A Greeting card is just a modest piece of paper printed or hand painted or handcrafted with printed or handwritten message to convey your feelings to someone. Nowadays you will discover numerous approaches we can express ourselves, our feelings to an individual for instance a SMS, an e mail massage, an ecard, a fax message or simply a telephone/cell telephone. But nevertheless Greeting Cards are being utilised for this objective. A lot of people feel to such an extent that why to commit funds and time in purchasing and sending a greeting card, alternatively why not send a SMS, so affordable and time saving option!!!

Nowadays what matters in every field would be the presentation. Greetings card is also one of several indicates of presenting your feelings. I'd say that the Greetings card is an esthetic searching packing of your feelings/expressions so that the recipient feels delighted and honoured.

Therefore Greeting cards can be applied for nearly all occasions, only thing that you just need to pick the proper card, proper color, style or picture along with the printed message or your own handwritten massage, which will reveal your affection. As Greeting cards are for many factors, occasions and hence there are several kinds of Greeting Cards readily available inside the market place:

Birthday card
New year card
Anniversary card
Thank you card
Thinking of you card
Sorry card
Greatest wishes card
Very good Luck card
Get nicely card
Flower card
Congratulations card
Engagement card
New baby card
I Enjoy 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 planet. Inside the Uk, it can be estimated that one particular billion pounds are spent on greeting cards every year, with the typical particular person sending 55 cards per year.

In the United states, a lot of adults traditionally mail Christmas cards to their buddies and relatives in December. Quite a few service firms also send cards to their buyers in this season, ordinarily with a universally acceptable non-religious message for instance "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 excellent 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 known to have printed New Year's greetings from woodcuts as early as 1400, and handmade paper Valentines had been becoming exchanged in numerous parts of Europe inside the early to mid-1400s.

By the 1850s, the greeting card had been transformed from a comparatively high priced, handmade and hand-delivered present to a well-liked and reasonably priced means of personal 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 buddies and acquaintances. In the 1860s, firms like Marcus Ward & Co, Goodall and Charles Bennett began the mass production of greeting cards. They employed well-known artists which include Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane as illustrators and card designers.

There are 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 out there 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.