Blue Mountain Cards Changed the Way We Send Greeting Cards
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With its now signature style of soothing nature illustrations and freeform poetry and prose, Blue Mountain Cards offers a wide and popular selection of greeting cards for any occasion. A great deal of Blue Mountain Cards business comes from its line of electronic greeting cards designed for delivery over the Internet via email.
Blue Mountain Cards was founded by Boulder, Colorado husband and wife team Stephen Schutz and Susan Polis Schutz as Blue Mountain Arts, originally as a vehicle for them to spend time together sharing their hobbies. Combining watercolors that Stephen painted with poetry that Susan wrote into posters that appealed to the hippie mindset of the early 1970s, they persuaded a local bookstore to sell a few of those posters, which quickly sold out. Other stores soon began to carry their posters as well. Stephen and Susan subsequently turned their artistic talents to the development of Blue Mountain Cards greeting cards and were the first to develop blank all occasion greeting cards for personal messages. They also changed the content of preprinted greeting cards from the then prevalent rigid and formalistic poetic style to the expressive freeform poetry that Susan favored. The product line eventually expanded to include calendars, stationery, and gift books, and their customer base grew.
Blue Mountain Cards entered the Internet age in 1996 when it launched its website offering free electronic greeting cards. The idea to offer electronic cards was conceived when one of the Schutz children went off to college and the family began communicating through email. Family birthday and holiday greetings were transmitted back and forth in this manner, and Blue Mountain Cards electronic greeting cards were born.
Blue Mountain Cards electronic line began with 35 basic designs for the more common occasions such as birthdays, graduations, thank yous, and emotional support. An email notification containing a link to the Blue Mountain Cards website was sent to the card recipient, who accessed the card through an electronic pick up window on the site. What set the Blue Mountain Cards products apart from its competitors was that they were free of charge and capable of being edited to include a personal message from the sender.
Blue Mountain Cards now includes over a thousand different designs for every mainstream and obscure American holiday, as well as those of other cultures and religions, with French and Spanish language accessibility. Blue Mountain Cards has since grown into one of the most visited sites on the World Wide Web, mainly through customer and recipient word of mouth.
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