In the U.S. alone, 7 billion greeting cards are purchased each year. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 1.9 billion Christmas cards are sent each year. Wonder how many trees go into creating these cards? For the Christmas cards alone, about 300,000 trees would be needed.
Ecards are an option to waste less paper, but some friends and family members very much appreciate tangible cards. What are we to do? Cast Paper Art offers a solution. Designed by and sold exclusively through eInvite, Cast Paper Art greeting cards are made from recycled cotton fiber, and have a great texture. There are a number of designs to choose from, and you can order in increments of 25 cards. Each order includes envelopes, and you can customize the cards with your name(s). You can even change the font face and color.
Cast Paper Art offers holiday cards, but they also offer other cards, including birth announcements, invitations, RSVPs, and more, all in beautiful colors and textures, some with flowers embedded in them
So this year for the holidays and for your greeting card and invitation needs year round, consider tree-free cards. You and your card recipients will love them, and mother nature will thank you.
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
my wife is an orthodox eco friendly lady... and a card like this will definately boost our marriage to atleast a silver jublee! thanks a lot!
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:14 pm
man this is such a neat idea!
I'm tempted to go get some
but unfortunately, they're
being sold by 100 :/
November 23rd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Nadine, you can purchase them in increments of 25 starting at 25, you just have to select a different quantity.
November 25th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Oh, all those cards were being made from recycled cotton fiber. What a great environmental-friendly idea, Stef!
I will recommend this gig to my family and friends...
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Wilson, they feel and look really neat in person
January 10th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Wow, great product for the ecological minded folks, who still want to send those tangible cards. I can totally relate, receiving a card in the mail is a great feeling, so I like to send them out as well. This also makes me think of a great project idea for recycling junk mail and making your own paper for greeting cards.
Thanks for sharing!
January 10th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
[...] Cast Paper Art, offering recycled cotton fiber greeting cards which I found out about through an article on Focus Organic. They offer a variety of different card types for various occasions and you should be able to buy [...]
January 21st, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Linda, if you try out making your own paper, let us know how it goes!
February 13th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
7 billion??? WTF........
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
Amazing creativity and its a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, of the creative mind between existing ideas.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:57 am
"So beautiful! I wish I know how to make my own greeting cards. Imagine people receiving your homemade greetings with your name on the back!
February 24th, 2009 at 3:57 am
Gorgeous, Making greeting cards is a wonderful hobby to enjoy with your family and friends. In fact, card making is becoming more and more popular and it's now a novelty to send handmade greeting cards.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:26 am
The joy of gathering card making ideas, paper, embellishments, and other card making supplies to make the cards and the joy that the handmade greeting cards give to the recipients are just feelings that cannot be purchased. Receiving a handmade greeting card is so special.