24 Ideas to Help You Create Stunning Graduation Announcement Cards
Someone special has reached that big milestone in life — they’re now a grad! To share the happy news with family, friends, and colleagues, it’s time to create a graduation announcement card.
To help simplify the process, we’re sharing our top tips for creating and sending graduation announcement cards, including wording inspiration. We’ll also share some of our favorite grad announcement card designs you can customize now.
5 Tips for Designing and Sending Graduation Announcement Cards
Whether you’re the proud parent of a recent high school grad or the beaming partner of a college grad, it’s nice to let folks know about this remarkable achievement. The best graduation announcement cards will help you express your sense of pride and the graduate’s personality. Here are several handy tips for creating and sending personalized grad announcement cards with Greenvelope.
1. Choose a Card
Design: Shari Margolin Design (photo courtesy of Alexandra Celia)
Card Inspiration: Portrait Triptych Announcement
Whether you’re sending a college graduation announcement or a high school graduation announcement, look no further than Greenvelope. With our digital designs, you’ll find everything from traditional styles with classic tassel motifs to photo cards and photo collage cards where you can share snaps from the graduation ceremony or graduate photo shoot.
Choose from various graduation cards with features such as gold foil effects, confetti, and watercolor strokes. There are also plenty of designs that use modern typography to get your exciting news across. Whatever your style, there’s a grad card to match. Even better, if you’re hosting a party, you can choose from a variety of high school and college graduation invitations that let you track RSVPs seamlessly.
2. Personalize Your Design
One of the best things about our grad announcements (and all Greenvelope invitations and greeting cards) is that they’re so easy to customize. Choose a template and play around with the settings until you have something that feels bespoke.
Make changes to the layout to move elements of the card design around. Change the colors to match your grad’s school colors or their favorite color palette. If you’ve chosen a photo card template, simply drop in your photos to make a custom graduation announcement.
3. Add Your Details
Once you have the design looking how you want it to, it’s time to add personal details to your graduation announcement cards.
In most cases, this will include details like the grad’s name, their high school or college, year of graduation, and the graduation ceremony date. If you’re sending out a double announcement and graduation party invitation, include all the party details, too — like the date, time, venue, and dress code.
4. Craft a Personal Message
It’s a lovely idea to include a personal message inside (or on the reverse of) your graduation announcement card. Going beyond the basics and sharing a short but sweet message of congratulations or excitement is a wonderful way to show the new grad how much you care.
You can stick with a simple “Congrats, grad!” or something more elaborate that mentions how long they’ve been studying, how hard they’ve worked, or how excited they are to move into a new program or college.
Still trying to figure out what to write? We have plenty of great wording ideas in the section below, so keep scrolling.
5. Send or Schedule Your Announcement
After you’ve written a message, double-check your grad announcement card for any typos or missing information. Once you’re done, it’s time to send the announcement to loved ones.
With Greenvelope, it’s easy to send digital cards to anyone anytime. Add your recipients’ email addresses (or phone numbers for text invitations) and hit send for immediate delivery. If you prefer to schedule delivery for a later time, it’s easy to set it for the date and time you like.
13 Messages for Your Graduation Announcement Cards
Sometimes it can be tough to know exactly what to say. Luckily, we have plenty of graduation announcement wording ideas to inspire your message. Here are 13 messages you can customize to congratulate the new grad:
- We’re excited to announce the graduation of our son/daughter, [Name]
- Congrats to [Name] for completing their journey at [School Name]
- Time to leave high school, [Name]. Your college experience awaits!
- Thanks to all their hard work and dedication, we’re excited to announce that [Name] has graduated with honors!
- [Name] is all grown up! Major kudos to our special grad!
- Announcing our clever, kind, and thoughtful grad, [Name]
- We’re so proud! [Name] is now a high school grad!
- Congratulations on graduating from [School Name], [Name]!
- Announcing [Name], now a proud graduate of [School Name]
- It’s time for [Name] to embrace the real world. The post-college journey begins!
- Join us as we celebrate [Name]’s high school graduation
- Congrats on ace-ing law school, [Name]!
- Look out folks, [College Name]’s newest grad is here!
These graduation wishes are perfect for announcement cards, but they also work well for other related purposes. Consider using some of these phrases in keepsake photo books, on yard signs, or banners at a graduation party.
6 Graduation Announcement Card Designs to Inspire You
Greenvelope is where you’ll find an incredible collection of high-quality online graduation announcement cards and invitations. While you could certainly send paper announcements, digital cards are an affordable, convenient, and eco-friendly way to share the news with loved ones. Here’s a handpicked selection of our bestsellers and most popular digital note cards to celebrate the new grad.
1. Modern Grad Announcement
Design: Stacey Meacham Design, LLC
We love how the large photo area pops in this contemporary graduation announcement card. Choose from four color options, including this version with a slick rose gold text overlay effect and coordinating sparkly envelope liner.
2. Painted Palette Announcement
Design: Pedaller Designs (photo courtesy of Julia Kinnunen Photography)
Whether your grad has earned a college degree or is about to embark on their post-high school journey, this painterly effect card is a wonderful choice to share the news. It’s available in plenty of vibrant or muted color palettes, as well as the option to work with our design team to feature the grad’s favorite hues or school colors instead.
3. Bold Grad Announcement
Design: Ellis Design
For a design that stands out with a hint of tradition, we love this bold grad announcement card. There’s space for a large smiling photo of the new grad and space on the front for all the most important details.
4. Boho Grad Announcement
Design: Sunny July
This rustic-themed grad announcement is ideal for a creative spirit. Along with the gorgeous mix of fonts, we love how much space there is on the reverse — making it an ideal design for writing a longer congrats message or details about an upcoming graduation party.
5. Groovy Grad Announcement
Design: Vivian Yiwing
This retro-style grad announcement is lots of fun and a great choice for grads with groovy style. Choose from five color options and use the bordered reverse side to share a longer message.
6. Class Year Announcement
Design: Laura Bolter Design
You can’t go wrong with golden balloons, and this fun balloon announcement card brings that feeling to your loved ones’ inboxes. Choose your card background color, then add all the essential details to celebrate your grad’s exciting achievements.
Share the Happy News With Digital Graduation Announcement Cards
Graduation is one of life’s most special moments, so it’s no surprise you want to share the news with loved ones. Fortunately, Greenvelope makes it easy to share your message with those near and far.Â
Whether you want a monogram-style announcement, custom foil elements, or thank you cards for after the graduation party, you’ll find them here.
Use this guide to assemble your personalized online graduation announcement cards and easily send them via email, text, or social media. No trips to the stationery store, no postage delays, and no paper in landfills!
