Custom Greeting Cards With Your Photo or Text
Custom greeting cards carry your photo, artwork or message to birthdays, thank-yous, weddings, new babies and the holidays, and this page sets the card formats side by side. Most flat greeting cards come with envelopes included, and the folded greeting card opens to an inside panel for a longer note. Cards come printed on one side, leaving the back free for handwriting, or on both sides, with room for a second photo or the year's news. Order a single card or a pack of five up to fifty, including a multi-design pack of five for several different pictures in one order. Upload your images, add your words in the editor and check the preview before you pay, keeping faces and text clear of the trimmed edges. Prices run £12.37–£22.43 depending on the style.
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Flat cards, folded cards and two-sided cards
A flat greeting card is a single printed panel, the shape of a postcard, and most flat cards here arrive with envelopes. A folded card opens like a book, so the photo can take the whole front and the message sits inside. Flat cards come one-sided or two-sided: the first leaves the back plain for a handwritten line, the second prints both faces, which suits a family photo on the front and a second picture or a short letter on the back.
Packs run from five cards up to fifty. The multi-design pack of five is the one for several different photos in one order, such as a run of thank-you notes.
Designing a greeting card that prints cleanly
Cards are trimmed after printing, and the trim has a small tolerance. Run backgrounds and photos all the way past the edge of the template, and keep names, dates and faces inside the safe area so no copy loses a letter. On a folded card, keep anything important away from the fold as well. The guide to printing on paper and card shows the bleed and safe area in detail.
Cards to send with a gift
A card finishes a gift. For the season, custom ornaments pair naturally with holiday photo cards; a custom calendar made from the same pictures, photo magnets tucked into the envelope, or stickers to seal it round out the set.
Custom Greeting Cards With Your Photo or Text — common questions
- Should I choose a flat or a folded custom greeting card?
- A flat card is one printed panel, quick to read and sent in the envelope it comes with. A folded card opens like a book, so the front can be all photo and a longer message goes inside. Pick flat for a photo announcement and folded for a birthday, a wedding or a sympathy note.
- Do custom greeting cards come with envelopes?
- Most do, flat and folded alike. For any card on this page, check its own product page before ordering so you know whether to source envelopes separately.
- What is the difference between one-sided and two-sided greeting cards?
- A one-sided card prints the front only and leaves the back plain for a handwritten greeting. A two-sided card prints both faces, so the back can carry a second photo, the family's names or a short year in review.
- Can one pack of custom greeting cards carry different photos?
- Yes. The multi-design greeting cards come as a pack of five made for several designs in one order, which suits a run of thank-you notes or a card for each grandparent. For one design sent to a whole list, the larger packs of ten, thirty or fifty go further.
- Is a flat greeting card the same as a postcard?
- They share a shape, a single printed panel, but a flat greeting card here usually arrives with an envelope and travels sealed, keeping the message private, while a postcard is addressed and stamped on its own back.
- How do I keep text from being cut off a custom greeting card?
- Keep names, dates and faces inside the safe area marked on the template and away from the fold, and let backgrounds run past the trim line. Cards are trimmed after printing within a small tolerance, so anything placed right on the edge can lose a sliver on some copies.