Choose Recycled Greetings Cards (saves trees!)
This happy birthday lovely human is a nice card to give to someone on their special day. Save it to give to a brilliant friend, parent or colleague who deserves a little appreciation this year. The bold and colourful banners with loud typography, means this message will not be missed!
Everything at Good Tuesday is printed on recycled paper, sent in plastic-free packaging, made in the UK and beautifully designed.
Read more on keeping pets safe at Christmas (many plants including holly, mistletoe and poinsetta are unsafe near animal friends).
This Lilac Stripes Mother’s Day card has a glacier blue and peach striped background, with bold burgundy lettering, for a fun card that’s ideal for anniversaries, St. Valentine’s Day, or just-because moments, to share your love with that special someone in your life!
This Lilac Stripes Mother’s Day card is ideal to celebrate your lovely mum! With a pastel purple and peach striped background and ruby red heart, it’s a lovely way to remind someone how cherished they are. Blank inside, for your own message.
Tree-mendous Christmas Card (no trees chopped!)
This tree-mendous Christmas card is not just featuring trees, but saves trees as it’s made from post-consumer waste. It features eye-catching trees in a burst of cheerful colours for a charming festive card.
Read more on keeping pets safe at Christmas (many plants including holly, mistletoe and poinsetta are unsafe near animal friends).
Happily Ever After! (wedding greetings card)
This happily ever after card is a fun way to celebrate someone’s wedding, but in an eco-friendly way. Clink those fizzy bubbly glasses, for the happy couple, with a bold stripe design and fun illustrations. Read more on zero waste weddings
Why choose recycled greetings cards?
Although FSC-certified card is from ‘sustainable forests’, this still means old growth trees are cut down to make way for fast-growing plantations that use pesticides and don’t give food or shelter to birds and wildlife.
Only send plantable cards to pet-free homes, as many contain toxic herbs and wildflowers. Also most companies use non-native seeds, which are not good for local birds and wildlife.
A Pack of Twelve Eco-Friendly Greetings Cards
This pack of twelve eco-friendly greetings cards not only features adorable art, but everything is printed on recycled card, and sold in plastic-free packaging. This helps to save trees (which provide food and shelter for birds and wildlife). By purchasing a whole pack, you always have a card to hand, when the occasion arises.
Each card is also printed using vegetable inks, and made with green energy. The clear bags are biodegradable made from corn starch, to naturally break down in the bin.
From original artwork by artist Emily Lee.
A Pack of Eco-Friendly Children’s Greetings Cards
This pack of twelve eco-friendly greetings cards not only features adorable art, but everything is printed on recycled card, and sold in plastic-free packaging. This helps to save trees (which provide food and shelter for birds and wildlife). By purchasing a whole pack, you always have a card to hand, when the occasion arises.
Each card is also printed using vegetable inks, and made with green energy. The clear bags are biodegradable made from corn starch, to naturally break down in the bin.
From original artwork by artist Emily Lee.
Pack of eco-friendly Scandi-art greetings cards
This pack of eco-friendly Scandi art greetings cards is sold in sets of 5, 10 or 20. Printed on recycled card, and sent in plastic-free eco-friendly packaging.
Eco-Friendly Shorebirds Greetings Cards
These beautifully illustrated sets of greetings cards are all by a US artist, a best-seller on Etsy. Choose your favourites, then stock up so you always have an inspiring card to send, which also supports a local artist, and helps to get the word out on the wonder of birds! Packed in handsome brown kraft paper gift boxes.
Choose from:
Shorebirds (sandpiper & whelk, herring gull, Arctic tern, ruddy turnstone and piping plover).
Winter Birds are blank inside. Each bird is labelled on the back: a mourning dove, mountain bluebird, dark-eyed junco, red-breasted nuthatch and barn owl (the last two local!)
Read more on how to create safe havens for garden birds and how to stop birds flying into windows. Along with help to give seagulls back their natural homes.
Alice Palace Eco Affection Cards!
Alice Palace eco affection cards ideal for Valentine, anniversary or just to make someone’s day. Printed on recycled card, and sent in eco-friendly packaging. Blank for your own message and sent in eco envelopes, they are sold in a pack of six.
Eco-Friendly ‘Best Dog Mum’ Cards!
This eco-friendly dog mum card is printed on recycled card and sent in plastic-free packaging. The card is personalised so let your dog mum know how special she is!
Read our pets tag for more dog-friendly posts!
Greentings (reusable cards from post-consumer waste)
Greentings is a wonderful company that produces pretty reusable greetings cards. All are made with post-consumer waste (to save trees) and come with removable inserts and envelopes, so the cards can be reused to send again!
When you normally receive a card, you have to throw it away or recycle it, due to the person sending it having written a message. Now you just remove that part, pop in a new insert and send it to someone else. You can even use the card passport to follow the card’s journey around the world!
Made in England, a tree is planted for each card bought. Run by a small family business, postage is just 50p (no matter how many cards you buy). Corporate accounts are available.
Pack of eco-friendly vintage Christmas cards
This pack of eco-friendly vintage Christmas cards is sold in sets of 10 or 20, based on mid-century retro designs. Printed on recycled card, and sent in plastic-free eco-friendly packaging.
Little Difference (greetings cards on recycled paper)
Little Difference is a fantastic company that produces greetings cards on recycled card (the company is co-founded by an artist from Isle of Wight). Although now based in New Zealand, the cards for UK shipping addresses are printed in Kent, to save on air miles.
Instead, this company uses profits to help fund tree-planting projects in deforestation-risk countries like Madagascar, home to more unique species than anywhere else on earth.
You can shop by occasion (including Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, any occasion (!), sympathy, new baby, new home, children, father’s day, weddings and thank you cards. Multi-packs are also sold, to stock up!
All are designed by our Isle of Wight native, and all the ‘boring stuff’ is done her husband (accounts etc). Another couple have also come on board, so this is a real ambitious project, to change the plastic-wrapped, tree-chopping-down, not-doing-much-but-make-profits greetings card industry (which often includes glitter that can’t be recycled and contains microplastics).
Wholesale orders are also available, so cards printed in Kent can be sold in independent shops. It can also offer custom designs and wedding stationery on request.
Little Difference also offers lovely calendars and fun art prints for children’s walls (both printed on recycled card and sent in compostable packaging).
Plus there are standard recycled cards (not reusable) but still use up waste paper.
Beautiful Bird Eco Greetings Cards
This peaceful bird eco greetings card is printed on recycled paper, and sent in an eco-friendly Kraft envelope.
This ‘older wiser owl’ greetings card is printed on recycled card to save trees, and sent in eco-friendly packaging. Blank inside for your own messaging.
This brand has taken the ‘naked card pledge’. So once packaging has run out (you can recycle it at home or at supermarket bag bins), all cards are sent without packaging.
This swift eco greetings card is printed on recycled card, and sent in an eco-friendly Kraft envelope. Swifts are endangered, and yet are amazing birds that spend most of their life on the wing (even sleeping while flying!) We need to provide more habitats like swift boxes and swift bricks (Scotland has now mandated them in new buildings, but England’s government won’t as yet).
This blue jay eco greetings card is printed on recycled paper, and sent in an eco-friendly Kraft envelope. Jays are some of England’s most unique birds, with their bright blue wings. They are very forgetful, so when they bury acorns, they forget where they are, and this helps them to grow into new oak trees!
Keep pets, horses and livestock away from acorns, conkers and oak trees.
This starling eco greetings card is printed on recycled card, and sent in an eco-friendly Kraft envelope. Starlings are some of England’s most beautiful birds. You likely best know them for their amazing starling murmurations in the sky, when thousands of them do an aerial dance that mesmerises!
This ‘birthday fella’ greetings card is printed on recycled card to save trees, and sent in eco-friendly packaging. Blank inside for your own messaging.
‘Best in Show’ Eco Congratulations Card
This eco congratulations card is blank inside for your own message and digitally printed on recycled card, so has a slight attractive fleck. The A6 card is sent with a Kraft envelope. In easy-to-recycle biodegradable packaging.
Eco-Friendly ‘compass’ Father’s Day Card
This eco-friendly father’s day card is printed on recycled card, and sent in plastic-free eco-friendly packaging.
