Custom means CUSTOM! Whatever your idea requires including photo manipulation, digital illustration, custom fonts, foil stamping, embossing, metallic or triplethick papers, unique card styles like Stretch, Gate and Accordion folds or custom designs on envelopes, we can make it happen, with style. Custom means bring your imagination and no limits!
The Custom examples below showcase what’s possible to create, something entirely unique and truly personal! No online “app” or template could tell these families’ visual stories and deliver the one-of-a-kind designs below. Cards Creative specializes in custom design work, with a personal designer taking charge to guide and perfect each family’s unique vision.
This family shows up every year in costumes Mom makes by hand. With nothing more than the family photographed against a white backdrop, we chose the perfect font and created the Yellow Brick Road, shadows, corner curls, everything to compliment Mom's super fun handiwork.
Same Family as the Oz theme above, with a new addition! With only a white background for the cover, the Magic Kingdom street, fonts, sparkles and all other embellishments were created to compliment Mom's costumes. Ridiculously cute interior!
This time the theme was Holiday TV Specials like the Grinch and Frosty. Foil text for the cover and the perfect “Grinch” font, backgrounds and signs were created to complete the look.
This one speaks for itself! The KISS logo was created and produced in red foil, and a script font used to make it look authentic and “bad”! What will next year’s card be!?
This Family shows up every year with a completely different theme. They wanted a Piet Mondrian artist's theme with a hanging art gallery look for the interior images. So we designed the appropriate card frame, illustrated the interior image hangers and created the spray-painted/graffiti look of the "Highline" text.
Same Family as above (Mondrian card). The theme was "nautical" this time, as they were moving closer to the coast. We used the supplied map bkgd, added an appropriate compass graphic, and created the text layout. In particular, we added "2015" to the lifebuoy, complete with rips and scratches. It's perfect!
Same Family as above. We created a "postcard from the beach" look, complete with the cover "airmail" stamp icon, "Happy Holidays" reflected in the water and the card's back layout.
This family goes with the same message every year - the trick being to keep the message design consistently fresh. This year they wanted to incorporate a family painting project which became the design for the front and back of the card. We created and wrote the text stating the painting had been created due to lack of coffee, was subsequently purchased by Starbucks, and was on loan and hanging in MoMA for the holidays. The family loved the humor and many people who recieved the card were taken in by the humor!
Same message again - but this year it needed to be open and airy, and mirror the soaring lines of the Wrigley building in the background.
This one was all about Super Hero obsessions! And design success, like the cards above, meant finding the right font and creating the right graphic to compliment the story the images tell.
Sometimes a "custom" design is just a simple and clean layout.
Right font, right icon... done!
