A hand-lettered greeting reads "May your days be Merry & Bright", with small, spaced serif capitals above a large, looping brush-script phrase. The lettering is painted in faded barn red, matching the wobbly double-line border that traces the edges of the paper.

Loose sprigs of pine and small five-point stars fill the corners and the gaps around the words. The paint breaks and speckles slightly over the fibrous, textured paper, giving the piece a warm, nostalgic folk-art feel in barn red, dusty pine green and antique gold.