New Year Cards Tips

Types Of New Years Cards

Have you ever looked at a New Year greeting card and wondered the meaning behind the card design? Here is a guide to help you understand some of the most popular New Year's symbols:

• Father Time: One of the most significant icons of the new year, Father Time is generally represented by a bearded man carrying an hourglass and wearing a robe and a sash with the previous year on it. This character is said to be derived from mythical figures such as the Holly King, the Celtic God of the dying year, and Chronos, the Greek God of time.
• Baby New Year: Represented as a chubby baby wearing only a diaper and a sash with the incoming year printed on it, Baby New symbolizes a new beginning. He is said to grow into Father Time over the year, handing off his duties to the next Baby New Year.
• Fire Works: A popular New Years image, fireworks emerged as a common New Years tradition due to an old belief that noise and fire help to dispel evil spirits and bring good luck.
• Janus : Depicted as a Roman God with two faces, Janus has one head facing forward to the new year and another looking back at the old year.

Comments

   

Better Late than Never

If it is almost Christmas and you realize you haven't sent out your holiday cards yet, there is no need to worry. Send a New Year card and your friends and family will never know you forgot. Instead of a late holiday card, they will receive a New Years card just in time to watch the ball drop.

There are many benefits to sending a New Year's card rather than a Christmas card. For example, New Year's is a national holiday, not a religious one, so you can rest easy knowing you won't offend anyone with your card choice. Also, friends and family can feel overwhelmed with cards during the holidays, so waiting until after the rush will make more of an impression. Your New Year card is also more likely to stay on display longer since the card design revolves around the year rather than a holiday theme. That means the card could be exhibited for the whole year without looking out of place.

Comments

   

Inspire New Year's Resolutions

We all make a New Year's resolution and we are lucky if we make it to February with the resolution intact. To help you and your loved ones stay motivated this year, send an inspirational New Year's card to everyone on your mailing list. A little positive reinforcement might be just the boost your friends need to stick with a resolution all year long.

An inspirational card should feature a feel-good design and a motivating message. Designs with bright or contrasting colors, large graphics or sentimental images are generally the most effective. Inside the card, be sure to choose a greeting that will encourage the recipient to stick to their resolution. Here are a few examples:

• “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.” - Edith Lovejoy Pierce
• “ One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.” - John Burroughs
• “We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.” - Ellen Goodman

Comments

   

Send a Calendar Card For New Years

Sending a card for New Year's is a nice gesture, but most likely it won't be around for long. Most people take down their Christmas and New Year's decoration by the end of January, so your card will only have about a month on display. If you send a calendar card, your recipients will enjoy your New Year's card all year long. Calendar cards are the perfect size to keep on a desk, pin to a corkboard or hang on the fridge. Now your friends and family will remember your thoughtfulness every time they check the date.

Calendar cards come in all types of designs to match various settings and decors. Depending on your personal taste, you can choose from floral designs, outdoor landscapes, fireworks or cityscapes. Also, the calendar portion of the card can vary in size, so be sure to consider the different styles when making your selection. Some are printed on the cover, some take up the entire inside of the card and some fold out into a longer calendar.

Comments

   

Famous New Years Quotes

If you are looking for the perfect greeting for your Happy New Year cards, look to some of the most famous quotes from well-known people throughout history. Here are just a few examples:

• “Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” - Oscar Wilde
• “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” - Oprah Winfrey
• “Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.” - Mark Twain
• “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man .” - Benjamin Franklin
• “For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.” - T.S. Eliot

Comments