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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. Nowadays there are a lot of ways we can express ourselves, our feelings to somebody such as a SMS, an email massage, an ecard, a fax message or simply a telephone/cell telephone. But still Greeting Cards are being used for this objective. Many people feel to such an extent that why to invest money and time in purchasing and sending a greeting card, instead why not send a SMS, so cheap and time saving choice!!!
Nowadays what matters in every field is the presentation. Greetings card can also be 1 from the means of presenting your feelings. I'd say that the Greetings card is an esthetic seeking packing of your feelings/expressions so that the recipient feels delighted and honoured.
Hence Greeting cards may be employed for nearly all occasions, only point that you must select the right card, suitable color, style or picture 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 hence there are many types of Greeting Cards available in the industry:
Birthday card
New year card
Anniversary card
Thank you card
Thinking of you card
Sorry card
best planners wishes card
Great Luck card
Get effectively card
Flower card
Congratulations card
Engagement card
New infant card
I Love 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 biggest producers of greeting cards within the planet. In the Uk, it is estimated that 1 billion pounds are spent on greeting cards each year, with all the typical particular person sending 55 cards per year.
In the Usa, numerous adults traditionally mail Christmas cards to their friends and relatives in December. Several service businesses also send cards to their customers in this season, usually 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 for the ancient Chinese who exchanged messages of good will to celebrate the New Year. Egyptians in ancient occasions conveyed their greetings on papyrus scrolls. By the early 1400s, handmade paper greeting cards were becoming 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 becoming exchanged in different components of Europe within the early to mid-1400s.
By the 1850s, the greeting card had been transformed from a fairly pricey, handmade and hand-delivered present to a well-known and affordable implies of individual communication. Thanks to new advances in printing and mechanization. This was followed by new trends like Christmas cards, the initial of which appeared in published kind in London in 1843 when Sir Henry Cole hired artist John Calcott Horsley to design a vacation card that he could send to his pals and acquaintances. In the 1860s, organizations like Marcus Ward & Co, Goodall and Charles Bennett began the mass production of greeting cards. They employed well-known artists such as Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane as illustrators and card designers.
There are two major categories of greeting cards, 1 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.
