Happy World Card Making Day
We didn’t come up with World Card Making Day, but we are thrilled that it’s a thing! It’s a day dedicated to doing what you love most—making handmade cards! It celebrates the creativity and personal connection handmade cards create between loved ones, and it’s a great time to make your own cards to send to family and friends.
History of World Card Making Day
Cards have played an important role in social circles for hundreds of years, playing a role as a thoughtful gift all the way to a necessary part of proper etiquette. Consider, if you will, the calling card of the Victorian era, a term that has become so ubiquitous that the signature element of a bomb-maker or a criminal is said to be their ‘calling card’. A small piece of paper bearing ones name and often a decoration of some kind, the calling card (Also known as a visiting card) was presented to the servants of a household that it might be delivered to the masters of the house to announce visitors.
It was this era of propriety that also developed the concept of a dance card, a card specifically carried by women to fill out with the names of the men they intended to dance with that evening. After all, with so many interested parties it just made sense to keep track of them so that you could, in earnest, indicate that your dance card was full and thus politely decline an interested suitor.
Calling Cards, Dance Cards, Business Cards, Greeting Cards, RSVP Cards, there are a million and more types of cards and could there be anything more exciting than learning to make your own? World Card Making Day encourages you to do just that.
How to Celebrate World Card Making Day
This year the world celebrates the day on 7 October, but one day wasn’t enough for Stampin’ Up!. For ten days (1–10 October), you can get 15% off Notecards & Envelopes and select stamp sets. Each of these Stamp Set also coordinates with our Patterned Paper and for the month of October you can purchase 3 Packs of Patterned Paper and get the 4th pack free. Learn more HERE
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These items will help you celebrate the best hobby of all—cardmaking! The best way to celebrate World Card Making Day is, of course, to make a card! The only limit to your cards is your imagination, so let your creativity fly and send your friends and family personalized cards on World Card Making Day!
