Illustration of the emotions and milestones of the adoption journey introducing adoption greeting cards for adoption loss, the adoption wait, adoption match, new baby, adoption day, honoring birth mothers, celebrating adoptive families and foster children

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4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Illustrated cover art is a bright yellow sun with smiling face on a teal background with artful sun rays. Text: Our world is bigger and brighter because you are a part of it!

Bigger & Brighter Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card for thanking an adoption agency caseworker or social worker. Blank inside. Yellow sunburst art surrounds text: you are a hope giving, heart guarding, miracle working, paperwork ninja. thank you for you.

Paperwork Ninja Agency Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch gratitude card for expressing thanks along the adoption journey. Blank inside. Artfully simplistic line drawing of a blue, luggage-laden car driving along a bumpy road and coming to a yield sign. Pale yellow background. Typewriter text reads: Thank you for being beside me through every bump in the road.

Bump in the Road Gratitude Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Cover art is simple line illustration of seven fish swimming together. Fish are different shapes and styles with one fish joyously splashing upward. Cream fish on a teal background. Text: you put the family in our family.

Family in Family Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Cover is pale green with gray lettering and colored line illustration of a pair of blue high-top tennis shoes. Typewriter text reads: So glad you are you and you are here.

Glad You Are Here Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple line illustration of a gray elephant being lifted by a white balloon surrounded by colorful confetti on a a pale yellow background. Text: Thank you for being my cheerer on-er, lifter upper, hooray you-er! Adoption gratitude card.

Cheerer On-er Gratitude Card

Families by Heart Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Cover features large headline against a white background above a simple line drawing of a cozy chair draped with a blanket on a small area rug. Illustration in soft colors of cream and teal. Text reads: yours is the welcome in, make it safe, wait it out, try again, never give up as long as it takes kind of love.

Welcome In Foster Parent Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Cover features bold headline above adorable African American girl in pink skirt, plaid shirt and blue starry leggings. Text reads: you are the color beautiful.

Color Beautiful Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. White cover with line illustration of a small blue-tinted jar holding a yellow star. Text: you are a worker of miracles. thank you for you

Worker of Miracles Thank You Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Cover is black and gray striped background with neon-coloring typewriter style letters and a sprinkle of stars. Text reads: celebrating adorable, irreplaceable, lovable you!

Celebrating You Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. White cover with small colorful illustration of a fence-lined heart garden. Text reads: you are a guarder of hearts. thank you for you.

Guarder of Hearts Thank You Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple line illustration features woman atop a ladder reaching toward a large star in a star-filled night sky. At the foot of the ladder rests a bucket holding a star. Shades of blue. Text reads: hope begins with you. Adoption encouragement card.

Hope Begins Caseworker Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. White cover background with line illustration of tree with different shaped and colored hearts in shades of blue. Large hand-illustrated text reads: Because of you, our big, beautiful mismatched mess of loving hearts became family.

Messy Hearts Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Cover features line illustration of a path lit by luminaries beneath a blue-black star-filled sky. Text reads: you light the way home.

Light The Way Gratitude Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming line illustration of one bunny with arm around smaller bunny, as seen from behind, with small flower to the side. On pale peach background. Text: because of you, we are us.

We Are Us Gratitude Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title You. Are. Awesome. Sub title *and we are grateful. Title is typewriter font and sits inside a white scalloped border. Background is bright red with hand drawn yellow dashes. Adoption gratitude card.

You Are Awesome Gratitude Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Cover features charming line illustration of a woman holding an umbrella over another woman in the rain. Stylishly dressed women in shades of brown and salmon all against a pale peach background. Typewriter text reads: You are the one who shows up with just the right you.

Just Right You Gratitude Card

$6.00

Cards for Adopting Families

Love them along the journey.

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Waiting Cards

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4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple illustration style. Title How to Wait for a Child. Main image is an illustration of a dandelion with pieces of flower floating up and words Make a million wishes. Adoption wait card for adopting family waiting for a child. Smaller illustrations feature a charming star jar with the words Count every star, and flower pot with the words Hold onto hope.

How to Wait Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card for supporting the adoption wait. Blank inside. Pale yellow cover with artfully simple line illustration of a woman sitting beside a pale green cactus under a sun. Typewriter text reads: Waiting for forever sometimes feels like forever.

Like Forever Adoption Waiting Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title Waiting is a Wish Becoming. Main image is a small hand drawn pink flower poking out of green grass. Background is light peach with a hand drawn pattern of small half moons. Adoption greeting card for encouraging an adopting family along the wait for a child.

Waiting Wish Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title When the wait gets tough the tough eat chocolate. Main image is a small piece of chocolate with bite take out of it and a few crumbs around it. Simple hand drawn border. Typewriter font. Waiting card for adopting family.

Wait Gets Tough Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption greeting card for hopeful parents waiting for a child to come. Blank inside. Charmingly simple line illustration of a couple standing at the foot of a winding road looking through a telescope toward the end of the earth. Pale yellow and soft pink colors. Typewriter text reads: Some people are a part of us long before they arrive.

Before They Arrive Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch lighthearted adoption greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title The Heart Knows No Time. Sub title {but this is taking a long time!} Main image is a clock with the words love, wish, wait, hope instead of numbers. Greeting card to send to adopting family during the adoption wait.

Waiting Time Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption waiting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title Love Is On The Way. Drawing of a pink stripped hot air balloon with a brown woven basket rising high up in the sky with white fluffy clouds. Title is in a ribbon draped across the hot air balloon.

Love On the Way Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title Precious Things Come To Those Who Wait. Simple drawing of a little girl with pig tails stands in an open sea shell holding a paddle in one hand while paddling in the water. Drawing of a simple cherry blossom branch rests above her.

Precious Things Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card for the adoption wait. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title We will wait together until love comes true. Main image is a hand drawn hour glass with red sand pouring into the bottom chamber and forming a small red heart.

Wait Together Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card for the adoption wait. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title Believe in Love. Sub title While you wait…Dark blue background with light blue stars.

Believe in Love Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption greeting card. Blank inside. Pale yellow cover features simple line illustration of a watering can sprinkling water over green seedling next to small garden sign reading "hope." Typewriter text reads: If you keep on believing, hope will grow.

Hope Will Grow Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title Get Stretch Marks on your Heart! Sub title *happy adoptioncy! Main image is a heart that extends off either side of the card. Purple background.

Get Stretch Marks Adoptioncy Card

$6.00

Celebration Cards

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4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption greeting card for celebrating adoption finalization. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title Finally! Wholeheartedly! Foreverly! Family! Main image is a small yellow and white striped house with pink heart. Brightly colored balloons are coming out the front door.

House Adoption Finalization Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption celebration greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Sign on back of a dark blue antique car that reads JUST ADOPTED. Strings hang from the back bumper of the car with a ball, wooden block, toddler tennis show and abc’s baby book.

Just Adopted Child Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Cover features three brightly colored balloons against a yellow striped background. Front balloon reads: Happy Adoption Day to You! Banner below balloons reads: let's celebrate!

Celebrate Adoption Day Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption day greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title Happy. Happier. Happiest. Adoption Day! Small blue heart next to word day! Background is yellow and white stripes. Headline is typewriter font.

Happiest Adoption Day Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Pale green cover features a storybook illustration of jumping dolphins above the earth, with a smiling moon and stars and wisps of wind. Large hand-illustrated text reads: On the day you were adopted, the dolphins danced, the moon giggled, and the wind whispered hallelujah!

Hallelujah Adoption Day Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption day or adoption anniversary greeting card. Blank inside. Cover features illustration of a triple-scoop sundae on a white background. Hand-illustrated text reads: The day you were adopted was a triple-scoop sundae with sprinkles and three cherries on top kinda day.

Triple Scoop Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption celebration greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title *Happy, Happy Adoption! Illustration of woman in yellow dress with arms in the air being sprinkled by large salt shaker in the sky with word happiness on the side.

Happiness Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Cover shows teal balloon with the words "It's Adoption Day!" and a sprinkle of stars. Text below features small icon illustrations of a dancing woman, camerawomen and hearts. Text reads: Watch out for the happy dancing photo-bombing flash-mob kinda love.

Flash Mob Adoption Day Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption celebration greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title Happy Head Over Heels Day To You! Main image is a balloon holding the words to the title. Background is light green with brightly colored stars.

Head Over Heels Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title Drink at Your Baby Shower! Sub title *happy adoptioncy! Main image is a large martini glass with two olives and yellow duck on skewer.

Baby Shower Adoptioncy Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title You Are The End Of My Rainbow. White background with brightly colored rainbow above large title.

End of Rainbow Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption celebration greeting card. Blank inside. Cover features four simple, charmingly illustrated ducks in a row wearing party hats against a blue and green patterned background. Lead duck wears scarf that says "we heart adoption!" and last duck running to catch up with its party hat flying. Illustrated text in banner above the ducks reads: so much happy is happening today!

So Much Happy Adoption Card

$6.00

Families by Heart Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption celebration or adoption match greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title And Now Your Heart Holds a New Little Heart. Sub title *so happy for your love to come. Main image is a large pink heart with arms and legs hugging a small pink heart.

New Heart Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title In This Great Wide World, We Found Us. Title is light teal color and is large and fills entire card. Above title are two white stars connected by a dashed line. Background is a deep blue color with lighter blue stars.

Starry Found Us Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title When family find each other it’s FOR KEEPS. Sub title *happy homecoming. Main image is two adult hedgehogs and one child hedgehog in center. They are holding hands and small red hearts above hedgehogs.

Family for Keeps Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Cover art is a bright yellow balloon lifting up a caucasian mother and African American child, child holding a teddy bear all on cream background. Hand-illustrated text reads: Adoption is a big, beautiful hold on tight kind of love.

Hold On Tight Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Sign on back of a light blue antique car that reads JUST ADOPTED. Strings hang from the back bumper of the car with a baby bottle, pacifier, baby bootie and baby rattle.

Just Adopted Baby Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Colorful line illustration of a wand-waving little girl sitting atop a smiling whale in an ocean of swimming fish. Colors are blues and pinks, with orange and yellow fish. Illustrated text reads: Happy Adoption Day!

Happy Adoption Day Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple illustration style. Title Happy Adoptioness*. Title is in white bubble graphic on bright yellow background. Main image is hand illustrated words that read So, a new adventure begins. Read a favorite book until the pages begin to wrinkle. Make mud pies. Eat lots of ice-cream (for breakfast). Watch a chrysalis turn into a beautiful butterfly. The days are long, but the years are short. Sing silly songs. Trust your gut. You are already two. great. parents.

Great Parents Adoptioness Card

$6.00

Loss & Hope Cards

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4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title There Are No Words When Love Falls Through. Main image is a person sitting on the ground with hair draped over face and shoulders slumped. Below her is a hole in the ground with a large red heart. Adoption loss card.

No Words Adoption Loss Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title If Hope Runs Out, I’ve Got More. Sub title *here for you on your adoption journey. Main image is mason jar with word hope and single dandelion in jar. Adoption empathy and loss card.

More Hope Adoption Empathy Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch adoption encouragement greeting card. Blank inside. Simple and charming illustration style. Title *Wishing you all you need on your adoption journey. Main image is black woman spreading seeds from a jar with a label that says hope. Two more jars sit in front of her with labels that say faith and love.

Hope, Faith, Love Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card for adoption loss. Blank inside. Title reads the love is real, the loss is too. Simple illustration of three clouds, one raining with red heart below.

Loss is Real Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25x5.5" adoption loss greeting card. Blank inside. Cover art woman seen from behind looking at bright moon. Title reads: healing beings with hope.

Healing Begins Hope Card

$6.00

Hope Will Grow Adoption Card

$6.00

Before They Arrive Adoption Card

$6.00

4.25 x 5.5 inch greeting card. Blank inside. Front of card features light blue background with simple line drawing of a small house with a yellow heart inside. Text reads: adoption is how the heart comes home.

Heart Comes Home Adoption Card

$6.00

Gratitude Cards

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Cheerer On-er Gratitude Card

$6.00

Just Right You Gratitude Card

$6.00

Worker of Miracles Thank You Card

$6.00

Paperwork Ninja Agency Card

$6.00

4.25x5.5" adoption greeting card for sending love and gratitude to a birth mother or adopted child. Blank inside. Cover pale green with text reading: because of you, we know how beautiful love can be.

How Beautiful Card

$6.00

Bump in the Road Gratitude Card

$6.00

You Are Awesome Gratitude Card

$6.00

Guarder of Hearts Thank You Card

$6.00

Hope Begins Caseworker Card

$6.00

We Are Us Gratitude Card

$6.00

Messy Hearts Adoption Card

$6.00

Light The Way Gratitude Card

$6.00

Cards for Birth Parents

Send honor and empathy.

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Photo of adoptionly yours natural cotton canvas tote filled with brightly colored flowers. Tote reads: love truly, beautifully, brightly, adoptionly.

Love Brightly Tote

$12.00

A delightful gift for anyone who knows the love of adoption, this natural cotton canvas tote is just right for carrying journals, books, adoption paperwork and more. Give to a friend or treat yourself!

• 7 OZ. COTTON CANVAS

• NATURAL

• 13.5 x 13.5

• 26" HANDLES

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The founders of Tiny Type Studios and creators of Adoptionly Yours cards, Jayne and Stacy, leaning against a white brick wall, arms crossed and smiling.

Hello! So glad you stopped by.

As moms who traveled the adoption journey with our families, we know how beautiful and difficult adoption can be. An artist and a writer, we put our creative hearts together to bring you simple, meaningful ways to encourage the wait and comfort the loss, to lift the hope, mark the joy, and celebrate the love.

XO, Stacy & Jayne

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To Adopting Families

Beginning Journey

Waiting

Match/Referral

Loss & Hope

New Baby/Child

Celebration

Bonding

To Birth Parents

Honor & Encourage

Birth Mother's Day

To Adopted Child

Love & Joy

Adoption Day

To Foster Family

Foster Parent/Child

To Caseworkers/Friends

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Family & Friends

Adoption Day

Birth Mother's Day

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Gratitude

Loss & Encouragement

Love

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Cards for Adopting Families

Waiting Cards

Celebration Cards

Loss & Hope Cards

Gratitude Cards

Cards for Birth Parents

New & Notable

Love Brightly Tote

• 7 OZ. COTTON CANVAS

• NATURAL

• 13.5 x 13.5

• 26" HANDLES

People Say the Nicest Things

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Hello! So glad you stopped by.

YOU ARE JUST OUR TYPE