Difficult Times Card Messages

Printing the message and adding a handwritten line underneath is a good middle ground, and it is what most people do with a printed card. The card maker has a handwritten style among the font choices if you would rather the whole thing looked informal. If you are printing to fold, leave the inside panel lighter than you think you need: handwriting takes more room than typed text, and a cramped inside panel undoes the work the front cover does. Because these difficult times lines are written for this site rather than gathered from elsewhere, you can print any of them without worrying about who wrote them first.

Look first at Get Well and Thinking of You, which sit in the same support and care collection and tend to call for a similar register. People often end up borrowing a line from a neighbouring occasion and adjusting it, which is entirely reasonable. And if nothing on the site matches what you need, the make your own option lets you name the occasion yourself and start from a blank card rather than forcing wording that does not fit. If you are still deciding, read the difficult times examples in two different tones and see which one you would be comfortable reading aloud to the person.

There is no fixed length, but difficult times messages rarely benefit from going past four sentences. Length is not what makes a card feel meant. Specificity is. A single line naming something real will outlast three paragraphs of general good wishes. If you have chosen a folded card you have an inside panel to fill, so a slightly fuller message sits comfortably there; on an one page or digital card, tighten it. You can switch size at any point without losing what you have already written.

Yes. Choose one of the digital sizes and export a PNG or JPEG, which sends cleanly through messaging apps without awkward cropping. Cards without a personal photograph can also be shared as a link, which shows the recipient a preview of the card along with a way to make their own. Cards that include your own photograph are sent as the image itself, because the photograph stays on your device rather than being uploaded anywhere. The support and care pages all follow the same structure, so once you have made one difficult times card the rest take almost no time at all.

Match the sign off to the message. A warm message closes naturally with something like "with love" and your name; a plainer message reads better with "best wishes" or simply your name on its own. On the card itself the closing wish and your name are separate lines, each with its own font and size control, so you can keep the closing line small and let it sit quietly under the message rather than competing with it. Avoid stacking several closings together. Because these difficult times lines are written for this site rather than gathered from elsewhere, you can print any of them without worrying about who wrote them first.

Yes. Everything on this page is written in house and yours to use on any card you make, printed, posted or sent digitally. no watermarks on downloaded cards, no charge. Because the messages are original rather than collected from elsewhere, there is nothing to attribute and no risk of reproducing someone else's copyrighted verse on a card you give away. Use a line word for word, change a few words, or take it purely as a starting point for something of your own. The support and care pages all follow the same structure, so once you have made one difficult times card the rest take almost no time at all.

It takes about five minutes. Pick Difficult Times, choose your wording from this page or write your own, select a size, choose a design, then export. The preview redraws as you go so you are never guessing at the result. If you add a photograph it is processed on your device and never sent to a server, which is worth knowing when the card is going to someone in your family rather than a stranger. Because these difficult times lines are written for this site rather than gathered from elsewhere, you can print any of them without worrying about who wrote them first.