Birthdays & Milestone Years — Greeting Cards by Life Milestone

Birthdays are the most-sent card in the world — and the easiest to send badly. The right card for a one-year-old is not the right card for a fortieth, and the right card for your sister is not the right card for the colleague who shares your favorite coffee shop. This category groups every birthday-shaped card on CardCraft by the relationship and the milestone, so you can find the wording that fits the moment instead of the wording that fits the calendar.

Inside this category you'll find 12 distinct occasion pages, each one with curated wording samples in three lengths, a design-tip block calibrated to the occasion's tone, and a printable template preview sized for standard 5×7 card stock. Sender-craft enthusiasts may also enjoy our companion reading list on stationery and correspondence — a quiet handful of resources we return to when building this category.

The defining quality of the cards in Birthdays & Milestone Years is what we call tonal restraint: every front-of-card design is opinionated about its visual direction, but every interior is left meaningfully blank. The mood across the category is warm, generous, a little bit of sparkle, and the palette below is the working color system we draw from when designing new templates for these occasions.

Working palette for this category

These four colors anchor every template in Birthdays & Milestone Years. Use them in roughly a 50/30/15/5 ratio — the cream as the dominant ground, the warm tone as the principal accent, the gold or muted color as the celebratory note, and the deep ink for type only.

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Mood

warm, generous, a little bit of sparkle

How to use this category

Open any occasion page below for the full wording library, design notes, and printable template preview specific to that moment. The category palette here is the connective tissue across all of them.