Greeting Card Printing and Design Ideas for the Holidays
Spread the cheers these coming holidays and share your festive spirit through greeting cards. Craft and design greeting cards that would liven up the nearing holiday seasons. Start your greeting card printing early and send them out early as well so you can be one of the firsts to greet each and everyone.
The holidays are a great reason to start making greeting cards which you can send out to friends, neighbors, family, employees, clients and business partners among many others.
If you want to keep in touch and even widen your social connections or circle of friends, start by designing your very own cards that would become an intimate taken of affection.
There are so many events or activities that occur during the holidays starting October that making a hundred or so greeting cards wouldn’t be a problem. Greeting cards are flexible enough you can use them as invitations or gift tags as well.
Practical Design Ideas for the Coming Holidays
The holidays are just around the corner. If you truly want greeting cards that are truly unique and those that truly communicate your message, then start designing, sketching one now. Use these ideas to help you remember and embody the spirit of the holidays in your cards.
1. Choose the right words to imbibe the theme. Greeting cards work nicely when the message is consistent with the image of the greeting cards. There are certain words that fit certain occasions, so be sure to choose your words wisely. But, do not be afraid to play with words.
One example would be Have a Spook-tacular Halloween. For Christmas, it can be a simple Have a White and Merry Christmas.
2. Remember to use identifiable images. Identifiable images on your greeting cards immediately set the scene. It makes the readers aware of what the greeting card is all about.
However, this is not to say that you should limit your imagination to these popular images. Be sure to put your own creative touch especially if you don’t your greeting cards to look like anyone else’s.
Nevertheless, remember to use these images to help inspire you bring out the season’s theme in your greeting cards.
Popular Images and Themes for Halloween
Haunted house, spiders, full moon, witches, cauldron, costumes such as vampires, mummies, Frankenstein, bats, jack-o-lanterns, candy corn, the headless horseman, ghosts, spooky trees, eyeballs, black cats
Popular Images and Themes for Thanksgiving
Scare crows, thanksgiving feast with the turkey, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, pilgrim scene and the like.
Popular Images and Themes for Christmas
Fireplace, snow men, the Nativity, snow angels, Christmas trees, presents, mistle toe, Christmas wreaths, egg nog, milk and cookies for Santa, Santa Claus and his reindeers, Christmas socks, and candy canes.
3. Thematic Colors are important too in achieving the look of a greeting card for the holidays. Halloween and Thanksgiving are dominated by the warm colors of autumn. Other than that, Halloween is identified too with colors of black and orange.
Christmas, on one hand, are the colors green, red and white like the colors on the stripes of a candy cane.
There are still plenty of ideas to go around for making greeting cards these holidays. And with these special occasions fast approaching, be sure to read more on various design tips for your greeting card printing.