The Best Card-Making Kits for Personalizing Messages to Friends and Loved Ones

Card giving is an age-old custom that dates back to the ancient Chinese and Egyptians. Europeans were exchanging valentines by the mid 1400s. Londoner Henry Cole created the first Christmas card in 1843 when he hired artist John Callcott Horsley to design a holiday greeting to send to his friends. In 1923 in America, Joyce C. Hall founded Hall Brothers, the predecessor to the Hallmark company, and the modern-day greeting card industry was born. Insert yourself into the long tradition of card mak