According to the recent “Intel Holiday Mobile Etiquette” study conducted by Harris Interactive and sponsored by Intel Corporation, 62% of online adults would send an electronic greeting card or e-mail in lieu of a traditional card, and 88% of them would not be offended if they received an e-mail or electronic thank you card in lieu of handwritten notes of gratitude.
How about you?
Is this the year of eCards in UK?
According to The Time, “Royal Mail’s chief executive has painted a bleak picture of the industry’s future — and warned that the current strife could result in people deciding that this was the year they would stop sending Christmas cards.”
I don’t think people in UK will stop sending paper Christmas cards. The strike will definitely have some effect, but there are still many weeks away from Christmas. There are enough people who believe that paper cards are a special part of their holiday. For many people, paper Christmas cards are often set out on the mantel or some other conspicuous place. Try to do that with eCards.
Maybe we should add the functionality for the recipients to print out their ecards so they can put the “cards” on the mantel-:)
Our newest card for Halloween is titled “Ghostly Friends”. It is great for sending spooky wishes to friends and family of all ages.
Ghostly Friends
A frightfully cute little ghost shares his treats with his friends in this card that is sure to delight old and young alike.
Here is our other Halloween card.
Halloween Frolics
With a dash of magic, a sprinkling of make believe and some ominous music this production will put you right in the mood for some frolics of your own on Halloween. Made to look vintage – but see for yourself!
Tip: When you create a card, you can check off the option boxes to be notified when the card is sent or when the recipient views this card.
Happy Halloween!
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We have added a new card titled “Ave Maria” to our growing selection of ecards. For some time now we have wanted to set a card to the goose-bump inducing vocal rendition of Schubert’s piece by the same title.
So we set out to design a card that would do the music justice; we settled on painting a reproduction of Lewis C. Tiffany’s glass stained windows, which took several weeks to complete in watercolor and ink.
Tiffany’s windows are renowned for their vibrant color, beautifully detailed art nouveau designs and innovative glass making techniques. The card includes a short section about the art work in the card (link found at the end of the card).
Although the card is mainly intended for announcing the birth of a new baby, congratulating new parents, baptisms and christenings, it is also suitable for other spiritual occasions. We plan to release an alternate version of the card for Christmas later in the year as well.
Ave Maria
Let us know how you like this card!
Last night I put the finishing touches on what is probably the most complicated, painstaking and detailed watercolor I have done for any of the cards to date. I am working on a card that is inspired by the amazing art nouveau stained glass windows by Louis C. Tiffany.
Transparent watercolors are perfect for capturing the vibrancy and luminosity of light filtering through a stained glass window.
The first stage, painting the frames of each individual glass pane in black ink took about a week of full time work. The ink is water soluble but waterproof once dry, so can be applied before the watercolors. Although this makes painting in watercolor a bit easier, it still took another week and a half of days, evenings and pretty much all my free time to complete the painting.
But now that it is complete I am rather thrilled with the result. I hope you will be to when you see the final card which will be set to Ave Maria, one of my favorite music pieces.
I am delighted to announce our 60th card, called “Hot off the Press”, which is suitable for many different occasions. With wonderfully detailed hand painted watercolors and animation, this card is set in sepia tones and lets you print your very own “headline” and special message on the front page of a newspaper. You can even include a photo with the card – black and white photos work especially well – to round out the effect and making a big front page splash.
Hot off the Press
We are sorry that the link of the ecard “You’ve Got Mail” in our last newsletter went to a different card. Below is the correct one!
You’ve Got Mail
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We have a number of cards in the works and have just finished adding a new one to the site called “You’ve got mail” birthday ecard.
Although this is an ecard, the title refers to the “snail mail” variety and the anticipation when hoping for something in the mail. The card is perfect for birthdays and other celebratory occasions, especially in the event you just happened to forget to send something by snail mail in time 😉 It features Ginger, the golden lab, a pair of busy robins, a stork, a kitten and yes, of course, a snail.
Check out our other birthday ecards!
Tip: Most of our cards allow you to user your own greetings of your choice. When you are in the card creation page, click the “My custom greeting” radio button and type in your greeting. Click the “review this card” button to review your card greeting and message.
There are 4 options you can set in the card creation page. You may find them very useful.
The 1st one is set by default. However, for the free ecards that we offer for the non-members, this option is disabled. Here are our ecard collection if you are interested.
The rest you must set manually yourself when creating the card.
When you set the 2nd option, an email notification will be sent to you when the card is sent. This is particularly helpful when you have scheduled many cards in the future for different dates.
When you set the 3rd option, an email notification will be sent to you when the card is picked up the first time.
When you set the 4th option, a copy of the ecard will be sent to you. With this option, a new ecard will be created with the same card greeting and message, but the recipient information will be yours. This is done this way so that when you view this card, the card for the other recipient won’t be marked as being picked up.
We have added two new cards to our selection for U.S. independence day. The first card, “Liberty” features Ginger, a golden Labrador, who unwittingly creates quite the piece of art out of sand on the beach. Despite a funny twist, it ends on a touching note.
Both cards are set to two very different renditions of “America the Beautiful”. The second card by the same title as the song includes a wonderful jazzy swing rendition to get you right in a big Apple sort of mood. This card is an adaption of the card “Celestial” released last year for New Year, updated to capture just a few of the things that must have inspired the title “America the Beautiful”.
In addition to these two new cards there are a number of other cards that were created for July 4th celebrations, below are a few. The card “Hope” is an uplifting alternative for those looking for a message of peace that is still highly suitable for celebrating July 4th and features one of my favorite musical pieces by composer Respighi.
For the coming Father’s Day this Sunday, we have 3 FREE memberships to give away! So YOU, too, can send our animated ecards to your family and friends.
If you would like a chance to win one, please comment below about the ecards that you like (and why). For a 2nd entry, blog about this contest, with a link back to this post (don’t forget to tell me that you did so). Be sure to tell all your friends about this fun contest as well!
I will announce the winners (via random drawing) on Saturday, the 20th. I am sorry that the contest lasts only for such a short time. Next time, there will be more time for the future contests.
We have a number of other suitable cards for Father’s Day, here are just a few to get you started:
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