How Cardbarks works
One product, one price, no accounts. You design the card here and a physical card turns up in somebody's letterbox a few days later.
- Step 1
Choose the front
Pick the occasion, then the card — the catalog is searchable by breed, style and occasion.
- Step 2
Write the inside
Type your own message or borrow a line from the library. Choose the type, including two handwriting faces that also get used on the envelope label.
- Step 3
Address it
Tell us who it goes to and who it is from. Your address becomes the return address, so it looks like it came from you.
- Step 4
Pay once
$9.95 flat. That is the card, the envelope and usps first-class, 3–5 business days. No account, no subscription, no upsells.
- Step 5
We print and post it
Every card is printed by hand on heavy cover stock, folded, addressed and put in the post. Nothing is automated at the printer end, which is why it looks like a card rather than a mailshot.
About the printing
A Cardbarks card is a 5x7 folded card printed on a single 10x7 sheet of heavy cover stock. There is no bleed and nothing is trimmed — the sheet is already the finished size, so a thin white border sits around the artwork. That border is deliberate, and every design is composed around it.