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KOC Benefits for 2019

2019 KOC Membership Enrollment starts on January 29, 2019. This is going to be a year full of member benefits such as exclusive members-only savings and rewards, Crown Rewards Bonus Points, exclusive ornaments, insider looks into our studio with access to the artist, a member gift of the Dream Box, and access to the KOC Convention in August 2019.

Membership at $49.99 USA includes the following:

  • A KOC membership card. Use your card to receive members-only perks at your local store, like access to buy event-exclusive ornaments.
  • Special offers throughout the year. Look forward to exclusive Crown Rewards Bonus Points opportunities, plus members-only Keepsake event offers and surprises, like a FREE ornament at Ornament Premiere.
  • Access to the KOC Product Shop, featuring club-exclusive ornaments and other products at special member pricing. Order in store or online.
  • The For Keeps quarterly publication and monthly email newsletter. Get a behind-the-scenes look at Keepsake Ornament creation, exclusive videos, timely announcements and local club and community news.
  • Insider access to Keepsake Community, an online social space where you can connect with Keepsake artists and other ornament enthusiasts like you.
  • The Keepsake Dream Box (valued at over $100) Shipped directly to your home, this year’s membership gift is full of Keepsakes magic.
  • Access to the KOC Convention, Come experience the MAGIC at the 2019 Keepsake Ornament Club Convention, August 8-10, 2019 in Kansas City.  Meet friends old and new, chat with Keepsake artists, join in fun workshops and make great memories with us.  Registration information will be coming in early 2019.

Enrollment Opens January 29, 2019 at 9:00am CST


*NOTE: In 2019 KOC Members will NOT receive a renewal application in the mail. KOC Members can renew by going to their local Hallmark Gold Crown store, online at Hallmark.com, by calling 1-800-Hallmark, or mailing in an application. Applications can be downloaded from Hallmark.com/KOC beginning on 1/29 or picked up from your local Hallmark store starting in January.

December 8th, 2018|0 Comments

October Keepsake Wallpaper

Create some frightful fun with this month’s free desktop or mobile device wallpapers featuring Hallmark’s Miniature Keepsake Ornament Tree decorated with a few of this years mini Halloween-themed Keepsake ornaments.

Among the many Keepsake Ornaments found in this free wallpaper are a Halloween tree featuring a smiling jack-o’-lantern base with posable glittery purple branches, a sparkly sugar skull, Snoopy dressed as a wizard, and a little bat wearing a bow tie and party hat.

Featured Keepsake Ornaments

October 1st, 2018|0 Comments

2018 Sneak Peek: Halloween Keepsake Ornaments

Miniature Keepsake Ornament Tree
Re-issue of 2017 Display Tree

Sugar Skull Gal
Miniature.

Sugar Skull Guy
Miniature.

Bitty Bat
Miniature.

Trick-or-Treat Snoopy
Miniature.

Spooky Snoopy
The PEANUTS® Gang

Ghostly Mausoleum

Caramel Apple Goodness
Season’s Treatings

Bewitching Bat

Happy Halloween!
6h in the series

January 15th, 2018|0 Comments

2017 Ornament Spotlight: Happy Halloween!

Although the 2017 “Happy Halloween!” ornament was excavated in July—revealing a cute mummy in a frightfully fun jack-o’-lantern—true to it’s ancient Egyptian theme, it comes with a bit of mystery.

Hidden within the hieroglyphics is a secret message. No, it’s not a curse but perhaps something more revealing about the mummy. If you would like to test your cryptography skills, take your 2017 “Happy Halloween!” out and try to decipher the riddle of the ornament!  However, if exploring hieroglyphs where mummies might roam frightens you, the answer is below!

Happy Halloween!
5th in the series.

Hover here for the Translation!

Translation: “All Wrapped Up in Halloween Fun! Anita Rogers 2017.”

September 19th, 2017|0 Comments

2017 Sneak Peek: Scare Up Halloween Fun

Miniature Keepsake Ornament Tree

The Great Pumpkin Rises
The PEANUTS® Gang

Teensy Weensy Ghost

Pint-Sized Pumpkin

Wee Little Owl

Sweet Trick-or-Treater
2nd in the unofficial series.

Ravishing Raven
Complements The Beauty of Birds series.

Happy Halloween!
5th in the series.

Mysterious Manor

January 24th, 2017|0 Comments

Featured Series: Happy Halloween!

This month’s featured series, Happy Halloween! by Anita Marra Rogers celebrates its 4th year in 2016.

Whether it’s her family members or her favorite Halloween icons, Anita Marra Rogers puts a lot of herself into the Happy Halloween! series.

The first ornament, which debuted in 2013, has a witch inside that was modeled after her daughter as a child.

“I gave her long brown hair and green eyes like my daughter,” Anita says.  “She’s 24 now, but she was a witch a couple times for Halloween when she was little.”

The little zombie boy in the third ornament was modeled after her son—especially the mop of messy hair. He’s 22 now, but she says he still refuses to comb his hair.

This year her husband joined the series depicted as a vampire.

One secret: If you look closely behind the ghost in the second ornament, you’ll spot Anita’s own self-portrait. It’s just another piece of herself in this series.

She says it’s fun to pick a new character each year then coordinate both the inside of the pumpkin and the jack-o’-lantern’s face with the character. That’s why the zombie is in a green pumpkin and this year’s jack-o’-lantern has fangs.

Her own Halloween traditions include putting up a black tree decked out with this series and a few other Halloween favorites. She always carves a jack-o’-lantern, too. Her favorite part of Halloween? That would have to be the trick-or-treaters.

“When the kids were little, my husband took the kids out trick-or-treating and it was my job to stay home and pass out candy,” she says. “I love to see all the costumes.”

She even puts on an old Hallmark cassette tape of spooky sounds to set the mood for the neighborhood kids.

As we look forward to the Halloween season, we can also look forward to next year’s Happy Halloween! ornament. It’s a special one, Anita says.

“Next year I’m keeping ‘under wraps,’ and you can quote me on that.”

September 14th, 2016|0 Comments
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