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What is Christmas without Santa, Gifts and Christmas cards? Christmas cards have been around since 1843 when Sir Henry Cole of London commissioned one. He had also introduced the Penny Post three years earlier. There has been a steady decline in the number of Christmas Cards sent out through snail mail in recent years. However, the number is still close to 2 billion cards a year.
Official Christmas cards started going out in the 1840s and in 1953 US President Dwight D Eisenhower sent out the first official White House Christmas card. During his years as president, George W. Bush sent out over 1 million Christmas Cards. However, sending Christmas cards is a costly endevour for us mere mortals.
A whole new genre of Christmas cards started in the late 1990s when the internet and email became popular. And there are many websites dedicated to Christmas Ecards. Some of the most popular ones are American Greetings and Hallmark who also have large print presence. However, the advent of ecards has inevitably led to christmas card spam.
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Challenge #41 Sketch
The Pink Petal —
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This weeks challenge at The Pink Elephant is a sketch challenge. Here is the sketch we used. I made a couple gift tags using the sketch this week. My first one is a snowflake I cut from my sizzix snowflake die and the pink one is from my cuttlebug snowflake die which I embossed with a pink shimmery embossing ...4 hours ago -
Christmas party invatation
My crafty days off —
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Another busy weekend for me!! Cant believe it nearly over!! I needed to make the invitation for my work Christmas party this weekend. Finally got it done but then had a hard time with the photo as there is soooooo much glitter & sparkle!The photo truly does not give it justice! Also the background is stamped with ...11 hours ago -
Happy Sunday & November’s L’il Scrappers GOT KIT reveal!
Moralia's Weblog —
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Good morning ladies! How are you this morning! It’s pretty dark & gloomy here today, but that’s fine, I have no plans besides staying in & spending time with my kidlets and hopefully squeezing in some scrapping time! Tonight is my TV night, Desperate Housewives & Amazing Race… Anyone else watch? ...17 hours ago -
Glitz & Bling
A Lil' bit of me... —
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Luckily I found time for a quick card in the mids of everything I need to finish today.. and it complies with 3 challenges: * The sketch I’ve used is from SKETCH SATURDAY and it’s one of those yummie ones again! * Over at CCT and BASIC GREY challenge blogs it is bling & glitz and as I’ve used ...18 hours ago -
Pink Christmas
The Messy Crafter —
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The new challenge on Something Completely Different this week is to use Pink on our cards and Christmas Trees. I used some DCWV papers, embossed snowflakes with a CB folder, cut out some trees on my Slice and the snowflakes is a QK die.20 hours ago -
Tri Fold Holiday Cards – Get More Space For More Memories
Romantic Travel —
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New holiday card designs let you create new forms of expressing your joy this holiday season. One of the best is the tri fold accordion holiday card. Tri fold Christmas greeting cards offer more surfaces for text, graphic, and photo. They also stand up better unaided on your recipients desk, mantle, or table.21 hours ago -
Make Your Own Christmas Greeting Cards This Year!
Very Good Search Info Center —
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Throughout the holiday season, you will see plenty of cards that are loaded with best wishes for family and loved ones. But, if you want to give your friends a Christmas greeting card theyll never forget, why not try designing them on your own? Here are some hints on sending a Christmas greeting that will help you to ...1 day ago -
More Challenges
Cards, Cards and More Cards —
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I just love this sketch from Winter Wonderland this week so I used this as my first challenge of the card. Its one I might even use again! Then I also incorporated the following challenges with my card: Charisma Cardz - Merry & Bright - I think I nailed that one - hee hee Cutecard ...1 day ago -
Delightful Decorations Bulb With A Fun Fold!
My Creative Corner! —
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Sometimes I step out of my box of the "normal" folds. Not very often but today this one looked fun. Plus with this type of fold you can use smaller stamps and make them work on your card! I have LOTS of smaller stamps and Im going to have to try this layout on them and see what I come up with.For this card the back ...1 day ago -
Tri Fold Holiday Photo Cards – Get More Space For More Memories
Memmis.com News Agency —
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Accordion-style tri fold christmas cards feature more surfaces for more photos, graphics, and text. That gives you more space to create more memories. Your words and images can be seen from more angles and tri fold holiday cards stand up better than ordinary fold-out cards.1 day ago -
Send holiday cards to the Troops overseas
U.S. Common Sense —
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It is hard to believe, but the holidays are just a month away. So I want to push this out to you now while you have enough time to act. If you are interested, there are numerous sites offering you ways to send holiday cards and letters to our troops stationed overseas, especially for those in Iraq and ...1 day ago -
New Christmas Items Up at Rust belt Pop
Tales From the Rust Belt —
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Weve got a new line of Christmas products up at Rust Belt Pop . They include Christmas cards, shirts, stickers, mugs and more. There are two designs up now with more to come. Be sure to check out some of our fine products for all your gift giving needs! (We even have ties and designs for the kids!) Click ...1 day ago -
Friday Sketchers #78 - Christmas Hugs
*Kristine ~ Lost In Creativity —
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I finally had time to join the Friday Sketchers challenges again. This weeks sketch was so cnice I think I definitely will use it again for some more Christmas cards. The dotted paper is from Inkido . I sewed all edges with my sewing machine. I added some crackle paint and sprayed the whole card with Glimmer Mist ...1 day ago -
got sketch? #93
simply rae —
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happy saturday! any exciting plans for this weekend? were headed to Laurens last travel softball tournament but i wanted to share some cards first :) i dont know about you, but i l♥ve Valerie Salmon s got sketch? sketches... and her latest is as fab as always! got sketch? #93 ...1 day ago -
Simple Joy
Paula, Paulita —
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Simple cardmaking is what I find easier to do, but simple doesnt mean necesarly easy, although there may be people who think that. The key of cardmaking for me as a crafter is design rather than technique because I always think that is easier to learn technique than to learn design, as to learn a technique is to learn ...1 day ago -
Fun Ideas for Making Your Own Christmas Cards
Tourist Travel Guide —
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Throughout the holiday season, you will see plenty of cards that are loaded with best wishes for family and loved ones. However, if you want to offer your friends a Christmas greeting card theyll never forget, why not try creating them on your own? Here are some hints on sending a Christmas greeting that will help you ...2 days ago -
Playing Tag on a Pink Saturday
She's Sew Pretty —
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Ive spent this week getting to know my new daughter-in-law. Turns out, she likes playing with paper too. You can get a lot of talking done while creating tags. I scanned some old Christmas cards and sent them to my daughter-in-law and she printed them on photo paper. We spent three nights this week making ...2 days ago -
Hot Cocoa packet Holder Tutorial
A Necessary Creativity —
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Hi everyone! From the results of the poll I took on the hot cocoa holder I posted last week, there are some of you who wanted a “how to”. So today I went ahead and made a tutorial for you. Thank you for your response to the poll, it really helps me know what my [...]2 days ago -
It’s Time to Order Your Holiday Cards from Minted.com!
Susan Heim on Parenting —
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I send out at least 75 Christmas cards every year. Most of our extended family lives out-of-state and we rarely see them, so I like to include a picture so people can see how much the kids have grown and changed over the year. (My teens are now resisting this, but I still manage to get a picture taken of my ...2 days ago -
A Merry Little Christmas to You! A Christmas card with Magnolia, The Cutting Cafe, and the Cricut
Gramma's House of Cards —
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Happy Friday everyone!! I didnt think this week was ever going to end, but it finally did, and I get to sleep in tomorrow morning. YAY! LOL! Its the little things, right? :) Im working really hard on Christmas cards, and couldnt wait to use this cute little elf, #803 from Magnolia-licious , called Alf. Hes ...2 days ago
