These greeting card software programs feature ready-made templates, design wizards, clip art, fonts, or other extras to make it easy to design and print your own cards, announcements, or invitations. Most do many other print projects as well such as labels or fliers.
Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory Deluxe 7.0
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This version of Greeting Card Factory from Nova Development adds another 10,000 graphics (90,000+) and almost double the number of project templates from earlier versions (24,000+). 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. It's also Windows Vista certified.
Hallmark Card Studio 2008
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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. Hallmark Card Studio 2008 offers 4,400+ project templates and ideas, quality graphics, a Hallmark sentiment library, and various types of greeting cards including 3D cards, photo cards, and e-cards. In addition to cards, you can design and print calendars, scrapbook pages, stationery, and certificates.
Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory Standard
For a little more than half the cost of the Deluxe version you get a lot of the same great tools just fewer graphics and templates. Create photo cards, pop-up cards, and standard greeting cards for all occasions. It's also a good option if you're running older versions of Windows. Works with Windows 98, 2000, Me or XP.Humorous Greeting Card Factory
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If sappy, sentimental, and serious is not your style, create your own silly, satirical, slapstick, or just make you smile cards with this program. In addition to thousands of templates and graphics this specialty greeting card software from Nova Development has 1000+ witty statements so you don't have to strain to be funny. You can also create humorous announcements, envelopes, labels, and photo projects with it. Runs under Windows 98, 2000, Me or XP.
Christian Greeting Card Factory
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If your tastes run toward more spirtual greetings, this Nova Development package provides you will all the appropriate templates, graphics, and sentiments for not only greeting cards and invitations but also church fliers and newsletters, pocket devotionals, and Bible projects for children.
Hallmark Card Studio Special Edition
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If you don't need tons of clip art and templates but want the Hallmark name, this special edition is affordable (around $10.00US) and still has hundreds of designs for birthday cards, holiday cards, wedding invitations, and other projects like calendars and certificates. It comes with exclusive Hallmark fonts and an Event Planner.
Create Your Own Greeting Cards Deluxe
Create Your Own Greeting Cards Deluxe from Focus Multimedia
This Focus Multimedia title is Windows Vista 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.
