Multi Gingham Happy Birthday Greeting Card

Gingham in a three-colour combination — periwinkle blue, cinnamon and burgundy — filling the lower half of the card while "happy birthday" sits in small lowercase type just above it, right where the pattern begins. The upper half is left clean and white, which gives the whole thing room to breathe.

The colourway is unexpected in the best way. Gingham usually plays it safe, but the mix of blue, warm orange and deep red here feels considered rather than default — cheerful without being childish, which makes it work across a fairly wide age range and suits both giving and receiving with equal ease.

From independent stationery brand Kinshipped, printed in the UK on sustainably sourced paper using vegetable inks. Comes with a pale blue recycled envelope that picks up the blue in the check neatly. The kind of card that looks good on a mantelpiece before it's even been opened.