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Reader Submissions: Your Custom Greeting Cards

From Eric Miller, former About.com Guide

Creating a custom greeting card for the holidays or New Year's is a great way to show off your design work and check in with clients at the same time. This is often an effective marketing tool and can lead to new work with existing clients. If you have designed a custom greeting card either for print or email, please share it with us, along with some of your thoughts on the design.

Starting with the photograph works best for me

I used Adobe Photoshop to create the card. I took color from the photograph to design the print portion of the card and I used the pattern tool to blend the environment between the card and the photo…More

Holiday 2009 Postcard

I used Adobe Photoshop and a Wacom tablet to do the initial sketches, coloring and lining. The completed illustration was taken into Adobe InDesign for the typesetting and layout.The back side has a …More

A Retina Christmas Card

The image was first done in pen and ink.I scanned it in black and white at 600dpi and reduced it in Pain Shop Pro 7 to tighten up the lines. With the same program I added the mistletoe background, bo…More

Unto Us a Son is Given

- photo #10903442 purchased under license of iStock- placed photo into InDesign portrait document- researched appropriate Scripture verses- experimented with fonts- laid-out design for 2 cards per ca…More

A Nice Gesture

I used Adobe Illustrator to create the box and dropped it into Photoshop as a smart object. Skewed my logo to match the angle of the box. I then added a reflection and a combination of gradients to f…More

Our Holidays are a little warmer than most

This image was taken from 4 different images. The first was the clothes on the wood walkway. Second is me jumping off the wood sidewalk onto the sand. Next is the waves, we added in bigger waves sinc…More

2009 greeting

I created a traditional drawing using pencil and markers. I scanned the illustration on my hp desktop scanner, then I imported the scan into Adobe Illustrator where I refined my original drawing and …More

Eric Miller Design Holiday Card

I used Photoshop to create the card, iStock stock images for the tray and "Happy Holidays" letters and Campaign Monitor to deliver it by email. The stock letters were actually a full alphabet that I …More