Greeting Card Software for Windows

Version 8 of Greeting Card Factory from Nova Development has over 90,000 graphics and 25,000+ card and project designs. Create all kinds of projects from greeting cards and calendars to stationery and certificates. Some of the kinds of cards include Thank You notes, Pop-Up Cards, Note Cards, and Photo CD Greeting Cards. Helpful tools: Photo Editor, Card Browser, and Drag and Drop Text Effects.

Available as of 2010: Greeting Card Factory Deluxe 8.0 for Windows

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They call themselves the #1 greeting card software. Other programs sometimes get higher marks from reviewers but it's still a good package to consider, after all, they have more experience in the greeting card market than any of the other publishers. It offers 10,000+ project templates and ideas, quality graphics, a Hallmark sentiment library, and various types of greeting cards as well as calendars, scrapbook pages, stationery, and certificates. This edition includes a note writing guide and an animated user interface. And if you want something a little less expensive from the Hallmark line, there's Hallmark Card Studio 2010.

Available as of 2010: Hallmark Card Studio 2010 Deluxe and Hallmark Card Studio 2010 for Windows

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The Deluxe edition of this Focus Multimedia title is Windows Vista/Windows 7 compatible, comes with 200,000 clip art images, web graphics, and photos, 4,000 fonts, and over 100 sentiments. Create cards for all occasions to print and send email cards. There is also a Create Your Own Greeting Cards 2nd edition with fewer images and templates. Additionally, for greeting cards along with business cards, calendars, and iron-on transfers they have the All-in-One Print Studio.

Available as of 2010: Create Your Greeting Cards Deluxe and Create Your Own Greeting Cards (2nd Edition) and All-in-One Print Studio for Windows

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From ArcSoft/Broderbund, design a variety of card styles using the included clip art and templates. Add your own text and photos. Print or send as email greetings.

Available as of 2010: ArcSoft Greeting Card Creator for Windows

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From AMS Software, this applications lets you put your personal photos into designer templates. You can also add backgrounds and other graphics to the mix. 

Available as of 2010: Greeting Card Studio for Windows

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Design a photo calendar or several kinds of greeting cards: Quarter fold, half fold, slimline. Add photos and captions. There's a trial version too. 

Available as of 2010: Print Creations - Cards & Calendars Bundle for Windows (and Mac)

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From ArcSoft, Print Creations software contains multiple templates including a greeting card  and a slimline card design element with several layouts, photo editing tools, and print wizard. The software is a free download and then you purchase an activation code for each type of template you want to use. Cards include holidays and occasions. Other templates are for calendars, scrapbooks, brochures, etc.

Available as of 2010: Print Creations version 3.0 for Windows (and Mac)

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The label people have some design software that does labels, yes, but also iron-on transfers for t-shirts, greeting cards, business cards, and more. Oh, and it's also a FREE download.

Available as of 2010: Avery DesignPro for PC version 5.5 for Windows

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