Cheap Hallmark Card Studio 2003 (Software) (Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP) Price

Related Products

Customer Reviews of Hallmark Card Studio 2003

Hallmark Card Studio 2003
I want to say that I think Hallmark cards shop is a good program for people who like to make their own cards and do not want a complicated program, but nice variety in the selection and categories for an affordable price. I originally purchased Hallmark Card Studio 2 for my parents who are in their 70's and just learning how to use the computer first time in their life and love making their own cards for all their Senior friends. They have told me frequently they use this program over Create it card program. My father was never into cards and now he really enjoys making cards using his Hallmarks studio 2003. I decided to purchase Hallmarks Card studio 2003 for them and they love the variety of cards in this selection on this program. I highly recommend this for anyone who has parents that don't like anything complicated for them to learn. My mother has trouble with sizing images which she does not have very good mouse control. By using this program she has flexibility of using another arrow feature for sizing her graphics which is only a simple of clicking the up and down arrows and with just one click on the card you select it will zoom the card in nicely for viewing which my mother loves these two features. My father was impressed with this program having much more categories of cards to choose from since they were using Hallmark card studio 2 prior to using this program. The only thing I saw that I did not like is how the program guides you to configuring your printer for a two sided project, which does not give you many choices and my parents HP printer did not completely match the configuration in the program. Otherwise the program is easy to use and very simple for a beginner. I would not recommend this program for someone who likes to do more than selecting a different graphic for their card or make simple changes to the wording and font of the card, which is all this program really does! I was very impressed with the features to sending a card by e-mail was very easy to use. This is a very simple program for someone who does not want all the extra features that they probably will not use. It has another nice feature of making your own labels, stationery, stickers printed envelopes. I hope this review was helpful to others that are looking into a simple card shop or more advance publisher program for card making which would not be for them.

---

Good Program made worse...
Upgraded from the earlier version of Hallmark Card Studio. Noticed right away that the nice graphic telling you how to flip the paper over to make a 2-sided card was much smaller and much more difficult to see how I should flip the paper to the correct orientation, but I didn't let that deter me.

Graphics are nice, and you get a reasonable selection, but once you narrow your search down, it isn't that impressive of a selection anymore, and really didn't add that many more cards from the last version. You will eventually run into problems printing particular cards for which Sierra has posted fixes. However...

After some update (need to keep Windows updated after all), I can no longer print any cards. Sierra takes forever to fix their bugs or to help you out. Might be tempted to blame the Windows update...but if that were true, all my programs would be broken, not just this one. Truth be told, Sierra doesn't do a particularly good job of programming or support...

---

Much better than going to the card store
This product is incredibly easy to use. There are so many cards and projects to choose from and they are all organized by category. I like being able to personalize the back of the card where it says "created just for you by me". I don't understand why people want to cover up the Hallmark symbol on the back of the card. That's one of the things I like most about this product, especially since you can print them on Hallmark paper and send them in a Hallmark envelope. They look like you bought the cards at the store (but they are personalized). This was a great purchase.