Colour-your-own cards get filed under 'kids' activity' and dismissed. That undersells them badly. A card someone has coloured in themselves, however roughly, carries more of the sender in it than a printed design ever will, and that's true whether the person colouring it is seven or seventy.
The effort is the point
Anyone can buy a card in two minutes. Sitting down and colouring one in takes actual time, and the recipient knows that. For a close friend, a partner, or a parent, that time investment often reads as more thoughtful than an expensive card bought in a rush.
They work for people who don't know what to write
If you're not confident with words, colouring a card gives you something to do with your hands and a way to put care into a card without needing to write more than a couple of lines. The card itself becomes the message.
Good line art matters more than people expect
Not all colour-your-own cards are equal. Detailed, well-observed line art is more satisfying to colour than a simple outline, and it holds up better as a finished piece too, worth framing rather than just posting through a letterbox. Our large format cards give the art more room if framing is the plan. Heavier card stock matters as well: thin card buckles and bleeds with coloured pencil or pen, so it's worth checking what the card is printed on before you buy.
Sending it blank is still an option
You don't have to colour it in before sending. A lot of people send colour-your-own cards uncoloured, as a gift the recipient can colour in themselves, alone or with their kids. It works for birthdays and any of our other special occasion cards just as well.
Our colour-your-own range is printed on 350gsm FSC-certified card, heavier than most cards of this type on the market, with detailed line art designed to hold up to coloured pencil and pen.
