Cards to make a connection
“You truly are an amazing human being —but how often do you stop to tell yourself that?”
These thirty-two beautifully illustrated cards are tools for developing heart-felt connections — both with yourself and with others. However you choose to use them, we hope that you really enjoy our Conversation Sparkers.
THE KIND CARDS
Our kind card collection consists of 15 illustrated cards accompanied by a question or a short statement, created with soft love designed to spark inspiration or a connection to yourself or to others.
THE CHEEKY CARDS
The cheeky card contain 15 illustrated cards accompanied by a question or a statement designed with tough love and some nudging humor. The illustrations are the same as the kind cards creating a pair that can play off of each other if used together as a full set of 30 cards.
HOW TO USE THE CARDS
All of the cards can be used in your personal life or your professional life… so, go ahead and get creative!
On your own
You can
use them as journal prompts
put them on your wall for inspiration on tap
travel with them and give one to someone you meet on the way
pop one into a stranger's mailbox and make them smile
take the conversation online and share a picture of it using our hashtag: #conversationsparkers
With others
You can
send one to a friend via good, old snail mail
talk about a few with a friend over a mug of hot coffee
use one or two sets to play as a memory card game
shuffle two sets and spice up your next party by handing a card to each guest, then wait for some top quality mingling to begin as they search for their match
In professional contexts
You can
put them to use for a more meaningful team-building session
decorate a corner of a shared work space and let them inspire some lovely tea-break chats
use them in a coaching or tutoring session to help your client think and reflect
handing one card of the paired cards to each colleague, so they can search for their match
THE TEAM
three women from three countries
collaborated on one idea producing
thirty-two cards funded by
one IndieGoGo campaign and
over one hundred supporters
We are Emma, Annika and Aileen. We are an illustrator, a coach and a writer. We come from Hungary, Germany and Scotland.
This project started with a shared realisation that we — all too often — forget how beautiful we really are and how many wonderful resources we have inside us, just waiting to be used. So we decided to join forces to create something special that would help us to reconnect with ourselves and our unique treasures.
Annika (driven by her coaching experience) designed questions and prompts that tap into just the right spot in your brain.
Emma fired up her creative imagination and channeled her child-like playfulness to paint images from her heart, inspired by Annika's questions.
And Aileen worked her word magic between the two, finding the best phrasing to touch your heart or make you laugh.
Along the way we realised that the cards also have the power to spark meaningful connections. This has become the central part of our broader mission. In fact, it's already been successful in our case: although they haven’t (yet) met in person, Emma and Aileen are already good friends as a result of sharing this project!
We want to use part of the funds we raise to go on a bit of a 'guerrilla' mission to spread the love in our local neighbourhoods, but our longer term ambition is to travel together to different parts of Europe, and use the cards to connect with the strangers we meet along the way.
Ultimately, we hope that — in your hands — these postcards will take on a life of their own.
With love,
Emma, Annika & Aileen
