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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 somebody. These days there are a lot of methods we can express ourselves, our feelings to someone including a SMS, an e-mail massage, an ecard, a fax message or just a telephone/cell telephone. But still Greeting Cards are being used for this objective. Some people believe to such an extent that why to invest money and time in buying and sending a greeting card, instead why not send a SMS, so cheap and time saving option!!!

Today what matters in each and every field is the presentation. Greetings card is also 1 from the implies of presenting your feelings. I would say that the Greetings card is an esthetic seeking packing of your feelings/expressions so that the recipient feels delighted and honoured.

Therefore Greeting cards can be employed for nearly all occasions, only point that you should choose the correct card, appropriate colour, design and style or image together with the printed message or your own personal handwritten massage, which will reveal your affection. As Greeting cards are for a lot of causes, occasions and therefore there are lots of kinds of Greeting Cards accessible inside the market:

Birthday card
New year card
Anniversary card
Thank you card
Considering of you card
Sorry card
Best wishes card
Good Luck card
Get effectively card
Flower card
Congratulations card
Engagement card
New child card
I Really like 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 would be the largest producers of greeting cards within the globe. Inside the United kingdom, it's estimated that 1 billion pounds are spent on greeting cards each and every year, using the average individual sending 55 cards per year.

Inside the United states, many adults traditionally mail Christmas cards to their pals and relatives in December. Many service organizations also send cards to their consumers in this season, typically having a universally acceptable non-religious message such as "happy holidays" or "seasons's greetings.

The Historians say the custom of sending greeting cards is started by to the ancient Chinese who exchanged messages of good will to celebrate the New Year. Egyptians in ancient instances conveyed their greetings on papyrus scrolls. By the early 1400s, handmade paper greeting cards had been being exchanged in Europe. The Germans are identified to have printed New Year's greetings from woodcuts as early as 1400, and handmade paper Valentines were getting exchanged in various components of Europe in the early to mid-1400s.

By the 1850s, the greeting card had been transformed from a fairly expensive, handmade and hand-delivered gift to a well-liked and inexpensive indicates of personal 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 and style a vacation card that he could send to his friends and acquaintances. Inside the 1860s, businesses like Marcus Ward & Co, Goodall and Charles Bennett began the mass production of greeting cards. They employed well-known artists including Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane as illustrators and card designers.

There are two major categories of greeting cards, one is mass produced ( printed on offset printing machines etc.) and other is handmade greeting cards. Hand painted greeting cards is also a separate category of greeting cards. These cards are also obtainable 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.

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