IMPORTANT NOTICE: Orders placed between Monday 02/24/2025 - Sunday 03/02/2025 will not be shipped out until Monday 03/02/2025. After 21 years, Evergreen Cards has made the difficult decision to close down operations by mid-2025. Wanting to be good stewards of the resources that the Lord has so graciously provided for us over our business lifetime, during these past months our card-cutting ladies have used up as much of our raw material inventory as possible to cut extra cards. We have then shipped all remaining finished inventory from our warehouse in Shanxi to the U.S. for final liquidation. As such, you'll notice that all of our remaining beautiful hand-cut cards and bookmarks have now been reduced by at least 50% off retail. This is your chance to get all of your greeting card needs--for everyday, special occasions, or even for your 2025 (and 2026) Christmas needs at prices lower than we've been able to offer during our entire 21-year history! But don't wait or you'll be disappointed because when our remaining limited inventory is gone, it's gone. Thank you for helping us finish well and to honor our card-cutting ladies and staff for their faithful, hard work over these many years! And, thanks to you, our customers, for your many years of prayers and support through your purchases of literally hundreds of thousands of Evergreen cards and bookmarks!

Meet Several of Evergreen Cards' Hard-Working Card-Cutters

Mrs. Li - Evergreen Cards' Card-Cutter

Mrs. Li is in her early 60's and has been working with Evergreen Cards since the project started in 2004. Most Chinese people her age no longer have to work so hard to supply their family’s needs because their children have grown up, gotten married, and may even help them out financially.  For Mrs. Li, however, this isn’t the case. Her son’s wife divorced him, leaving him and her grandson a number of years ago, and her son still must work long hours each day.  So, she is now the primary person responsible for taking care of her grandson. Cooking meals for him is not a problem, but being intimately involved in the training and educating of a young teenager is now the hardest part of her life. It is a difficult situation, but she has no other choice.

 

 

Mrs. Qi - Evergreen Cards' Card-CutterMrs. Qi has been working with Evergreen Cards for about 14 years.  Though she is an extreme introvert, her card-cutting skills are great.  She has a young daughter in primary school, so she has to be available to cook for, and to take and pick up her daughter from school several times each day.  She feels very lucky to have the chance to earn money by cutting cards at home.  In China, moms who are responsible for taking care of their children have very little opportunity to work to help support their families.

 

 

 

 

Mrs. Li 2 - Evergreen Cards' Card-CutterMrs. Li is a very special lady who has been working with Evergreen Cards since the very beginning.  When you buy any of our most intricately-designed cards, there’s a good chance that they were personally cut for you by her!  As one of our most skilled card-cutters, each time we hold training sessions to teach new ladies how to cut cards, she is one of our trainers.  Her husband passed away several years ago, and since that time, she has also had to personally battle back from a very serious and life-threatening surgery.  She now lives in the village by herself, but with the money she continues to earn from Evergreen Cards and her children’s help, she is continuing to do fine.

 

 

 

Mrs. Guo - Evergreen Cards' Card-Cutter

Mrs. Guo, a wonderful lady and an Evergreen Card card-cutter for more than 12 years, has a permanent walking impairment which necessitates the use of a cane to get around. This doesn’t keep her, though, from always quickly getting to the Evergreen Cards’ office to pick up her supplies every time we call with new card-cutting work for her to do. Though life is often very hard for her and her family, she is extremely thankful for the opportunity to earn a living by cutting cards.

Several years ago, her husband experienced a severe loss of use in one of his arms. The seriousness of this led them to see a doctor to find out what was wrong. Surgery was the result. Fortunately, it seems that the surgery has been mostly successful, but he still has a long rehabilitation period ahead of him before he can work again. During this period, the money that his wife earns from cutting cards is the only income that their family can rely on.