Create a custom card
Create a custom greeting card
Brighten anyone’s day with a beautiful, customized greeting card you can design and send in minutes. Whether you’re delivering festive holiday joy to family and friends, wishing a happy birthday to your BFF, sending a romantic Valentine to your sweetheart, or showing appreciation for a client or employee, a thoughtful card goes a long way. With Paperless Post, you can select from a wide range of templates and create a one-of-a-kind card with our intuitive design tools, and then send however you like to instantly bring a smile to anyone’s face.
How to make a digital card
Open Paperless Post on desktop, mobile, or our app, and create an account or sign in. Then, select ‘Greeting cards’ to start browsing hundreds of card designs for any occasion.
Explore card templates for holidays, birthdays, announcements, and more in a wide range of styles. From funny to sentimental and everything in between, find the perfect card to express your well wishes.
Once you’ve selected a card template, edit the text, fonts, colors, backdrop, spacing, and alignment, and add fun stickers for a special touch. Upload a photo if you’ve chosen a photo card, try one of our Magic Fonts for added dimension, and finish things off with a matching envelope, liner, and your choice of stamp.
Select a Page Style to choose colors and fonts that complement your design and add any additional information for your card recipients. Add Blocks to send more with your card, such as a photo gallery or video message.
Add your recipients however you prefer—one by one with their phone numbers or email addresses, add them directly from your contact list, upload a spreadsheet, or paste a list. You can also send one combined card to a group, such as a couple or family.
Then, send your card via email, text message, or a shareable link you can embed or paste anywhere.
Greeting card features
When you create cards with Paperless Post, make sure to take advantage of all of our helpful tools and features. Enable Guest Questions to ask multiple-choice, checkbox-style, or open-ended questions to your card recipients. Add a Comment Wall to allow recipients to post their own well wishes or responses. Include Blocks to send along anything else you want to share, such as a Photo Gallery Block with family photos from the year, or a Video Block to send along a personalized video message. Then, track your card opens in real-time with our Analytics view to ensure everyone has received your thoughtful message.
Online greeting card FAQs
If you’re sending a greeting card to one recipient, write your personalized message on the card, and make sure to include your name. If you’re sending a greeting card to multiple recipients at once, write a broad message that everyone will receive along with your name, and then include personal notes to each individual as you add your contacts.
Yes! Browse our collection of customizable photo card templates to include one or multiple photos on your card design.
Send your digital card however you prefer—via email, text message, or a shareable link that you can copy and paste anywhere on the internet, in group message threads, or embedded into your own email platform.