Greeting cards are available for various occasions, including holidays, birthdays, romance, congratulations, and sympathy. There are also cards for business or professional use. As the cost of greeting cards rises, more people are creating their own or sending electronic cards. Card makers are trying to appeal to a younger audience with chic graphics and trendy sentiments.
Greeting cards are a great way to send holiday wishes and special sentiments to friends and family. Retail cards come in dozens of categories that include holidays, birthdays, romance, congratulations, and more. Widely used for Christmas, Mother’s and Father’s Day and Valentine’s Day greetings, many other greeting cards are also produced. There are also cards for Easter, New Years, Chanukah, Passover, Rosh Hashana and St. Patrick’s Day.
Birthday cards are hugely popular and come in age- or gender-specific categories, as well as serious, funny, and belated varieties. You can find them for most family relationships, from cousin to grandparent to spouse or child, and even for stepson or brother-in-law. Greeting cards suggesting old age are also popular.
Romantic greeting cards category includes those with feelings of love, romance, miss you or sorry. Greeting cards that convey congratulatory messages are common for births, anniversaries, weddings, engagements, and other joyous occasions. Congratulations categories also include Retirement, Graduation, Bon Voyage, Pregnancy, Bat/Bar Mitzvah, and Baptism or Christening.
Sympathy cards come in religious and non-religious versions. Get well and feel better soon cards are also prevalent. The miscellaneous categories include those like Thinking of You, Encouragement, Friendship, and Good Luck.
A relatively new category of greeting cards are those for business or professional use. Many of the other categories, such as greeting cards or greeting cards, are now labeled “appropriate for work.” Other uses for business cards include thank you cards, announcements, or cards used to keep in touch with clients or customers. Now that there is Boss’s Day, Nurses’ Day and Administrative Professional’s Day, card makers have created cards for these events.
As the cost of greeting cards rises, more and more people are designing and printing their own using word processing or desktop publishing software, a personal computer, and a home printer. Others choose to create intricate handmade cards. And as more and more communication is done online, electronic greeting cards can now be sent.
Some card makers have been trying to create cards that appeal to a younger audience as greeting card sales have flattened. Those cards that appeal to younger customers include chic graphics and trendy sentiments. Other popular trends include cards with unusual embellishments or unique card styles. Since many people save cards as keepsakes, it’s likely that the paper versions will be around forever.
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