How to Make a Special Greeting Card

It is easier to make a greeting card than you think. This page will show you how to create any kind of card or just add special greetings to a card that already have.

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Finding Images to use in your card
Using a word processor to create or edit a card
Using simple graphics software like Windows Paint or Irfanview to insert messages.
Using sophisticated free software from paintnet to create cards from your own images

Don't be put off by the amount of imformation on this page, just choose the one method that is best for you. If you have Microsoft Word, check out the tutorial on using Word to create cards. If you need to get some new software to do the job, both Irfanview and Paintnet are absolutely free to download and use.

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blank card to personalize

Blank Cards Ready to Personalize

There are a range of blank greetings cards at the bottom of this page that you can add a personal message or greeting to.

Choosing Your own Images for Personalized Greeting Cards

If you want to find great images for personalized greeting cards, www.flickr.com and photobucket.com are good sites to look through. There is also a lot of free clip art available online.

If you are making a card for a few friends, no one will worry too much about copyright laws, but if you are sending out hundreds of cards for your company you should make sure the images are in the public domain or you have the owners permission.

Often though, it is your own photos that are best!

Creating a Personalized Card or Invitation

Using the free Irfanview to Customise Greetings

Irfanview is 100% free software that can be downloaded and installed in a few minutes. It is the most popular free image viewer in the world but also has a facility which is just as simple to use as Windows Paint whilst offering more options.

The video below gives a demonstration of adding text to a card or invitation.

link for downloading software: irfanview.com

This example uses a blank card from below.

Using a Word Processor to Make a Card

If you have Microsoft Word you can use this to insert text into a greetings card that you have found online or you can make a card from scratch. There is a tutorial here:choice.com.au/printFriendly

A word processor can be used to make messages for inside the card too.

The video below is a useful tutorial

Make Greeting Cards With Your Own Images from Scratch

If you want to create a personalised greeting card from scratch, you could try the free software from getpaint.net. This will give you the ability to creat very professional cards quickly and easily- with a little practise.

Full instructions for use are available on the site. The video below, produced as a training aid by a company called entheseum, also illustrates how to use the software,