Time to get to crafting for the holidays, and Martha Stewart Crafts offers so many possibilities for paper crafters, from handmade Christmas cards to pretty ribbons to paper villages.

Featured above (clockwise, from top left):

Compartment Cookie Boxes - perfect if you’re shipping several different kinds of cookies to friends and family

Woodland Glittered Ornament Card Kit - one of many kinds of ornament card kits that are available

Frost Christmas Card Kit - love the faux bois paper!

Frosty Village Decoration Kit - what could be more awesome than a paper village?

Buttercream Wood Grain Ribbon - ooh, more faux bois

Frost Photo Frame Cards - photo frame cards seem to be a big trend this year

images from Martha Stewart Crafts

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your journal writing friends? Well, look no further than Elum’s gorgeous fabric covered offerings. I love the custom designs that grace the covers. $21.99 each.

Elum also has lovely desk sets — a complete collection of beautifully designed letterpress note cards and envelopes in a sophisticated storage box. Each set contains over 300 pieces and contains everything one will need (minus stamps and a pen) to keep up with correspondence. $150.00 per set.

Psst…you’ll want to check out their letterpress holiday cards while you’re there; however, many designs seem to already be sold out, so grab them up while you can!

images from Elum

I’m digging these fresh, modern holiday card designs from Redbean. A must see collection for those with an eye for design. My favorites include (clockwise, from top left) Snowflakes, Robins, Reindeer, and Woods. $18.00 per set of 12 of a single design.

The cards are also printed using environmentally responsible inks, which makes them a great choice for those looking to shop “green” for the holidays.

Redbean also has an eye candy-licious collection of holiday gift tags. Alas, they’ve already sold out. But you can still look!

images from Redbean

Charming and oh so kawaii letterpress holiday cards from Fugu Fugu Press, a husband and wife team out of Pasadena, California. Alfie the snow dog looks quite content, and who can pass up friendly-faced chestnuts? Psst, even though Halloween has passed, you have to see their skeleton card. Brilliant design.

Clockwise, from top left: chestnuts, alfie, kobito elves, and happy hanukkah. $16.00 for a set of 8 of one design.

images from Fugu Fugu Press

A Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate the holiday. And to all of you who will be traveling to be with friends and family for the big day, I wish you a safe trip. Regular posts will resume on Monday!

Featured above are cute retro Thanksgiving cards from Squeedles’ Etsy shop. The hand screen printed cards are on sale for $5.50 for a set of four.

image from Squeedles

Lovely. Modern. Sophisticated. Elegant. These are the words that come to my mind when I see Vertallee Letterpress’ holiday card designs. Love the illustration style and the color schemes that they’ve chosen in the creation of this must see line:

See more of Vertallee’s work at www.vertallee.com

images from Vertallee Letterpress

I’m like a kid in a candy store with these 2008 calendars. Here are a few more must sees:

Lovely illustrations from the Black Pearl Press letterpress calendar

Ultra sophisticated and stylized botanicals from the Moontree Press calendar

A work of art, based on the lure and lore of the sea, from Lizard Press

A folksy three color letterpress offering from Dutch Door Press

images from their respective owners

Chocolate is good. Letterpress is good. Put them together, and you have a match made in heaven. The people at Charles Chocolates were oh so smart when they saw the connection and created the option of having a Hello! Lucky letterpress card sent with your chocolate order. The packaging on their chocolate bars — with flavors like ginger, candied hazelnut, and mocha java — is pure eye candy, too!

As of now, it doesn’t look like they have holiday cards, but they have birthday, thank you, and get well options.

images from Charles Chocolates