Cards
A custom card in seconds.
Drawn in ink. Written for them. Made from the moments you’ve kept. Developed in seconds — sent by text for free, or printed and mailed to their door.
Sketchbook
Ink, not clip art.
Every cover is drawn in the same hand — loose ink, quick and a little splattered, color where it counts. Set them side by side and they look like one studio’s work, not a folder of stock images. That was the point.
They reach further than most card racks. A barber’s chair, a garage, a corner office, a drafting table. A teddy bear in an armchair, a toy train, a nursery. A single lily and a lit window for a loss. Red heels, a motorcycle, a fly-fishing basket, a record player. Pumpkins on a step, a sleigh in the snow, Santa with the team. The people you’d struggle to find a card for — a man, a colleague, someone who just lost a parent — are the ones this set was built around.
The set keeps growing — new covers arrive ahead of each holiday, and sometimes just because.
How it’s made
Six taps.
Pick the occasion.
Birthday, thank you, new baby, sympathy, a new job, just because — eighteen in all.
Pick the front.
A Sketchbook cover, your own photo, up to five photos in a layout, or the canvas you’ve built together.
Pick the words, then add your own.
Hearthen offers a few messages written for the occasion — tap one, change it if you like. Then say what you want to say, in your own words: two words or two pages, the card makes room. The greeting knows who they are — “Dear Ana,” for your sister, “Ana,” for a client.
Add your photos and your moments.
Your photos, on a background you choose or inside a painted check frame. And moments from your history with them — the note, the photo, the date.
Design all four sides.
Front, inside left, inside right, back. Tap any of them and change it. Move a moment or a photo to another side, make it bigger or smaller, put a frame on it.
Look it over, and send.
Both spreads, outside and inside. Then by text or email, free — or printed and mailed.
The card only you could send
Made from what you two have built
Every card can carry your history together. The canvas you’ve built — every hello you’ve sent them, in one picture. Your moments — the afternoon at the zoo with the photo you took, the note from the night she got the job, the Sunday lunch — each one dated. The canvas on the front, the moments inside.
It reminds them of the moments. And it tells them you cared enough to keep them.
This Christmas
Get your Christmas cards done — everyone, in one sitting, mailed
Pick a design. Add photos from the year and your family name. Write the note once — Hearthen puts each person’s name inside. Pick everyone on your list, look them over, pay once. We print them on quality card stock and mail every one, out within two business days.
$7 for one. $5 each for fifteen. Start now and they’re in the mail before December.
For the days you send a lot of them
Everyone on your list, in one sitting
The holidays, Mother’s Day, a graduation, a thank-you to the whole team — the days you send a lot of cards are the days none of them get to be personal. Here they do. Pick the people. Hearthen makes a card for each of them — the same design, but their name inside and their own moments around it — and lines them up for you. Look them over, change any you want, pay once. We print every card and mail each to its own address.
No box from the store. No envelopes. No addresses by hand. No post office. Every card still theirs; none of the work yours.
$7 for one. $6 each for five or more. $5 each for fifteen or more. Plus postage.
Send it
By text or email, free — or printed and mailed
By text or email
Send it by text or email, and it lands in their Messages as an image, free.
Printed and mailed
Quality card stock and archival pigment ink — the kind of card people notice, and keep — printed and mailed to the address you choose, out within two business days.
What we see
Payment is handled by Stripe; we never see your card number. To print and mail a card we receive its design and the mailing addresses, and delete them after 30 days.
Four covers are free — the toast, the office, the barber shop, the trophy. The rest come with Premium.
Be the one who shows up.
One month free — every feature, nothing to cancel, nothing to remember. Never charged unless you choose Premium. Private by design.