You’re putting together a postcard mailing campaign for your favorite politician or are working with your child on a project to send postcards to people in all 50 states in hopes that you’ll get mail back from all of them. Now, since your idea isn’t already a postcard design, you need to figure out the ins and outs of printing postcards that are custom designs.

If you don’t have much design experience and you really want to pass the job on to someone else. Just tell someone what you want to see, okay the proof and you’re done. Now all you need to do is address the cards, slap on some stamps and give them to your longsuffering postal carrier.

For people who feel a bit more confident with design, making your own postcard really is simple. To be successful with your design, you should:

• Be careful when you are choosing font colors. A light color on a light background or a dark color on a dark background can be very frustrating for people to read.
• Avoid cluttering up the card. Less is definitely more when you are designing postcards.