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Show BLUE IS POPULAR FOR GREETING CARDS r- Xmas-Sen t iments 1 In Modern Design Are Gay or Comic By MARIAN YOl NO After years of fantastic color combinations com-binations in the manner moderne, and offerings of muted pastels and . grayed tones to rival the traditional bright reds and greeus, blue emerges this year as the outstanding popular popu-lar color for Christmas cards. Even , red and green and. of course, you simply cannot completely displace those old fashioned Christmas colors col-ors show a definitely bluish cast with a variety of cerise and American Amer-ican beauty tones and greens that verge on the jade and aquamarine. Sophisticated Ones There are solid color blue cards with designs in silver and whits or , red and gold. There are blue mountings and border treatments. Some of the designers of greeting cards got so enthusiastic about the whole thing that they made holly , leavea and reindeer and Christmas trees in various shades of blue all a bit unexpected, to say the least If you just don't care for blue, you can go in for those so sophisticated sophisti-cated deep brown and gold com- white effects, or maybe a bright yellow card, with an overlay ' of black and a design In red and white. If you prefer to send simple, old , fashioned greeting, look until you find white cards with red designs or red ones with white patterns and lettering They are about. The good old fashioned greetings are the most popular, regardless of tne colorings 01 ine carus mem-selves. mem-selves. Motifs are essentially simple, sim-ple, too, with no straining for the new and unusual. Stara are especially es-pecially favored, and are used in a wide variety of designs, as, for example, a card of blue with a single huge silver star in its upper left corner and radiating lines to accent a single word of greeting at lower right. Cards of religious motif are widely favored. Many are color prints and etchings, keyed to the modern vogue of making the card a gift itself. Comic In Good Taste For those who like to take their Christmas humorously, Scotch card are new and amusing, or gay jokes on shopping crowds and tree trimming trim-ming catastrophes. For the animal lover there are dogs of practically every breed, with Scottics In the lead (guess that won't surprise you), and plenty of cats if your preference prefer-ence runs that way. We like especially es-pecially a white kitten and a black puppy rubbin noses on a gray card over them the letters "peace on earth." Then there is a surprisingly large number of carda for special recipients re-cipients relativee, members of the family circle, children (some designed de-signed for children by children), husbands, wives. And for those who want to send something more than a card, yet cannot afford a real present, one company puts out two bayberry candles In a mailing container. Who wouldn't love a pair? |