Em & Friends Year of Cards Series

A Whole Year of Cards for Your Favorite Friend 12 Assorted Greeting Cards & Envelopes Stationery Kit with Stickers

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Are you ready to win a Favorite Friend of the Year Award? This box of 12 heartfelt, hilarious greeting cards supplies one card a month from you to your BFF (including a birthday card!). Cute stickers make sealing the deal… Read More
A Whole Year of Cards for Your Person 12 Assorted Greeting Cards & Envelopes Stationery Kit with Stickers

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Finding ways to surprise and delight Your Person can be a challenge. Let us take care of it for you! Our new greeting cards boxed set supplies one card a month from you to your special boo (are people still… Read More

Em & Friends

About the Author

Founded by writer and illustrator Emily McDowell, Em & Friends makes products that speak to the human condition with honesty, humor, and heart. As Em & Friends (previously Emily McDowell & Friends), they partner with different authors and artists to create gifts and cards for the relationships we really have. Their mission is to help people connect when they’re not sure what to say.

Em & Friends is perhaps best-known for their Empathy Cards, designed for people going through life’s hardest times: major illness, loss, and grief; and inspired by Emily’s experience with cancer in her 20s. In our culture, most of us don’t learn how to talk about illness and death. Emily was struck by how lonely and isolated she felt when people disappeared because they didn’t know what to say when she was sick—and traditional “get well” card messages weren’t terribly helpful. With Empathy Cards, they created unique sympathy cards to help people going through a hard time, and to help friends and family find supportive alternate sympathy messages to write in a card to offer encouragement when they don’t know what to say.

In 2018, they joined forces with the kindred spirits at Knock Knock—another female-founded company—uniting as two sister brands under one kickass umbrella. In 2019, they added “Friends” to their product collections—outside creative collaborators, including amazing artists and writers like Elizabeth Gilbert, Lisa Congdon, and Nora McInerny. And in 2022, along with Knock Knock, Em & Friends joined the Union Square & Co. family. No matter how they evolve, their goal will always be the same: to help people feel more connected and less alone.

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Journal: Finding Yourself

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Mushrooms Forever All-in-One Send & Seal Letters Stationery Set

by Em & Friends

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Forever Midnight All-in-One Send & Seal Letters Stationery Set

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I’m So Intuitive Journal

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A Whole Year of Cards for Your Favorite Friend 12 Assorted Greeting Cards & Envelopes Stationery Kit with Stickers

by Em & Friends

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Empathy Cards, Box of 8 Assorted Sympathy Cards, Loss & Thinking of You Cards & Get Well Soon Gifts for Women (8 Blank Note Cards & Envelopes, 4 Different Inspirational Messages)

by Em & Friends, Illustrated by Emily McDowell

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