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A Greeting card is just a little piece of paper printed or hand painted or handcrafted with printed or handwritten message to convey your feelings to someone. Today there are a lot of ways we can express ourselves, our feelings to somebody including a SMS, an e-mail massage, an ecard, a fax message or just a telephone/cell phone. But nevertheless Greeting Cards are becoming employed for this purpose. Many people feel to such an extent that why to spend cash and time in purchasing and sending a greeting card, rather why not send a SMS, so inexpensive and time saving choice!!!
Today what matters in every field is the presentation. Greetings card is also a single in the implies of presenting your feelings. I would say that the Greetings card is an esthetic seeking packing of one's feelings/expressions so that the recipient feels delighted and honoured.
Hence Greeting cards could be employed for virtually all occasions, only point that you should pick the right card, suitable color, design and style or image along with the printed message or your own personal handwritten massage, that will reveal your affection. As Greeting cards are for many reasons, occasions and therefore there are numerous kinds of Greeting Cards available inside the industry:
Birthday card
New year card
Anniversary card
Thank you card
Pondering of you card
Sorry card
Best wishes card
Excellent Luck card
Get well card
Flower card
Congratulations card
Engagement card
New baby card
I Adore you card
Valentines day card
Christmas card
Dipavali card
Diwali card
Navratri card
Ugadi card (Hindu New Year card)
Gudhipadawa card (Hindu New Year card)
Sankranti card
Mothers day card
Fathers day card
Congratulation card and so on.
Hallmark Cards and American Greetings are the largest producers of greeting cards within the globe. Inside the United kingdom, it's estimated that a single billion pounds are spent on greeting cards each year, with the typical particular person sending 55 cards per year.
Inside the United states, several adults traditionally mail Christmas cards to their pals and relatives in December. Many service companies also send cards to their consumers in this season, usually with a universally acceptable non-religious message including "happy birthday cards holidays" or "seasons's greetings.
The Historians say the custom of sending greeting cards is began by to the ancient Chinese who exchanged messages of great will to celebrate the New Year. Egyptians in ancient occasions conveyed their greetings on papyrus scrolls. By the early 1400s, handmade paper greeting cards have been becoming exchanged in Europe. The Germans are identified to possess printed New Year's greetings from woodcuts as early as 1400, and handmade paper Valentines had been getting exchanged in numerous parts of Europe within the early to mid-1400s.
By the 1850s, the greeting card had been transformed from a comparatively expensive, handmade and hand-delivered present to a well-known and cost-effective means of individual communication. Due to new advances in printing and mechanization. This was followed by new trends like Christmas cards, the initial of which appeared in published form in London in 1843 when Sir Henry Cole hired artist John Calcott Horsley to design a vacation card that he could send to his friends and acquaintances. Inside the 1860s, organizations like Marcus Ward & Co, Goodall and Charles Bennett began the mass production of greeting cards. They employed well-known artists like Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane as illustrators and card designers.
You will find two major categories of greeting cards, a single is mass produced ( printed on offset printing machines etc.) and other is handmade greeting cards. Hand painted greeting cards can also be a separate category of greeting cards. These cards are also available but this type of cards can not be mass- produced as each card has to be individually painted. So every hand painted card is unique.
