday cards than ever before. Again, these ten exclusive colors are red, gold, silver, rose gold, bronze, glittery silver, glittery gold, ice blue, and black. Check out our brand new red or green foil holiday cards to give your friends and family a card to remember.
Additionally, all of our foil pressed card designs come in multiple color options so that you never have to settle.
We offer foil pressed photo holiday cards and foil pressed non-photo holiday cards. Foil pressed photo cards come in many forms from foil pressed frames to foil pressed lettering over a picture. Foil pressed non-photo cards go above and beyond regular non-photo holiday cards. Add a realistic sparkle to a glass of champagne or allude to New Year’s Eve fireworks with an abstract and bubbly pattern.
Foil pressed cards work for any occasion. No matter what kind of holiday card you’re looking for – holiday, Christmas, religious Christmas, New Year, or business – Minted has a foil pressed option for you.
Foil pressing can elevate a holiday card of any style. We offer a variety of styles that all work well with foil pressed cards:
- Simple & Minimalist: A thin foil pressed border is a perfect, understated touch needed to uplift a Simple & Minimalist card.
- Modern & Edgy: Add a contemporary and aesthetic marbled border to make your Modern & Edgy Christmas card stand out.
- Classic & Elegant: Raise the gracefulness of a Classic & Elegant card with luxurious foil pressed lettering.
- Funny: Great for families with babies or young children, Funny holiday cards contain playful quotes but remain sophisticated with their mature, foil pressed elements.
- Vintage: Combine an old-fashioned style with modern foil-pressing techniques to produce a lovely holiday card that people of all ages will love.
- Botanical: Highlight festive plants such as wreaths, holly, and Christmas berries with foil detailing on a botanical Christmas card.
We offer cards in seven different sizes in 2024. From smallest to largest, they are ornament, petite, postcard, classic, grand, booklette, and all-in-one.
We have seven different card Silhouette™ shapes that you can choose from: straight edge, rounded corners, classic frame, curved frame, waved frame, scalloped circle, and tag. Use a straight edge, rounded corners, and classic frame shapes as your go-to card shapes. If you want to try out something more unique, try out the curved frame, waved frame, and scalloped circle shapes. The tag shape is perfect for Christmas and includes a cut-out hole at the top of your card in case anyone wants to hang it from the tree.
With six distinct paper options, your personalized foil-pressed cards will be perfect literally down to the paper they’re made on. Choose from Signature, Signature Smooth, Recycled, Pearlescent, DoubleThick, and TripleThick™ options to find the paper that will fit your budget and mesh well with your foil pressed card design.
Designs to Match Your Dreams
Every element of your holiday card is customizable, and we won’t stop helping you until you get it exactly the way you imagined. We offer free unlimited proofs so that you can make changes, no matter how small, until your card is flawless. If you loved designing your card, then we have some good news. You can also design customizable accessories to match your holiday card. Impress your friends and family by taking this year’s holiday card to the next level with beautiful address labeling, elegant slip-in envelope liners, and our festive Skinnywrap™ Address Labels.
Even More Foil Press
Can’t get enough of these beautiful foil Christmas cards? You can use foil pressing on cards for other upcoming occasions you might have as well. Besides holiday cards, Minted has foil pressed options for save the dates, wedding invitations, birth announcements, and graduation announcements. If you’re looking for something you can use every day, look into our customizable foil pressed personal stationery. You can also check out our foil pressed art prints for something to permanently display framed in your home. Choose anything from customizable maps, wedding vows, quotes, nature prints, and more. If you’re excited to learn more about historical and contemporary foil printing methods, read more on our main foil pressing page.
