The following are five tips to help make Jack Cards as easy and fun for you as it was designed to be!
1. Using Your Planner
Make sure you never miss a birthday (or anniversary) again! Your Planner is the perfect way to keep track of every important event for your friends, family, colleagues, mentors, students, and anyone else who is important to you.
Start by Adding Contacts
Add contacts individually or import your contacts from Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo Mail, Gmail and many more sources. Just click on the Add Contacts icon in the Planner toolbar.
…Then Add Important Events (Like Your Sister’s Anniversary)
You can use the toolbar in your Planner to add the same holiday or special occasion to multiple individuals in one step.
And of course, let’s not forget birthdays. To save time, you can add everyone’s birthday in one go, just click on ‘Add Birthdays’ in your To Do List in the left column of your Planner.
And if you don’t know someone’s birthday, click on ‘Ask For Birthdays’ to send them a quick email inviting them to add it for you.
To make sure you don’t forget anniversaries, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Father’s Day and many more special occasions and holidays, your To Do List in your Planner will remind you of upcoming holidays, and special occasions.
Just click on Add To Contacts below each event.
Ask For or Add Addresses
Make sure your Planner is always up to date with your friends’ current address. Send them a quick email to ask for their current address. Just click on ‘Ask For Addresses’ in your To Do List or toolbar.
Tip: Use the toolbar in your Planner to add the same address to multiple individuals in one step.
2. Assigning and Scheduling Your Cards
Scheduling your cards for future delivery is a great way to save time, and a great way to never forget a birthday again!
Card suggestions appear next to each event in your Planner. Click on ‘Send’ below a card to assign it to that date and recipient, or browse the site and add cards to your shopping cart. Personalize the details for each card in your Planner (click on Edit Card Details) or in your shopping cart (click on Personalize Card next to each card).
Once you have purchased your cards, you can return back to your Planner anytime to view scheduled cards that have not yet been delivered. Just click on the Scheduled Cards tab.
Tip: You can edit the details for a card you have scheduled, up to 2 days before the mail date.
3. Addressing Your Envelopes
Our members are consistently delighted with our envelope printing, especially during Christmas card season or for wedding and shower thank you’s!
You have the option of having your return address printed, your recipient’s address printed, or both! You can also choose to have your cards stamped.
To select any (or all), select ‘Personalize Card’ in your Shopping Cart or ‘Edit Card Details’ in your Planner and then ‘Yes’ for the options you would like.
4. Sending Cards Directly
In a hurry? We can handwrite your message for you and send directly! Simply type in your message and one of the Jack Cards team members (who have lovely handwriting) will write it for you.
To add a message, select ‘Personalize Card’ in your Shopping Cart or ‘Edit Card Details’ in your Planner and then check the ‘Mail Directly to Recipient’ box. You can type in your message here.
Already missed the date? Don’t worry, we have you covered! Opt to direct-send a fun or witty belated birthday card, then sit back and relax!
5. Complete the Circle of Caring
Share Jack Cards with your friends, and help them to remember their friends and family with thoughtful and funny cards. Just click on Invite Friends in your Planner to share your unique invitation URL, and receive a $15 Amazon.com gift card for every 5 friends who make a purchase!
Photo of Red Cross Tiffany Circle Volunteers sending Christmas wishes to our military heroes in cards donated by Andy Pratt.
If you need any help with any of the above, contact the Jack Cards Team – we’d love to hear from you!
Enjoy!
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“If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.” ~ Billy Joel
Rather than focus on resolutions for the New Year, like eat less and exercise more, why not focus on goals and organize your time around these goals? It’s not easy to navigate the constant balancing act of our hectic fast-paced lives, but becoming more organized, and living life with purpose, is a sure way to feel less scattered and congested. The following are some simple, actionable steps to help make sure you live the life that you want to live.
Step One: Reflection
“We are, in fact, the sum total of our choices.” ~ Woody Allen
What is your doing/reflection ratio? Read More
At the end of each year, I like to think back, reflecting on what I’ve learned, experienced, and enjoyed throughout the past year – and then to consider how these experiences can help prepare me for the year ahead.
For years I’ve done this by answering the same list of questions, saving each year’s version in a “Yearly Reflections” file. Each year I pull up last year’s version and edit it, reading over my previous answers before replacing them with new ones. It’s extremely eye opening to look back through the years. Sometimes I see very different answers to the exact same questions; sometimes the answers are pretty much the same, from them emerging a similar pattern in my life that I would otherwise be unaware of.
I feel so bad. Someone just had a bad night, on account of me, and there’s no way to apologize and nothing I can do. Expect confess here and hope that maybe someone will Google “Why would someone steal a full shopping cart with all of my groceries?” and the search results will lead them here, where they’ll come to understand that I didn’t mean to.
I can be absentminded at times. Especially when I’m focused on reading ingredient labels while grocery shopping at the end of a 16-hour day.
But basically, somehow while deciding between Tropical Fruit Trail Mix and Traditional Trail Mix I grabbed the wrong cart, (in my defense, filled to exactly the same level as mine – very full) and continued on my way. I failed to notice it did not have my purse in it, nor any of the groceries I had selected up to that point. In fact, I failed to notice for the next twenty or thirty minutes, when I began unloading my groceries at the checkout and saw a pouch of ready-to-eat tuna staring uncomfortably at me.
First thought – that stuff looks pretty gross.
Second thought – how did that get there?
Third thought – ha, that’s funny. I bet someone accidentally threw it in my cart.
Fourth thought – wait, where did all the rest of this stuff come from?
Fifth thought – Oh. No.
Every end-of-year holiday, from Halloween to Kwanzaa, Diwali, Hanukkah and Christmas, has a rich, colorful and long tradition of celebrating gratitude, sacrifice, inspiration, community, and enlightenment. Given that we spend so much time and effort on Holiday celebrations, we decided to take a look at their origins and understand why we celebrate them.
Here’s a summary of what we found about Diwali…(find out about other holidays here.)
We’d love to hear your holiday celebration stories, leave a comment below!
Things may not be looking great in the economy or around the world, but one sure way to boost your happiness is to send warm thoughts or a little humor to your loved ones wherever they may be.
There are many occasions for which a card can make all the difference:
1) Did your friend just announce she’s pregnant, getting married or the arrival of her first-born? We have plenty of ‘baby congratulations‘, ‘engagement congratulations‘ and ‘eating for two‘ cards to celebrate the news.
2) Is a former colleague or a friend of the family retiring? Congratulate them on their awesome achievement, and wish them luck as they embark on new adventures.
3) Did you miss a few date nights over the summer with all the ‘busyness’ of family get-togethers, vacation planning and making sure the family was happy while on vacation? Surprise your partner with an ‘I Miss You‘ or an ‘I Love You‘ card in the mailbox just for them.
4) Did a friend get married or move into a new home over the summer? Send your congratulations to the newly-moved-in or newlyweds.
To help you select the perfect cards, we’ve added hundreds of new designs that we think you’ll love! We have also permanently reduced prices for select collections by up to 30%! Browse our collections of cards:
- Under $3.00
- Under $4.00
- Under $5.00
- or Splurge on an exquisite handmade card.
Through October 3, 2011, use the code FALL15 to save 15% on your order at checkout.
The memory of receiving a card in the mail never fades, especially if it’s unexpected!
Life often includes loss. Sometimes our own, but sometimes of those around us – those we love dearly and want to help, but don’t always know how. In the last few months I have been keenly aware of such loss, with many close friends and family members battling health issues, suffering miscarriage, struggling through divorce, coming to grips with losing a spouse, and a number of other difficult issues. So I was grateful to hear a speaker from a recent conference in Chicago share how to help people going through a loss or difficult time.
The talk was led by author Nancy Guthrie, who lost two children within just a few years, both due to a rare syndrome and both at the age of 6-months-old. The following are a few things I learned about how to practically help friends, family, and even acquaintances through a difficulty, whether it is an illness, death, miscarriage, or divorce – even though I may not have ever gone through the same. Read More
“The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.” ~ Pierre Corneille
I really enjoyed reading this post as a reminder of how important giving and receiving is to our daily happiness, and how important it is to make sure our kids appreciate what it means to be a good gifter/receiver – Giving and Receiving Gifts – Teenagers, It’s Not a Negotiation by Maria Fuentes.
This is my favorite paragraph from Maria’s post:
When you receive a real gift, you are receiving so much more than the present; you are receiving an impression of how that person thinks about you, you are receiving the time and effort that it took to come up with the idea, and most importantly, you are receiving that person’s attention.
This is exactly how I feel about gift giving. Maria Fuentes shares tips on giving gifts to teenagers, and how to make sure your teenagers “…get in the habit of thanking the intention more than the item.” As Maria points out, that is, after all, the real gift! Read More
“It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.” ~ Unknown
When was the last time you popped a ‘Thank You’ card in the mail?
Having an unexpected ‘Thank You’ card arrive in the mail is such an “oh my goodness!” experience these days – more often than not, there’s the token bill or ever-present junk mail sitting in the mailbox. To instead, receive a small gift of “Thank You” in a handwritten envelope…..well it’s priceless!
But on what occasions should you take out your pen? Read More
We love this do-it-yourself tutorial for hand-embroidered thank you cards by Anne Weil of Flax & Twine, featured on the lovely blog, Design Sponge. It’s such a beautiful way to incorporate your sewing creativity with your love of paper, and send a truly special thank you note or note card to your friends.
All you need are envelopes, paperboard (chipboard, cereal box, cracker box), embroidery floss, an embroidery needle, a sewing machine, scissors and a ruler or a paper cutter – and of course a little creative inspiration for your designs. You could keep it simple (embroider your initials), or detailed (an abstract pattern, your favorite animals, or the words ‘Thank you so much’). This could also be a fun project to do with your kids!
Check out Anne’s tutorial here, and let us know if you make your own cards. Send us your photos, and we could add your hand-made cards to our hand-made card collections on Jack Cards – to the delight of our busy members!
