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The article offers information on the hobby of collecting calling cards and calling card trays. It explores the history of offering calling cards to meet new people which in the early part of the 1900s. According to the author, collectors are interested in calling cards created by people with the low social standing as these are designed with flowers and animals like birds.

This article features save the date cards in the styles of whimsical touches, destination weddings, seasonal, and classic. Each style includes photographs of examples with information on each including type of paper, how it is made, the manufacturer/designer, price, and contact information. Some designers include Blue Ribbon Design and Sarah Hawkins Designs.

The article presents information about the latest trends for wedding invitation cards. Couples are now experimenting with color, texture and pattern in sophisticated layers of paper. Couples are also using attractive ribbons and bands to hold all the invitation pieces together. Couples create their own special pieces of stationery by combining their specific color scheme through ink colors and paper layering. INSETS: Well said;Trade secrets;Type-ing teacher;Postal guidelines

The article focuses on the important points when looking for stationery-related products. It was believed that black and white compositions are another feature which represents classic age designs. Letterpressed-printed papers showed growth in the market and provide a strong element of affordable luxury to notepapers and invitations.

This article presents advice related to choosing wedding invitation cards. The emphasis in stationery now is customization, so one's wedding invitations can be as unique as one is. Couples are finally doing away with some of the invitation etiquette that has dominated social events for literally hundreds of years. It's perfectly acceptable now to use color in one's invitation even if one is planning a formal wedding. Attractive ribbons and bands being used to hold all the invitation pieces together. The actual invitation is part of this folded piece, and it's attached usually in a layered-paper fashion.

This article presents information on the selection of wedding invitation cards. Whether one has a small garden event or a large formal church wedding, the invitation should convey one's your plans through its words and design. Elegant, substantive cream stationery with classical black lettering conveys the majesty of a formal evening wedding and five-course meal. Before heading to a stationery store one should thumb through albums of wedding invitation examples, follow a few basic steps. Stationery pieces one need may include the standard invitation card, reception card, response cards and thank-you notes. One should start thinking about invitations as soon as one confirms the date, time, location and guest list. INSETS: How to shop…for stationary;Postal rules.

This article presents instructions for designing and printing wedding invitations using the software The Print Shop from Apple Computer. In gathering address information the Address Book function can be useful. A hand-addressed invite adds a personal touch. However, a similar result can be achieved by picking a casual-looking font. When ordering wedding invitation card stock, include extra sheets in case some copies are damaged. The message to be written on the invitation should be composed first to have an idea on the wedding invitation design. The Greeting Cards template of the Print Shop presents three options: Quick Start Layout lets you pick a pre-existing design, Help Me Design is intended for those who will add custom graphics, but want to start with a basic design concept, Start from Scratch is used when one wants to start with a blank design. The Print Shop automates the printing process. Watch out for the printer for misfeeds or other printing problems.

Presents information on wedding invitation cards. INSETS: BORDERS;STITCHING.

Provides information on the carnival artistry used in making Mardi Gras invitations. Overview of the evolution of carnival artistry; Details on the designers of the invitations.

Information on social stationery imprinting software and hardware from InScribe Inc and Colors By Design is offered. Additional information on both companies' products and stationery stores' creation and selling of personalized social stationery is also included.

The article offers information on several local dance programs in New York City. The dance programs include one from Applause NYC, the Broadway Dance Center, and the Ballet Club. Also offered are the perspectives of several dance students and teachers about their experiences with the certain dance program.

The article offers guide in choosing a right custom invitation and paper albums for customer base in the U.S. It states that choosing a right custom invitation involves painting a picture of a typical customer in demographic terms. It also mentions that the number of albums being placed in the store area is one element that has to be considered.

The article discusses the use of calling cards even in the age of technology. These cards are originally used as formal calling cards when visiting a member of the house. These cards were also used for welcoming, congratulating, condoling, thanking or saying farewell. The cards can be used as gift enclosures and as business cards. The article also states that whatever purpose the calling card is for, personalized cards always imply thoughtfulness and attention to detail.

The article suggests ways to make seating assignments at holiday parties more interesting. Traditional escort cards will look more attractive when propped on ribbon candy. Seating assignments can also be placed in boxes with petit fours. Cardboard boxes with ribbons can also be used.

Offers tips on closing wedding invitation sales over the Internet. Demands of customers on wedding invitation designs; Information of design directions; Significance of forging alliances with other wedding professionals; Competition over the Internet.

Features Web sites that allows the user to design graphic note cards, purchase vintage-style letterpress-printed note cards, or order rugby-striped note cards with custom monograms.

Reports on the design and construction of invitations to the opening of Rearden Steel, a digital studio. Invitations as grape-colored Game Boys with cartridges which play invitations; Cost of the invitations to Rearden Steel's founder, Steve Perlman.

The article offers brief information on several gift items and accessories including "Modo Arte" fashion journals from Unity Gifts, baby thank you cards set from Intrinsic, and Japanese style accessories from Kyo Modern.

The article discusses the circulation of social media usage development in the Caribbean. It cites that the region has the lowest overall Internet penetration in the Americas, but then, web development in the Caribbean has been active since 2000, although limited because of the smaller percentage of subscriber. It also cites that public relation and marketing campaigns still rely on Newspapers, radio, television, and other transitional forms of media. Moreover, the article adverts that the Caribbean blogosphere is becoming more active, courtesy of individual, entertainment, art-based businesses and political campaign leveraging.

The article presents firms that have created innovative invitations to attract guests to an event. For the Veuve Clicquot Yelloween 2006 in Miami, Florida, Creative Intelligence used their company colors of yellow and black in the invitation and throughout the event. Alpine Creative Group used material imported from Europe for a mirror on the front of the invitation for a launch party for Philippe Starck. A pop-up invitation was used by Kira Evans Design for the opening of the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The article offers information about Ryan Cole, technical director/project manager at J.R. Clancy Inc. Cole has flourished in his role at J.R. Clancy. J.R. Clancy designs, manufactures and installs theatrical equipment for worldwide venues with rigging as its specialty calling card. Cole balances an organized mindset with a realistic perspective.

The article highlights trends in wedding invites. Topics discussed include use of engraved wooden cards to give invite a classical vibe; being creative with the bioscope invite and narrate story through pictures and interesting illustrations to make the invite memorable; and popularity of flip book invite.

The article offers tips for reducing showrooming activity in invitation cards retail stores including showing physical examples in-store and providing customized invitation cards and evaluates invitation cards including the seven-piece invitation suite from Steam Whistle Letterpress & Design LLC.

The article offers brief information on several antiques including a shallow tray for corral calling cards, calling cards with portrait, and the 1880s engraved card.

The article looks at the designs, technologies and big-brand recognition used by invitation-makers and stationers to make sure their event clients make a fine first impression. Carlson Craft has partnered with Royal Doulton Co. to produce invitation designs based on Royal Doulton's china patterns. Other invitation makers rely on well-known clients and designers to add cachet to their invitations.

The article offers information on an interesting promotional invitation card created by photographer Michael Scott Slosar.

The article reports on the economic trends of social stationery. It mentions its demand through gift markets along with holiday gifts, fashion and home décor. It also notes its creation for inspiration which acts as a recycled sentimental grab-and-go gift utilizing motivational messages offering profits.

The article offers information on several design stationeries including the decorate cards designed by Erin Healy, the Victorian-style paper designs, the silk-screen multicolored images, the water-based inks to screen-print fanciful images on note cards and invitations and the reversible wrapping papers from Whimsy Press company.

The article provides information on paper related products. A beautiful and finely balanced writing instruments makes the task of writing more pleasurable. Retailers continue to offer a wide variety of creative designs for every budget and personal style of invitations and imprintables. And there has been sales increase in correspondence cards, notecards and thank you cards.

The article lists stationers that offer luxurious papers and notecards. Among them are London's Smythson of Bond Street, New York's Dempsey & Carroll, Boston's Crane and Co., and designer Kate Spade. The stationers decorate old fashioned, high quality paper with modern designs, and offer personalized monogramming services.

Presents information on invitation cards and related material for boys.

This article presents information on an invitation to a wedding ceremony. It is informed that creative touches and themed creations transformed the invitation into something one can treasure. It is opined that for an engagement party at Cincinnati Union Terminal, for example, trains seemed the perfect theme. A couples' shower at Pyramid Hill Park in Hamilton was announced via picnic basket-shaped invitations, complete with all the trimmings— directions, registration information and the event's itinerary came printed on removable food accents cleverly placed inside the pocket of the "basket."

Provides instructions for students in creating invitations and thank-you notes. Critical information needed in writing invitations and thank-you notes; Significance of thank-you notes.

The article focuses on social stationary items and mentions the observed trend regarding the manufacture and use of social stationary items and recommendations on the appropriate way to market social stationary items in gift retail stores.

The article offers trends for same-sex weddings. It discusses color and style of attire for the couple which veer away from the religious meanings of traditional weddings, gender neutral people in the wedding entourage and seating arrangement at the reception. It also recommends using metallics for wedding stationeries.

The article evaluates the paper candy invitation cards.

Presents social stationery products with floral and leafy designs. La Vie en Rose Studio's pear designs for its Good Life collection; Coloriginals' Color Mayfair with the mixture of backing and colored vellum; Royal Stationery's flowery frame with matching foldovers.