Here some free greeting card maker application for Windows. You can use these free apps to make special occasions of your loved ones more special. Using these apps, you can make greeting cards for various occasions, such as birthday, wedding, Christmas, thanksgiving, etc.
Most of these App comes with built-in templates. You can choose from these templates to make greeting cards. Most of them even let you browse desired image(s) to decorate greeting cards and write greeting text with adjustable font style, color & size.
Once the card designing is finished, you can save it in a local folder on your Computer, or export it in supported file formats. One of the important features of these software is that, they support multiple file formats to import/export cards. Some of these formats are JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, etc. In some of these greeting card designer software, you can also export designed greeting cards as PDF.
The list begins with Card Creator
Most of these App comes with built-in templates. You can choose from these templates to make greeting cards. Most of them even let you browse desired image(s) to decorate greeting cards and write greeting text with adjustable font style, color & size.
Once the card designing is finished, you can save it in a local folder on your Computer, or export it in supported file formats. One of the important features of these software is that, they support multiple file formats to import/export cards. Some of these formats are JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, etc. In some of these greeting card designer software, you can also export designed greeting cards as PDF.
The list begins with Card Creator
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| Card Creator |
Card Creator is a free, standalone software to design greeting cards. It is one of the easiest software to create greeting cards.
To create a card, you just need to open this software and select a template to design a card in that template style. Now, just add photos at shown positions in the selected template. That’s it.
Initially, it comes with only three preloaded templates, but you can add more templates by downloading them from its site in RLI format.
It lets you save your design in JPEG, or PNG format.
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Photo Card Maker
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| Photo Card Maker |
Photo Card Maker is a free greeting card maker software for Windows. It is an easy to use software to design beautiful greeting cards for your loved ones. It comes with some preloaded templates categorized in various classes, such as cartoons, Christmas, holiday, seasonal, sport, travel, etc. You can use any of these templates as background for your greeting card. It also lets you import more templates using ZIP files. Moreover, you can also browse photos stored in your PC to use them in greeting cards. Besides this, it also allows you import photos in multiple formats including BMP, PNG, JPG, TGA, JP2, etc.
Multiple font styles are available in the software to choose from. You can also vary font size and color as per requirement of your greeting text.
When you are done, you can save your design in one of the following supported file formats: BMP, JPG, or PNG.
McPaw Card Designer
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| McPaw Card Designer |
McPaw Card Designer is another free greeting card designing software for Windows. Using this software, you can design greeting cards having either of the three predefined card sizes, that are: 4″ x 7″, 5.5″ x 4.25″, and 10″ x 7″.
Like some other listed software, it also lets you import images to use them in greeting cards. The image formats supported to import files are BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, ICO, EMF, and WMF. You can specify the outline of these imported images either as rectangle or ellipse. There is also an option to change the rotation angle of inserted images. You can adjust the position of inserted image by entering values for X-Y coordinates, or by dragging them. To give a personal touch, you can add some greeting text in different font color and sizes.
In addition to picture insertion, it even lets you insert different kind of shapes like rectangle, line, arc, pie, etc. with desired border color, width, and gradient. You can also capture desired portion of screen to use it in your greeting card.
After completion of greeting card designing process, you can save the file in PDF format, or print it.
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| Greeting Cards Express |
Greeting Cards Express is a free Windows app to design foldable digital greeting cards. It is a very handy app. Using this app, you can select a template available in it, as per suitable occasion, and associate custom text with it. There are a lot of templates in this app. These templates are divided in various categories such as anniversary, birthday, congratulations, love, thank you etc.
After selecting a template, it lets you write some greeting text. This text will appear on the folded page of the greeting card. This application even lets you add a default background music to greeting cards.
After completing greeting card designing, you can have a preview (in browser) of designed card to check out how it really looks. Finally, you need to choose ‘Create Short Link’ option, to generate a shareable link.
Thus, it makes creation and sharing of foldable digital greeting cards, an easy task.
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Paint.NET
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| Paint.NET |
GetPaint.NET is one of the most versatile image editing software available for Windows, and it’s also free of cost. So, you can also use it as a free greeting card maker software. All you need is to download templates. After that, you can add multiple layers of images to that template and create beautiful greeting cards. Also, you can apply many other features such as text insertion, color reduction, etc. available in Paint.net to customize greeting cards.
To design greeting card for different occasions, you need to choose respective type of template.