The making and exchanging of prints as holiday greeting cards is a longstanding tradition among printmakers. The practice was particularly popular among American printmakers in the 1930s and 1940s and is one which Hatton maintained throughout her career. Collectively, Hatton’s seasonal greeting cards are notable for the thought and care the artist took in their design and creation and the wide range of printmaking techniques she employed. Often, artists repurposed imagery from an existing print of a seasonally appropriate subject, such as a snow scene, scaling down the design to fit the card’s smaller format. Sometimes, existing prints were merely reproduced photomechanically and printed at a suitably smaller scale. Hatton, on the other hand, generally used imagery that she created specifically for the occasion.