Valentine’s Day's Up Next in the Card-Sending Calendar!
We don’t want to stress you by talking about Valentine’s Day too early, but for our super-planner customers who like to get a head start on the year’s busiest card-sending holiday, we’re ready for you!
Explore our collection of vintage-inspired Valentine’s Day greeting cards, jumbo deluxe cards, die-cut packets, postcards, and stickers.
Start the Year Right: 25% Off New Year’s Resolutions!
For our first sale of the year, we thought it would be fun to create a collection of products featuring illustrations inspired by popular New Year’s resolutions: exercise more, eat healthier, quit smoking, read more books, and—our perennial favorite—write more letters!
Save 25% on our entire New Year's Resolutions Collection with Promo Code: HAPPY2025
Sale ends Tuesday, January 14th at 11:59 PM PT.
Get Organized in Vintage Style!
Elevate your 2025 note-taking game with our stunning vintage notebooks and notepads!
Whether you're drawn to floral motifs, psychedelic posters, Art Deco designs, mischievous cats, or pocket-sized options for jotting on the go, we have a nostalgic notebook design to delight every note-taker!
Card of the Week!
Let's celebrate 2025's arrival with an Alphonse Mucha masterpiece from 1897! Her regal presence, paired with the halo-like disk adorned with the twelve zodiac signs, makes this image perfect for the first week of the new year.
Appropriately titled Zodiac, this was Mucha's very first creation for the printer Champenois and quickly became one of his most popular designs! It's stunning as a standalone piece but works wonderfully as a greeting card with a blank interior—perfect for any time of year and any astrological sign's birthday. (And, In case you were wondering, Mucha's July 24th birthday made him a Leo)!
Check Out Our Blog!
New Year's Eve is more suited to card-sending than one might think! Let us show you how Victorian and Edwardian illustrations—featuring champagne toasts, ticking clocks, symbolic brooms, ringing bells, and iconic depictions of Father Time bidding farewell to a cherubic baby welcoming the New Year—capture the season's spirit. Plus, we’ll share vintage champagne advertisements and fashion illustrations that inspire a glamorous night out. Explore our NYE offerings and raise a glass to the future with a nod to the past!
Nice to Meet You!
We are Laughing Elephant, a greeting card and gift company founded in 1969. Our warehouse and retail store are located in Seattle, Washington, and we are the keepers of one of the largest libraries of illustrated books and ephemera in the United States. From this library, we draw inspiration and images that become the source material for all our offerings. We curate our collections with the goal of sharing beautiful images with the world.
We celebrate the golden age of design, when artists and illustrators were an integral part of advertisements and merchandising. Their beautiful, hand drawn images inspire us to make gifts and cards you will love.
