Design Custom Playing Cards Online in Under 3 Minutes

It’s never been easier to design custom playing cards online, so whether you’re making a gift or ordering in bulk, the process takes under 3 minutes from start to checkout. Using the design tool is free, you don’t need an account to try it out. If you want to save your creation, though, you will need to create an account.

Before you start designing, though, you need to go to the playing card factory store, then choose from one of two deck templates available. After this, view the pricing and details, then choose how many decks you would like to order (even just one; there’s no minimum). The number of decks you want to order can be changed before checkout. From there, it is just 4 easy steps.

Step 1: Upload your photo

When choosing your photo, you will need to make sure that it is one of the accepted file types for custom playing cards. At the same time, you will need to check that it has the right DPI to ensure that the cards print in high quality.

Step 1: Uploading a photo using the "View Your Computer Files" button in The Playing Card Factory design tool — Click "View Your Computer Files" to upload your image — accepted formats are jpeg, jpg, png, pdf, and svg

Step 2: Crop the photo

Crop the photo to make sure it will appear as you want it to on the card, but follow the instructions guide in the design tool to ensure your personalized playing cards print consistently and that no important text or colour shifts around on the card.

Card design template showing bleed, cut, and safe area guidelines for custom playing cards — The design guide shows the three key zones: bleed area (2.75 x 3.75"), final cut size (2.5 x 3.5"), and safe area for critical content (2.25 x 3.25")

Step 3: Choose the border design

If you would like, you can choose a border design that cuts off the image at a certain point, for aesthetic purposes. You don’t need to choose one, however. Once you’re happy with the border, you can move on to reviewing your order.

Step 3: Border design selection menu in The Playing Card Factory online design tool — Choose from a variety of border styles — including rectangles, ovals, and funky shapes — or skip this step entirely

Step 4: Review your order and check out

Here, you can review how many decks you wanted to order. You can also, change the names of the decks for better organization, but this is not a necessary step. After this, you will proceed to checkout, filling out your shipping and payment information.

Step 4: Product options and order review page for custom playing cards on The Playing Card Factory — Review your card name, style, and number of decks before saving and adding to cart

Watch this short video to see how to design custom playing cards online:

Start designing your own custom playing cards today, and try the design tool free, no account needed!

After taking just 5 minutes to design your cards, place your order. As a Canadian playing card manufacturer, we ship across Canada and internationally for orders of around 12 decks or fewer between 4 and 5 days from placing the order. For larger orders, we need more lead time. If you have specific needs concerning shipping times, please reach out to us at [email protected], and we can discuss options to see what we can do.

If you’re planning to make playing cards of your own, you might want to know how long it takes to receive your order. Check out our other blog posts to learn more!