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CardsDirect selects an exclusive Design of the Week printed on recycled card stock throughout the holiday season to feature and wear the special winning sash. An attractive design, each card also includes your custom imprinted verse and personalization, all on earth friendly card stock. Check back next Monday to see which design will wear the coveted Design of the Week sash and type Design of the Week in the search box on the website to see all of the past selected winners. Tags: all-occasion-cards, Design of the Week, Greeting Cards, Recycled Cards, thinking of you cards
Each week throughout the holiday season CardsDirect selects an exclusive recycled card design to wear the Design of the Week green sash. Each card is printed on recycled card stock and comes with your custom imprinted verse and personalization along with a matching recycled envelope. You will find the perfect design to promote your environmental awareness from a selection of Holiday Cards, Thinking of You Cards, Sympathy Cards and New Years Cards among other categories. This week, a Welcome Card is featured. To see all the exclusive card designs that have won this honor in previous weeks, type Design of the Week in the search box on the CardsDirect website. Attractive and earth friendly, a CardsDirect exclusive Design of the Week is an easy choice for all of your greeting card needs. Tags: Design of the Week, Holiday Cards, New Years Cards, Recycled Cards, Sympathy Cards, thinking of you cards, welcome cards Anytime is a nice time to send a Thinking of You card. This CardsDirect Design of the Week plays on the theme that “elephants never forget”. On 100% recycled brown Kraft card stock cute elephants parade across the bottom with Thinking of You surrounded by shades of green and brown for a fun card anyone will be surprised and pleased to receive.
With a new design added each week, this is the twelfth card in the series to wear the winning green sash. Each card selected comes with your custom imprinted verse and personalization and a matching recycled envelope.
See all the winners by typing Design of the Week in the search box on the CardsDirect.com website and check back next week for the next winning design. The series will run through the holidays promoting CardsDirect exclusive designs in a variety of card categories printed on environmentally sound recycled card stock for attractive greetings that are earth friendly as well fun to send and receive. Tags: Design of the Week, Greeting Cards, personalized greeting cards, Recycled Cards, thinking of you 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 Dear Ms. Cards Etiquette,
Memorial Day, more than ever, is a day when military families must face the death of their loved ones. During all the pomp and circumstance, they stand with their heads held high, often holding back tears. While they are proud of their relative for defending our country and doing a job that many of the rest of us do not have the guts to do, they also know that they were not near their loved one in the last hours of their life. It is a particularly difficult time, and it is important for friends to be supportive. However, to your question, a sympathy card is only used one time: when the funeral has been announced or if you have just heard of the person’s death. Since you have known of this person’s death, and, I am assuming, have already sent one sympathy card, then you don’t want to send another one. This is, however, a perfect time for a thinking of you card to let the family know they are in your thoughts. Since this is your neighbor, you might also want to drop by and say hello or attend the Memorial Day services with them. Tags: Thinking of You Dear Ms. Cards Etiquette, A friend of mine is going through a divorce, and I’d like to send her a card to help boost her spirits. What kind of card should I send? I don’t want to accidentally make her feel any worse! - Sandra M. As you obviously know, Sandra, divorce is often a very hard time for people. Couples often have a lot of mutual friends, and one of the biggest issues for many newly divorced individuals is the fear of “losing” their friends to their ex-spouse, or even just losing touch with them because of all the stress. Sadly, some friends seem to react to divorce like a major illness, and they avoid their divorcing friends because they don’t know what to say, or how to act gracefully in the situation. While I’ve had some friends who got a giggle out of “Congratulations” cards after a divorce, if your friend is having a hard time, send a simple “Thinking of You” card instead of trying to be funny. Write a quick note inside, letting her know you’re there for her if she wants to talk, or get her mind off things. And then make good on it! Call a few days later (or stop by her house, if you’re close), to see if she received the card, and ask if she wants to go out for lunch or dinner some time. Even if it’s not a good time, or she’s not feeling social, knowing that you’re still there and still wanting to be friends, will certainly boost her spirits by itself. Tags: Thinking of You Dear Ms. Cards Etiquette A business associate of mine just passed away. We used to have lunch together once or twice a month, but I didn’t really know his family. I feel like I should do something, but I’m not really sure what to say or who to send a card to. Sympathy cards can be some of the most difficult things anyone ever has to write. If you didn’t know the family of the deceased, the most appropriate person to send a card to would be his spouse, if he was married, or parents or children if not. If you don’t know the names of any of his immediate relatives, you could send a card to his home, addressed to “The Surname Family”, and whoever is taking care of his affairs will get it. As for what to write, this is an excellent time to remember to keep it simple. You don’t want to say “I know how you feel,” because everyone grieves in their own way. You also don’t want to say anything that might seem dismissive, like “time heals all wounds,” or, “perhaps it was just his time to go.” Concentrate on how YOU related to the deceased, and simply express sympathy for his surviving relatives. Some appropriate phrases to use:
Also, feel free to include a couple lines of remembrance. His family will likely be glad to hear other people’s happy memories of him during this difficult time. It’s also good to let them know who you are and how you knew their relative. Grieving is a difficult time for everyone, and playing guessing games about sympathy cards is a little bit of unneeded stress. Use your full name in the card, and perhaps mention your specific business relationship, so they can easily recognize who you are. Above all, remember that even if you only write a couple of lines, that’s enough. Letting the family know that even his business contacts cherished his friendship and are going to miss him is the most important thing. Tags: Greeting Card Etiquette, greeting-card-writing, How-to-write-a-sympathy-card, Thinking of You After reading Befuddled in Barrow’s truly tragic dilemma, I thought it might be good to clarify a bit of something in regards to the “Thinking of You” card I recommended to her … lest the rest of my dear readers make the mistake of assuming ‘Thinking of You’ cards are only for tragedies. Really, they’re not. They are, exactly as they say, for whenever you’re thinking of someone. Personally, I think they’re one of the most useful and versatile of all greeting cards … and to prove my point, here are 5 instances when you can use a Thinking of You card that you may never have thought of!
Ms. Cards Etiquette is a huge fan of Thinking of You cards. I keep a few handy at all times, in different motifs (elegant and formal, casual or whimsical, business-like, and so on), so I’ll always have one handy when the right moment arrives. Really, in a squeeze, they work for almost anything. Tags: Thinking of You, Thinking-of-you-card |
