What are the card Collection and the card library?

Open the Card side of the catalogue and the first thing you notice is variety: no two cards of an occasion look alike. That is by design.

The card library

• Ten cards for every sub-occasion, from an Indian wedding to a book club: two free and eight premium.
• The two free cards are quiet and mostly typographic, in a plain envelope.
• The premium cards use at least five kinds of medium and several compositions: a scene across the top, a scene along the foot, a border, an arch, corner clusters or a wreath. At least two in every occasion are in crafts such as felt and wool, paper quilling, paper cut, pressed flowers, 3D animated film or embroidery.
• The most-celebrated occasions, such as the main wedding kinds, birthdays, baby showers, housewarmings, Christmas, Diwali, Halloween and New Year, have a second set of ten, each in a material the library had barely used: frosted vellum, stained glass, enamel, marbling, gold leaf, woodblock, mosaic and more.

Every card is drawn from Nimanto's own look book for that occasion, which also guides Design Genie, so the catalogue and Genie speak one language.

The Collection

Sixty premium cards, ten for each event type, in three kinds: painted (watercolour, gouache, oil, ink and wash, pastel), 3D characters (original characters in a feature-film style, never licensed ones) and natural greeting (pressed flowers, letterpress and foil, paper cut, felt, quilling, photographed still lifes). Many come with an envelope paper painted to match.

How they are made

Each card is one painted face with calm paper where the words go, a painted envelope lining and, on some premium cards, a painted envelope paper. The words are the site's, fitted to that calm paper, so your own words always fit. Every face is checked for calm paper under the words and for contrast before it reaches the catalogue.

In the catalogue

The library is interleaved so "All cards" opens on variety: every sub-occasion's first card, then every one's second, and so on. Each card's own page shows other cards of its sub-occasion and occasion under it. Premium cards are paid once when you send them unless your plan includes cards; see Card prices.