Design Your Own Trading Cards — Made in the USA

Design and ordering takes under 60 seconds on your end. Once your order is placed, production begins at our Des Moines facility, and cards typically ship within one business day of your order. Production takes one business day; shipping time is quoted at checkout for your address. That timeline holds for single cards and packs alike. If you're ordering for a specific event — a birthday party, a team banquet, a last game of the season — we'd recommend ordering at least five business days out to give yourself a comfortable buffer. Free US standard shipping on orders $30+, so there's no reason to delay.

You don't need a professional photographer, but photo quality does matter for the final print. The best results come from photos that are sharp, well-lit, and not heavily cropped or zoomed in from a low-resolution source. A photo taken on a modern smartphone in decent lighting will almost always produce a great card. Blurry, heavily filtered, or very low-resolution images may not look as crisp at print size. Our upload tool gives you a preview so you can judge the image quality before you commit to ordering. If a photo doesn't look right in the preview, try a different shot — most people have several good options in their camera roll.

Yes — team orders are one of the most common things we fulfill. Each card is individually customized with its own photo, name, and stats, so every player on the roster gets a card that's specific to them, not a template with a name swapped out. Packs within the Rookie Box tier can include up to 18 cards and run up to $49.99, with free US shipping over $30. Coaches and team organizers often place orders for the whole squad at the end of a season. If you're coordinating a team order, plan ahead to collect photos and details from each player — that's the only step that takes time.

Standard Snapshot cards are 2.5" × 3.5" — the same dimensions as traditional sports trading cards. That's not a coincidence. That size fits standard card sleeves, top loaders, and collector binders perfectly, which matters if the recipient is a serious collector or if you want to protect the card long-term. The MEGA Card option breaks from that format — it's an 11" × 15.4" poster-format trading card designed for display rather than collecting. It ships with a free protective sleeve and works as framed wall art or a desk display piece. Both options are printed on premium card stock and made in the USA.

Every Rookie Box order — single cards and packs — ships with a free magnetic case. A magnetic case is the same style collectors use to protect high-value cards. It's rigid, snaps shut securely, and keeps the card from bending, scuffing, or picking up fingerprints. It also makes the unboxing feel more like receiving something special than pulling a card out of a plain envelope. MEGA Cards (11" × 15.4") ship with a free protective sleeve sized for the larger format. Protection isn't an add-on or an upsell — it's included because we want the card to arrive and stay in perfect condition.

That's a fair question, and the honest answer is: it depends entirely on the photo and the thought behind it. The card itself — the stock, the print quality, the design, the magnetic case it arrives in — is legitimately impressive. People who receive them are often surprised by how professional they feel. Whether it reads as a serious gift or a fun novelty is mostly about framing. A senior athlete's card with four years of stats and a great action shot is a serious keepsake. A gag card of someone's dog playing fetch is a great laugh. The product quality holds up either way. Most people who order report it lands better than expected.