Taylor Swift - World Domination

A design from Swift's new greeting card line, available in February.

Its official - Taylor Swift is taking over the world!

Swift, the 20 year old country-pop singer, songwriter, actress has captured another corner of the world - greeting cards! Capitalizing on her way with word, Swift's signature line of card creations for American Greetings is set to hit stores by mid-February.

"I've always been fascinated by how we express feelings to each other," Swift, who wrote the content and collaborated on the sparkly card designs, recently told US Magazine.

"My idea of a great song is a song that says how I feel, better than I could," she told US Magazine. "I feel the same way about cards."

In addition to cards, which range from birthday greetings to love notes, she'll create gift packaging and stationery.

Swift exhibited her confidence and talents at an early age. At 10, Swift began writing songs and singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs around her Pennsylvania hometown. One summer, she devoted herself to writing a 350-page novel, which remains unpublished.

I first heard of Swift soon after her first trip to Nashville at age 11, when someone suggested her to perform the national anthem before a Nashville Predators NHL game. I still remember the encounter well and was amazed that someone so talented and mature wasn't even in high school yet! Oh yeah and could she sing!

Swift has sold the most albums of any artist in any genre for the last two years according to Nielsen's Sound Scan. Sound Scan also lists Swift as the top-selling digital artist in music history with over 24.3 million digital tracks sold to date.
Swift, who recently won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Artist, is currently recording songs for her third album, due to be released in late 2010.

Did I mention the fact she is only 20?

In addition to greeting cards and music, Swift took on the acting world, too! Swift made acting debut on CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2009. The episode was watched by 20.8 million viewers. Swift also appeared in Hannah Montana: The Movie as "woman singing in the barn". Taylor both hosted and performed as the musical guest for the November 7, 2009 episode of Saturday Night Live.

Next month, Swift will make her feature film acting debut as Samantha Kenny in the film Valentine's Day.

20 years old? Really?

She has been a cover girl for Blender, for which she was one of two country artists during the magazine's fifteen year run to be a cover subject. Additionally, she was named number fifty-seven on Maxim's sexiest women of 2008. CosmoGirl voted Swift as the "2008 Girl of the Year". Swift was named by Rolling Stone as one of "The RS 100: Agents of Change". She was nominated as a candidate for Time magazine's "2009 The Time 100 Finalists" list, which is determined by online voting. People magazine named Swift one of 25 Most Intriguing People of 2009.

Jakks Pacific released a celebrity doll of Swift in late 2008. She is the face of L.E.I. Jeans (Life Energy Intelligence) and has a deal to create a line based on her own style of dressing. It will appear in Wal-Mart in the coming months.

Swift became the National Hockey League's newest celebrity spokesperson. She appears in commercials for the Nashville Predators. (Can I claim that I laid the groundwork for that when she was 11?)

And yes she is 20!

Taylor Swift is taking over the world! My guess is that it will happen by age 25!