Card Design Guidelines
This guide outlines the technical specifications, best practices and provides templates to help showcase your work at its best on our platform.
Let's help make someone smile
We want our digital cards to be enjoyed and treasured by the people who receive them. Filled with messages of support from colleagues, friends, and family. And showcasing your artwork.
We want to offer the perfect card for every person, so whether it's pixel art, illustrations, cartoons, patterns, typography or photography - we love it all!
We've provided lots of information on this page but if you have any questions or ideas, just get in touch and we'll be happy to help.
Occasions
Take a look at our categories to get a sense of what we offer:
View our current categoriesUpcoming
We would also like to start offering these new categories:
- Teacher
- New Baby
- Thank You
- Just Because (no specific occasion)
- Work Anniversary
- Welcome to the Team
Design Specifications & Guidelines
In the Artist Starter Kit you will find guidelines and dimensions to make sure your designs show at their best. Each card design requires three separate image files:
Front Cover
This is the main display of the artwork on your card and will be the first page viewed by anyone buying, signing or receiving the card.
- There is a bleed margin (36px left/right and 50px top/bottom) - this simply makes sure nothing important gets cut off when the design is displayed on the listing page (which zooms in slightly on hover).
- The top right and bottom right corners of your cover will automatically be rounded.
Inside Spread
This is the inside spread of the card, which spans both the left and right inside pages and is repeated as more people add their messages to the card.
- The 60px margin serves to contain the signatures/messages better on the page - similar to a traditional card with a paper insert. The margin also provides a space for the page numbers, which will be added automatically.
- The card 'fold' will be applied automatically at the centre of the inside spread.
Back Cover
The back cover of the card provides a space for a team message as well as details about you the artist.
- The main panel shows who the card is for, from and a headline. It will be between 400px–650px wide, and between 400px–700px tall depending on the length of the headline, and is automatically added in a semi-transparent frosted-glass style.
- The footer shows information about you the artist, as well as our branding. It has a height of 300px and is added automatically.
- The top right and bottom right corners will be rounded automatically.
Template Overlays
In the Artist Starter Kit you will find PNG template guides with exact margins and fold lines. You can overlay these in your graphics software at 50% opacity to verify your alignment.
Front Template Overlay
Inside Template Overlay
Back Template Overlay
Copyright & Licensing Checklist
We respect creative work and are committed to protecting all artists involved. Here's a quick summary of our key requirements:
Original Artworks Only
We're a platform celebrating artists and their work. You must own the copyright to the design you submit.
AI Usage Policy
We pride ourselves on working with real artists rather than AI. While you may use AI tools to assist you in your creative process, the final design must be your own.
Third-Party Assets
Any third-party patterns, textures or other graphics utilised in your design must have a valid commercial licence permitting their redistribution.
Commercial Fonts
Any fonts utilised in your design must have a valid commercial licence permitting their redistribution.
Artist Starter Kit
The starter kit contains template overlays, design guides and example submission files. Get started now.
Download Artist Starter Kit (.zip)