A greeting card is just a small piece of printed or hand-painted or handmade paper with a printed or hand-written message to convey your feelings to someone. Today there are so many ways we can express ourselves, our feelings to someone, like an SMS, an email message, an electronic card, a fax message or just a phone / cell phone. But greeting cards are still used for this purpose. Some people think to such an extent that why spend money and time to buy and send a greeting card, instead, why not send an SMS, such a cheap and time-saving option?

Today what matters in all fields is the presentation. The greeting card is also one of the means to present your feelings. I would say that the greeting card is an aesthetic packaging of your feelings/expressions to make the recipient feel delighted and honored.

Therefore, greeting cards can be used for almost all occasions, you just need to select the right card, the right color, design or image along with the printed message or your own handwritten message, which will reveal your affection. . As greeting cards are for many reasons, occasions, and therefore there are many types of greeting cards available in the market:

  1. birthday card
  2. new year card
  3. anniversary card
  4. Thank you card
  5. Thinking of your card
  6. sorry card
  7. best wishes card
  8. good luck card
  9. Get well card
  10. flower card
  11. congratulations card
  12. engagement card
  13. new baby card
  14. i love you card
  15. valentine’s day card
  16. Christmas card
  17. dipavali card
  18. diwali card
  19. navartri card
  20. Ugadi card (Hindu New Year card)
  21. Gudhipadawa card (Hindu New Year card)
  22. sankranti card
  23. mothers day card
  24. father’s day card
  25. greeting card and so on.

Hallmark Cards and American Greetings are the world’s largest producers of greeting cards. In the UK, an estimated £1 billion is spent on greeting cards each year, with the average person sending 55 cards per year.

In the United States, many adults traditionally send Christmas cards to friends and family in December. Many service companies also send cards to their customers this season, usually with a universally accepted non-religious message such as “Happy Holidays” or “Happy Holidays.”

Historians say that the custom of sending greeting cards was started by the ancient Chinese who exchanged messages of goodwill to celebrate the New Year. The Egyptians in ancient times transmitted their greetings on papyrus scrolls. At the beginning of the 15th century, handmade paper greeting cards were exchanged in Europe. Germans are known to have printed New Year’s greetings from woodcuts as early as 1400, and handmade Valentine’s cards were exchanged in various parts of Europe in the early to mid 1400s.

By the 1850s, the greeting card had evolved from a relatively expensive, handmade, hand-delivered gift to a popular and affordable means of personal communication. Thanks to new advances in printing and mechanization. This was followed by new trends such as Christmas cards, the first of which appeared published in London in 1843 when Sir Henry Cole hired the artist John Calcott Horsley to design a Christmas card that he could send to his friends and acquaintances. In the 1860s, companies such as Marcus Ward & Co, Goodall, and Charles Bennett began mass production of greeting cards. They employed well-known artists such as Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane as illustrators and card designers.

There are two main categories of greeting cards, one is mass-produced (printed on offset printing machines, etc.) and one is handmade greeting cards. Hand-painted greeting cards are also a separate category of greeting cards. These cards are also available, but these types of cards cannot be mass-produced as each card must be painted individually. So each hand-painted card is unique.