How Do I Make Original Greeting Cards With My Own Artwork?
Displaying your own artwork on the cover of greeting cards is a great way to promote your work, as well as a way to share with family and friends. Whether your work is photography or painting, drawing or collage, transferring your work to greeting cards is easy. As an original and distinctive greeting card, your artwork will find a broader audience and new markets. Scan your artwork into your computer in an easy-to-use file format such as .jpeg. If you already have your work in digital format, organize and save the files in the same format and size. Greeting card files should be no larger than 8 inches wide by 5 high, and saved in 150 dpi resolution. Make a dummy card. Fold a piece of letter size card stock in half. Mark the 4 different areas as they will appear on the finished card: front, back, and inside top and bottom. This card will keep you oriented when formatting and printing. Make a dummy card for both landscape and portrait orientation (side fold or top fold) to match your wo
