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Hollow Card Generator

Hollow Card Generator

Pick a template or fill a heart, a star, or a butterfly with cut-out patterns, and the generator cuts the shape clean through the card front. Choose the fold-up style and the petals stay attached on little bridges, lifting off the page. Add AI cover art, a colored greeting, and a backing paper, check the lift in 3D, then export a print-and-cut file.

How It Works

From a blank card front to a card with light coming through it, in three steps.

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Pick a Template or Build the Hollow Shape

Start from templates like Flower Heart, Butterfly Moon, or Christmas Star — or build your own: choose a heart, star, moon, letter, or hexagon and fill it with patterns such as flowers, stars, and moons. Set size, spacing, and rotation, or shuffle the layout until it looks right.

02

Dress the Card Around the Cutout

Choose a solid color, a gradient, or a pattern like Gingham or Starry night for the background. Generate cover art with AI or from a reference image, sprinkle a preset element set, and write your greeting below the cutout — printed in color, with icons like a bow or a tulip beside it.

03

Choose the Cut Style and Export

Decide between full cut and fold-up, then orbit the card in 3D to see how the lifted petals will look. The exported SVG carries color printing and vector cutting layers in one file, with the backing paper's outline placed beside the card, ready for print then cut.

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Petals and Wings That Lift Off the Page

Fold-up is the cut style that makes a flat card three-dimensional. Instead of dropping every piece out, it leaves a small uncut bridge on each flower and wing, so after cutting you lift them by hand and they stand — a meadow of petals on the front of the card. The 3D preview shows the finished lift before you cut a single sheet, and the generator warns you if any shape sits too close to the edge or the spine and risks tearing.

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Petals and Wings That Lift Off the Page

A Hollow Shape Filled with Patterns You Arrange

Choose a heart, a star, a moon, a butterfly, a letter for a monogram, or a hexagon, and fill it with an array of small cut-out motifs. You set the size, the spacing, and the rotation; add auxiliary circles or a dotted filler; and shuffle the layout for a fresh arrangement. If the pattern can't fit, the generator scales it into the shape with a 6 mm border rather than letting pieces fall apart.

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A Hollow Shape Filled with Patterns You Arrange

Elements That Arrange Themselves Around the Art

Describe a theme — a tropical summer party with palm leaves and pineapples — and AI draws a set of elements and sprinkles them across the cover, automatically stepping around the cutout shape, the greeting, and the card edges. Fine-tune by tapping any element to move, duplicate, or delete it, or start from a preset set like Birthday Party, Floral, or Autumn Leaves and shuffle until the balance looks right.

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Elements That Arrange Themselves Around the Art

A Colored Greeting and a Backing Paper Hue

The greeting prints in color below the cutout, in your choice of font, size, and shade, with small icons like a crown or a sparkle beside it. Behind the hollow shape, a backing paper shows its own color through every opening — the generator places its same-size outline beside the card in the export, so what you print and what you cut stay aligned, and the paper color reads as material, not ink.

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A Colored Greeting and a Backing Paper Hue

Who Makes Hollow Cards

A card that plays with light and shadow tends to be the one that stays on the shelf.

Card Senders Who Want Depth

Send a card whose petals stand up and whose heart lets the light through — more than a flat print, less work than paper engineering.

Laser & Paper Crafters

Turn cardstock offcuts into intricate cut work, with bridges and warnings already handled by the tool.

Holiday Card Makers

Start from Christmas Star, Winter Wishes, or Birthday Wishes and cut a small batch of cards in one evening.

Small Shops & Custom Orders

Offer monogram cards with the customer's initial cut in patterns, swapping only the letter between orders.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Hollow Card Generator and how does it work?

It is an online tool for designing a decorative cut-out greeting card. You pick a template or build a hollow shape — a heart, star, butterfly, or monogram letter — filled with small cut-out patterns, decorate the cover around it, and write a colored greeting. The generator exports one SVG with color printing and vector cutting layers, so you print the sheet first and then cut it on your machine.

What is the difference between full cut and fold-up?

Can I cut my own shape or a monogram letter?

Will the decorations cover the cutout or the greeting?

What does the backing paper do?

What do I get when I export?

Can I use AI for the cover art?

What card sizes work, and will the design tear?

Is the Hollow Card Generator free to use?

Invite friends to register and both of you get credits.