How to Write a Perfect Gift Card

Sometimes a heartfelt message can have a greater impact on the recipient than the actual gift. So choose the right words to make the occasion a special one.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Greeting Cards
• Small Gift Cards
• Tapes Or CDs
• Ball Game Tickets
• Concert Tickets
• Gift Certificates
• Postcards
• Rollerball Pens
• Stationery
• Postcards

1. Select the finest pen you have: Use a rollerball pen instead of a ballpoint pen.

2. Think about buying a nice card from a museum gift shop, or writing your note on elegant blank stationery.

3. Make sure to write the name of the recipient in the salutation.

4. Include a personal message in a card for a close friend or relative. If you choose a preprinted card, add a personal message, no matter how brief.

5. Refer to the occasion, the gift or simply your relationship.

6. Consider including the lines of an appropriate poem, quote or song to give the card a special message.

7. Make sure to include your return address neatly, if the card is for a wedding gift.

Tips & Warnings

• Think creatively about what might serve as a card: two tickets to a special show, concert or ballgame; a CD wrapped in paper; an envelope and stamp for a stamp collector or traveler; a seed packet for a gardener; or a receipt for a charitable donation for the couple who has everything.

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on 6/10/2009 Thanks for sharing.

[motherknowsbest]

on 5/17/2009 I must agree a handwritten note is still the best. In this computer age we still love to think someone thought about us enough to sit down and write a note.

[rtolmach]

on 7/28/2007 A suggestion for gifts.

Many of us don't want any more picture frames, vases, etc. Another way to show your love is doing something meaningful in a friend's name.

A new nonprofit website, www.ChangingThePresent.org makes it more rewarding and easier than ever. You can choose exactly what you want to accomplish: preserve an acre of the rainforest, provide books for children, fund an hour of cancer research, or sponsor cataract surgery to make a blind person see. The site already offers thousands of tangible donation opportunities from hundreds of leading nonprofits, so you’re sure to find something that moves you.

Wish lists and registries let us share our passions with others and ensure the perfect gift. Beautiful, personalized greeting cards include a photo and description of the gift you gave.

http://www.ChangingThePresent.org

on 8/8/2006 Scan a group picture of the birthday girl/boy with the gift giver and insert it into a card creator software. Write a personal birthday note inside, date it, and sign. If software is not available for this idea, the group picture can still be photo copied on quality paper (either black and white or colored). Trim off the excess paper around the copied photo. Your birthday message can be written, dated, and signed behind the photo.

on 11/22/2005 It was said best when Hallmark wrote it, so why not borrow their words?
1) Buy the card that says just the right thing.
2) Buy the blank card that you will give.
3) Hand-write the perfect message in your best handwriting (tip: change a few words or add words, names etc. so it is genuinely yours).