Shakti
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Post by Shakti on May 24, 2023 14:37:42 GMT
I have all kinds of idea for all-occasion or note card sets for gifts, but I find myself wondering who exactly would appreciate them. How old does someone have to be to use written correspondence at all these days? Are occasion cards more likely to be sent by young people than note cards? What about a set of thank you cards? One of DH's cousins in newly pregnant...I know there was a long discussion on the scrapbooking board about baby scrapbooks waiting to have photos added was not an appropriate crafted gift for a new mom/mom to be, but what about a set of baby-themed thank you cards for the shower and baby gifts to come? Under what circumstances and to what sort of people do you gift card sets?
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Post by Linda on May 24, 2023 14:42:36 GMT
I've given card sets to a) people who have specifically asked for them or b) people who I know regularly send cards or letters.
group a has been family members - my sister, my mum when she was living, my kids
group b has been elderly friends and relatives and I often include postage stamps
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Post by azcrafty on May 24, 2023 18:12:45 GMT
I make sets and give them out as hostess gifts or birthday gift.
I make 6/sets or 3/sets. These are birthday, thinking of you and thank you ones.
I usually send a box full of cards to my 2 SIL. Lots of birthday cards (female, masculine and kids), few thank yous, thinking of you ones and a few specialty...welcome baby, congrats and sympathy. And if I have some leftover Christmas, valentine's day, mothers day and fathers day cards that I won't use it goes in the box too.
I think a set of baby thank you cards will be appreciated. If you have a PaperPumpkin box you can decorate that and include a pen and maybe some postage stamps too. To make it easy for the new mom to send the notes out
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Post by cmpeter on May 24, 2023 18:43:50 GMT
I don’t give sets. But, if a friend or family member needs/wants cards I let them go thru my stash and pull any they like. That way I know they are getting cards they want/will use. I’m often surprised at the ones they take or pass on. It’s not always the same ones that I love the most.
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Post by marg on May 25, 2023 0:52:29 GMT
I like the thought of giving a set for baby shower thank yous, but you'd have to make enough for the new mom to have one for each gift, wouldn't you? My niece's baby shower this weekend has 50 people attending - that's a lot of cards! I do think they would for sure be appreciated. And I know that showers are usually smaller than that lol.
My nieces (ages 31 and 29) do give cards. My older niece bought a bunch of Stampin' Up! stuff last year so she could start making cards. She makes them for her friends and for her son's friends for birthday parties. So, some young people, at least, do still send snail mail or give cards in person.
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Post by MDscrapaholic on May 27, 2023 16:56:38 GMT
I just made three sets of cards for colleagues at work. We are all remote, but have to come into the office for various reasons now and then. I had to go in to interview new people for a position on my team, and it was on the day of one's birthday, so I made her a set of four cards, and put them in a handmade box (Jennifer McGuire has a video on how to make a paper box for A2 cards). She loved them! Two others saw her open them and oooh'd and ahh'd over them, so I made two more sets for them, and took them in the following week. Heaven knows I have a surplus of cards right now, with the C&CD event and the Let's Stamp subscription.
I think making Thank You cards for the shower would be great - just pick a design you can mass produce easily.
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Post by joblackford on May 27, 2023 17:13:01 GMT
I know a lot of millennials and gen-Xers who send cards, as well as some boomers, but also quite a lot who just don't. I've encountered people who don't have any postage stamps at home and consider going to the post office like it's a trip to the DMV (which in my town it most definitely isn't). My SIL is a busy gen-X not-very-crafty person who sends special cards but like cmpeter says, chooses very different cards than I would have chosen for her. She uses birthday cards for her kid's friends and a few for her own friends, and "just a note" or thanks cards. For thank you cards she really prefers small casual notecards, and often asks for flat notecards rather than folded cards. I guess the smaller space makes them feel lower pressure, no need to write a long personal message, just a quick note. (I find that funny because her parents prove to me over and over that you can send a big card and just scrawl your name at the bottom with no personal message at all if you want to!) Anyway, in answer to your question about giving already made cards away, it's a bit of a crapshoot! IMO. My boomer relatives love my cards but mostly need sympathy these days  My younger friends send a few birthday cards, more encouragement or general cards, perhaps because a birthday card requires forward planning vs just saying HB2U on Fbk when the alert comes up. Thank you cards for big events like showers seem to still be a thing but I don't know if most people order a set of notecards to match the invitations (if they send paper invites). Any cards I give away I assume might end up being "wasted" which is fine with me because after a card is sent/given it's usually considered trash anyway. |
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Post by Shakti on May 27, 2023 19:20:59 GMT
I think making Thank You cards for the shower would be great - just pick a design you can mass produce easily. Of course! SLoCs or Simply Simple Stamping One Sheet Wonders FTW! I have a 30-ish colleague who paper scrapbooks, so I have to imagine she sends real cards, though she doesn't make them. I questioned another colleague the same age last week we would not ever use blank note cards, might use thank you cards, but is most likely to give a paper card in person at a party. To me, that implies birthdays, congratulations, maybe sympathy, but no thinking of you or happy hello sorts of things. Which is interesting. I recently read somewhere (I thought in this thread, but no, so maybe elsewhere on this board or maybe on FB somewhere) about someone who leaves a box of cards at the office with a note people to take a card when they need one. I am pondering trying that. |
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Post by Shakti on Jun 3, 2023 20:23:24 GMT
I'm researching places that take card donations to put together a comprehensive list and have just learned that Cards for Seniors (https://www.giftsforseniors.org/cards-for-seniors) accepts boxes of blank cards (preferably with stamps) so seniors can send them out with notes.
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My younger friends send a few birthday cards, more encouragement or general cards, perhaps because a birthday card requires forward planning vs just saying HB2U on Fbk when the alert comes up. Thank you cards for big events like showers seem to still be a thing but I don't know if most people order a set of notecards to match the invitations (if they send paper invites). Any cards I give away I assume might end up being "wasted" which is fine with me because after a card is sent/given it's usually considered trash anyway.