Christmas Greetings picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 13 image entries
Contest Directions: 
Christmas is just around the corner and sales of Christmas greeting cards are booming across America and in most countries. While it's nice to buy the cards with cleverly designed messages, vast majority of Americans prefer to write their own message on a card, or at least add one to it.
Let's think what Christmas greeting cards famous people (celebrities or politicians) may send or receive this Christmas. For instance, consider what one celebrity would write on a card to another celebrity or politician; or what Christmas greeting card politicians or celebrities may send to or receive from an average American. You can even think of what Christmas cards cards Santa himself may send to famous people this season. Who's been naughty and who's been nice?
You are welcome to design a card (graphics or photos) to match the message. Merry Christmas!
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Jackpot: 1st place: $5, 2nd place: $3 , 3rd place: $2
Started: 12/23/2007 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 12/25/2007 6:00:00 AM
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| | Greeting Card (primitive open letter): A special type of post card for open letters (without an envelope).Collection of post cards is called Deltiology. Most of the greeting cards are sold around the Christmas season.
The front side of the greeting card has some sort of a full-scale (occupying the whole surface) figure, the reverse side is meant for writing messages and address of the addresser and the addressee, and also for pasting a postal stamp. Often the stamp is printed directly on the greeting card; the postal mail includes the price of the former on sale. The post card may also be non-postal. In this case it neither has a stamp nor a place provided for address under, it’s just a greeting card made out of thick paper or cardboard the size of a normal letter.
The first postal card was released in 1869 in Austria-Hungary (1872 in Russia). It is considered that the idea to furnish the card with illustrations was born during the time of the France - Russian war 1870-1871 in amongst fighting armies of France and Germany.
Some of the soldiers started supporting post cards sent home with drawings. This idea was effectively assimilated by businessmen. As per the French version the greeting post card was released by a bookseller named Leon Bernardo from Brittany, as per the German by bookseller A. Schwartz from Oldenburg.
One way or another, the year of the invention of the greeting card was 1870. The beginning proved to be successful and the idea of the post card spread to other countries. In Russia the post card saw light in 1895, and the first soviet post cards date back to November 1917.In 1878 during the International Postal Congress in Paris, an international standard for greeting cards was accepted: 9 x 14 cm, which was changed in 1925 to the other: 10.5 x 14.8.Originally its reverse side was meant for addresses (specific place for letter was not foreseen), from 1904 its left half was assigned for a short letter.
Contemporary illustrated greeting cards are divided into artistic (duplicate and original) and documentary (photo cards). Greeting cards released by postal agencies, normally, have a printed label of postal payment and are called stamped postal cards and on artistic unstamped greeting cards, a specific place is assigned for the sticker. Usually, greeting cards are used for holidays like Christmas, congratulating birthdays or other commemorative dates. |
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