Local Clubs Receive First Mailing for 2013
The first of FOUR mailings that the national Keepsake Ornament Club will be sending to Local Clubs this year is currently being delivered to Club Sponsors/Club Contacts.
The shipment contains: the February 2013 issue of Collectively Speaking, The local club newsletter for the Hallmark Keepsake Ornament Club, and two Silver Frosty Astronaut ornaments.
This repaint of the 2012 Frosty Astronaut Mystery Ornament was previously only available as a part of an in-store register-to-win drawing held in conjunction with last years Swap Party events.
Silver Astronaut Frosty
Special Edition
New Keepsake Studio Contributing Artist
Matt has designed for companies all over the United States, but his appreciation of toys has stuck with him since childhood. Toys play an especially important role in Christmas, a holiday that gives Matt the inspiration he needs when it comes to crafting tree-worthy trimmings in the Keepsake Studio. He admits “there’s just so many people around here that make it feel like Christmas all the time!”
Mat Johnson
Contributing Artist, Product Designer
Matt graduated with an Industrial Design degree from the University of Kansas, and continues to be a student of product design as he follows his passion for toys and games. As someone who appreciates fun, creative and offbeat entertainment for kids, the Keepsake Studio was just the place for Matt to work, but an opening wasn’t so easy to come by. After a few years of working in the Midwest and along the East Coast, Matt made the move to KC with his family-and, as luck would have it, an opening in Keepsakes was waiting for him.
The work of a Keepsakes designer is a challenge, but Matt is happy to see his designs inspire wonder for kids and kids at heart. Hobbies at home continue to challenge Matt creatively. As he puts it, “I try to keep up with my drawing—and my two-year-old.”
2013 (Susan G. Komen For the Cure) Ornament
Features a snow angel with a wire halo and wings (beaded with pink and clear beads). The signature pink breast cancer awareness ribbon has been knitted into a scarf and placed around the angel’s neck. Base captioned with inspirational words and sayings including: INSPIRING, surrounded by love, warm, and COURAGE.
$2 from the sale of this ornament will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure® to support breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment programs.
Surrounded by Caring
For breast cancer information, visit www.komen.org.
2013 Dream Book Party
Join in the excitement!
Be part of the official launch of this, the fortieth Anniversary season of Keepsake Ornaments, by attending a Dream Book party, at you local retailer on May 4th, 2013. In addition to an early preview of the 2013 Keepsake Ornament Club exclusive ornaments, KOC members, who turn in a Wish List at the event, will receive a FREE 8″ x 10″ limited-edition Mary Hamilton print.
A Spring Surprise
Mary Hamilton Print
Features the artwork that inspired ‘A Spring Surprise’, the Keepsake Ornament that is being released in conjunction with the Dream Book Party event. KOC members will receive this 8″ x10″ Mary Hamilton print for FREE when they turn in a Wish List at the Dream Book Party event. LPR3385
*NOTE: ‘A Spring Surprise’ is not a KOC exclusive as previously announced.
2103 Graduation Keepsake Ornament
Available beginning April 1, 2013.
Our Grad
Photo Holder
2013 Reveal: Mother’s Day
For only the second time in Keepsake’s forty year history, and for the first time in thirty years, Hallmark is releasing Keepsake ornaments for Mother’s Day.
Look for “Mother and Child” (QHG5623), a re-issue (in a different medium) of the 2012 ornament “Mother and Child” (QXG3541) by Joanne Eschrich and “My Mother is Love” (QHG5622) by Terri Steiger beginning April 1.
Mother and Child
My Mommy is Love
ADDITIONAL HISTORICAL INFORMATION
In 1983, “A Mother’s Love” (MDQ3407) was released as the first Mother’s Day Keepsake ornament.
Updated Keepsake Ornament Packaging
Keepsake Ornament packaging will be updated in 2013 with a new design.
When Keepsake Ornaments hit store shelves later this year, you will see them in newly designed boxes. Concieved by Hallmark’s +packaging studio, the boxes are intended to showcase an ornament’s collectibility, and more to this individual story and offer some surprise when opened year after year.
2013 Reveal: Wireless Disney Band Continuity Program (UPDATED)
Create a medley of holiday cheer by collecting all 5 members of the Disney Band-each features a different instrument and plays 2 well-known Christmas songs.
Minnie
Wireless Disney Band
Donald
Wireless Disney Band
Goofy
Wireless Disney Band
Daisy
Wireless Disney Band
Mickey
Wireless Disney Band
Minnie – Available beginning September 25
Donald– Available beginning October 7
Goofy – Available beginning October 21
Daisy – Available beginning November 4
Mickey – Available beginning November 18
While they each play special songs and move to the music individually, the real fun begins when they wirelessly interact with each other for a complete band experience-even if they’re placed in different areas of the same room.
Wireless function works up to 25’ apart. Each song approx. 10 – 20 seconds. Press and hold button to activate continuous play mode (a song plays every 2 minutes). On/off switch; includes 3 replaceable AAA batteries. $15.95 each with any purchase. Hallmark Gold Crown Exclusive.
2013 Snowman Techno Plush
This years Snowman Techno Plush will feature a snowman and his snow pup flanking a snow and little red bird topped lamp post.
Merry Carolers Trio
10th in the collection
The snowman bobs and sways as he
sings a fun version of “We Wish You
a Merry Christmas” with a little help
from his dog and bird friends.
Lamp post lights up.
$15.95 USA with the purchase of
3 Hallmark cards (regularly $29.95 USA)
8½” x 10″ x 6″
LPR1651
Additionally in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Snowman techno plush, Hallmark will be re-issuing Caroling Snowmen, (PR2819) the first techno plush originally issued in ’03.
10th in Series Commemorative
Caroling Snowmen
(Snow Man Duo)
Re-release of the very 1st Techno Plush from the Snowman Techno Plush series. Plays a version
of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.” Includes commemorative label.
11″ x 10½” x 6″
$39.95 USA XKT1285
Featured Artist – Don Palmiter
Don Palmiter
Senior Sculptor
Don Palmiter was just 2 years old when his parents snapped a picture of him sitting proudly behind the wheel of his older brother’s pedal car.
“It was a 1948 Steel Craft Pontiac® station wagon. Burgundy with crème trim,” he says with the warmth and emotion usually relegated to describing an old flame. It’s a passion that has earned him the reputation around Hallmark and with ornament enthusiasts as “The Car Guy.”
Palmiter says growing up he loved art, but it wasn’t until his senior year of high school in 1967 that he knew he’d make art his career. At that time, Hallmark actively recruited seniors. One week after graduation, Palmiter was producing and embossing greeting cards. By the mid 1970s, he made the jump to sculpting.
Then, in 1987 Palmiter was thrilled to make the move to the Keepsake Ornament division. He quickly realized there were few men among the avid ornament enthusiasts. The reason? There was nothing masculine in the offering. Palmiter began to wonder what men would be enthusiastic enough about to start collecting. He needed to look no further than his own first love: cars.
Three years after presenting his idea, the American Classic Car Series was launched with tremendous success. Palmiter decided that he needed to pay homage to his first car, a 1948 Steel Craft Pontiac® station wagon pedal car. So in 1991, Kiddie Car Classics was launched. ”
I travel to signing events all over the country,” Palmiter says. “People will show me pictures of the pedal cars they had as children and then have me sign that exact replica. They are thrilled that I have created an ornament from ‘their’ car. I can’t tell you how much I thoroughly enjoy that.”
Stately Victorian
30th in the Nostalgic Houses & Shops series
“I try to incorporate a personal story or surprise into every Keepsake Ornament that I create, whether it’s an Italian restaurant named after a dear friend or a piece of furniture based on one of my own antiques.
This ornament has its own story that I think collectors will really appreciate. If you look inside, there is a tiny replica of the very first ornament from the Nostalgic Houses and Shops series—a brightly painted Victorian House tucked right underneath the Christmas tree.
There is a lot to be excited about in 2013 for fans of this series, but I don’t want to spoil any surprises just yet!”