Celebrate Family this New Year 2012

A Happy New Year! Grant that I bring no tear to any eye.
When this New Year in time shall end Let It be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year

-"Edgar Guest"

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Holiday Greeting Cards

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old famliar carols play,
And wild and sweet
the words repeat
Of peace on earth and good-will-to-men!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Christmas Bells

I hear the bells on Christmas Day,
Their old familiar carols play,
and wild and sweet
The word repeat
Of peace on earth
Good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Christmas Greeting Ecards

Sending You Holiday Cheer
Elegant Musical Artistic Greeting Cards

Join Us this holiday season to send all of your greeting cards to family and friends.

Environmentally friendly - no paper - no stamps - no fuel where used in creating our beautiful earth friendly musical greeting cards.

Use your own personal address book to   send all your holiday greeting cards.  Each recipient will receive their own personal greeting card from you.  Upload a photo  to send along with your holiday greetings.Join today to begin sending all your holiday, birthday, anniversary, thinking of you, all occasion beautiful musical artistic family friendly greetings.   Your friends and family will love receiving them.    Give a Holiday Gift Membership that they will enjoy all year!

Thanksgiving Greeting Cards

Thanksgiving Prayer

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Veterans Day November 11th - Send a Veteran a greeting card

November 11th... Celebrates the appreciation of our Veteran's that serve our country.  Lets not forget their sacrifices that they make every day.  

Send a Veteran's Day Greeting card to show them that we haven't forgotten their sacrifices.

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New to Our Collection - Holiday Gift Box Greeting Card

New to our collection is a beautiful Holiday Gift Box that sends a message to family and friends.   "May Your Holidays be Merry and Bright!"

One Person Can Save Trees

Together We Can Save Forests

Do Your Part Today -  Send An Ecard!

Happy Haunting - New Halloween Greeting Cards

New - Halloween Ecard

Happy Halloween Greeting Ecard - Send fun musical animated halloween ecards this October 31!

You can send this new Halloween Ecard this October 31st for only $1.50.   Send for 1 month hundreds of musical animated greetings created by our family of artists.

No Ads - No Spam will be sent with your ecards.  Only your card and personal message will be sent to your familly and friends.   All our ecards are created by our family of artists.   All fun, family friendly greeting cards.   Enjoy sending all year from home or office.

August Artist of the Month - Pamela Gladding

Pamela Gladding artwork and her animated ecards  all here for you to enjoy.     Welcome...When Pamela walks through her garden, she is inspired by the natural beauty and is able to translate it into detailed designs that have graced home furnishings, tabletop items, posters, stationery and wall covering for close to two decades. Pamela's art studio is situated on 80 acres of land, filled with massive flowerbeds and surrounded by woods and is nestled in the hills of central Pennsylvania.  These surroundings provide Pamela with the serene beauty of her beloved gardens and a peaceful homestead with her husband and an ever increasing number of dogs and cats. Pamela's Ecards - Pamela has created a unique collection of ecards.  Each ecard that she has created for you here, is taken from her huge art portfolio.  And through the magic of ecard animation and adding special music to each ecard, she is able to bring life to the ecard images for you to view and share with others.

New Musical Greeting Cards - Thinking of You

New to our summer ecard collection is Thinking of You...  Hope you enjoy our new Thinking of You Ecard.  Sending ecards is eco friendly... no paper, no fuel, delivery same day...

Artist of the Month - July

Jennifer Sosik "I paint nearly every day, and each day it is as new and exciting as the first time I picked up a brush. My love for color keeps every subject new and interesting. Graduating in 1997, Jennifer earned degrees in art history and fine arts, specializing in painting and drawing. She continued indulging in her passion working hands on as an in-house artist in a large upscale retail chain. Pumpkin Faces Halloween Ecard Art by Jennifer Sosik Trick or Treat Halloween Ecard Art by Jennifer Sosik In addition Jennifer has expanded her talent into residential and commercial spaces. She has added her personal touch and warmth in businesses and homes, creating custom murals, special spaces in babies and childrens rooms and decorative touches to kitchens, dining rooms, bathrooms, and hallways. Whether its on paper, canvas, walls or furniture, Jennifer possesses a quality and charm to her work that is all her own.  We will be adding more or Jennifer's art to our collectino of ecards during the year.   You can view her ecards by clicking on the images above. To view more of Jennifer's art work that you may find in various stores through out the country, visit our sister site www.pmdesigngroup.com/JS-Page1.html Come back again to view more of Jennifer Sosik ecards through the year.

Pamela Gladding is off to Tuscany, Italy

PAMELA GLADDING IS OFF TO TUSCANY!!!

Pamela is packing her brushes and paints for a trip to Tuscany where she will be decorating a harpsichord. (Definition - A harpsichord is a stringed instrument that was the precursor of the piano.)

Pamela says: "The decoration that I will be doing will be inspired by an instrument in the permanent collection of musical instruments at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. It was built by Johannes Couchet about 1650 and the decoration is of that century. Flowers and acanthus leaves intertwine and float on 23K gold leaf on the side of the case. Just my cup of tea! It is probably the one instrument that will use all my years of painting expertise. A grand statement for a grand age.

 "Pamela's entree into the world of design and decoration after college was in decorating harpsichords for various new "builders" of these antique instruments in the traditions of the past for the modern age. These finished instruments found their way into private collections, museums, orchestras and schools. Pamela, of course, expanded her designing and decorating into a multitude of other products including these ecards.

Pamela admits that it will be tough to work in the beautiful and distracting surroundings of the Tuscan countryside...so stay tuned as we report on her adventures abroad.We are sharing some of the beautiful sights of Pamela's trip to Tuscany...    Her photos are a mix of Florence and  some of the beautiful cities in the near by area.       Pamela was busy painting a beautiful  harpsichord for a friend in Tuscany.     She certainly appears to have had a wonderful trip.
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Harpsichord in Tuscany

Pamela painting a
Harpsichord soundboard
in Tuscany, Italy

Pamela Gladding is shown here painting a harpsichord soundboard in Tuscany. Her background and career have "flowered" due to the traditional floral paintings she continues to paint - enhancing these unique and collectible musical instruments. They are treasured additions for collectors, museums and music academies world-wide, where Gladding's name is well-recognized and highly respected. She brings this exquisite training and experience to the lovely Ecards on her site: www.pamelagladding.com.

Artist of the Month

Ellen Jareckie We are proud to have Ellen Jareckie join our Friends of Pamela and to add beautiful ecards to our collection.  You can view Ellen's website at www.house-mouse.com.  Ellen Jareckie was born in 1959 out in the beautiful green countryside of Bennington, Vermont, USA.  As a child she spent much of her spare time drawing.  In addition to that, she kept a variety of pets throughout her childhood.  These included a pet pig named Pipsqueak (who was raised on a bottle), a Bobwhite quail named Quincy, some lizards, snakes, goats, ducks, rabbits, cats, dogs, and of course mice. Ellen has always been fascinated by animals and her love of mice began long ago when her sister brought a domesticated mouse home from school.  The little creature was soft, warm, gentle and enjoyed being held.  It was love at first sight and the start of a lifelong interest that would lead to House-Mouse Designs.  Ellen Jareckie continues to dream up new mouse and bunny antics while working out of her home in Shelburne, Vermont.  In addition to drawing exclusively for House-Mouse Designs, Ellen volunteers to rehabilitate injured and orphaned wildlife, some of which can be seen interacting with the mice in her artwork.  In recent years Ellen has added her line of rabbit characters, HappyHoppers.  Ellen believes the popularity of the mice and bunnies lies in a combination of their expressions, the human activities in which they are engaged and their fuzzy appearance. In addition to not putting clothing on the characters except for a few costumed ideas, she depicts her characters in life-size human environment which is designed to give the viewer a "mouse's-eye" view of the world.  Ellen continues to enjoy creating these whimsical characters and it shows in the look on Mudpie Mouse's face when he gets to eat a cookie that's as big as he is. These are our ecard creations for House-Mouse. Check back to see Ellen's new ecards that we will create using her original works of art.   View Ellen's wonderful world of mice and other adorable creatures at House-Mouse Designs. Christmas Ecard New Baby Ecard Halloween Ecard Birthday Ecard

June Birthday Flowers

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June Birth Flower

The rose is the June birthflower. Rose is known as the flower of passion as the ancient Greeks believed that Aphrodite the goddess of love gave a rose to Eros the god of love. Roses have many flower meanings according to their color and number of roses in a bouquet. All roses symbolize love and appreciation though.

No other flower is as recognizable as the rose. No other flower conveys love and passion like the rose either. In Victorian times each flower had its own secret meaning. Red roses meant you love the receiver. Pink roses mean you have not the passion of red, but still have feelings of love. Dark pink roses mean you have gratitude. Light pink roses mean admiration or sympathy. White roses mean innocence, purity, secrecy and friendship. Yellow roses mean dying love or platonic love. In German speaking countries though yellow roses mean jealousy and infidelity. Yellow roses with red tips mean friendship or falling in love. Burgandy roses mean beauty. Blue roses mean mystery. Green roses mean calm. Purple roses mean protection and maternal or paternal love.

Tulips Are My Favorite Flower

Tulip Setup



Tulips have to be my favorite flower, if it is even possible to pick only one! They are so curvaceous and so baroque when they are finally opened to the point of the petals falling off of the stem. I have always been inspired by the Dutch floral painters of the 17th and 18th centuries, and fascinated by the "Tulip mania" that took place at that time. Imagine one tulip bulb more expensive than a house at that time!



Tulip Sketch



I like planting tulips with two varieties that are close in color range; for example: a pink next to a deep magenta. The one color plays off against the other and makes the color "dance" when viewed at a distance. Another nice combination are a striped variety with a solid. In my garden they usually forget-me-knots at their feet. The small blue and pink flowerettes are a nice compliment to the grand stately tulip. I plant a variety of species so that I can extend the blooming (and viewing and painting!) time as long as possible. I'm going to go and collect some now!

Spring Daffodils

"Finally, finally SPRING!



The beginning sketches of Daffodils

 The daffodils are in full bloom in my garden here in Pennsylvania. The bright yellow color is so welcoming.  I love to pick a bouquet of daffies and bring them into the house. It's a sign that the garden season has really started! I took the vase into my studio and enjoyed drawing them and adding the color - yellows, greens and creams.

 

Spring Daffodils



They are  blooming at the same time as the grape hyacinths, primroses, forget-me-knots, and early tulips. The combination of the classic blue and yellow is stunning in the garden, especially when planted "en masse". Many of these different daffodil varieties were gifts from other gardeners. It is a nice reminder of them. It is always fun to share plants." 

Send your Easter Greeting ecards for $1.50

Send all day your greetings for $1.50 Artistic fun animated musical greeting cards!

Easter is a joyful time of the year.  We gather together to celebrate our faith and to celebrate a new season.  From home or from far away, you can send an Easter greeting card to family and friends.  Let them know you are thinking of them during this beautiful season..   Musical greetings that your friends and family will love to receive..   From home or office, you can send hundreds of greetings all year.

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Thinking of You! Happy Easter Happy Birthday

Artist of the Month - April

Doll Barnes

Doll Barnes began creating her paper sculpture designs after being introduced to the medium as a student in 2000.  She found the medium to be a perfect marriage betwen art and craft.  Each piece is created out of heavy weight art paper using various shaping techniques.  Foam core spacers are used for added dimension. 
A step-by-step demonstration showing how one of her pieces was created was filmed by HGTV - Home and Garden Television - and will be shown in and upcoming episode of their show,  "Thats Clever!"

Two of her pieces were shown at the Society of Illustrators in New York City as well as "ICON3", the Illustrators Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Doll lives in Wallingford, Connecticut surrounded by her menagerie of paper sculpture friends who are slowly, quietly taking over the house!Doll joined us to become one of our "Friends of Pamela" artists and has provided us with the pleasure of creating ecards from her exclusive line of paper sculptures. Her designs give new meaning to the word "whimsy".  With animation and music added to her collection of paper scultures, you now can send both her paper sculptures and electronic greeting cards (ecards) to your friends and family. 


We will be adding more of Doll Barnes' paper sculptures to our collection of ecards during the year. To learn more of Doll Barnes' paper sculpture, visit her website at http://www.dollbarnes.com/


Come back again to view more of Doll's ecards through the year.

Father's Day ecard	Belated Birthday Ecard	Cool Guy Birthday ecard	Christmas Snow Dancers ecard	Easter Bunny ecard

April Birthday Flowers

April: Daisy
Alternate: Sweet Pea

The Daisy whose botanic name is Bellis perennis, is the most common Daisy and is a native of western, eastern and central Europe. Like the Primrose it is also referred to as the Common Daisy or English Daisy. In Latin "Daisy" means pretty.

The Daisy is actually an herb which symbolizes innocence, stability, sympathy and cheerfulness. The most common Daisy's are white but they can also be found in red, yellow, and purple, along with various shades in between. A daisy is generally 2-3cm in diameter from petal to petal and stands 2-10cm high. Rarely you can find them as tall as 15cm.

During the days of knighthood, suitors would wear a Daisy and the women would include a Daisy as part of their mementos to signify availability. After a proposal a ring of Daisies would be worn around the head to signify the woman's response.

Fun and interesting fact: It is believed that the name Daisy came from the phrase "day's eye" because of how the flower opens when the sun comes up and closes at night when the sun is down. Daisy's do not disappear during mowing which makes many people consider them a weed and treat them as such with weed killers.

March Birthday Flower

March Birthday
Greeting ecards

March: Jonquil
Alternate: Daffodil

The Jonquil is another name for the Daffodil which has the botanic name of Narcissus, however referring to these flowers as Jonquils is normally only done in North America. Technically speaking, the name Jonquil should only refer to the variation called Narcissus jonquilla and cultivars derived directly from that variation.

The traditional Jonquil is a ring of light golden petals with a trumpet shaped center of a darker contrasting shade of gold/yellow. Cultivators have changed the flower for some nurseries giving it several layers of petals, instead of the original one, sometimes making the flower look like a little golden ball.

The Jonquil is used prominently for decorating during the Chinese New Year in both China and festivals celebrating this holiday around the world. The Jonquil, is referred to as the Daffodil in Wales and is considered to be the flower of Wales, where a small area of Tenby grows their own, unique variation. St. David's Day is celebrated in Wales on March 1st and Daffodils are often worn for that holiday.