Thank-You Card Templates and Generators

Adobe Express contains a robust suite of tools and templates that you can use to create nearly any type of media product, including thank-you cards. If you’re a K–12 educator, you can get the Adobe Express for Education version for free.

To create your thank-you card, navigate to Adobe Express for Education and set up your account.

Once you’ve done that, you are ready to begin creating. The simplest approach is to click in the search box at the top of the screen where it says “Search Everything” and type in “Thank you.” Then, click “Enter.”

You will get over 19,000 results, which can certainly be a little overwhelming. To help with that, there are category limiters at the top that allow you to limit your results to templates, photos, videos, backgrounds, design assets, or webpage templates.

The simplest option is to choose the “Templates” limiter and then select the additional filter titled “Thank-you card.”

Once you’ve done that, you will have access to a sidebar of additional limiters, such as output type, subject, grade level, style, mood, and type. This is a pretty common experience when you use Adobe Express. There are options everywhere that can help speed up your process, limit your search, or help you customize your creation.

Scroll through the options on the page, and when you see something that you like, click on it. Then, click the “Customize template” button to get started creating your personalized version of this card.

At this point you are ready to make this card your own. You can keep what you like from the template and change the rest. To edit the text, simply click in the text box and change the wording as desired.

You can customize text formatting in various ways, such as font style, outline thickness, opacity, and text effects. You can also choose options for modifying design elements, adding media, and translating the text. If you want to change the size of the document, you can click on the resize option to select a custom size or select a preset. Adobe Express offers preset options for just about any type of social media post, video, document type, poster, or webpage.

In short, you can use the template as is, customize some of it, or go for a total redesign. It’s really up to you.

Because Express is an Adobe product, they have embedded image editing features found in their industry-leading Adobe Photoshop application. There are options for removing image backgrounds, erasing parts of an image, removing unwanted objects, and even inserting AI-generated elements into an existing image. If you click the “Media” menu on the left, you will also have quick access to the Adobe Firefly image generator. This conveniently lets you create an AI-generated image from a text prompt. Once it’s generated, you can add it to your project.

After you’ve finished designing your card, you have several available options for sharing it:

• Download it. You can then take that file and either print it or embed it in another digital document.
• Share it with others via a link. This is a great option if you plan to include it in an email or text message. There are also quick options to share it to Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. You can save it to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive if you want to share it from those spaces.
• Assign it to a class. You would use this option if you wanted your students to design and share their own thank-you cards. By clicking the “Assign” button, you can share it with any class that you have set up. You can add an assignment title, instructions, and a due date. You can even preview it in student view before assigning it.

With these options, you can share your message in many different ways. You can email it, post it on social media, insert it into a newsletter, put it on your website, or mail a printed copy. The choice is yours.