Forms of Greeting Cards
There are many forms of greeting cards but here we will discuss a few of them.
Quilling Cards
These cards are more popular and unique style to wishing your loved ones. Quilling is a technique of creating tangle and intricate designs from roll paper. Filigree is another name of quilling. A Quilling card is craft just like Logo Stationery with the quality paper. Furthermore, quilling is the piece of art. Quilling is the art, a decorative design in which strips of paper is use by rolling, scrolling and shape in such a way that these strips are paste on the card with the help of glue. Basically these paper strips acts as a coil; sometimes it is tightly bound or loosely bound coil which can be roll, relax and mold with fingers and tweezers until the desire shape is attains.
Basic of Quilling:
To design and craft quilling card one should need these basic necessities;
- strips of light-weight multi-colored paper; you either buy it from any stationary shop or cut thin strips of color paper by your own but all these strips must be in equal size,
- a paper cutter use to cut the fine paper in long strips, a hard card board, pair of scissors,
- a tool use to scroll the paper, round toothpick is use to roll the paper, tweezers is use to fit the strip and to apply the glue precisely or you may use needle tool in this purpose; has a needle on the top of it, many of the professional quillers use white glue instead of using regular glue because it might paste the strips of paper more accurately,
- a slot tool is used to shape and mould the paper strips in different shape .
- and the last and foremost requirement to make quilling card is patience and continuity I assure, you will find that quilling is most satisfying and creative design with a lot of fun.
Musical Greeting Cards:
Musical greeting cards are use when someone don’t able to express his feeling well by using phrase, text, rhythm or any other content so people want something new and unique styles to express their sentiments by power of music and song. Its another name is talking cards. Musical greeting cards are perfect to greet your spouse, siblings, parents, friends and colleagues, your clients and your customers on an event.
How Talking Card works:
The Musical greeting cards are pre-recorded message of 2 to 5 minutes or sometimes it may be a self-recording chips and circuit in the card or in the envelope.
Online Greeting Cards:
E-Cards are the online greeting cards. It is basically paperless message or post for your social family to greet them instantly. E-cards have an advantage that they can never be lost as they are always savein your inbox. It cost very cheap as compared to the tangible one. You may use different online tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Power point. Fotor is the most famous online tool who create photo card maker. You may also have access to these e-cards because they are printable.
It is very embarrassing that you and your competitor sent same samples to your customer because many peoples search same galleries on the internet having same ideas so you should create custom greeting cards or customize your own designs. Your ideas must be sole different and dedicative.
Useful Tips to Customize Greeting Cards:
Knowledge of your audience:
Firstly you should know the audience, so you can easily design according to their need.
Choose the size and format:
Select the size and format to customize the greeting card; you can give a unique crux to your card by selecting an absolute structure and style. Apart from format, the size of card also matter so choose suitable size of it.
Avoid too many illustrations:
You should elude creating a lot of illustrations or graphics on the critical areas where caption, notes and signature are placed; you must leave space for writing.
Create a suitable framework:
Create a design framework by using different blending modes. A greeting card is more approachable for your clients by using different layers and effects in your card.
Use your Imaginations:
To create majestic greeting cards you must use your imaginations and creativity because each element of design has some meaning, so crafts your card having in-depth meaning in your art and content. You can add creativity in your card by sorting out different graphics, shades and themes to enhance the beauty of your card. You can either check it on internet by using online tool or design by yourself.
Quality of your card:
Use high quality paper or smooth textured and silky stuff cards because it matters a lot to your clients. It reflects nice and great effects in your greeting cards.
Place your content beautifully:
Place your content in alluring and readable way; it may be a poem, phrase, rhymes, and quotes, sometimes simple words are more attractive. Sometime add funny messages and humour in your content because too much rigidity may spoil your greetings. The main thing is to notice that you place your words perfectly and precisely. You also need to be careful while choosing font of your text, choose suitable font size; it must be readable and attractive, color and texture of your font.