Turn Your Inland Sports Photography Into Real Trading Cards

A single card is standard trading card size, meant for a wallet, a binder, or a small display case, and it's priced at $17.99. The MEGA card is an 11 by 15 inch poster-sized print, priced at $49.99, and it's built for wall display rather than handheld collecting. Photographers and families often order the MEGA size when the photo itself is the centerpiece of a room, like a home gym, a bedroom, or a coach's office, since the larger format shows more detail and has more visual presence than a standard card. If you're deciding between the two, think about where it's going to live. A shelf or a binder calls for the standard card, while a wall or a large display area calls for the MEGA. Some customers order both from the same photo, one for keeping and one for showing.

No, the magnetic case is included free with every card order, so there's no separate line item or upsell to worry about at checkout. It's built to snap shut securely, protecting the card from bending, scratching, or fading from handling, which matters if the card is going to be passed around a locker room or shown off at a family gathering. The case also makes the card display-ready right out of the box, since you don't need to source your own sleeve or holder separately. If you're ordering as a gift, this matters more than it might seem, since it means the recipient gets a finished product rather than a bare card they have to protect themselves. We've built this into the standard price specifically so customers don't feel like they're being nickeled and dimed on protective packaging.

We print the photo essentially as submitted, so quality issues like blur or poor lighting will carry through to the final card rather than being corrected automatically. That's why we recommend reviewing your photo at full size before uploading, checking specifically for sharpness around the face or main subject, since that's where the eye goes first. If a photo looks slightly soft on a phone screen, it will usually look softer once enlarged and printed, so it's worth zooming in before committing. We don't reject photos for quality reasons unless the resolution is so low the image would look obviously pixelated once printed, and in those rare cases we'll flag it before production rather than after. If you have multiple options for the same moment, picking the sharpest and best-lit version will always give you a stronger final card than picking based on composition alone.

Yes, templates include customizable text fields for things like player name, position, stats, team name, and season, and these fields aren't locked to traditional sports categories. If your sport doesn't fit neatly into typical stat boxes, like time trials, distance events, or scored routines, you can relabel or repurpose the fields to fit whatever numbers matter most for that sport. We've seen customers use these fields for personal records, placements, event names, and even short milestone descriptions instead of standard stats. There's no hard limit on how creative you get with the text, as long as it fits within the space the template allows. If you're not sure what to include, keeping it simple with name, event, and one standout number or achievement usually reads cleanest on the finished card.

No, there's no minimum order requirement, and you can order a single card just as easily as a full team pack. This makes it practical for individual families ordering one keepsake card just as much as for coaches ordering twenty at once for an entire roster. Pricing is structured so that ordering in bulk brings the per-card cost down through the pack pricing up to $49.99, but there's no pressure to order more than you actually need. If you're testing the process for the first time, ordering a single card is a low-risk way to see the final quality before committing to a larger team order. Many of our repeat customers, including photographers and team parents, actually started with one single card before coming back for a bigger batch once they saw how it turned out.

If something arrives damaged, misprinted, or clearly different from what you submitted, reach out and we'll work through it directly rather than leaving you stuck with a card you can't use. Because these are personalized products built from your own uploaded photo, we can't offer blanket returns the way a generic retail product might, but production errors on our end are handled case by case. This is part of why we encourage double-checking your photo, text fields, and template choice carefully before finalizing the order, since a typo or a low-resolution photo caught before printing saves everyone time. Most issues we see come from source photo quality rather than production mistakes, which is avoidable by reviewing the upload at full size beforehand. If you're ordering for an event with a hard deadline, it's worth reaching out ahead of time so we can flag any potential quality concerns before the card goes to print rather than after it ships.