The Card Maker That Turns Any Photo Into a Real Trading Card

Most orders are produced and shipped within 2-3 days of approval, and shipping is free anywhere in the United States. That timeline covers printing on premium card stock, quality checks, packaging with the included magnetic case, and handing it to the carrier. It's not an instant download, because we're printing a physical object, but it's dramatically faster than most custom print businesses that quote two to three weeks. If you're ordering for a specific date — a birthday, a banquet, a holiday — we'd recommend ordering at least a week ahead just to build in a buffer for shipping variability. Most customers report their card arriving well within that window. Because everything is produced in our Des Moines facility rather than outsourced overseas, there's no long international shipping wait baked into the process.

A clear, reasonably well-lit photo works best, but you don't need studio-quality images or a professional camera. Most customers upload photos taken on a phone, and the results still print sharp on our card stock. Extremely blurry, dark, or heavily pixelated images can limit how clean the final card looks, since we can only work with the detail that's actually captured in the file. If a photo is borderline, our production team will flag it before printing rather than shipping something you'd be disappointed with. Cropped or zoomed-in photos from social media tend to lose quality, so pulling from your camera roll's original file is usually your best bet. When in doubt, send the highest resolution version you have access to, even if it means emailing it from a laptop instead of a phone.

Yes, packs are built for exactly that. If you're making cards for an entire team, a family reunion, or multiple friends, you can order a pack instead of a single card, with pricing scaling up to $49.99 depending on quantity and template choice. This is common for coaches ordering a card for every player on the roster, or families making a set featuring different relatives for a reunion gift. Each card in a pack can use a different photo and template, so you're not locked into identical designs across the whole order. It's also a popular option for people making a small run of the same card as gifts for multiple recipients, like grandparents who each want a copy. Just note quantity and template choices clearly during ordering so production matches your intent exactly.

The MEGA is an 11"×15" poster-sized version of your card, priced at $49.99, and it's built for moments that deserve more presence than a pocket-sized card. Think retirement gifts, milestone birthdays, or a standout athletic achievement that someone wants to actually hang on a wall rather than store in a case. It uses the same premium card stock and template library as our standard cards, just scaled up dramatically. Customers often order both — a standard card for the wallet or display case, and a MEGA for framing in an office or bedroom. Because it's still made from your same uploaded photo, the design consistency carries over; you're not choosing a separate, lesser template just because the size changed. It ships the same way as a standard order, with free shipping included.

Not at all — that's actually one of the biggest misconceptions about what we do. While plenty of orders come from parents making cards for a kid's baseball or basketball season, just as many come from adults making cards that have nothing to do with organized sports. We regularly print cards featuring golf trips, fishing tournaments, office softball leagues, bowling nights, and even non-athletic inside jokes formatted onto a sports card template because it's funny and unexpected. The templates are sport-styled, but the subject can be anyone doing anything. If you've got a photo and a sense of humor, or just a photo you love, the format works. Treat it less like a kids' sports product and more like a flexible gift format that happens to look like a trading card.

Our pricing starts at $17.99 for a single Rookie Box card, scales up to $49.99 for packs, and the MEGA poster card is a flat $49.99, with free shipping baked into every order regardless of size. Compared to competitors, a lot of the cheaper options online are print-your-own PDF templates that don't include any physical production, meaning the true cost of getting an actual card includes your own printer, ink, cardstock purchase, and cutting time. Once you factor that in, a lot of 'free' or '$5' card makers end up costing more in time and materials than ordering a finished product outright. Other services that do offer physical printing often charge separately for shipping or rush production, where ours is bundled into the base price. You're paying one number and getting a finished, cased card back, not a file plus a shopping list.