Cardie Newsletters

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 …

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 ...

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 ...

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.”

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

Feb 11, 2025 — While we’re pleased to feature the lovely new anniversary design above, what really tickles us is sharing that Contributing Cardie ...

Feb 4, 2025 — Both above and below you’ll see Cardie-favorite Meanings of Life cards —those designs that Cardies choose to send most ...

Jan 28, 2025 — With Valentine’s Day coming right up, it feels good to say, “Love always finds a way!” You see, a few years ago, Cardthartic ...

Jan 7, 2025 - As with every new release, it’s fun and interesting to see just which of our 50 new designs are the top-sellers among Cardies ...

Jan 1, 2025 — Here at the very start of the new year, this new card seemed like a wonderful way to acknowledge the loving part everyone ...

Dec 17, 2024 — A Cardie once shared with us her strong sense that “Cardthartic cards help give people permission to feel.” Sensorially ...

Nov 27, 2024 — Cardies, have you any special Thanksgiving traditions? Not the kind like our founder’s, “It just wouldn’t be Thanksgiving ...

Nov 19, 2024 — Not a day goes by that I don’t feel my late mother nudging, “Gotta laugh more, Jo!” Can you hear her, too?! 😆  She’d say ...

Nov 12, 2024 — Who’s your Queen Bee, reigning with grace in your heart? Last Monday, it was so thoughtful of Cardie Amy Davis to email us...

Nov 6, 2024 — I don’t know about you, but I’m sticking with Kamala’s mantra from Monday night: “There’s more that unites us than divides us.” ...

Nov 5, 2024 — Having had the good fortune of getting to know many of our community members over the years, we’re pretty sure there’s no need to ...

Oct 29, 2024 — Dear Cardies, I’m beginning to wonder if we’ve created a community of contrarians here. Because in this world where anger, derision ...

Oct 15, 2024 — “Let’s just get through this one” is the message printed inside this adorable new design ... and who can’t relate?! While it’s not a card ...

Oct 1, 2024 — We hope you find this new card as soothing and beautiful as we do. It’s one of 15 NEW DESIGNS that we’d generally release with much fanfare ...

Sep 24, 2024 — If you’ve had a glorious day filled with fun and laughter, you might want to just file this edition of the Cardie Newsletter away to read ...

Sep 10, 2024 — And here we are, kids: Debate Night in America! On the last few days of this long ride here, my lifelong Republican friend Randy Moore has ...

Sep 4, 2024 — On Saturday, I received another one of many lovely notes from Contributing Cardie Lauren Rowell. Such a wise, aware, and supportive member ...

Aug 20, 2024 — On Saturday, my friend Mari and I had a great, long conversation about our mothers. Mari commented that, based on all my stories in our ...

Aug 13, 2024 — With kids starting classes again soon, we thought it might be fun and timely to offer you your own quick Writing Tips 101. 😃

Aug 7, 2024 — Ah, “hope and optimism,” how the world needs you! It was so interesting, over the past week, four different members of the Cardie ...