Hallmark Card Studio 2009 Deluxe

by Creative Home

Product Features

• Commemorate events and bridge the miles between family and friends with custom calendars, photo frames, stationery, invitations, scrapbooks, certificates and more
• 9,000+ Hallmark cards and projects for all occasions--birthdays, holidays, weddings and more
• Exclusive Hallmark fonts and sentiments, 1,200+ new designs, and 16,000+ clip art images: Complement your cards with sensational artwork
• Easily add your own photos to cards and enhance them using Card Studio's digital photo editor
• Send your customized cards and projects via e-mail with just one click

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001G842OK
• Item model number: HZWT
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 17, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (103 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,201 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #18 in Software > Graphics > Home Publishing > Greeting Cards
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com

For more than 90 years Hallmark has designed greeting cards for life's special moments. Hallmark Card Studio 2009 Deluxe extends this tradition, making it easy to create one-of-a-kind Hallmark cards as unique as the people you care for. In three simple steps you can add personal photos, sentiments and clip art images of your choosing.

Select from thousands of cards, invitations, stickers and more. Click to enlarge.

Commemorate events with custom calendars and more. Click to enlarge.

Easily add your own photos to cards and enhance them using Card Studio's digital photo editor. Click to enlarge.

The #1 Greeting Card Software

Our new Deluxe 2009 version includes:

• 9,000+ Hallmark Cards and Projects: Design cards for all occasions--birthdays, holidays, weddings and more.
  
  
• 1,200+ New Designs
  
  
• 16,000+ Clip Art Images: Complement your cards with sensational artwork.
  
  
• Brand New Animated User Interface
  
  
• 3D Cards and Projects
  
  
• New--Photo Calendars and Photo Cards
  
  
• Exclusive Hallmark Fonts and Sentiments
  
  
• Event Planner: Stay organized with address books, mailing lists and date notification.
  
  
• Enhanced Digital Photography Features: Easily add your own photos to cards and enhance them using Card Studio's digital photo editor.
  
  
• Hallmark E-Cards: Send your personalized cards and projects via e-mail with just one click.

Hallmark Card Studio 2009 Deluxe makes it easy to create one-of-a-kind Hallmark cards as unique as the people you care for. Click to enlarge.

Create personalized cards in 3 easy steps.

But cards are just the beginning. Commemorate events and bridge the miles between family and friends with custom calendars, photo frames, stationery, invitations, scrapbooks, certificates and more! It's amazing what you and Hallmark can do together!

Creating Your Own Cards Is Faster, Easier and More Fun than Ever

Create personalized cards in 3 easy steps:

1. Select from thousands of cards, invitations, stickers and more
2. Add your own unique message or personal photos. Then change fonts, colors or graphics.
3. Print, email or create a PDF of your one-of-a-kind creation.

Personalize cards and projects with your digital photos.

• Correct any photo, remove red eye and apply special effects with a host of easy-to-use tools in our Digital Photo Editor.
• Use photos for photo cubes, photo cards, photo calendars, photo frames, and more

Custom greetings for virtually every event and occasion:

Birthdays Friends Family Kids And more! Holidays Boss's Day Christmas Easter, Father's Day Grandparents Day Halloween Hanukkah Kwanzaa Mother's Day New Year's Passover Rosh Hashanah St. Patrick's Day Thanksgiving Valentine's Day And More! Special Days Bar/Bat mitzvah Communion Graduation New Baby Retirement Wedding And More!

Day by Day Congratulations Encouragement Friendship Get Well Just Because Thank You And More! Creative Projects Announcements Calendars Certificates Envelopes Gift Boxes Gift Tags Invitations Mini Albums Photo Cubes Photo Frames Postcards Scrapbook Pages Stationery And More!

Also Includes

Event Planner
Keep track of the birthdays and anniversaries of the important people in your life. Date notification means you'll never miss an important Hallmark card event again.

Scrapbooks
Commemorate the special events in your family's life by creating beautiful scrapbooks you'll treasure forever.

Hallmark e-Cards
Email personalized cards for any occasion. Plus, add music and prerecorded sounds.

All of the Quality and Variety You've Come to Expect from Hallmark

Product Description

For more than 90 years Hallmark has designed greeting cards for life's special moments. Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2009 extends this tradition, making it easy to create one-of-a-kind Hallmark cards as unique as the people you care for. In three simple steps you can add personal photos, sentiments, and clip art images of your choosing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Product! I May Never Buy Another Greeting Card Again!, December 16, 2008

By 

George McAdams (Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hallmark Card Studio 2009 Deluxe (DVD-ROM)

I got the "bright" idea that I would make my own Christmas cards. It wasn't a matter of cost. It was just that now that I'm retired, I thought I could burn-up some creative energy.

I had used a couple of programs in the past for an occasional card, but I'd never undertaken a project quite this ambitious, or so I thought. I tried the programs I had on hand, but they didn't seem to want to work with my new computer with Vista, even the Microsoft programs. So, I thought I'd try Hallmark Card Studio.

Unlike some other reviewers, I shut-down my firewall and turned-off my User Account Controls (Vista does not like this, but what I've found lately is that with the computers reacting so fast, and being so protective, when a program, especially one that hadn't ever been installed on a particular computer, sends an installation instruction to the computer, the computer blocks it, often times before your little "window" pops-up asking you for permission to have the program access your computer's system. Since the window is up, and you haven't clicked "OK" in that split second, the computer stops the installation process right there.

Other times, the "window" asking you for permission is hidden behind another window. So, if you're installing this product, or even another, on Vista, or even XP, take down your firewall (on Vista, you can allot for a certain length of time that the firewall is down, in case you forget about bringing it back-up) and turn-off your User Account Controls.

That said, I found the "2009" version of Hallmark Card Studio an extensive program that put my Mac software and previous versions of card software to shame.

It is a little tricky on replacing the text in the cards, and it had an issue understanding that my printers duplex (print on both sides of a page without you having to physically turn the page over), but the results were phenomenal. I would really like to give the program four and one-half stars, but there's no way to do that.

One aspect that I really liked about Hallmark was that I could easily insert a picture in the cards. Not all card programs allow you to do that easily.

With regards to printing, I had picked-up some Hallmark Half-Fold Matte blank greeting card paper Hallmark Blank Greeting Cards Half-fold Matte Premium 20 Count, too. As I started printing the cards, I used first some Avery card stock I had, then used the Hallmark paper. The difference was unbelievable. The colors on the Hallmark paper were vivid! I'm posting examples of the print quality in a review of the Hallmark paper. You may want to check that out.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I received the Install abort error too., January 10, 2009

By 

D. P. Schroeder "Paukenwirbel" (Astride the Carolinas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hallmark Card Studio 2009 Deluxe (DVD-ROM)

First, please note -- people who are experiencing install abort errors are NOT hallucinating or performing their installations incorrectly.

First, my installation DVD hung, with the drive even periodically pausing as if it couldn't read the disc, but after a while it recovered, only to end up with a catastrophic failure during install on a Vista computer that FAR exceeds the minimum system requirements.

I followed the really non-specific installation instructions to the letter, and here is the error I received during MY installation--

"Error 1334
The file
'_2FAD9EEBC5660B68AB9666A141A53D73' cannot be installed because the file cannot be found in cabinet file 'Data11.cab'...."

I can't even read the complete error message because it won't fit in the error text box! Ellipses in error messages sure don't help one to trouble-shoot the problem! This error occurred during two attempted installations, separated by a "cold-boot."

On their support page, there are two other installation errors listed other than this one that occur "for some reason" (nice explanation!)! To this _experienced_ computer user, these are signs that the software has not been adequately beta-tested, and since I'm not getting paid to perform that service for Hallmark, and since I see that this problem is not unique to me and this particular DVD alone, I'm sending the program back.

My guess is that Hallmark has hired out its DVD authoring to a sub-par DVD authoring company, as they have a FAQ on their site that some people are having read errors on CD 5 of Card Studio 2008, and they have a link to help you get a working disc.

Hopefully Hallmark will take note of the error and flurry of complaints and produce a less error-prone product that we can all enjoy in the future.

There are plenty of other greeting card software packages to choose from: I'll try one of them instead. In my opinion, this one is not worth the trouble.
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Update Jan. 12, 2008
I took this program back to the store I purchased it from, and they suggested trying another copy in case it was a bad disc. Okeydokey. Well, this one gives me EXACTLY the same file read-error as the last. This makes me think there must be a bad batch of discs out there if multiple copies are missing the same file -- or if the file is unreadable on any of the ones in that batch. AVOID!!!!
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Update Feb. 23, 2009

After responding to their support offer of Jan. 22, I still have had no response regarding my questions about the Vista 64-bit install/disk-read error problems. Draw your own conclusions....
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Update March 04, 2009

I have received another contact from the Senior Technical Supervisor at Nova Development, and he's supposedly sending me the latest build of the software disk directly from their labs. Will post results.

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Update May 17, 2009

I did receive the newest build from the software developer/subcontractor for Hallmark, and, as noted in the comments below, the program now loads without errors on a Vista 64-bit machine, but there is an error notice in installing the Microsoft component needed to run the program.

However, I've successfully printed a few cards without problems, so I hope the original issues were fixed. No way to know without further testing.

I'd like to raise my review to 2 stars now that it's apparently working, but, for some reason, Amazon.com won't allow me to do that. Still, I have misgivings about this software: no customer should have to return multiple copies, ultimately having to wait for the software manufacturer to ship the "latest build" directly to them. Why not just wait until the bugs have all been fixed before releasing it, causing multiple problems for the customer?

In short, I'm happy it seems to work, but I wish it didn't take so much work just to get a functional copy.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice & Simple with enough features, December 25, 2008

By 

Po Po - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hallmark Card Studio 2009 Deluxe (DVD-ROM)

Over the years I bought Broderbund's Print Shop and PrintMaster Deluxe software for most of my cards & graphics projects, plus other brands for variety, but since I had to get new software again for the new computer with Windows Vista I decided to try Hallmark for a change.

The software installed easily, and I like that you can install all the graphics too instead of having to use the disc each time!

I like the Hallmark program and graphics & designs very much. The software is easy to use intuitively, and has some nice features. I like many of the pre-designed cards as they are; usually with other card programs I end up making many changes to the pre-designed cards and projects (especially the text which is often too maudlin or mushy), and it's very time-consuming. This Hallmark deluxe program is great when you want a decent card fairly quickly. The DVD was in a box with a manual.