I was introduced to this company when I received a Christmas card from a friend. The kids and I were fascinated and entertained! Jacquie's Christmas cards are outstanding and unlike anything I had seen before. I immediately had to sign up to send my own cards. These are not your average Hallmark Cards, these are works of art. For a mere $9 a year, if you sign up for two years, you get an all you can send plethora of gorgeously designed and animated e-cards for any occasion. I can spend more than that on two cards alone!
This year we got the advent calendar! Boy was it a hit. My kids loved it so much that we aren't going to do the chocolate advent calendar this year. They woke up every morning excited to run to the computer and see what the advent calendar would do for them today. Plus, it was educational!
You'd think I was getting paid to write this but I'm not. I just love a grass roots company that puts out a product the quality of which you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere else. Here is an excerpt about Jacquie from her site.
Jacquie originally trained as an illustrator at St. Martin's School of Art, and has over twenty years' experience of working freelance in many areas of drawing, painting and design, including architectural perspectives, book illustration, and cartoons. In the autumn of 2000 Jacquie created her first animated e-card - the "Christmas Cottage" e-card which is still available from these pages - and sent it to a few friends by e-mail. Over the subsequent weeks she was amazed to receive e-mails from hundreds of people all over the world who had received the e-card from friends.
During 2001 Jacquie drew a few more e-cards, and in November a simple website was created to show off her work and allow people to download the e-cards. In December the "Snowdog" e-card was added to the collection, and the website simply could not cope with the demand. A proper e-cards service was set up and launched in February 2002, and the site has gone from strength to strength ever since.
Jacquie lives with her partner Malcolm in a cottage in the village of Lurgashall in West Sussex. The cottage you see in the first Christmas e-card is hers, and the village green in the "Snowdog" card is right outside her cottage. She is a regular at the Noah's Ark pub opposite!
Check out the designs yourself and let me know what you think. I'll expect a card from you soon!
If you like ecards, you can also check out the artistic ecards from www.ojolie.com.
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