Handmade Greeting Card – Hot Trends

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Handmade greeting card. Are You Going to create your own greeting card? GREAT!

Nowadays what matters in every field is the presentation. Handmade greeting card is also one of the means of presenting your feelings. Greeting card sent are always special and attempts are made to personalize them as much as possible, whether they are sent to friends and family, or to just casual acquaintances.

A handmade greeting card is just a small piece of paper printed or hand painted or handcrafted with printed or handwritten message to convey your feelings to someone. Nowadays there are so many ways we can express ourselves, our feelings to someone such as a SMS, an email massage, and ecard, but handmade greeting card is an esthetic looking packing of your feelings/expressions so that the recipient feels delighted and honoured.

Hence handmade greeting card can be used for almost all occasions, only thing that you should select the right card, appropriate color, design or picture along with the printed message or your own handwritten message, which will reveal your affection.

Are you going to create your own handmade greeting card?? Here are some tips :

• Think, what the purpose is, funny, romantic, serious, or formal.
• Find a great style for your idea, you can find it in the internet, there are so many picture and style on making handmade greeting cards.
• If you want to use computer and print the cards, choose any software that support on making cards, such as indesign, photoshop, or page maker.
• If you want to use your creativity, you can find natural material for your card, like dried flowers (read their meaning and colors here), dried leaves, hmm..try different things by using your creativity.
• The next job would be to decide the format in which the greeting card you want made should be presented. It is extremely important to have an idea of the kind of greeting you want to send ahead of beginning work on your greeting card. The graphics, fonts, etc that you would use in your card will depend on the mood of your card, funny, serious, formal, etc. Also, the layout – top fold, side fold, etc – must be chosen right at the outset

Executive summary by Shangeeta.D, GEraldin, & Cindy Martin

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Free romantic e-cards. The free romantic ecards can complete your perfect romantic gifts, are cute and easy way to say “I love you” without going to the nearest store for a greeting card, signing it, addressing it, sticking a stamp to it, and finding a mailbox to drop it in. Plus, free romantic ecards don’t cost anything, and they get to the one you love a lot faster. You can consider free romantic ecards as being the same thing as normally greetings cards. The difference is that an ecard is an electronic card.

Here are the condition a decade ago :

• Maybe we usually use cards? we had to purchase cards from the bookstore and mail them at the post office right?
• By Letter? We had to go to the post office, we have to pay for the card or even for stamps. When the recipient got the message, it may have been too late already, as he had to wait for days or even weeks to get the card There are even unfortunate times when cards are lost in the mail

Ouch..how tired it is! Thank to the internet, now we can show our love to someone anytime we want, here are the advantage free romantic ecards :

• Free romantic ecards are absolutely FREE, you just send them to someone in your heart via internet.
• Free romantic ecards are fast and easy way to show your feeling.
• There are so many different style of free romantic ecards, you can choose what best for you and your love and you can find millions of free ecards over the Internet, you can choose ecards with flowers, teddy bear, or anything unique.

How To Use the free romantic ecards –> It Is Easy !!

• Look for the free romantic ecards that really represents you and says what you want to say in the right words
• After you select the right free romantic ecards, click to send it. Most free ecards websites will then allow you to choose a background for the card
• Next, you will be required to fill out a form with your name, email address, the recipient’s name and email address, and your personalized message to them
• Some free romantic ecards websites allow you to pick music to play with the card. See if “your song” is in the list. If not, pick something meaningful, not cheesy.
• After you personalize your free romantic ecards, you can preview it and send it
• Typically, the recipient will get an email from the ecards website within a few minutes that they have an ecard.

Beside the romantic ecards, there are so many kind of ecards :

• Traditional events are birthday, anniversary, or Easter. For extraordinary events, especially during those times when we want to send our support, there are cards with messages such as “congratulations” “get well soon,” or “good luck.”
• For everyday cards, there are ones which say “good morning,” “good night,” “have a nice day,” “thinking of you,” “missing you”, and so on.
• There are also ecards saying “thank you,” “sorry,” “farewell” and “condolences.” We can also get inspirational and religious ecards.
• What’s more, we can also make use of invitation ecards so we won’t have to deal with the hassles of purchasing or ordering invitations for special occasions and events.

Executive summary by Christian, Ispas Marin & Kristy Annely

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Handmade Birthday Cards – Create Your Own!

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Handmade birthday cards. A birthday card is a card with illustrations and contains a special message for the celebrator. Handmade birthday cards provide us all an opportunity to convey our birthday wishes to our friends, family and loved ones. We all know just what a birthday card means to its recipient, a creative and unique cards will make something different! A little changes can make a big effect.

Handmade birthday cards is more beautiful!

Handmade birthday cards is a unique way and different impact for anyone who receive it. They will keep that and remember who made it. If you going to a mall, you can find that handmade birthday cards is more expensive than another cards, because it is unique and unusual and of course the main difference between handmade birthday cards and a machine made one is that the handmade products are more biodegradable and environmental friendly. Handmade birthday cards are appreciated for its uniqueness and simplicity, fortunately, you don’t have to buy, be more a little creative and you can make your own handmade birthday cards for someone you love ones.

Tips on making handmade birthday cards :

1. Be creative, you can Use recycling paper, it can be used for creating birthday cards or other such products.

2. Use marker with different colors, you can use them to write the message and to design the handmade birthday cards. For more creative, you can use a unique spanish sayings, Italian phrases or funny birthday sayings.

3. Put some picture, you can get the picture from magazines, by cutting, or you can print and stick the picture on your handmade birthday cards.

4. Use another natural things, like dried leaves, dried woods, dried seeds, dried flowers ( find their meaning and colors, you can send a message by giving a right flower from your heart), you can find it in a mall. Don’t have budget? Hey, don’ worry, you can find them everywhere right? It’s not difficult..

5. Last, put the handmade birthday cards side by side with your gift, it will be perfect! Good Luck!

Statistics

• Birthday cards cover 62 percent of the greeting card industry. It is estimated that over 1.2 billion birthday cards are sent out every year.
• Approximately there are about 5 billion people celebrating their birthdays in the United States of America alone, which estimate that there are about 700,000 birthdays on the average occurring everyday.
• Approximately 5.6 million birthday cards are sent out each day just in the United States of America.
• August is recorded as the month when Americans celebrate the most birthdays, attributing to 9.07 percent or about 21 million, followed by July with 8.80 percent.
• About 70 percent of the people would write additional messages into the card to give it a personalized touch. About one-fourth of the birthday cards sent are given to friends, and about two-thirds are mailed.

Executive summary by Marcus Peterson