Those featuring the equally loveable Bebunni
Intrigued by a "singing taco" birthday card, reporter Jason Proctor set out to find the secrets of greeting card design.
It was a crowning moment in Simon Taylor-Kielty's greeting card career.
Forget the hundreds of cards the master artist had inked with images of adorable "Forever Friends" bears engaged in an array of celebratory activities or those featuring the equally loveable Bebunni.
This was Coronation Street.
Taylor-Kielty and his wife, who live in England, are fans of the country's longest-running soap opera. And as they watched the character Steve McDonald arguing with with his wife in the back of the Rovers Return, they noticed a card perched on the mantelpiece behind: Forever Friends.
"One of the first Christmas cards that I created the artwork for," says Taylor-Kielty
"It was really, really surreal. In fact, we paused it and I took a photograph."
Such are the strange and often heart-warming rewards of a life in greeting cards.