If you want your choice of Christmas card to reflect your impeccable design taste, then these Pantone Christmas Cards should hit the spot.
The design features tasteful graphic snowflakes set against one of four Pantone colours. Choose from the metallic shades of Silver 877c or Gold 871c, or the very Christmassy colours of Red 032c or Green 354c.
The cards are sold individually, priced £2 each, from Nineteen Seventy Three.
These Seasonal Toys Christmas cards are inspired by objects in the V&A museum's massive collection. By seasonal, they mean toys very much in the Christmas spirit, such as the clockwork reindeer pictured which dates from the 1970s.
Each pack contains three designs so, as well as the reindeer, you also get an image of a 1970s toy train and a late '40s clockwork turkey. Perfect for a bit of seasonal nostalgia.
A pack of twelve cards costs £4.50.
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It's the 1st December so time to start properly getting into the Christmas spirit. If that for you includes starting to think about decorating the tree, you may want to look at these 'instant heirloom' glitter ornaments from Anthropologie.
I'm not sure that they do live up to their product name in being something that you'll pass down through the generations but, if you want a very traditional look for your tree, these should should certainly do the job. They are a set of six glass bulbs, decorated with glitter – you'll probably remember something very similar on your gran's tree. These are also described as being 'age-stained', presumably to make them look like something you've dug out of the family attic.
The set comes in a retro-looking box and costs £24.
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We've featured many of the fun 1970s style Darling Clementine designs before. For their Christmas Collections Card set, they seem to have looked a bit further back in time for inspiration.
The set of six designs are influenced by vintage cards. Each card has a classic Christmas motif – the sweets, the baubles, the sleigh – all topped off with a greeting executed in a 50s font and added gold spray for that festive shimmer.
A set of the cards costs $21.
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Send your festive wishes mid-century style this year, with the Alexander Girard Christmas cards available from Lagom.
The cards add to their existing range of greeting cards based on Girard's colourful designs. Girard apparently amassed nativities for the International Museum of Folk Art in Santa Fe (in term inspiring the recently issued nativity set) so it's no surprise these influenced his work. Shown above is a card based on a 1962 Nativity Angel. You can also pick from a card featuring a Nativity dating from 1968 or Flying Angels from 1971.
Individual cards cost £1.80 each, or you can get a set of the angels in three different colours for £3.40.
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Christmas is coming and what could be more festive than the strains of Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing Little Drummer Boy? Well, we’ll tell you – wearing this Slazenger Heritage 1970s ‘Bing Crosby’ lambswool cardigan while you listen to it.
Yes, Slazenger has nipped into the archives and founnd the design for the cardigan Bing was wearing at that recording in 1977, a light blue number in extra fine lambswool with six-button fastening, a classic Slazenger logo on the chest and a slim fit.
Perfect for the Christmas day wear, you can pick one up while stocks last for £75.
