Birthday cards

Although the practice of sending greetings cards can be traced back to the ancient Chinese, who began sending goodwill messages for New Year, the birthday card is a fairly modern phenomenon. Birthday cards first became popular in England about 100 years ago. They were sent by way of an apology if the sender was unable to make a birthday celebration and since then they have grown in popularity right across the world.

The greeting cards industry is now a huge one, with birthday cards making up the majority of sales. Walk into any newsagent or large stationers and youll find a wide range of birthday cards to cater for different ages , sexes and personality types. Designs range from simple pencil drawings on a plain white background to brightly coloured full bleed cartoons and giant over-sized cards for that very special person in your life. They can be funny, cute, formal or positively gushing with emotion and no matter who youre sending a birthday card to, with a little hunting around youre bound to find one thats just right and conveys what you want to say.

Today, most people will bring a birthday card to a party even if theyre going to see someone, but as was the case 100 years ago, if you cant be with the birthday boy or girl, birthday cards are a great way of sending your love and letting the person know youre thinking of them. And if words don’t come naturally to you and youre not sure what to say to someone special , then spend a little more time in the card shop and read as many as you can until you come across a message that seems right. Copywriters are employed by greetings card companies for a very good reason “ they know how to put in to words exactly what people are feeling!