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Hallmark Offers 30% Off $30 Holiday Card Orders

Hallmark 30 Off Holiday Cards


Hallmark is offering 30% off orders of $30 or more on holiday cards. Use promo code HOLIDAY30. Discount valid only on holiday cards, including paper cards, photo cards, invitations and announcements. Cards with sound are excluded. Hallmark will address, stamp and mail your holiday cards for you. The offer is good until 12-31-09.

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Posted on December 17, 2009
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Tiny Prints Launches Celebrity Holiday Card Collection for Charity

Tiny Prints Gwyneth Paltrow Card


Tiny Prints has launched its second annual Celebrity Holiday Card Collection for Charity. As part of this collection, celebrity moms Alison Sweeney, Angie Harmon, Cindy Crawford, Marcia Cross and Molly Sims, have partnered with Tiny Prints and its designers to create exclusive holiday card designs benefiting charities and causes. Gwyneth Paltrow has also created a line for Tiny Prints. Her card design is pictured above. You can find the celebrity card lines here. Gwyneth's cards are not yet listed on the website.

Posted on October 20, 2009
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Holiday Card Trend: Traditional Colors and Heartfelt Messages

Let's Spend Some Quiet Time TogetherThe Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about how the greeting card companies started noticing the downturn in the economy months before the stock market fell. They first started noticing that traditional cards were selling better at the end of last year.
An early clue to the new direction: During brainstorming sessions held late last year for the 2008 holiday collection, nostalgia for simple holiday traditions like cookie-baking, walks through the snow and tree-trimming kept coming up among the writers, artists and trend experts in attendance. Then, amid the glitzy, festive tone that dominated last year's holiday-card designs, American Greetings noticed that traditional cards with heartfelt messages were selling surprisingly well.

By early this year, as the housing downturn accelerated and gas prices rose, the Cleveland-based company's research showed that consumers, spending more time at home, were focusing on personal relationships and reminiscing about happier times together.
American Greetings is going with deeper reds and greens on its Christmas cards and away from the cherry red they have used in recent years. They are using less pink and light blue. They say people are also more interested in longer copy on greeting cards as they seeker more meaningful and personal themes.
The text is deliberately long-winded. Before, cards had shorter, snappier messages. "Now people want longer copy," says Rochelle Lulow, creative director of American Greetings' editorial studio. "During difficult times, we see people wanting to connect on a deeper, emotional level that goes above and beyond." Another executive said: "We started seeing that at Mother's Day."
Also appearing on greeting cards this year is handholding like in the card pictured above from American Greetings that shows a couple holding hands while they take a walk in a winter scene. It retails for $3.99.
Handholding appears on many American Greetings cards this year, including one with a black-and-white image of a couple, seen from behind, walking down a snowy, tree-lined road. The message reads, "Let's spend some quiet time together...because being with you is my favorite thing to do."
Hallmark has also changed its card designs this year. They told the WSJ that their designs this year contain images that "are much more iconic and familiar." The article also talks about a summertime study American Greetings conducted called Voodoo which involved groups of women sitting in dimly lighted rooms with soft music playing. That study reminds us a little of Mad Men. It sounds like the top greeting card companies went to great lengths to try and come up with the right cards this year.

Posted on December 13, 2008
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Penguin Greetings

We've been looking around for cute Holiday Greeting cards and we came upon these darling Penguin Holiday Cards, from Galison.com. Maybe it was seeing that March of the Penguins movie, but a happy baby penguin seems like the perfect symbol for a non-religious greeting card. You get 20 notecards (3-1/2" x 5") and 21 envelopes for $11.00, so you certainly can't beat the price. And don't tell us that it's only October. Strive to be like Bree on Desperate Housewives: you know she already has her holiday cards picked out.

Posted on October 3, 2005
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