Amy Shaw and Jae Kim, the proud owners of greenjeans, my favorite store in Brooklyn, have put together a holiday card sale to benefit charity. All proceeds from the cards will go to Millenium Villages, a program that invests in health, food production, education, clean water, and infrastructure for impoverished villages to help escape extreme poverty.

I was delighted when my husband and I were asked to participate by making a series of handmade cards. He painted a bunch of quirky gnome illustrations. As for me, here’s a glimpse of some of the cards I made — all from leftover pieces of paper that I’ve been using for my current handmade journal collection. I had way too much fun gluing on the little paper dots of snow!

November 21st, 2006