New Letter Writing Sets
Even MORE NEW Letter Writing Sets– Tulips, Reader with Light, Shelf of Books and Egyptian Lotus.
Take a look at our whole selection now! There's nothing quite like a handwritten note—it's timeless, personal, and full of heart.
Vintage Notebooks
Our Vintage Notebooks feature authentic imagery and will evoke memories of bygone days. Each is a reproduction of a vintage original. We think they will remind users of a simpler, and in some ways better, world.
Cards of the Week!
This week's picks are a few of many interesting postcard designs from our Halloween Postcard Box and Postcard Book!
These postcards come from the height of the picture postcard craze (1890s until World War I) when Halloween postcards often featured jack-o’-lanterns with human bodies or expressive faces, spooky characters, romance, and fortune-telling games.
Edwardian Halloween was largely a night for young adults, and it was common for single women to use Halloween fortune-telling traditions to divine who their future husbands might be (as seen in the top left card). In many ways, postcards were the text messages and social media of their day, and were a playful way to send messages and flirt.
Often delightfully bizarre, these postcards blended genuine folklore, symbolism, humor, and popular superstitions at a time when Halloween imagery wasn't yet standardized. We're proud to be keeping them alive in our Halloween Collection!
Seattle and Great Outdoors Greeting Cards
We may be biased, as we are based in Seattle and love the Pacific Northwest — But we think you'll love our new Seattle and Great Outdoors Collections!
See these cards and more created by multidisciplinary artist Cory Steffen.
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.
