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The fifth card in our Design of the Week series, a new exclusive design will be identified each week through the Christmas holiday season as we continue to promote environmental awareness while doing our part to go green. Check back each Monday to see which new card is wearing the Design of the Week green sash by typing “Design of the Week” in the search box on the website. As always, each card will include your custom imprinted verse and personalization and a matching recycled envelope. We hope you enjoy these weekly exclusive earth friendly designs! Tags: cards, Christmas Cards, Design of the Week, Greeting Cards, Holiday Cards, Photo Cards, Recycled Cards
This “Design of the Week” for the fourth week of our 17 week promotion is a richly designed Thanksgiving greeting printed on 100% brown recycled card stock. With a new design added each week, this one was created especially for CardsDirect in our effort to continue to support environmentally friendly initiatives. Type “Design of the Week” in the Search box on the website or click on this link to see each card designed especially for this promotion. Check back each Monday from now through the Christmas season to see a new card added each week. Each card will include your custom imprinted verse and personalization and a recycled envelope. Upcoming designs of the week will include holiday and Christmas cards, New Years, Sympathy, Congratulations and Thinking of You cards. We hope you enjoy these exclusive and earth friendly designs! Tags: Design of the Week, Greeting Cards, Holiday Cards, Recycled Cards, thanksgiving cards The third “Design of the Week” has been announced! A Thanksgiving card, this new design has been added to the design of the week list that will feature 17 new designs by the time the promotion is completed at the end of the Christmas holiday season.
Printed on 100% recycled paper, you will want to see all of the cards designed especially for this promotion. Type “Design of the Week” in the Search box on the website and look for the green banners identifying the new entry for each week. Card categories represented in the promotion include Thanksgiving cards, holiday and Christmas cards, new years, Sympathy, Congratulations and Thinking of You cards. As always, all cards will include your custom imprinted verse and personalization. Check back every Monday to see just what the next “Design of the Week” will be! Tags: Christmas Cards, Design of the Week, Greeting Cards, Holiday Cards, personalized cards, Recycled Cards, thanksgiving cards We are pleased to announce a new promotion, our “Design of the Week.” For the next 16 weeks, from now through the Christmas holiday season, CardsDirect will be releasing a new card design made exclusively for this promotion. Each design is printed on 100% recycled paper and is one sure to be popular with consumers and businesses alike. Here are our first two releases. Each week another will be added. You can find them all by typing “Design of the Week” in the Search box on the website. Card categories represented in the promotion include Thanksgiving cards, holiday and Christmas cards, new years, Sympathy, Congratulations and Thinking of You cards. As always, all will include custom imprinted verse and personalization.
The promotions will continue with a range of holiday and Christmas cards and Sympathy, Congratulations and Thinking of You cards. Order plenty so you will have cards on hand for use at a moments notice. Check back every Monday to see just what the next “Design of the Week” selection will be! Tags: cards direct, CardsDirect, Christmas Cards, congratulations cards, Design of the Week, Greeting Cards, Holiday Cards, Recycled Cards, Sympathy Cards, Thank You Cards, thanksgiving cards, thinking of you cards Good news! The 2008 CardsDirect Holiday Greeting Catalog is in the mail and you should be receiving your copy soon! And, we offer a special promotional discount with savings up to 40% on orders before December 1. Inside the 32 page catalog are images and pricing for a sampling from over 1,500 of our popular holiday greetings.
New this year is our line of Recycled Holiday Cards printed on 100% recycled paper. These environmentally friendly seasonal greetings are sure to be a big hit this year. CardsDirect is one of a very few online retailers offering cards printed on recycled paper. The catalog also features our new Digital Photo Cards that include your favorite photograph or original artwork printed on the designed card of your choice. With a custom imprinted verse, personalization and lined envelopes, these cards are truly one of a kind. And the best news of all … we offer a special time sensitive catalog promotion discount with savings up to 40% on orders before December 1 and even greater savings for orders placed earlier! So, if you’ve not yet received your catalog, click on this link www.cardsdirect.com/catalog.aspx to order a catalog now and receive your promotional discount code! Tags: CardsDirect, cardsdirect-catalog, cardsdirect.com, catalog, digital-photo-cards, Greeting Cards, Holiday Cards, holiday-greeting, Photo Cards, Recycled Cards, seasonal greetings Everyone is talking green these days. From driving less to carrying your own canvas bags to the grocery store, just about everyone is at least thinking about ways to help our environment. With an interest in preserving the tradition of sending hand written notes and letters, I have wondered how this effects the environment. I am apparently not the only one, as recently a reader asked this same question in a syndicated article in my morning newspaper. I discovered that delightfully, none other than Miss Manners is supporting the mailed greeting. See her article, “It’s Not Easy Being Grateful and Green” dated July 9, 2008 at www.Washingtonpost.com. In the article, a ready asked how best to send a grateful greeting and still support the green initiative. Miss Manners asked that you weigh the effort used to send an electronic greeting versus a hand written one that is stamped and mailed. Which would more impress the recipient? In comparing an email to a greeting card, she said, “It is rather like handing over a bare object as a present rather than gift-wrapping it.” Where niceties are concerned, the trouble it takes to write and mail a card is well worth the effort and will be far more memorable than a quickly dashed off email. By sending greeting cards, you are not only putting forth effort that will be warmly received, you are also doing your part to help environmental efforts, especially when sending a recycled card. And, you may even enjoy a bit of exercise while walking to the mailbox! Tags: environmental, green, Greeting Cards, Recycled Cards
Tags: CardsDirect, Earth-Day, Recycled Cards, recycling At CardsDirect, we are very concerned about the environment. As a card company, we get a lot of questions from our consumers about what we do to promote environmentalism. Here are just 5 things we do:
At CardsDirect, we are always looking for ways to make our business and operations more environmentally friendly. We are always open to new ideas. If you have any ideas that we may be able to use to make our systems better for the environment, please contact us act: Support at CardsDirect dot com. Tags: CardsDirect, Earth-Day, Recycled Cards, recycling Dear Ms. Cards Etiquette, That’s a great question, Kid. And, Ms. Cards Etiquette had to do a little bit of homework to learn about how recycled paper is actually made. In very general terms, the used paper must be cleaned and have the old ink removed from it before it can be made into regular paper. Interestingly enough, after the paper is cleaned into clean paper pulp, the process is much the same as making regular virgin paper. But, let’s start from the beginning. First, the paper is put into a large bin and water is added so that a new paper pulp can be made. Large beaters, similar to a giant cake mixer, stir in the paper so that the fibers are separated from each other. This is then put through a screen to remove large contaminants that are bigger than the pulp fibers. The pulp slurry may also be put through centrifuge to remove materials that are more dense than pulp fibers. This process also removes foreign material from the slurry. Next, the ink removal must happen. This is done by passing air bubbles through the slurry. This slurry contains what is called a surfacent. The surfacent is a kind of detergent and that reduces the surface tension of water and allows for the ink to float to the surface. Very little of the surfacent is needed to make this happen. (This is sometimes called the de-inking process.) Once the slurry is de-inked, the pulp is kneaded and washed to remove small particles. Then, if the paper is to be white, the pulp is bleached to remove all color. Clean fiber is now ready to be made into paper. And the process is exactly the same to make paper from recycled pulp as it is from virgin tree pulp. The paper pulp is sprayed into a long wide screen which is called a wire. The pulp stays on top of the screen and the water in it drains out the bottom. This water is siphoned off to be used over and over. The paper pulp fiber mat is squeezed between felt covered rollers to absorb the rest of the water. Next, the wet paper passes through hot metal rollers to heat and dry the sheets. The paper is also pressed through big heavy cast iron rollers to press the paper into a smooth and uniform thickness. (If you have ever made pasta the process is exactly the same: the paper is put through rollers that gradually get closer and closer together to make the paper thinner.) The paper is then put onto rolls about the size of a small car. Each roll can easily weigh 2 tons. These giant rolls are called “jumbo rolls” and all paper — from the thermal paper used at the gas station pump to printer paper sheets and newsprint are cut from these jumbo rolls. The good news about this process is that the process of making paper from recycled paper uses 40% less energy than if paper is made from unrecycled pulp. So buying recycled paper really does make the world a little greener. CardsDirect has a good selection of cards made from recycled paper. In the future, we are going to add more to our stock. Tags: CardsDirect, Earth-Day, Recycled Cards, recycling Many people, when they think of “recycled cards” think of cards that have a brown paper stock ‘industrial cardoboard box’ look to them. Well, not anymore. The technology for making paper from post consumer recycled paper has really taken off. Now, you can get cards on recycled paper that don’t have the ‘recycled paper look’ to them. In fact, you’d probably have a hard time seeing the difference between a card made from recycled paper and one that is made from non-recycled paper. Here at CardsDirect, our line of recycled cards has proven so popular this year that we are looking to increase the number of cards printed on recycled paper. So, for our Earth Day recycling series, I thought I’d put together a list of our top five selling recycled cards…none of which look even remotely like a cardboard box. This is a modern and fun little birthday card with foil trim and a modern watercolor look. It’s an all around recycled paper birthday card that works well for anyone. The ‘great events’ card can be used for any group celebration around the office. This is a good one to have handy as it can be used for anything. Bright blue and silver foil make this card a popular choice. The dancing balloons are a fun way to celebrate someone’s birthday. One of our very formal thank you cards makes our top selling list. This card has a premium cardstock look even though it is made from recycled paper. It is a card any recipient would be happy to receive. Our chain flower sympathy card is a modern way to send your condolences. Delicate flowers outline the hearthfelt sympathy message. (You might want to click the card to go to the actual page and mouse over the image to see the detail in the card.) Of course, you can see all of our recycled cards here Tags: CardsDirect, Earth-Day, Recycled Cards, recycling |
The “Design of the Week” for this week is a patriotic seasonal greeting printed on 100% recycled card stock. White stars on a red background form the CardsDirect design exclusive with Season’s Greetings in script on nice white paper.
