January 8th, 2009 by Solange

Happy new year. We’ll start this new year out with the top 5 tips to making your greeting cards stand out from the rest. Pay attention beause these tips are sure to be useful with Valentine’s Day coming next month. I want my cards to be unique, this is the reason why I don’t buy them in stores unless I am really pressed for time. I prefer to make my own, either I use a printable card as a background or I make it from scratch, one thing is for sure I want my greeting card to stand out from the rest.

Here are 5 top tips to make your card unique:

l  The writing is important, it conveys your message and needs to be very tidy. Personally I am not very good at writing free-hand so I tend to use peel off or to print the message and glue it.

l  incorporate some of the recipient’s favourite things, this will really personalised the card. A easy way to do this is to use photographs, but nothing stops you using objects: jewellery cards, I like. Thinking about the recipients you can use their favourite colours.

l  customise the envelope: I discovered not very long ago that this add a real impact. in fact I created a card for a friend’s birthday. The card was simple so I designed the envelop so that it looked like a cupcake.

l  Look around keep up to date with the trends, observe shop windows and fashion and incorporate the theme into your card, I would not be surprise to see a lot of card picking up a tartan theme in the near future.

l  pop-up cards are really fun to make, they usually look really lovely, there are a lot of examples on the internet.

l  For the latest trend make your card book style. These cards look like open books and stand flat on the table rather than upright. The idea came out not very long ago and they are already very fashionable.

l  Customise the stamp, the post-office allows you to do so for a fee. It is very popular for important personal landmarks such as an anniversary or a birth.

It is worth looking on the internet to gather new ideas, remembering that what people really like is the fact that you have spend time over their card and that you have added this little touch which makes all the difference.