Why Give Cards?

The Perfect Gift | Handmade Greeting Cards & Gift Cards

Most businesses now offer either monetary or merchandise gift cards. Combine your recipients favorite outlet gift card and a unique handmade greeting card for the perfect personalized gift for that special occasion or event.

Have it gift wrapped and delivered to their front door or even to their workplace for a great surprise!

Handmade Gift Cards History

History of handmade greeting cards, gift cards goes way back.

It is thought that the first people to send such cards were the Chinese who did so in ancient times as a way to spread great cheer, especially on the occasion of the Chinese New Year. Around the same time, the Egyptians also started using scrolls made out of papyrus to send their greetings to one another.

Handmade Greeting Cards

The first use of a greeting card that was actually made by hand can be traced to the early fifteenth century when the Europeans and Germans to be precise used the practice of greeting fellow countrymen on New Year’s day. In addition to this big event the Europeans also made paper Valentines (handmade) during the mid part of the fifteenth century.
It took another four to five more centuries before the greeting card was transformed from being quite expensive and also made by hand into an affordable means of sending messages to others. The reason for this was the big advances that were happening in the printing industry and also because of greater mechanization and to a smaller degree because of the introduction of postage stamps in the year 1840.
When more improvements took place in the early twentieth century in the form of color lithography the greeting card industry took a big step forward. During the forties and fifties there were a lot more humorous greeting cards that began hitting the market place and the market for greeting cards really began to take off in the eighties when these cards began to be known as alternative greeting cards.
In America, a man by the name of Louis Prang who had emigrated from Germany began a small sized lithograph business in the year 1856 in Boston and it is he who is generally acknowledged as being the person credited for starting the American greeting card industry. In just ten years after he first began business he had perfected the process of color lithography and this helped make his greeting cards the most popular items in the entire United States and also in Great Britain.
Thank you cards are very popular  because they help in conveying gratitude as well as genuine good wishes to those who are dear to you. Greeting cards on the other hand are excellent means of connecting with others including friends and associates and they also help to recognize important events whenever they take place.

Gift Cards

In modern days greeting cards where in the case of wanting to be more valuable and an acceptable gift were combined into a gift card with monetary value. In the case of  handmade cards that are in themselves valuable sometimes a retail gift card accompanies the greeting card to impress more value and become a special gift for special occasions or achievements.

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