Coffee Break:2025 Mosaic Football Holiday Box

I was trying to think of another post to do instead of this one today, but with the NFL Playoffs going on and it being the last of my Christmas stuff to post, I said, let's just do it.

So, here we are.

*takes a sip of freshly brewed coffee*

*takes another sip, begins to rip*

 

2025 Mosaic Holiday is a new addition to the Panini lineup. I think they are just creating products at this point to make all of the money they can before their final important license is lost.

Every box comes with one pack of ten cards and costs just under $12. In those ten cards you get one "candy cane" parallel and the box itself has an embedded ornament. Those two things are really the only difference between the product and regular Mosaic.

Here was my embedded ornament,

Chase. Not a bad one to get out of the six.

Now onto the pack rip. Which I only picked out the key cards from the pack to show off.

My first Russ in a Giants uniform card.

This guy played really well to end the season, could be a guy to watch next season.

Plain and boring insert. This isn't the 90's anymore.

And the Candy Cane parallel. These are pretty nice. I wished it had been a better player, but at least the card looks cool. I have actually a few of these since.

That was about all the excitement you get from these. The other cards were all base. No other parallels or inserts.

Other than the Candy Cane parallel, pretty boring/lame product.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

I have finally finished up my posts for the 2025 Christmas season. Now it will finally be time to move onto this year.

Hope everyone has had a great weekend!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Coffee Break:2025 Donruss Football Blaster Box

I mentioned a few posts ago, before the streak of Christmas ones that I hoped you enjoyed, that I got a couple retail surprises for Christmas.

Two of which were Donruss related.

The first one was the Donruss holiday tin that I shared previously, and today is a blaster box that I apparently forgot to save a picture of.

So, picture it. A blaster box......you got that in your mind now.....

Now let's take a sip, so we can rip!

There are 6 packs of 15 cards so you are getting a ton of cards for the price of $27.99. The only problem, about 80 of those are base. There are also no guarantees and since I am never lucky enough to pull a Downtown, I wasn't expecting too much from this break.

Let's see if I was right.

Unlike the tin, I did find some Giants cards for my collection.

It was only two, but that was two more than last time!

I have heard these blasters are tough when it comes to finding the good rookies as they only appear one-per-blaster.

Here was mine. Not too bad. He had a decent season for the team he played on.

Yup, another McCord parallel. If only this was a Giant.

Bo Nix throwback insert.

White Hot Rookies. I need the Dart version of this still to pair with my Red Hot Rookie.

Brett Favre insert.

Rookie Revolution. Shiny...however...looks like literally their product Revolution.

 

Dominators Trevor Lawrence. It's too bad the way their season ended on Sunday. They played so well for a team that was unexpected to win as much as they did.

And that's it. 

It was meh like the last break.

There is one break left to show from my surprise Christmas presents.

Hope you come back and read it.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

5 Things I Did In The Hobby Last Week

Good Morning Coffee Card Friends!

*takes a sip*

Welcome to the very first 5 Things I Did In The Hobby Last Week of the New Year!

Before I move onto that, I wanted to share a couple updates.

 

It appears that 2025 wasn't the year for Cards Over Coffee for Favorite Blog contests. No surprise that the awesome Night Owl Cards took home the trophy again, but, Cards Over Coffee wasn't in the Top 3 like last year. I guess it gives me something to strive for in 2026.

Thanks to those of you who voted for Cards Over Coffee..if you did.

We won our second game, so two for two so far. Still five more games left to the season. We had a double digit lead in this one then things started to slip but we held on. Need to definitely work on some defense.

Here we go onto my five things.

1.As always, I did a lot more social media posts across my planet of them. I started doing Rodney Hampton, Eli Manning updates along with small mail day posts on there since it's much faster to send out a social media message than putting up a big blog post.

If you want to catch up on stuff you missed out on, here is a list of all of my social media channels:Cards Over Coffee YouTube Channel is for cards:

Cards Over Coffee - YouTube

Matt's World Of Fun YouTube Channel is for everything else:
Matt's World Of Fun! - YouTube

On top of this, I have two Facebook accounts, Cards Over Coffee and Sport Card Collectors,

Twitter/X: Coffee Card Guy

Instagram account: Coffee Card Guy

Bluesky as Cards Over Coffee

There you have that. Now go check me out on those!

2.I spent some of my eBay gift card and got some steals!

$3 for a set need and tough to find 90's insert, yes please.

 

Also, a new Mikaela Shiffrin parallel card for $3 or less. I will take that.

3.I made some changes to the blog. I got rid of some tabs, added my trade numbers for the year (so far 0) along with incoming and outgoing card numbers that I hope to keep updated. I have always been curious by these numbers.

4. I cleaned up my card area! I will share a picture at some point, it may look like a mess to you still, but for me, I know where stuff is now.

5.I sorted one stack of cards. It's not much in the scheme of things, but with limited time, I have tried my best!

And there you have it. Five things I did in the hobby last week.

I hope to keep this series going when I have time to post on it.

*takes this posts final sip*

Have a Super Saturday and in comments, tell me five things you did in the hobby last week or make a comment on mine.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Ghost Of Christmas Box Part 4

*sits down with a big stack of cards nearby, takes sip, gets ready for a new post on Cards Over Coffee*

I felt like the good version of Scrooge this Christmas season as my mail box was visited by three blogger mail days.

I had the ghost of Christmas Box, the ghost of Christmas Card and the Ghost of Christmas Package.

For today's post, you will be visited by the last ghost, the Ghost Of Christmas Box which was sent by Wes who is famously known for the packages he sends.

And this one was such a whopper, I broke it up into four posts and didn't even come close to covering it all. I had to narrow it down to the like the Top 45ish and leave the rest for your imagination.

Let's keep the momentum flowing!

*takes a sip*

Here we are. The final part. All of the cups of coffee. All of the cards has led us to this ending.

So, let's end it.

First up, some lady relics,

I am not sure how many of these 2008 PopCardz relics are in a set, but I am pretty sure these ones along with the couple I have make a complete set. Unique relic cards of some pop culture icons of that time and some of today. I just hope the relics are authentic.

 

I mentioned in a previous post in this series, but I am a HUGE FAN of the Autograph Silhouette cards in the Panini Country Music product. Look at the cool relic swatches they use!! None of that player worn or employee worn material.

Now to end this post, how about some 1/1's?

(Toomer!!)

(Janoris Jenkins)

(autograph Rodney!)

(regular Rodney!)

And finally the big Whopper of the group....and not the kind that comes with grilled patty and pickles but instead is a 1/1 that comes with a......

 

LAWRENCE TAYLOR AUTOGRAPH!!!

Yeah, I see how stunned you are. I was too.

Try not to spill coffee on yourself before going to work.

*takes a sip trying not to spill some*

Thanks goes out to Wes for another bomb of a mail day. As I said in Part 1, this wasn't even all of the cards or the extra items that he sent. This was just a narrowed down version in order to fit into this amount of posts.

Thanks again for reading and have a magnificent Monday, not a manic one.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

The Ghost Of Christmas Box Part 3

 *sits down with a big stack of cards nearby, takes sip, gets ready for a new post on Cards Over Coffee*

I felt like the good version of Scrooge this Christmas season as my mail box was visited by three blogger mail days. 

I had the ghost of Christmas Box, the ghost of Christmas Card and the Ghost of Christmas Package.

For today's post, you will be visited by the last ghost, the Ghost Of Christmas Box which was sent by Wes who is famously known for the packages he sends.

And this one was such a whopper, I broke it up into four posts and didn't even come close to covering it all. I had to narrow it down to the like the Top 45ish and leave the rest for your imagination.

Let's keep the momentum flowing!

*takes a sip*

  

We kick off today's part with an autograph The San Diego chicken card. Nice signature as well.

 

You may be wondering who in the world is Sandro Platzgummer? Well, he was one of the players on the Giants as apart of the International Player Pathway Program.

He was apart of their practice squad but never quiet made it to the main roster. He did have a nice 48-yard run in the preseason was my biggest memory of him.

   

NEW RODNEY'S X 2! These Amped Up swatch autographs for some reason or another hold a premium compared to other Rodney autographs regardless of what it's numbered to.

 

I felt the 2015 Panini Country Music product is underrated, some really nice swatch cards can be found it. I am not a fan of Country Music, but it's a fun card product with some legendary names.

  

I have been wanting to add this one to my Darius Rucker PC for awhile. Now I have the base auto, the autograph silhouette and now this.

 

This one has been on my Top Wants list for awhile. The 90's relic cards are much better than today's. This one is a back to back featuring Joe Montgomery and Ike Hilliard.

 

I ain't no redneck woman, but Gretchen Wilson is. Another autograph knocked down from my Country Music autograph needs.

Yes, it's the Dark Sith as a Giants fan, but, it's a card I have wanted since it was included in 1995 Crown Royale and has been sitting on my Top Want Lists a long time. Well, since I created it on here. It's not often you see a team's owner included in a set and these aren't always easy to find. 

 

A major need for the Kerry Collins collection. Die-Cut autograph from the 90's. This is why 90's always did it better.

One more part to go. What remains to be seen? Well, you will have to wait until tomorrow.

Have a great Sunday, unless you are a Patriots or Eagles fan. Let me fix that, you can have a great day, just not your team.

*takes a final sip to today's post*

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

The Ghost Of Christmas Box Part 2

 *sits down with a big stack of cards nearby, takes sip, gets ready for a new post on Cards Over Coffee*

I felt like the good version of Scrooge this Christmas season as my mail box was visited by three blogger mail days. 

I had the ghost of Christmas Box, the ghost of Christmas Card and the Ghost of Christmas Package.

For today's post, you will be visited by the last ghost, the Ghost Of Christmas Box which was sent by Wes who is famously known for the packages he sends.

And this one was such a whopper, I broke it up into four posts and didn't even come close to covering it all. I had to narrow it down to the like the Top 45ish and leave the rest for your imagination.

Let's keep the momentum flowing!

*takes a sip*

 

When a sweet Eli Manning is the first card in the next post, you know that whatever all of this is leading up to will be huge.

   

And I don't know what people have against Leaf and Wild Card, this card has more Pow! to it than anything Panini and Topps puts out.

Charles Way Bronze parallel from 1999 Upper Deck. Not the easiest card to find.

Same way with this Fleer Tradition Heritage Parallel. Not easy finds. I haven't added much to my Way collection in a few years.

 

Film Cel relics still excite me, I don't know why. I rather have real ones that include real Cels from the movie, but these are cool despite being manufactured ones.

 

This card caught my eye right off. Not only is it attractive, but the creativity of using the fists attacking each other on opposite sides of the card really brings this card to life.

 

J-Lo rookie? I am not sure on that. I just know I wanted it just in case. I also want the Lady Gaga version of this card as well.

 

Someone must have read my Top Want Lists because this one.....

 

And these two have been on there forever. The Crown Royale Deion was a HOT card back in 1995 as it featured Sanders with the Cowboys for the first time and that just stirred up some memories.

The 1998 Playoff Contenders Rookie Leathers were the two hardest ones I needed for my set chase. Now I can probably continue to pursue that set chase that those two were knocked down.

Well, there is Part 2 for ya. Still two more parts remain which means two more cups of coffee, or more, to finish them.

Hope everyone has a great Saturday! My second game is today, fingers crossed on another great result! This team today will be tough.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*