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Funny Personalised Christmas Cards: Traitors, Gamers and Cheeky One-Liners

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Funny Personalised Christmas Cards: Traitors, Gamers and Cheeky One-Liners

Most Christmas card ranges are robins, snowy churches and a font that is trying very hard. That is fine for a lot of people. It is no good at all for the friend who spent all of January arguing about who was a Traitor, or the brother who will be on a headset by ten o'clock on Christmas morning.

We make our Christmas cards here in Hessle. Every design in the range is £3.95, printed 6x6 on 300gsm card, with a white envelope, and left blank inside so the message is yours. You can add a name to the front or leave the design plain. Below are the funnier corners of the collection, and who each one is actually for.

Worth being straight about this: these are our own designs, drawn in the studio and inspired by the show. They are not official merchandise and we are not connected to it.

Put the recipient's name on the front and the card reads like an accusation, which is the whole point. It works well for a group chat Secret Santa, or for whoever in the family takes the show far too seriously.

The rude ones, and a word of warning

Not every card has to be sincere. The range includes a Middle Finger design, one called Festive n sh*t, another called You ain't getting sh*t, and F-Caw-F, which is a robin with an attitude problem.

These are rude on purpose, so think about who is opening it and where. They are meant for a partner, a sibling or an office Secret Santa where that sort of thing is expected. They are not meant for your nan.

Puns for pet people and readers

Softer, still funny. Purr-fect Christmas and Purry Christmas are for cat households, there is a Christmas Cow design, and Book-mas is for the person whose Christmas list is really just a reading list.

Purr-fect Christmas personalised cat Christmas card

Each of these takes a name on the front, and nothing says it has to be a human one. The cat's name on a cat card is a reliable laugh in a house where the cat is, let us be honest, the main character.

Funny without being rude

If you want the joke gentle, Snow Couple and Penguin Couple both suit a first Christmas as a couple. Silent Night is for the tired. There are Baby's 1st Christmas designs in a boy and a girl version. And the teacher card has a Christmas tree built out of coloured crayons, with the teacher's name on the front (Mrs Smith, for example), which is a nicer thing for a child to hand over than another box of chocolates.

What every card in the range has in common

  • £3.95 each, whichever design you pick

  • 6x6, printed on 300gsm card

  • A matching white envelope included

  • Blank inside, so the message is yours to write

  • Personalised or plain: add a name to the front, or leave the design as it is

How we make them

We are Lee and Sam, a husband and wife studio working out of Hessle, HU13. Cards are made to order rather than pulled off a shelf, and we send a proof of anything personalised before it gets printed, so you can check the spelling of a name or a gamertag while it is still fixable.

The honest bit: because personalised cards are made for one person, they cannot be returned if you change your mind. That is exactly why the proof stage exists, so please read it properly before you approve it.

Where to start

The full range lives in Christmas Cards, twenty nine designs in total, and it sits inside our wider Greeting Cards collection. If you are putting a whole Christmas order together, the Christmas Collection has the letters from Santa and the framed family prints alongside the cards.

For more on those, our guide to personalised letters from Santa covers the Santa letters, Lapland invites and scratch reveal tickets, and the guide to personalised Christmas family prints walks through the gingerbread, snowman, gonk, highland cow and stocking designs.

One practical note. Cards are cheap and quick, but personalised ones still need proofing, and December is busy for everybody. Ordering in November gives the proof plenty of room to go back and forth before the post gets serious.