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GETTING CARDED

By Lee Cabot Walker
The Brooklyn Paper

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Tired of mailing out the same cutesy Santa-and-Rudolph greeting cards - or photos of your dog in an elf costume - each holiday season? Park Slope graphic designer Thea Karas has created a line of cards that might just be your salvation this year.

The 29-year-old creates original art for colorful, winter- and holiday-themed greeting cards that carry simple messages inside. A bright yellow tree ornament popping off one card’s fuschia background, for example, greets with "’tis the season . . ." Another card, featuring a snowman (at left) seemingly carved from ice, offers the message, "Season’s Greetings."

Karas said she developed her textually dynamic collage style last year; she uses bits of colors and patterns that she clips from magazines and scans into her computer. Many designs are then embellished with drawing, painting or graphic techniques.

"There are situations where there are special orders like business clients who want to put in their own message, and for those I require a minimum order of 500," said Karas.

On Dec. 3, you can meet the designer at the craft fair at PS 39, Sixth Avenue between 8th and 9th streets, and on Dec. 4, she will have a sidewalk display set up at Seventh Avenue at Carroll Street.

Thea Karas’s holiday cards can be purchased through the designer’s Web site, www.theakaras.com. Karas’s cards, $13.50 for 10 cards and 10 envelopes, vary between 5-inches by 5-inches and 5-inches by 7-inches and are shipped via priority mail. (The Web site recommends allowing two to three days for shipping.) For more information, e-mail Karas at cards@theakaras.com.

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Gwendolyn from Brooklyn Heights says:
In second graph, change "at left" to "at right".
Feb. 16, 2010, 9:43 am

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