Graduation Greeting Cards

What Are Graduation Greeting Cards

Graduation greeting cards are folded cards printed full color for graduation announcements, party invitations, congratulations cards, and thank-you notes for gifts, because a folded card gives room for a photo, a printed message, and a handwritten line all at once. For birthdays, weddings and other occasions, the general Greeting Cards use the same folded format.

What Size Should a Graduation Card Be

Pick the size by the photo and the message it has to hold. The 8.5" x 5.5" sheet folds to a tidy 4.25" x 5.5" card, the size for an announcement or a short note. The 10" x 7" folds to a 5" x 7" card, a bigger canvas with room for a full cap-and-gown photo, a longer message, or a bolder cover. For a more textured, premium feel on the same folded card, the Velvet Greeting Cards are another way to go.

The stock, the envelopes and the design are the three choices left.

Pick a stock that fits the moment

A heavier stock gives the card real presence in the hand. Keep it bright on 14pt or 16pt gloss cover, go natural and writable on an uncoated or recycled stock, or reach for a metallic pearl in ice, champagne, silver or gold when you want the card to catch the light like a celebration. The 16pt soft touch reads velvety and the 14pt and 18pt white linen add texture you can feel. Finish it Standard, or add a High Gloss UV Coating to make a photo or a foil-look design shine.

Add envelopes if you mail it

If the cards travel, add the optional White Wove A2 envelopes on the same order and they arrive in one box with the cards, ready to address. For a school or class run, optional bundling packs the cards in stacks.

Design it without a designer

Start from a layout in our greeting card design templates and change the colors, copy, name and photo in the online editor. Put the cap-and-gown photo and the school colors on the cover, and keep the inside for the date and a warm line.

A folded card has four panels on one flat sheet, and the blank graduation greeting card template lays that sheet out at full size with the bleed and safe margin marked. Keep the grad's name off the center line so the fold never cuts through it.

How Much Do Graduation Greeting Cards Cost

Graduation greeting cards start at $56.02 for 50, about $1.12 a card, and fall toward $0.04 a card at 100,000. A class of 300 comes to $121.92, about 41 cents a card. Slide to your guest list size below for the total.

Do They Come Folded

Every card is scored down the middle for a crisp fold, and you choose whether the plant folds it to finished size or ships it scored and flat for you to fold. Envelopes are an option, covered above.

How Do They Compare to the Rest of the Greeting Cards

Announcing the party date months ahead is a job for Save the Date Cards, a flat card rather than a folded one. The chart below sets this card beside the baptism, response and Christmas cards on price, stock and turnaround.

Borrow a Cover Idea

The gallery below shows greeting cards customers printed across our card styles, not graduation cards alone. Look at how each cover sets a photo and a name before you lay out yours, and tap any print to see it larger.

How Fast Can You Get Graduation Greeting Cards

Graduation cards print on a 5 business day standard turnaround, and when the ceremony sneaks up you can move that to 4-day, 3-day, 2-day, Next-Day or even Same-Day production. Each step buys back time for a set percentage on top of the base price, so you only pay for speed when you actually need it. Same Day orders need to be approved by the daily cutoff to ship that day.

See the Rest of Our Cards

Birthday, holiday and velvet cards share this folded format on greeting cards printing. Yard signs, banners and invitations for the party are in the full print product range.

Print Your Graduation Greeting Cards Today

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