GREETING CARDS SEASON

Normally, the biggest greeting card season is Christmas (around the world). But in fact, Christmas is not the biggest occasion for greeting cards. In France, New Year occasion is more important, same in Asia. In these few years, some countries in Asia have bigger Christmas, especially for young people.

The second biggest season is holyday season. People go traveling around the world and buy greeting cards to send them back home.

There are many other occasions for greeting cards such as Mother's day, Father's day, new baby, wedding, big or small parties, etc.,

In Vietnam, we do not have greeting card culture. Only some young people who are affected by Western culture buy greeting cards or make cards themselves and send cards to their lovers, or friends... But most of Vietnamese do not use greeting cards for all occasions.

From 2012, our first 3D pop-up card designs appear in Viet Nam. Till now, after 4 years, most of pop-up cards in Vietnam are produced for foreign tourist.

I hope our cards will make pop-up cards culture in Viet Nam in near future.

3D Pop-up Christmas Greeting Cards

The custom of sending Christmas cards was started in the UK in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole. He was a civil servant (Government worker) who had helped set-up the new 'Public Record Office' (now called the Post Office), where he was an Assistant Keeper, and wondered how it could be used more by ordinary people.

Sir Henry had the idea of Christmas Cards with his friend John Horsley, who was an artist. They designed the first card and sold them for 1 shilling each. (That is only 5p or 8 cents today(!), but in those days it was worth much much more.) The card had three panels. The outer two panels showed people caring for the poor and in the centre panel was a family having a large Christmas dinner! Some people didn't like the card because it showed a child being given a glass of wine! About 1000 (or it might have been less!) were printed and sold. They are now very rare and cost thousands of Pounds or Dollars to buy now!

Nowadays, cards have all sorts of pictures on them: jokes, winter pictures, Santa Claus or romantic scenes of life in past times. Charities often sell their own Christmas Cards as a way raising money at Christmas.

MaiGreetings is a leading pop-upcard wholesale supplier in Vietnam. Every Christmas season, we bring our beautiful hand-made pop-up cards all over the world as an amazing, heart-warming gift to your family and friends.

From the clever hands of Vietnam craftsmen, 3D pop-up Christmas greeting cards have been bringing the best wishes to Christians around the world.

How to make a 3D pop-up card

Many people ask me how to make a 3D pop up card. Someone believes that the making process is very simple: you just put the papers in the laser cutting machine and then you will get a perfect 3D card. The others say that the making process is totally handmade, from cutting, assembling to gluing. Well, the truth is if you just make one card, you will need to do all the above-mentioned process. But to make some couples of thousand cards per day, the 3D card's making process is a well-balanced combination of some stages that I will tell you about later.

1. Designing: including drawing the model on the paper and on the computer and testing 3D models until you make a perfect model that can be easily opened and closed.

2. Cutting: all of the details of the model, the outside and inside covers are cut by laser cutting machines. To assure the quantity of some thousands cards per day, Maigreetings has 6 laser cutting machines that are in operation 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

3. Assembling: this is one of the most complicated stages in the process. One team including the most skillful craftsman will assemble all of the models, from the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Notre Dame in Paris to the motorcycle.

4. Sewing: sewing the model to the inside cover. The accuracy of this stage is responsible for whether the models can stand perfectly when you open the card.

5. Gluing: gluing the inside cover to the outside cover.

6. Choosing and checking if the cards is perfect or not.

7. Putting the card into envelope and poly envelope.

8. Packing and exporting: the cards are packed in 5-layer carton boxes and ready to export to many countries around the world.

Hope you have better information about how to make a pop up card.