Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory

by Nova Development US

Product Features

• The Easiest and most Complete Greeting Card Program
• Dozens of Creative Projects. Greeting Cards, Announcements, Invitations,
• Electronic Greeting Cards, Labels and Stickers, Photo Projects, crafts,
• Thank you Notes, Invitations and dozens more porjects.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000050AWM
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 12, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,865 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #95 in Software > Graphics > Home Publishing > Greeting Cards
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

A fast and easy way to create greeting cards and more, Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory is not only fun, it is also quite functional. Greeting Card Factory can assist anyone in creating colorful and attractive presentations to share with friends and family. Clearly not a program intended for professional use, Greeting Card Factory can be shared together with children and adults in producing many different kinds of arrangements.

The application's quick-start menu gives users a wide selection of available projects: greeting cards, photo cards, announcements, invitations, envelopes, labels, postcards, gift tags, e-cards, stationery, signs, posters, and crafts. Each one of these sections then includes a diverse range of categories. Users can personalize projects within these categories, or use the templates provided. Furthermore, each category has the option to work with a blank template, allowing a more creative person to completely customize their projects.

The most exciting and original feature of Greeting Card Factory is the crafts section. In this section, an engaging and unique offering of projects is available to the user. Such projects include: craft cards with gift enclosures and money holders, book covers, bookmarks, door hangers, envelopes, gift bags, gift baskets, gift boxes, masks, origami, paper airplanes, party hats, and tickets.

One major drawback to using Greeting Card Factory is the e-card section. As e-cards are becoming an increasingly popular form of missive, this was an extremely important section to us. However, we found that Greeting Card Factory does not support the use of any mail program other than Microsoft Outlook. If using Microsoft Outlook, Greeting Card Factory will send your e-card in the widely compatible form of a JPG file. However, if using any other kind of program, the recipient of your e-card cannot easily read your attachment.

We found the combination of sophisticated publishing tools, combined with the simplicity of graphics and auto-functions, made Greeting Card Factory an extremely user-friendly application. The clip art available within the program ranges from breathtaking photographs to colorful cartoons and animations. All in all, Greeting Card Factory came through on all its promises: to help anyone create greeting cards and much more for special occasions, holidays, or just for fun. --Kendra Hayden

Product Description

Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory. Millions of unique Greeting Card Possibilities, 5,000+ Exclusive Greeting cards, 25,000 Graphics, 3,400 Sentiments , 300+ Fonts, Electronic Greeting Cards and much more.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, July 16, 2001

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Joyce E. Archer (Lauderhill, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory (CD-ROM)

This program is awesome. I presently own American Creetings Creator Card 5, Print Shop Deluxe 10, Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2 and I really do not think any of them can touch this program. Actually I just asked a friend to pick up a copy of the Deluxe version for me.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best I've Ever Used, June 13, 2003

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Betelgeuse (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory (CD-ROM)

This is great software at a great price. I've used American Greetings CreataCard and Hallmark Card Studio, but this one has them beat. The versatility, selection and total creative control this program gives you puts it in a class by itself. Many will find it hard to use because it does offer such variety and control of all aspects of card creation. With limited choices and "canned" card designs, CreataCard and Card Studio are easier to use. But if you really want to be able to create all sorts of cards, labels, stationary, etc from scratch or be able to modify to the last detail the designs that are available, this program is for you. It truly is an explosion and endless arangement of graphics and fonts, as well as your own digital photos.

UPDATE FEB 2010: My Epson 820 printer died, so I bought another. Decided to get a Lexmark 7675 Pro at a good price. I have a LAN with Frontier DSL High Speed Internet and Lexmark Tech Support helped setting up the wireless printer. Nova's Greeting Card software (Version 7) will not print out any old saved cards or new templates. The sheets coming out are just blank or with chicken tracks on them. Other Windows applications like Word, Excel and map software print out fine. Lexmark says that Nova has to come up with a updated printer driver. I have sent an e-mail to them but have yet to receive a reply. I have a sense that a number of people are seeing printing problems with Greeting Card software, both Nova and Hallmark. Too bad. Guess I'll be buying my cards from now on.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome graphics!, November 27, 2002

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RayLinStephens "raylin" (MS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory (CD-ROM)

I loved this program enough to purchase their Christian Greeting Card Factory and just ordered Greeting Card Factory 2. The only problem I had with this particular program (and I own many others: Print Shop 10, Print Master 12, CreataCard 7 Gold, Am.Greetings Sprititual Expressions 6) is for some unknown reason, I had to use print preview or parts of the card would be missing (mostly the bottom and one side border). The graphics are so good, it was worth the extra bother. To the person needing help, their online technical services are wonderful and fast. And FREE as opposed to sitting on the phone forever and for $$. Happy Printing!