A greeting card maker that gets the printing right
Designing a card is the easy half. The trouble starts at the printer: the inside comes out upside down, the message lands on the wrong panel, or half the greeting disappears into the fold. Card Maker is a greeting card maker built around that last step, so what you design on screen is what you hold after folding.
Start by choosing an occasion and a design. There are 210 to pick from across 14 occasions, from birthday, thank you, wedding and baby to get well, sympathy and holiday, plus invitations, certificates, banners and wall calendars. Every word on the design is yours to change, and if you switch to another design halfway through, the text you already typed moves across with you.
Cards come as a folded 5×7, a quarter-fold, or a 4×6 or 5×7 postcard. Everything prints on US Letter sheets, which is what most home printers already hold.
How to print a folded card at home
A folded 5×7 has an outside, with the back and The front side by side, and an inside with Inside left and Inside right. Card Maker places them on the two sides of one Letter sheet so they line up when you fold it in half.
If your printer prints both sides, there is nothing to work out. If it does not, print the first side and Card Maker stops to tell you exactly how to put the sheet back in: printed side down and turned along the short or the long edge. Then it prints the other side.
Before anything reaches the printer, Check the fold looks for text that crosses the fold or runs off the edge and warns you, so a name is never split across the crease. Prefer to print somewhere else? Save as PDF produces a file you can take to a print shop.
Make your own birthday card with photos, stickers and fonts
Use Add text, Add photo and Add sticker to build on top of a design. Photos can be cropped, rotated, given a Frame or Border and set to Rounded, Circle or Square corners, and you drag a picture to reposition it inside its frame. JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF and BMP files are accepted.
There are 153 stickers, each with an Art color you can change, and 12 background patterns alongside plain colors and gradients. Text can follow a Curve, and the font list starts with the bundled card fonts and then shows every font installed on your PC. Guides snap objects to the center and to the fold, and Arrange, Align, Duplicate and Nudge handle the fiddly placement.
Certificate maker, banner maker and calendar maker in one
Beyond cards, the same editor handles three bigger print jobs.
Certificates use a Letter landscape sheet, with 15 designs for awards at school, on a team or at work. Banners print one piece per page in landscape with trim marks, from 3 to 12 sheets long, ready to tape into one long strip. Wall calendars print a cover and twelve months for last year, this year or either of the next two, with weeks starting Sunday or Monday.
Cards and certificates also get a matching envelope, A7 for cards and #10 for certificates, with the recipient and return addresses set in the right places.
