Are you a student considering a career in the greeting card industry? This blog details some ways to access the industry, and has links to lots more information.
Resources for School & College
Connecting Students with the Greeting Card Industry
The Greeting Card Association (GCA) is the not-for-profit trade body working to protect and promote greeting card sending and support our members to grow their businesses. The UK greeting card industry is a world-leading creative industry, we send more cards per...
How to get into the greeting card industry
How to join the greeting card industry. Insight into a GCA team’s talk about working in the card industry to illustration students at Uni of Herts
GCA toolkit for student presentations
GCA toolkit for student presentations. Engaging with next generation of greeting card senders, and encouraging new talent into the card industry.
Becoming a Greeting Card Designer – A Guide for Artists
This guide produced by the GCA will help any budding artist to understand what’s involved with designing for the industry.
Is it worthwhile pursuing a career in greeting cards?
Is it worthwhile pursuing a career in greeting cards? How do you get involved in the greeting card industry? What are the options? The UK greeting card industry is a world leader, a home-grown fashion industry. New publishers start up all the time and existing...
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year marks the start of the traditional Chinese Calendar. It’s sometimes called the Lunar New Year or the Spring festival. It’s the most important holiday in the Chinese calendar, which is a lunar based calendar, hence why the dates change each year....
Lesson Plans: Hallmark Year 4 Letter Writing Lesson Plan
Use this unbranded lesson plan to teach a year 4 class about the importance of letter writing.
12 Year Old Card Publisher Case Study
Mia Lapwood is a 12 year old entrepreneur who started up her own greeting card publishing business. In this case study, Mia talks about how she set up her successful business, Mia Lapwood Photography. Download her case study here Vist her websites Mia Lapwood...
Four Fun Craft Projects for schools
These projects are designed for all ages and can be used as one off craft activities or as part of a sequence on card making. Curriculum Links to Art and Design Technology Friendly Owl Make this friendly wise old owl with paper, fabrics and goggle eyes. Suitable for...
Key Stage 2: Hurrah for Ra!
Art, design and history come together in this ‘Thank you’ card-making project dedicated to the Egyptian sun god, Ra. Children will learn about paper-making, the origins of writing and about Ancient Egyptian culture, expressed through the art and artefacts discovered...
Key Stage 1: Let’s Be Friends Lesson Plan
Card-making to help build relationships and promote class cohesion in the early years. This plan is written as an induction/getting to know you activity for ages 5-7 years, in which children make and send a simple card to a classmate containing a positive message. The...
Primary School Activity Pack
The following theme plans use greeting cards as the stimulus for a range of cross-curricular activities that have relevance for children aged 5 to 11 throughout England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Through participating in the activities children...
3D Cards for GCSE Graphic Products Courses – Design and Development
Design Objectives The card when opened should be self supporting, presentable and appealing, when on display in the shops and when it is received.It will have to fold flat into a pack or envelope for posting and open out, preferably automatically, without any...
3D Cards for GCSE Graphic Products Courses – Creasing
A Fold With most papers (170 gsm and under) you can fold by hand, easier with the grain than against it. To be precise with a fold, a mark can be made with a blunt instrument, i.e. a non inking biro or rounded metal pointer, as long as the fibres are not disturbed. On...
3D Cards for GCSE Graphic Products Courses – Production Process
The final working drawings are handed over to the printer who will pass the graphics to the colour plate maker to separate and reproduce in readiness for printing. The drawings of the cut out shapes (Cutter Guides) will go to the Die Maker who will make the cutting...
3D Cards for GCSE Graphic Products Courses – Creative Inspiration and Economical Approach
Creative Inspiration There are many ways to inspire creativity. The most innovative usually come from taking your starting point from outside your immediate circle of thought. For example: Natures own structures: flowers, plants, scenery etc. Amazing shapes and...
3D Cards for GCSE Graphic Products Courses – Paper and Board
There are literally thousands of different types of papers and boards available. Some have restricted availability because of their type of manufacture, country of origin, cost size, quantity required etc. But there are ways and means around these restrictions. There...
3D Cards for GCSE Graphic Products Courses – A Short History of Written Communication
Before paper was invented, civilisations across the world developed many different solutions to the problem of communicating knowledge over distance and time. 3000 BC Sumerians invented writing on clay tablets2000-2500 BC Egyptians invented hieroglyphics and...