Card Generator Buddy
Card Generator Buddy™
Photos + words + AI creative direction
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AI-assisted greeting cards, invitations, flyers, print designs, and talking cards

Your photo. Your words. A finished card.

Upload your pictures, tell Card Generator Buddy what you are making, and describe the mood. It builds the composition, generates the visual background, places your exact text, and prepares the result for digital sharing, print, or an AI Pop talking card.

  • Bring your own photos: upload up to four images and control how much space they occupy.
  • Keep your exact words: titles and required copy are rendered separately from the AI background.
  • Guide the look: choose palettes, composition families, backgrounds, layouts, and styles.
  • One design, several lives: digital, print/direct-mail, and AI Pop-ready formats.
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Greeting cards • Invitations • RSVP • Save the Date • Birthday • Thank You • Holiday • Announcements • Memorials • Promotional flyers
A Card Generator Buddy workflow
Photo → Direction → Design → Share
AI + YOU
GREETING
INVITATION
AI POP
You describe it
“Warm backyard birthday dinner. Portrait on the right. Handmade paper. Big dancing butterflies.”
Buddy keeps the portrait, interprets the art direction, creates the background, and fits the exact copy into the composition.

Make more than greeting cards

The same creative workspace can produce everyday personal cards, event materials, promotional pieces, direct-mail artwork, and AI-enabled conversational cards.

Greetings & celebrations

Birthday, thank-you, holiday, announcement, remembrance, and fully custom cards.

Invitations & RSVP

Invitations, Save the Date, RSVP cards, wedding-oriented compositions, baby showers, and celebrations.

Flyers & promotions

Promotional flyers, corporate layouts, local-business creative, and bold retail or dealer-style compositions.

AI Pop talking cards

Reserve a portrait-safe region and prepare a card that can become a talking AI Pop with the rest of the design intact.

From idea to finished card in five steps

The controls are there when you want them. If you do not, a short description is enough for the Buddy to make sensible choices.

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1) Photos
Upload up to four

Bring portraits, products, memories, or event photos. Image orientation is normalized automatically.

2) Format
Choose what you are making

Pick the card type, use mode, and output size before you generate.

3) Words
Tell it what must appear

Provide exact title/body copy, or let the Buddy draft concise copy from your description.

4) Creative
Guide the composition

Select background direction, theme, palette, layout, and how much of the surface your photo should occupy.

5) Generate
Render and refine

Generate the card, then update the text or creative direction and render the revised version.

CREATIVE CONTROL

AI assistance without surrendering the layout

Card Generator Buddy separates the generated visual background from your title, exact copy, and uploaded imagery. That gives you creative generation while preserving the elements you actually care about.

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    Exact text remains exact
    The title and body copy are rendered after the background rather than asking the image model to invent the lettering.
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    Keep uploaded subjects
    Use your own photos and keep the AI background from inventing unrelated portrait subjects.
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    Control photo coverage
    Horizontal and vertical coverage controls let you make conventional proportions or intentionally tall/narrow compositions.
ART DIRECTION

Give the Buddy a mood — or get very specific

Start with a preset and let AI decide the details, or combine style, background mode, background theme, composition family, palette, and layout.

Background modes
Abstract • Cinematic • Illustration • Paper/texture • Auto
Design styles
Modern • Editorial • Elegant • Playful • Retro • Minimal • Photographic
Composition families
Photo card • Elegant invite • Baby shower • Promo flyer • Dealer flyer • Corporate • Memorial • Celebration
Palettes
Warm • Bright • Elegant • Neutral • Dark • Pop • Fully custom colors
SMART LAYOUT

The card adapts to the job

Auto layout considers the card type, number of photos, aspect ratio, selected composition family, and whether you are preparing a talking portrait.

Photo layouts: left, right, top, portrait window, collage, full bleed, or no-photo graphic.
Readable text: background luminance is measured so title/body contrast can be adjusted automatically.
Creative text-color requests: you can explicitly ask for white, black, navy, gold, pink, red, green, purple, or a hex color.
OUTPUT

Digital, print, or ready to talk

Card Generator Buddy is designed around the actual places a card can go after it is created.

16:9
Digital / Social
Landscape 16:9, portrait 9:16, and square 1:1 formats.
A6
Print / Direct Mail
A6, A5, and A5-ENV artwork rendered at print-oriented resolution.
AI
AI Pop / Talking Card
Reserve a smaller portrait region while preserving the larger designed surface for text and graphics.
A SMALL BUT IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE

The AI makes the scenery. Your card stays yours.

The generator can be instructed not to add extra people, faces, animals, text, logos, dates, QR codes, or sample copy to the AI background. Your uploaded photos and deterministic text are composed afterward.

✓ No random portraits
Keep your own subjects dominant.
✓ No fake copy
Exact text stays outside the image layer.
✓ Better contrast
Automatic light/dark text adjustment.
✓ Re-editable
Change direction and render again.

Pricing

Start with free card generations, then choose the volume and creative capabilities that fit how often you create.

Card Generator Buddy — Starter
CGB00PLAN
Start free
$0 /mo
No credit card required

Create your first AI-generated cards, experiment with designs, and see what Card Generator Buddy can do.

  • •5 card generations per month
  • •Greeting cards and invitations
  • •AI-assisted design generation
  • •Upload your own photos
  • •Standard screen formats
  • •No credit card required
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Card Generator Buddy Starter
CGB09PLAN
For everyday creating
$9.95 /mo

Create personalized cards, invitations, and flyers with more generations and more creative flexibility.

  • •50 card generations per month
  • •Greeting cards, invitations and flyers
  • •AI-assisted design generation
  • •Upload your own photos
  • •Custom palettes and styles
  • •Multiple screen formats
  • •No watermark
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Most Popular
Card Generator Buddy Pro
CGB24PLAN
Most popular
$24.95 /mo

For creators and small businesses producing cards, invitations, flyers, and promotional creative regularly.

  • •200 card generations per month
  • •Everything in Starter
  • •Advanced composition controls
  • •Custom palettes and styles
  • •Multiple uploaded images
  • •Print-ready formats
  • •Commercial use
  • •Priority generation
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Card Generator Buddy Business
CGB59PLAN
For teams & businesses
$59.95 /mo

Create high-volume branded cards, invitations, flyers, and promotional creative for your business or clients.

  • •750 card generations per month
  • •Everything in Pro
  • •Brand presets
  • •Reusable design templates
  • •High-volume generation
  • •Print-ready formats
  • •Commercial use
  • •Priority generation
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Need more volume or a custom workflow?
Talk to us about larger generation allowances, team workflows, branded presets, direct-mail integrations, or custom creative configurations.
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FAQ

Do I need design experience?
No. You can describe what you want in ordinary language. The advanced layout, style, and composition controls are available when you want more direction.
Will the AI change the exact text I enter?
The card generator treats the title and exact body copy separately from the AI-generated visual background, so required copy can be rendered deterministically.
Can I use my own photos?
Yes. You can upload up to four photos and choose layouts such as photo left/right, portrait window, collage, photo top, or full bleed.
What is an AI Pop talking card?
AI Pop mode reserves a smaller portrait region so the finished card can later support a talking avatar while keeping the surrounding design and exact text visible.
Can it create print artwork?
Yes. The current generator includes A6, A5, and A5-ENV Direct Mail-oriented output sizes in addition to digital formats.
What counts as a card generation?
Plans are designed around generated-card usage. Your application can enforce the monthly allowance through the plan's card-generation metering configuration.
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Stop choosing between “template” and “AI image.”

Card Generator Buddy combines your real photos and exact words with AI-generated creative direction — then gives you enough controls to make the result actually yours.

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