E-Cards

E-cards are a modern medium by which recipients can receive greetings that are accompanied by animated graphics and a sound file. Artists are able to add an additional dimension to their work.

Artists use Flash to create mini-vidclips that can have personal greetings added to them. For a small fee a user can send an unlimited number of cards in a year. It therefore makes financial sense to the person who sends the cards - no postage costs and no outlay for a card - yet the opportunity to send something that will give pleasure and make the recipient smile. The recipient gets a visual and sound experience on opening the card and can carry the link on a mobile device to share it with friends.

The artist's work gets appreciated in a different way. Paper cards are displayed on the mantlepiece for a couple of weeks and then thrown in the trash. The e-card has a longer 'shelf-life' and allows work to be appreciated in a different medium - while still allowing the recipient to print out a hard copy if they so wish.

Pre-2020 there were quite a few sites that I had found that produced high quality e-cards, including hallmark and Garfield - but those went defunct as the copyright was sold on....

However there are still a couple of good ones - check them out:

Your cards will not be to that standard straight away - but it is a pleasurble project to make a card and a pleasure for your loved ones to recieve something that is individual from you... so get thinking!

There are tutorials on my Flash page that showed you how to incorporate various features in your creation back in the days of Flash - these may be possible via another route. You have to use your imagination and creativity to make your own e-card.

Here is a link to Christmas e-cards I made for an alumni group.