How to Make & Print Personalized Cards
You can make and print personalized cards quite easily yourself or at several free online sites. Bringing a special touch to invitations, thank you cards, note cards or even business cards, helps celebrate the occasion they are used or given. With hundreds of designs available, you can find a design that best represents your sentiment.
- For completely original, personalized cards, create your own using a presentation program like PowerPoint. Research your theme, find clip art to support and create a two-page document with the inside and front of the card. Depending on the kind of card you are making, you can set the landscape option or use the basic setting. Choose your text font, color and size. After creating a card design, print a sample onto paper, making sure everything looks right. Check the spelling to make sure any information included is correct. Print your cards on card stock and cut as desired. Fold the cards if necessary for your design.
- Go to one of the websites that offer cards for a low cost. HP Creative Studio offers convenient cardmaking and allows the use of personal photographs. They have fonts, backgrounds and structures you choose to create a high-quality card you print at home.
- Digi-labs also offers many different options for printing your own cards, as well as a free trial that you can download and sample before you make any commitments. They even store your records so that you can come back and reprint a card at a later time. Digi-labs are a good choice for the less experienced card designer.
- WonderGreetings is a helpful site if you want to create cards but cannot afford fancy programs. It is free and provides dozens of options. You can use your own photographs and create even more items than cards, such as calendars, bookmarks, gift tags and more. The website has instructions in case you get tripped up.
- Blue Mountain is another website with free cards; however, they are e-cards to be sent online, not to be printed out. They have hundreds of designs for dozens of occasions, and the website is very user-friendly.
- GreetingBee.com also makes excellent, high-quality cards with unique designs. Unlike other sites, you do not have to stick to a template. You can print your cards at home or you can place an order and have them sent. Printing at home is less expensive than the delivery option.