Archive for the 'Christmas Cards' Category

What Christmas cards mean to us

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Christmas is a time of spreading joy and happiness among friends and family. It is a time when we try to spend time with our loved ones and offer thanks for our health and welfare. We feast on turkeys and chicken and drink mulled wine and eggnog, invest thousands into Christmas decorations, Christmas trees and [...]

Using the computer to make your own calendar

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

Are you worried about your children having tooth decay? Or are you on a diet and feel that a chocolate a day is like a carrot in front of a donkey; a cruel tease. Think about creating a calendar masterpiece on the computer. You can use many different programs because the idea is a simple [...]

Personalized cards for the family

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

When it comes to cards for intimate family, many of us do not tend to buy a box of Christmas cards and be done with it.  Instead we traipse around the shops with the intention to buy personal cards individually.  We do this partially because we want to show our loved ones that they are [...]

Make your Christmas cards stand out

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

There are a few simple rules that can help point you in the direction of being a Christmas card champion this year. No one likes to receive cheap and nasty cards that are late and shoddy so here is what to remember. Firstly buy your cards early especially if you want run of the mill [...]

Keep the Christmas card traditional this year

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

That’s it. You come home from work, flick the play button on the cheesy Christmas DVD and you sit with your mulled wine with the intention to prepare your Christmas cards. With the exception of looking up contacts, and reading this article, ban the laptop. Technology is relied upon by many of us in simple [...]

Why choose a charity Christmas card?

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

I remember charity cards used to carry with them a little bit of a tree hugging stigma; they were drab, had the cause plastered all over them and were made out of poor quality paper. Let that be a thing of the past. Charity Christmas cards allow people like you and me to support a [...]

Family photo cards

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Families are precious however big or geographically challenged they are, Christmas is traditionally a time to check in with your loved ones and spread some festive cheer. Christmas cards are a lovely way of expressing your love at the most wonderful time of the year. They can however, sometimes, be a little unimaginative. Aunty Jude [...]

Christmas cards as a marketing tool

Sunday, November 21st, 2010

So your company is going to be mega busy this Christmas. Your product is going to practically go and sit under a Christmas tree by itself and no household will be complete without it. Even if your product is a little less specific to Christmas or gift-friendly, it is the time of year when people [...]

Christmas card lists

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Christmas card lists are fluid beings, they don’t ever remain exactly the same for year to year and over the course of a decade they might completely reinvent themselves. As people pass through our lives the address book gets scruffy looking and every year the task of creating the greeting card list becomes less novel [...]

Christmas card fun facts

Monday, November 15th, 2010

President Eisenhower sent out the very first official Christmas card from the White House in 1953 whilst the first Christmas card (as we know it) was created by a British business man who was simply too busy to send individual wishes and commissioned John Horsely to create a card for him. Louis Prang, a German [...]