Any ideas on getting cards without Christmas in?

The winter festival around the equinox is common to most religions, world wide.

We call it Christmas, other faiths have different names for the festival. If you are a practicing Christian, as I am, then I choose to send cards reflecting this to all my Christian friends. Some, the more artistic, will get sent to others, but I will happily buy winter festival themed cards as well for those of no religious faith.l.

If I wanted to send a card to someone of another faith. If card sending was not in their tradition I would send a winter card not a religious card and I would be delighted to get a card from a muslim, Jewish or Pagan friend celebrating the festival that they celebrate at this time of year.

onestepbeyond, you chose your name well,. You have gone more than one step beyond in the wording of your post and show a most unchristian intolerance to those who do not share your religious views.

Onestepbeyond - my sentiments exactly, although I would delete your last sentence.

Far too many Christmas cards available that portray a non christmas holiday or festive celebration as I found out that I had to hunt high and low for a long time to get any with the Nativity on the front-

Look it's December - so it is Christmas.
We are living in a Christian Country - Don't like it? Move!

I am a Christian, and Christmas is all about Jesus not santa nor reindeer nor snowmen nor fluffy rainbows or unicorns- Use it or loose it-

If I ever receive a muslim festive card I would destroy it.

mawbroon. Please tell me where I can buy this card - it has so many meanings. I love it.

Try www.moondragoncards.com.They have some lovely winter season cards.

Keep on the lookout all year round for Winter type cards,but not with the Christmas theme or very religious pictures on,they are out there.

I take it this one would not suit then

Like HootMcOwl I too have difficulty in finding cards that tell the Christmas story.

I find the opposite to be true - not many cards with a religious theme. I was looking through the Christmas cards in my local supermarket recently, out of 5 shelves of cards there were only two packs which had a religious message.
Many cards now just say seasons greetings rather than Merry Christmas

Started off with a stupid question! If you don’t want to celebrate Christmas - DON’T. I have no idea what Yule is but you can buy cards with pretty pictures on almost every situation coped with, blank especially for people like you. I am cross because this is a Christian country, yet for years you try apparently not to offend people of other faiths who live amongst you. Most of them are probably not in the least offended - why, in almost every area of your lives do you worry about causing offence to the diverse nationalities and different faiths you live amongst and get along with being British and be prouder of what your country has achieved in the past and hopefully with a little more thought can in the future.

Many cards from High Street have "Season's Greetings" as a message.

At the risk of sounding critical, if you do not keep Christmas, why send cards at all?

Mabel I still remain puzzled by your problems finding suitable cards. Could you explain exactly what you are looking for?

I write my own words on cards because what I choose to say isn’t on any card.

As I said in my op making them isn't an option this year for a number of reasons I'll not go into. I have always made before due to the lack, that I've been able to find, of non-Christian cards.

Sorry - other friends print off a selection of the year’s photographs of their family to send out.

We make our own non - religious cards. Every year we take a photo of my small teddy bear in fancy dress (doesn’t everyone have a bear with a large wardrobe?) and we get out cards printed on Vistaprint, online. Local shops and Costco also provide this service. It doesn’t have to cost a lot because some companies also offer flat cards, rather than folded. Our friends look forward to seeing our latest creation and some even collect them.

hooty I agree, you have to look hard these days to find Christmas cards that have anything to do with the Christian religion on them, it’s a sea of robins, penguins, reindeer , trees, dogs and cats.
Make your own cards Mabel then you can print ‘have a cool yule’ or whatever you want inside.

Hooty, dogs trust and the donkey sanctuary both have some nice cards with things like the stable scene and three wise men. Oxfam also had some. Just none that I was after

Hooty the site I recommended had a good range of religious Christmas cards as well.

Hey Mabel 2 please ask away! No -one has said you are thick.

Well I have the opposite problem. There does not appear to be many if any cards with the real meaning of Christmas in/on them which I find quite bizarre! What are we celebrating if not the birth of Christ, it is CHRISTmas after all.

I would go online and look at charity cards. Either look at individual charities sites or general ones like the one I mention.

Are you looking for overtly pagan cards, or simply non-Christian cards?

I haven't bought any cards yet this year, but looking at a pack of charity cards left over from last year, they have conifer tree outlines in a sparkle finish on the front with the words 'Season's Greetings'. Open it up and it says 'May your season sparkle with joy'.

I looked at a number of cards on the site I mentioned above, if you click a card it either immediately gives the centre greeting or you then click on 'More Information' and you get it. Some had Christmas Greetings, but about half had non-christmas greetings in various forms. They have hundreds of cards so I am sure you will find what you need there.

In fact it is so good I am going to use it to buy all my cards!

Monica, I have been hunting my local supermarkets, shopping centres and have had no luck finding cards that say seasons greetings on the outside and inside. That's why I asked if anyone knew of places to get them. I will be looking, as I said, at all the suggestions people have been kind enough to suggest.
I don't think I shall bother asking any further questions as obviously I'm just thick.

Mabel12, my apologies if my mail seemed rude, but I am really puzzled by what you say.

At random I looked at this site www.cardsforcharity.co.uk/shop-online/cards.html. The first page has 16 cards on it. 7 of them contain pagan symbolism in some form: robin and mistletoe, hare, wren in a non-humorous form, others are more frivolous with mistletoe and scottie dogs etc and I have excluded a picture of decorated fir trees and Santas. There are only 3 that contain any kind of Christian symbolism. The rest are entirely seasonal with no religious symbolism of any sort.

This suggests that suitable cards are freely available. I do not know what these cards say inside but, as I said, many say 'Seasons Greetings' inside these days because there are so many people of other religions or none in the population now and it is always possible to design the words 'Season's Greetings' or other appropriate greeting in an attractive typeface and suitable size or colour and printed out on a sheet of labels. I did that once when I bought notelets in mistake for Christmas cards.