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Cardie Reading List

Aug 26, 2025 - I can always tell it’s time to update the Cardie Reading List when I feel the universe nudging ... Earlier this summer ...

Fun with Words!

Aug 19, 2025 - With all eyes on the world stage and the weighty issues unfolding there, we thought it time for a little levity here ...

Sticking Together

Aug 12, 2025 - Inspired by Cardie Agnes Cardoni’s strength and resilience, I got myself a walker! 🥳💪 On her Cardie Profile, Agnes had commented, “Despite multiple mobility ...

Keeping Cool

Jul 29, 2025 - Aren’t we all relieved to read weather reports indicating that the sky-high temps will be easing up and not sticking around like, say, magnets with the superior ...

Fun Birthdays

Jul 22, 2025 - For anyone looking for fun birthday stuff today, inside this card reads, “Long may she reign!” And who wouldn’t like to find a magnet tucked inside?! We created this ...

True Friendship

Jul 15, 2025 - When Cardthartic’s art curator, Luda, first spotted this image and proposed that it had card potential, we questioned whether it might actually be a photo of ...

Big Love for Texas

Jul 08, 2025 - This new condolence card was created to support friend, neighbor, and Contributing Cardie Liza Greenberg as she and her family grieve the loss of her mother ...

Good Omen

Jun 24, 2025 - What a meaningful little magnet, eh? All of us could do with a good omen, and featuring this one here today seems like a good sendoff for our Cardthartic staffers ...

Peace in the Cards

Jun 17, 2025 - Ah, to be stretched out in that meadow, letting time pass, longing for not a thing. That is one way I see of achieving peace these days. Not the kind that would ...

A Good Laugh

Jun 10, 2025 - The yogi bear card above is dedicated to Cardie Yogi Teri Meskin, who you see with her great smile in the upper right. As you may know, when practicing yoga ...

Quotable Reb Jeff

Jun 3, 2025 - Among your friends and family, who brings the sunshine to your life? For whom will no amount of great cards, funny texts or entertaining emails suffice because ...

Feel Better Messages

May 20, 2025 - This new card is on my radar now because the lovely sentiment — another by Contributing Cardie Jessica Swaim — would be soothing in a Feel Better design, too ...

Thanks, Moms!

May 11, 2025 - To honor moms past, present, and future, today we want to share a few favorite memories from Cardies who’ve written of the difference their own mothers made in their lives …

Side by Side

May 6, 2025 - I love the gentleness of this new design written by Contributing Cardie Jessica Swaim. And the message rings especially true to me about now. TMI, but two weeks ago ...

Friends Through Change

Apr 15, 2025 - You’d sure think this card was born yesterday, yet it was one of the first Passages we made 30 years ago. College roommate Laura Cendejas had penned the birthday ...

Stress Relief

Apr 8, 2025 - This sweet and so-true design reminds me of Contributing Cardie Lauren Rowell as she’s so loving and has shared that her happy place is “snuggling with the kitty cat.”

Lifting People Up

Apr 1, 2025 - While living in Chicago in my 30s, I had surgery for a deviated septum. Friends and family were kind and supportive, calling to ask how the surgery had gone and how recovery ...

Advocacy

Mar 18, 2025 - If you’re one of the many Cardies who’ve requested that we bring these three postcards back, here you go! We’ve now given them their very own category ...

Guiding Light

Mar 4, 2025 - When we released this design several years ago, we were surprised that few Cardies ordered it. So few, in fact, that it made most business sense to just retire it...

Remembering Pamela

Feb 21, 2025 — Everyone leaves a legacy. Whose do you look to for glimmers of light and hope? 

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