How to make professional Greeting Cards all by yourself

Written by Alistair

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The ability to create your own professional looking greetings cards is something I personally love to do, I no longer need to visit the likes of Truprint I can use my creativity to make something truly fabulous – well I think so.

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So the question is what do you need and how do I make them.
First of all a good printer, I use a Canon iP4600 printer, I find it offers me all the versatility I need and produces great photo prints.

Then you need software that can help you make cards as you would want to, for me I like Picassa which is a Google product and does all I could ask of it, allowing me to manipulate and create as I want.

And finally you need great paper, and I think this is probably the most important bit; you need a variety of weights and finish to get the right result. For this I go to Ink2Paper who provide the best inkjet paper I have found, you can choose from Matt/Matt, Gloss/Matt, Gloss/Gloss finish and they have double sided printed card in a variety of sizes and finishes. Finally all the cards are scored and supplied with envelopes so you really can’t go wrong. I myself go for the Gloss/Matt finish, i am happy with 6×4’s – this gives em a shiny side for the image and ‘flatter’ for the writing inside the card.

So that’s my top tips for making your own personalised Greetings Cards, it’s not that difficult I promise.