{"id":334,"date":"2012-02-10T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueeyedsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2013-09-19T08:23:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T07:23:05","slug":"key-greetings-card-trends-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueeyedsun.co.uk\/blog\/key-greetings-card-trends-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Greetings Card Trends for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueeyedsun.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/KeyTrends2012GiftFocus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335\" title=\"Key Trend Predictions for Greetings Cards in 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blueeyedsun.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/KeyTrends2012GiftFocus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1072\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our predictions on key trends for greetings cards in 2012 were featured in this month&#8217;s Gift Focus Magazine. Last week Editor, Sarah Reeve, also used some Blue Eyed Sun designs to illustrate her insightful seminar at Spring Fair International on forthcoming gift trends for Christmas 2012. Transcribed below from the magazine, our predictions are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is going to be a real trend for stitching, crafting, nostalgia, vintage and Britishness. With the Olympics and the Queen&#8217;s Jubilee we are going to see one of Britain&#8217;s great strengths this year: Creativity. There&#8217;s also going to be a real sense of nostalgia so \u00a0think we will see a lot of craft based work from artists and designers. Because of the recession a lot of people have been making and repairing their own bits and pieces using traditional skills like knitting and sewing. Because of this we will also see these homemade crafts becoming more popular. This year will be very big for handmade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Request a Trade Login for Blue Eyed Sun\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blueeyedsun.co.uk\/customer\/account\/login\/\">Click here to request more information on all of our stitched Vintage designs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our predictions on key trends for greetings cards in 2012 were featured in this month&#8217;s Gift Focus Magazine. Last week Editor, Sarah Reeve, also used some Blue Eyed Sun designs to illustrate her insightful seminar at Spring Fair International on forthcoming gift trends for Christmas 2012. 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