Aug 29 2008
Create Your Own Greeting Cards
When I first started writing online, I was writing poetry. Now mind you, my poetry is rhyming verse. I’ve been writing in this style since I was in junior high school, and absolutely loved it. I’ve got hundreds of notebooks and binders filled with my poems, but when I tried to find a place for them online, I was quickly told that rhyming poetry is a sure sign of being an amateur. I was devistated.
I tried writing free verse after that, but found out immediately that I sucked at it. So, I thought my days as a poet were over. That’s when it came to me. Rhyming poetry would be a great way to break into the greeting card market. I’ve always been one of those people who stood in the greeting card isle for hours reading all the cards. So, I started submitting my prose to every greeting card company I could find an address for. I also found out that the greeting card industry is filled with a lot of tough competition.
I was just about ready to give up when it came to me to do my own greeting cards. The cool thing is that anyone can do this. Doesn’t matter whether you want to do e-cards or if you’re looking to create actual greeting cards. All it takes is a few creative lines and some ingenuity.
The first thing you want to think about is who you’re creating the cards for. Are they going to be birthday cards, sympathy cards, or just a little something to say hi? The best part about this is that you can make greeting cards for ANY occasion. I’ve even seen some that say Congratulations on your Divorce.
If you can put together a few poetic lines, you can make your own greeting cards. You can go so far as to put together a webpage and sell them online. If you can make cards that are just off the wall enough, you’ll have people knocking down your virtual door to get to them. As far as the card design, that’s totally up to you. You can go with a good printer and some free clip-art pieces. Or, you can glue little pieces of fabric or whatever and create “hand-made” cards. It’s amazing what people will look for online.
If you’re one of the people out there who have a knack for writing rhyming poetry, but aren’t sure what to do with it, try creating your own greeting cards. Who says rhyming poetry is amateurish. Greeting card companies are making millions of dollars every year because of it. Who knows, you could be the next Hallmark on the block.
Rhyming poetry sucks huh? Well I reckon I will forget that aspect of my future career. I wonder if I can turn my ‘The F Word’ rhyming poem into a greeting card?
LOL
Oh honey. Funny thing is that you probably can. You’d flip if you’d seen some of the cards I have. They make greeting cards these days for everything. And I mean that in every sense of the word.
Don’t let it get you down, though. I believe that rhyming poetry still one of the most eloquent forms of the craft. Huh, I might have to write a few just to irk someone out there. LOL
Thanks for stopping by honey.
No problems Christine, especially since I love reading your blogs. I reckon my writing skills certainly need a bit of work. Your blog actually inspired me to write a very short short story on my Wassupblog blog.
That’s the good thing about being a blogger is that at least you know there is always someone out there who will publish your work. Man, that gives me an idea, is there any cheap publishing houses for sale?