Here’s a challenge for card designers.

Charity shops such British Heart foundation and Marie Curie have some lovely cards with pictures of Animals or views , they are usually blank inside so you can put your own message on. They are reasonable priced too.

I photo copy pictures, that are a passion of my DGC, on my iPad and then chose a card on moonpig that are for a full photo of a person and glued it on. My French DGC are thrilled.

Can we see your Gallery?
That'd be good.

ixion

Do you keep the same style of frame each time?

I usually use Tesco oak frames.

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/308622478

Some used in portrait orientation and some used in landscape orientation. The frames each have two hanging fittings on the back, so if displaying on a wall, either can be used.

They also have a way to stand them up free-standing.

Yet I have most simply stacked, stacking them face to face, and back to back, so that the fittings on the back of one cannot damage the window on the one next to it.

The Tesco personal shoppers and delivery drivers take great care to deliver the frames to me without damage.

there are plain art cards

What a shame, the link shows that the frame is unavailable.

MrsKen33

I frame myself. Learnt it at art school. A label is put on the back with details of artist etc,.

My framing is just using frames from Tesco that are delivered with the grocery.

The frames are sold as photograph frames, but I find that they are a convenient way to conserve a greetings card.

It is not usually proper framing with the mount just over the edge of the card and sealed and so on, but far better than leaving the card unframed.

For example, I mostly use the following frames.

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/308622478

So if a card is smaller than 8 inches by 10 inches, which all the ones I have are, namely A5 and smaller, the effect is the frame, the mount, a white area within the mount and the card within the white area.

The Tesco sheet shown in the picture is white when turned over, but I have found that I need to add in a few sheets of A4 card behind the card to hold it in place, as I don;'t want to attach sticky tape things to the card.

Not ideal framing, but much better than not doing it.

Do you keep the same style of frame each time?

ixion

Question:
When you do your framing, how do you keep the details of the artist and web address available for reference, please?

I use a pen to hand copy the information into a notebook.

Also, if there is a web link, the same information about the artist is often on the website.

I frame myself. Learnt it at art school. A label is put on the back with details of artist etc,.

Question:
When you do your framing, how do you keep the details of the artist and web address available for reference, please?

My parents were already doing this for me mid 1950s.
Backing of cereal packet cardboard, off cut of glass and electrical tape binding.
Cheap as chips.

Don't you have to limit or cull your collection offine art?

M0nica wrote original art,

I like original art cards.

They usually have, on the back, details of the artist and often these days a web address.

Also the card can be framed amd thus become a permanent art object.

Also, the sender has chosen some art in the hope of it being enjoyed by the recipient.

youtu.be/0YyUyYdu9Fo

I hope you enjoy this sketch

Like MOnica I have found the local shops are full of lovely cards. Gift type shops normally have cards to suit most tastes and I have recently bought blank cards from Oxfam. I just try to get cards to suit the recipient.

Absolutely right Oak Dryad.

How someone identifies is irrelevant. We look for cards to suit the person, don't we? Etsy has some beautiful cards depicting horses.

www.etsy.com/uk/market/horse_cards

You cannot have looked very far, the shops are stuffed with lovely cards, I assume you do not like flowery cards because they are girlie. Aren't you showing a gender rigidity by thinking this? Why shouldn't someone in the predicament you describe like a flowery card? Unless the recipient has a very specific dislike of flowery cars.

I rarely give cards that state a relationship, usually I choose landscapes, flowers, animals, gardens, original art, all sorts of things - even to children.

Do you say ‘Hello, nice to see them’ when you meet her? No, thought not.

I don’t understand
Surely you address your GD as you but speak of “them” as them

My GD is non binary. Prefers to be addressed as ‘them’ or ‘they’. Confused us a lot at first..Other than always calling her by her given name we ,her parents and most others use ‘them’.

MrsKen33

And what about the wording. ‘Happy Birthday to them’?
Best go to Moonpig and do it yourself

Like others upthread I question the relevance of this.
Birthday greetings (and all others) are addressed “to YOU” - not to a third person!
Incidentally there are thousands of non-gender specific cards if you have a look (as well as the stereotypical blue football/pink unicorn/pipe and slippers/ golf clubs sort)
I avoid names of relatives- grandson, daughter etc - and buy cards whenever I see any that catch my eye, keeping a stash of birthday/ blank/ “thinking of you” / congratulations type ready in advance

I just send a 'Happy Birthday' text these days. My family (except one sister) have abandoned cards altogether - as environmentally unfriendly - and the older generation who appreciated a 'nice' card are now gone.

Cards that don't avoid irritating stereotypes have always been around. Men's cards - cricket, football, fishing or country scenes
Women's - shopping, pink, glitter

Plain card with your own wording inside.