Blue Mountain Cards Have Changed the Greeting Card Industry
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Blue Mountain creations, featuring the trademark company style of poetry and prose superimposed over a colorful nature background, spread joy wherever they are. Over 1,000 Blue Mountain e card designs are available to send electronically to a loved one to mark a special holiday or occasion. Blue Mountain cards are not limited to the English language, either; you can send greetings in several different languages.
Boulder, Colorado couple Stephen Schutz and Susan Polis Schutz started the Blue Mountain cards company in the early 1970s as a vehicle for their illustration and poetry hobbies. They began by combining Stephens artwork and Susans free form poetry to create poster prints that embodied their shared feelings about life, love and nature, very much in keeping with the hippie culture of the time. Blue Mountain was originally conceived as a poster print business after Stephen and Susan persuaded a local Boulder bookseller to sell several of their prints on consignment. The popularity of the posters convinced Stephen and Susan to offer them to other stores in the area, and the business soon took off. Blue Mountain Arts, parent company of Blue Mountain Cards, was officially formed in 1971. With the posters popularity, Stephen and Susan began travelling the country selling their art and soon branched out into gift books, calendars and stationery. Not long afterwards, they also transferred their art to Blue Mountain greeting cards. Blue Mountain cards, in fact, introduced the all occasion blank greeting card to the public. The company was also responsible for introducing expressive free form poetry to their cards, replacing the traditional, formal rhyming messages used up to that point.
Blue Mountain Arts introduced the electronic greeting card to the world when they launched their free e card website in 1996. The concept was a natural extension of the Schutz family practice of communicating with their college age son through electronic messages and greetings. Once again, Blue Mountain cards, through its e cards line, was an innovator. Their cards were free, and they allowed the sender to insert personal greetings rather than use a stock message. The recipient received an email notification of the card and accessed it through an attached link to the company website. Greeting cards were never so easy to select and send.
Blue Mountain e cards are now available in any number of languages and can be sent all over the globe. See more Online thank you cards | Paper greeting card |
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