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Diwali is the festival of lights, and it’s time to be creative with your Diwali wishes! This festive season, replace generic greeting cards for Diwali with unique Diwali cards. Light up your celebrations with the Canva Diwali greeting card maker. Design with ease using our vast selection of beautiful festive templates. Add your personal touch with creative fonts and elements to create unique, heartfelt Diwali greeting cards. Download and share your personalized Diwali cards with loved ones for free.

Create stunning Diwali cards and spread festive joy

Each one of us has a unique Diwali memory that we’ll always cherish. For some, it’s sweets, Diwali cards, gifts, and new clothes. For others, it’s crackers, lights, and rangoli art. This time around, put in a little extra effort to create unforgettable memories for your friends and family with a gift basket and personalized Happy Diwali cards.

Creating a one-of-a-kind greeting card for Diwali is possible with our free online Diwali greeting card maker. Thanks to our abundance of professionally designed card templates⁠(opens in a new tab or window) and simple design tools that help in making a unique Diwali card easily. Give your Diwali e-card a personal touch by adding your family photo or some beautiful Diwali wishes with our drag-and-drop feature.

Try our Diwali card maker and delight your loved ones with Diwali wishes cards and gifts that are as luminous as the Festival of Lights.

How to make a Diwali card

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Launch Canva and type "Diwali Card" in the search bar to start making a Diwali card.

Choose a template

Explore Canva’s online library of free ready-made Diwali card design templates. You’ll find a wide range of layouts, from colorful, ornate styles to classic holiday and festival motifs. Filter by color, layout, or theme.

Explore features

Once you’ve chosen a Diwali card template, customize it to your priorities. Upload your photos and use our built-in photo editor to enhance them. Then, add heartfelt messages and well-wishes.

Personalize your card

Our online Diwali card maker has thousands of free stock photos, stickers, illustrations, and other Diwali graphics to make your card for Diwali stand out. You can rearrange the design elements and add creative fonts. Choose your own background, color scheme, and effect, too. If you’re making a digital greeting card for Diwali, use the Animated video tool to create movement.

Print or share

Share your Diwali greeting card directly online via email, whatsApp or social media using the “Share” button. Or download and save your work as a print-ready PDF. You can also order your personalized Diwali cards from Canva Print.

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Launch Canva and type "Diwali Card" in the search bar to start making a Diwali card.

Once you’ve chosen a Diwali card template, customize it to your priorities. Upload your photos and use our built-in photo editor to enhance them. Then, add heartfelt messages and well-wishes.

Make a Diwali card

Create a truly personal Diwali greeting

We are all about making design amazingly simple. Thanks to our easy-to-use editing, and drag-and-drop tools. You can take one of our free Diwali greeting card templates and customize them as far as your imagination allows. You can even create unique layouts and save them for future design creation. Once you're done using our Diwali greeting card maker, your card gets automatically saved, so you can use it for next year’s party.

Make your card for Diwali even more special with a special wish. Canva has pre-made font combinations, so your loving greeting cards for Diwali will always look good. Just pick a pre-made text combination and replace it with your own well-wishes. There are hundreds of fonts to choose from.

Personalize your Diwali greeting card with photos

Surprise your loved ones with happy Diwali wishes filled with family photos or pictures of warm memories. Easily upload a photo and use it on your Diwali cards. Simply drag the photo to your card design, resize it, and spruce it up with our online photo editor⁠(opens in a new tab or window) (opens in a new tab or window). Plus, it’s all 100% free.

Share the light of Diwali with everyone

Once you’re done working on our Diwali card maker, you have a lot of sharing options to send your Diwali greeting card online: send it through email, tweet it, post it on Facebook, or share your greeting cards for Diwali via WhatsApp with your loved ones. Just by clicking the “Share” button, you can send your Diwali festival well-wishes to local and overseas friends and celebrate the Festival of Lights with everyone.

You can also print your custom Diwali card. All you have to do is save it in the recommended PDF-print format. This option downloads your design in high resolution, so it will look as good in person as it does on screen. Your Diwali gift basket will surely look awesome with these beautiful festive cards⁠(opens in a new tab or window).

FAQ

When you compose a Diwali card message, you can use simple but heartfelt phrases like “May millions of lamps illuminate your life with endless joy,” or you can try our Magic Write, an AI-powered text generator, to inspire you on what to write on your Diwali card. These will surely warm the heart of the person you’re sending them to.

To make stunning Diwali cards, choose a vibrant hue for the background. Use festive party colors such as red, purple, and gold. Try out elegant fonts like Berkshire Swash or Celandine to make greeting cards for Diwali. Our free online Diwali card maker also lets you add icons and images of lights, diyas, candles, good food and sweets, fireworks, firecrackers, stars, gifts, and jewels. Upload your own photos to add a personal touch to your holiday cards.

To respond to a Diwali greeting, simply send back a card or message expressing your gratitude and mutual warm wishes. You can design your own Diwali greeting cards for free using our Diwali card maker. Or send them a text, email, or social media message saying “Thank you for your greetings. Hope your Diwali is a blessed and bright one.”

When you’re making Diwali greeting cards, try using popular festival colors like yellow, gold, red, magenta, blue, and purple. But you can create Diwali cards in any color of the rainbow, especially if it’s the favorite color of the recipient. No matter the hues, the important thing is you share the joy of the Festival of Lights with your loved ones.

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