Big Day Birthday

Big Day Birthday is the card you make the night before the party. The front carries one photo of the birthday person with their name underneath in a round, friendly sans, and the coral accent makes even a quick phone snapshot look like it belongs on a card. Open it and the left side holds a second photo with a short caption, a throwback works well here, the baby photo or the one from last year's cake.

The right side is the greeting itself: a big headline you can change to anything, a message block for a few honest lines and a signature line at the bottom. The back is left quiet apart from a small made-at-home line, so the card looks finished from every side. Keep the message short enough to read at a glance, three or four sentences at most, and pick a front photo with the face near the middle so the frame does not crop it.

The card prints on one side of a single portrait sheet, so any home printer works and nothing has to line up on the back. The inside half prints upside down along the top of the sheet; that is correct, because the first fold turns it the right way up. Print at 100% or Actual size, never Fit to page. Card of 160 to 200 gsm stands up on a shelf; plain paper works but feels like a leaflet. Fold the top half behind, then the left half behind the right, crease with a ruler and press it under a book. This card holds 2 photos.