Greeting Cards from Your Office Staff

Our loved ones, no longer with us, leave footprints in our hearts.
Impressions of kind acts, loving words & happy memories.
These prints build a path for us to follow which always
lead to warmer places and brighter days.

In any business, there is bound to be the need for a sympathy card now and then. Better than taking the time to send someone to the store and then the days afterward to track down everyone in the office to sign the card, use some pre-planning with your SendOutCards service.

Gather signatures from all the office staff, scan them into your computer and save in JPEG format. Upload them as separate images to your SendOutCards account. I save all my signatures in a separate album labeled SIGNATURES in my photo library within my account.

When the time comes that you need a greeting card, pick one from our excellent selection, write a few lines of condolence and then drag the appropriate signatures onto the card . . . all in a matter of minutes!!!

An even faster solution to greeting cards sent from a group of people: gather signatures on both a horizontal and a vertical piece of paper. Tape in a 3x5 card so no signatures are placed in the middle of the page, leaving it blank for your future message. DO NOT include your own signature. Scan the page without the 3x5 card and upload into your SendOutCards photo library.

When you pick out your next greeting card, drag the entire image (vertical or horizontal depending on the greeting card that you chose) into the card. If the card is going to a staff member, place your individual signature image over the recipient's signature (so they aren't signing their own card of course). Type in your text in that blank area in the middle in a nice font (my favorite for a card like this is CURSIVE PEN) and your card is done and on its way to arrive in a timely fashion and it took less than few minutes. Wasn't that easy?

I just described this process for a sympathy card but this may be used for any kind of greeting cards appropriate for office groups to send to build morale and better relationships: congratulations on the promotion, job well done, thinking of you, get well, retirement congrats, congratulations on the baby . . .

Sending a group wedding gift? Use the same process and add a Gift Card from our selection on our Gifting Page!!! Can't get any easier!

Happy Card Sending!

SendOutCards Simplifies Sending Sympathy

Words seem inadequate to express the sadness
we feel for you during your time of great loss.

One seemingly odd feature for which I am SO grateful to have my SendOutCards service is for greeting cards in the SYMPATHY category. They are there immediately when I need them; the timing couldn't be better.

I have several greeting cards in this category that are my favorites. It takes less than a matter of minutes to select one that is particularly right for the family in need even when I deviate from my favorites. And because I can override the inside message of a card, most of our greeting cards fit any difficult occasion.

I learned when my loved ones have passed away how absolutely meaningful it is to get a card with a small remembrance of the person who passed away. Since it takes so little time to pick out a card now with my SendOutCards service, I can spend a few moments thinking of a memory to share or a thought that might lift the recipient of my card. Although, with the card above, even if you don't have a few moments to write a few lines, a sincere "I am so sorry" fills the inside of this card with love.

I have a customer that would include old photos of the deceased in condolence cards that she created. She received so much joy as the families glowingly thanked her for that kindness. Personalizing a greeting card with a memory or a photo . . .can you just imagine the special feelings as that card is opened and reread many, many times?

I love the message on this greeting card. Even if I don't have a memory of the deceased to add, my knowledge of the characteristics of the friend to who I am writing can be highlighted.

If one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body,
answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

Just be compassionate to acknowledge the sadness. Verbal messages are important but may be forgotten in the early stages of grieving. A greeting card with a short note of sympathy can be referred to again and again throughout the grieving process. Comforting words in greeting cards are an important way of extending happier memories.

For the first few days of bereavement, there are lots of people around those who are grieving. Days and months later, when left alone, your note of condolence is often read for comfort, strength and to help them know that they and their loved one are being remembered.

My next blog will have a tip on sending sympathy cards from an office.
Happy Card Sending!

Tillamook Cheese shipped from Utah: What?

The shocking news here in Oregon this week: Our beloved, homegrown Tillamook Cheese will soon be shipped from Salt Lake City, Utah! Do they, or anyone outside of Oregon for that matter, even know how to pronounce Tillamook? I can just hear it now: Tillmooook; like it has something to do with the sound of a cow! Yes, workers at our ice cream and squeaky cheese stop on the coast are now being laid off. How can sending “our” cheese to another state have anything to do with streamlining the process?

Well, I feel badly for all those laid off workers/fellow loyal lovers of Tillamook cheese and ice cream. Makes me want to send them all a greeting card! And, of course, SendOutCards has a category for that! When you know someone who gets laid off from work and you don’t know what to say, SEND THEM A CARD to express your most simple “I care” feelings.

Just go to the category: Expressions, then Sympathy, then Workplace. I like the “I believe in you” message of first card that comes up in that category but the simple "I am sorry" message of the second card is a great one to send also. For a category with some nice inspirational messages go to: Keeping in Touch, then Motivational, then Series, then Life Lessons

A road without obstacles probably doesn't lead anywhere. (inside message)

Saying SOMETHING is always better than saying nothing at all. That is what I have learned in the couple of tragedies I have experienced in my little lifetime. Just say you care. . .