Personalised Cat Cards

Customised cards featuring your cat
Screenshot from Photobox

Have you tried making a personalised cat card – a card featuring a photo of your cat? I think they are worth doing if you like giving cards.

It’s actually approaching that time of year! Well, not quite but I am sure some highly organised people are planning Christmas already, buying presents and deciding on who gets a card.

Personally, I don’t do cards ;). Or Christmas for that matter, but a lot of people love it. I thought I would explore the expanding business of customised cards. They can used for any occasion and your cat is an ideal subject to have on the card.

This may sound daunting and troublesome and a fiddly way of buying a card but it really isn’t.

Take for example the Dog’s Doodahs website.  You can create a personalised card by uploading your own photograph. You add you own words. Order the card before a certain time (I think it is 4 pm) and you’ll get it the next day, which is speedy. The quality is excellent too. Quality is important because the troublesome part of making your own cards is getting the quality right. Home printers just can’t do it.

I have no connection with the Dog’s Doodahs website. A friend of mine has used them and I have been pleasantly impressed. I was surprised to be honest. The price? About £4 all inclusive. That may seem expensive to some and I can understand that. However a well constructed personalised card can be more than a card. It can also be a present by adding a book token or something else.

Tesco Cards are currently (13th Sept 2013) running a half price offer. The standard prices vary between under £3 to around £5 depending on the size of the card. A picture can uploaded. I have not used them so don’t know what sort of quality is produced.

I am impressed with Moonpig. They have a service for several countries including America, the UK and Australia. You can create some quite complicated cards on this site. You can upload several photographs for one card and as usual you can upload the pictures from your computer, Facebook or Flickr. This is a nice choice and it simplifies the process.

Heading the page is a screenshot from Photobox who are also offering a discount at the moment. They charge £16.48 for a pack of ten cards including postage. I think that is reasonable for a personalised card. It was very easy to create the card online.

One little tip is to edit your photos to make lighter in terms of file size. Something around 50k bytes is correct. If anyone wants to try creating a personalised cat card but does not have photo editing software, just upload the picture in a comment on this page and I’ll improve it, resize it and email it to you the same day.

2 thoughts on “Personalised Cat Cards”

  1. The author of the best comment will receive an Amazon gift of their choice at Christmas! Please comment as they can add to the article and pass on your valuable experience.
  2. Thanks Elisa for that addition information. I have ordered a card from a British online company using a picture of Gigi just to see what the finished result is like.

  3. Not only have I done Christmas cards, I’ve also done magnets, mouse pads and caps with Furbys photo on them. I used Vistaprint, which is really good at offering great quality at a cheap price. I hope this link will open so you can see all the samples .

    I sold the magnet calendars for $5 each to help with vet bills and cat supplies.

    I also make a lot of cards and such using Daisy Trail. They have a freebie called CraftArtist and plenty of low cost or free kits. I have around 80 kits from them where I can mix and match for any occasion. I do a lot of memorials for friends who have lost pets and post on their wall.

    This would be a great fundraiser for a rescue or shelter and is very easy to do. I sold the small Christmas cards 20 for $12. When I ordered them, I got 100 cards free and just had to purchase the envelopes. You just have to time the Vistaprint sales and order from their best offers.

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