Hi, I’m Christi. I’m a special needs mama, military wifey, and founder of Written Hugs Designs.

I started this company in Nov 2022 after miscarriages, deaths of close loved ones, in the midst of parenting littles and navigating grief, depression, anxiety, and deployments.

Every interaction I had with other grieving parents, military spouses, special needs families stuck with me as I realized most of them had similar feelings and struggles as I had.

My souls purpose and calling in life burned two questions deep within my heart that had to be answered:

How can I help people not feel the way I feel? How can I help people more seen, more connected, and less alone?

I began by creating greeting cards that I always wished existed. Dissatisfied by the lack of vulnerable, heartfelt cards that acknowledge both the hard and the hope of grief and mental health struggle, I started making them myself.

My cards are

• Courageously Vulnerable sympathy cards that acknowledge the significance of the loss, communicate that the card recipient matters and they are not alone, their person matters, and the loss of their person matters. I acknowledge how holidays, milestones, and celebrations can make grief harder to bear, as well as have prompt cards to help people connect in an intentional and uniquely powerful way in the midst of grief. i.e. Anticipatory Loss, Remembering Your Mom this Mother’s Day, Remembering Your Dad this Father’s Day.
• Deeply Intentional mental health cards that are encouraging, affirming, and up-lifting. Some of our cards are written from the perspective of someone struggling with mental health issues that want to thank their support people and articulate what is feels like to be supported and chosen throughout their struggle.
• Uniquely Powerful cards that contain prompts contained in the card to help the person giving the card slow down and be really intentional with their words to help the recipient feel more seen, more connected, and less alone.

For every card purchased, I donate a card to encourage someone who needs it. In this way, we partner with every customer to double their impact of spreading kindness.

Now we have expanded our offerings to include stickers, prints, and a children’s book.

As a digital artist, all my creations are hand-drawn on my iPad.