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Many people like flashy and of course very creative kinds of greeting cards. This should also be your goal for your own custom greeting cards of course. While that greeting card printer might help you with the basic designs, it is important that you add your own specific features to make your card printing a little bit more interesting.

In this guide, I will give you a few new ideas to “accessorize” your greeting cards. Below are five highly attractive features that can help your custom greeting cards impress people. See if you can use all these great design accessories. You should be amazed at the exciting design results from these features.

1. Embedded glitter elements – One of the most popular, and most effective kinds of design accessories that you should definitely try out are embedded glitter elements. Like other similar greeting cards of the professional sort, you can have the card printer add actual glitter flecks into your design. This adds that magical and sparkling look to the greeting card, perfect if you really want to impress readers and of course get these special cards kept by them.

2. Additional glossy inks – Another great accessory that you should try to use are additional glossy inks for your text and images. While the standard full color inks should be decent, adding glossy elements in some text and graphics will of course emphasize these elements, making them look more special. This is a great advantage in greeting card making as it engages readers and directs them to the most important elements of the design. So do not hesitate to avail of these glossy features in your greeting card printing.

3. Integrated ribbons and studs – If you want to upgrade your affordable greeting cards even further, you should try out adding integrated ribbons and studs into those greeting cards layouts. This is especially appropriate for holiday cards wherein ribbons and special embedded studs will work nicely in the themes that you are trying to develop and print. So try and invest a little bit more in your greeting card accessories. Add these special integrated ribbons and studs when possible.

4. Artistic cuts, folds and holes – Now, you can also go a lot more exotic with your greeting cards and add artistic cuts, folds and even holes in its design layout. This is a great eye-catching design accessory to use since people become more interested in reading your prints when they see these unusual features. Since people expect to always see standard rectangular greeting cards, these special features will of course surprise them and get them reading more of your greeting cards.

5. Embossed features – Finally, if you really want to impress readers with greeting cards, you will want to try out using embossed features. Specialized greeting card printers can help you with this. By embossing your text and some of your design elements, you will see them get lifted up and emphasized more readily.

This gives a textured feel to these designs, which of course makes them look and feel a bit more special than most other standard greeting cards. Try these out, especially if you have a great logo or graphic in your greeting card cover.

So what are you waiting for? Accessorize your greeting cards now! All of these steps are very easy to do. You do not even have to be an expert really. Believe me, you will not regret adding these great additions to your greeting card printing.

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About the Author:
Kaitlyn Miller is a copywriter of Printplace.com, a professional online printing company based in Arlington, Texas. She writes tips and ideas about printing and graphic design.