Beautiful Card Front Designs for Cards, Journals, and Creative Paper Crafts

Decorative card fronts are a wonderful way to elevate handmade projects while saving time on design and layout. Whether you enjoy making greeting cards, journaling, scrapbooking, or creative paper crafts, a well-designed 5x7 card front can serve as a beautiful foundation for many different uses.

The designs featured in this post showcase a romantic cottage-inspired style, blending soft florals, hearts, painterly textures, and vintage details. These versatile card fronts can be used for heartfelt correspondence, memory keeping, gift-giving, or simply adding beauty to your paper craft collection.

Why Card Fronts Are So Versatile

Card fronts are more than just the front of a greeting card — they can become creative building blocks for a wide variety of projects. Because they are already sized and visually complete, they’re easy to incorporate into both simple and advanced crafts.

Here are some popular ways to use 5x7 card fronts:

* Create handmade greeting cards for birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions

* Use as flat cards for journaling, scrapbooking, or memory keeping

* Add to junk journals as tuck-ins, pockets, or decorative pages

* Mount onto folded cardstock for a polished, professional-looking card

* Frame as small decorative art for shelves, desks, or gallery walls

* Include in happy mail, pen-pal letters, or gift enclosures

Their standard 5x7 size makes them easy to print, trim, and pair with readily available envelopes.

About the Card Front Designs in This Collection

Each design in this set has its own mood and character while maintaining a cohesive romantic and cottage-style aesthetic.

Cottage House with Roses

A charming pink cottage surrounded by climbing roses and soft greenery creates a dreamy, storybook feel. This design works beautifully for housewarming notes, spring greetings, or warm, heartfelt messages.

Blush Heart with Floral Accents

This card front features a textured blush heart surrounded by delicate florals and soft embellishments. It’s ideal for romantic occasions, friendship cards, anniversaries, or sweet “thinking of you” notes.

Painterly Heart with Rose Stem

A bold heart paired with a graceful rose stem and layered textures gives this design a mixed-media, artistic look. It’s especially well suited for art journals, handmade cards, and creative paper crafting.

Vintage Rose on Scripted Paper

With its aged paper background, handwritten script, and classic rose imagery, this design has an elegant vintage charm. It’s perfect for memory keeping, journaling, or refined handmade correspondence.

Printing Tips for Best Results

For the most professional finish, print these card fronts on white cardstock rather than standard printer paper. Cardstock provides better durability and a higher-quality feel.

Helpful printing tips:

* Print at 100% scale

* Use your printer’s best or high-quality setting

* Allow ink to dry completely before trimming

* Mount onto folded cardstock or use as flat cards, depending on your project

Downloading the Card Fronts

To save the card fronts to your computer, right-click each image and choose “Save image as…”.

©2026-SJ Stalter - These designs are intended for personal use in handmade projects and creative crafting.

If you enjoy card making, journaling, and printable paper crafts, feel free to bookmark this page — more designs and creative resources will continue to be added over time.

Happy crafting, and enjoy creating something beautiful.

 

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