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Turn your favorite photos into beautiful greeting cards and calendars

Forget mass-produced store-bought cards. Try these.

You can easily turn any photo from your iPhone or iPad into a beautiful, straight-from-the-heart greeting card. It takes only a minute, and the card will be far more personal than store-bought or e-Greeting cards. No craft paper, no scissors, no creativity needed. 😊

The iOS app Pic Scanner Gold has hundreds of greeting card templates for all occasions. You just select a design and add a photo to it.

What is Pic Scanner Gold?

Pic Scanner Gold is actually an app for scanning old photos, but it also includes tools for making photos into shareable albums, slideshows, greeting cards and calendars. The greeting cards generator function is what we will cover in this post.

Pic Scanner Gold can convert photos into greeting cards, calendars and shareable slideshows.

You can download Pic Scanner Gold from the iOS App Store. Its $7.99 one-time price includes unlimited scanning and use of all other features including greeting cards.

Creating Greeting Cards

What’s the occasion, and for whom are you creating a card? If for parents, a sibling or a lifelong friend, you might want to check your albums for an old photo featuring them. Preferably one they haven’t seen for years: It would be perfect for creating a memory-jogging, nostalgia-evoking greeting card. Scan it with the app to save it in the app’s Gallery.

If you want to use a recent photo instead, go to the app’s Gallery screen, tap Import at bottom right, and fetch a few photos from your device’s Photos library. This also saves the photos in the app’s Gallery.

Either scan photos or import them from the Photos library on your iPhone or iPad.

Now you are all set to create your card.

Open Pic Scanner Gold’s Goodies screen. Tap Greeting Cards, and choose a category. These include Anniversary, Anytime, Birthday, Christmas, Feelings, New Year, Nostalgia, Other Holidays, For Elders, and Calendars.

Scroll through the designs to find one you like, and tap to open it. You’ll see the card design on top, and thumbnails of pictures in your Gallery below. Scroll through the photos to find the one you want, and tap to insert it into the card. Simple as that!

Card categories, selecting a design, and adding a photo.

You can also change the card’s background colors with the Recolor button, but generally this is not necessary.

Now that the card is created, just tap the Share button and send the card to make someone’s day:

Grandpa got goofy on camera? Turn that photo into a greeting card everyone will love.

The app includes more than a hundred designs, and more are added before special occasions such as Christmas, Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving etc.

Pic Scanner Gold has greeting card templates for all occasions. Just add photos.

There are also templates for printable calendars: Yearly, quarterly and two-monthly calendar designs. Create one using photos from a wedding, your favorite vacation, a pet, or whatever you fancy.

Whether you need to send a greeting at the eleventh hour, make a printable calendar or a create customized card showing that you care, this is the easiest way to do it.