I love giving greeting cards. I don’t know if they are ‘a thing’ anymore but I love surprising students with birthday and congratulations cards, and I sometimes send cards to people to thank them for just being. I know how much it brightens my day. I also always give a proper card with birthday gifts and usually include a greeting card when I sell something.
One of the most fun things for me is finding a lovely card and saving it until I find the perfect occasion to gift it. I keep all my pretty cards in a shoebox.
My favourite cards at the moment are by Vanilla Fly. They are big, well made, unusual, and the envelopes are made of the most beautiful thick card stock. The look is very opulent, baroque, and a little bit weird.
I buy and send cards often too. I like to buy from small artists/indie suppliers at events and open studios, and then I feel as though I’m managing a double gift 🙂
When did we forget to send cards? I haven’t received any physical cards for years and for that reason stopped sending them (plus the postage costs have become really prohibitive recently). If I lived close enough to family then I would still buy cards and hand them out for birthdays, Christmas and just to say thanks for being you.