Card Making
Card Making
Cardmaking is the craft of hand-making greeting cards. Many people with interests in allied hobbies such as scrapbooking and stamping have begun to use their skills to start making handmade cards. This has contributed to cardmaking becoming a popular hobby.
There are now several magazines and books available dedicated to crafts and card making.
Gift Cards
A gift card is a restricted monetary equivalent or scrip that is issued by retailers or banks to be used as an alternative to a non-monetary gift. Highly popular, they rank as the second-most given gift by consumers in the United States (2006) and the most-wanted gift by women, and the third-most wanted by males. Gift cards have become increasingly popular as they relieve the donor of selecting a specific gift. In Canada, $1.8 billion were spent on gift cards and in the UK, it is estimated to reach 3 billion (GBP) for 2009 whereas in the United States, about $80 billion were paid for gift cards in 2006. The recipient of the gift card can use it at his or her discretion within the restrictions set by the issuing agency.
Although gift cards have been around since the 1900s, the first mention of a "Gift Card" is on December 5, 1916 for gloves at Hampton's quality store in The Eugene Daily Guard, number 144, based in Eugene, Oregon, on the editorial page - it reads:
"A Gift Shortcut - and a shortcut to certain satisfaction. Give gloves. No worry about style, size, or color - just step into our Centeremi Glove Department and Buy a Christmas Glove Gift Card for the price which you desire to pay for the gloves. Give or send the card to "her" she "cashes it in" for just the kind of gloves she wants. Simple? Try it."
This description is the earliest and most accurate in describing the idea behind Gift Cards as they are used today, contradicting the popular belief that gift certificates were introduced first, with Gift Cards to follow. The first mention of Gift Certificates is on Saturday, December 13, 1917, in The Deseret News, page 3.
Crafts
A craft is a skill, especially involving practical arts. It may refer to a trade or particular art.
The term is often used as part of a longer word (and also in the plural). For example, a craft-brother is a fellow worker in a particular trade and a craft-guild is, historically, a guild of workers in the same trade. "Ringcraft" is part of a boxer's skill. See some further examples below.
The term is often used to describe the family of artistic practices within the decorative arts that traditionally are defined by their relationship to functional or utilitarian products (such as sculptural forms in the vessel tradition) or by their use of such natural media as wood, clay, glass, textiles, and metal. Crafts practiced by independent artists working alone or in small groups are often referred to as studio craft. Studio craft includes studio pottery, metal work, weaving, wood turning and other forms of wood working, glass blowing, and glass art.
Folk art follows craft traditions, in contrast to fine art or "high art".
Both Freemasonry and Wicca are known as 'The Craft' by their adherents.
Some video games allow crafting.