How to Make Greeting Cards and Invitations with Canva

Canva is a free design tool available on iPhone, Android, and the web. It has thousands of professionally designed templates for greeting cards, invitations, flyers, and more. You customize the text, photos, and colors to make them your own — even if you've never done graphic design before.

With Canva, you can make birthday cards for friends and family, create invitations for parties and gatherings, design thank-you cards, make holiday cards with family photos, create event flyers for a church or community group, and more.

Many people use Canva to create designs that they print at home or at a local print shop like Walgreens, CVS, or Office Depot. Others design cards to send digitally by email, text, or social media.

Canva is free for most features. Canva Pro ($15/month or $120/year) unlocks a larger premium template library, background remover, and more advanced tools — but the free version has thousands of excellent templates and is more than enough for cards and invitations.

Designs you create in Canva are saved to your account automatically. So you can edit them on your phone, tablet, or computer and pick up right where you left off.