A birthday card for Grandma she can actually hold

Grandma's sideboard has forty years of cards on it. The ones that stay longest aren't the fancy ones — they're the ones that clearly came from someone thinking about her. A painted cover of her roses, her kitchen, or the grandkids, with a few real sentences inside, is that kind of card.

Post it, don't just email it

If Grandma isn't glued to email, the printed card is the one. We print your card on real card stock and post it to her letterbox for $9.99, printing and postage included — to the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe. You see the posted date and expected delivery in your card history.

What to write to your grandma

• A memory only the two of you have: the kitchen, the baking, the stories at bedtime.
• One thing she gave you that you still carry.
• A plan, even a small one: "I'll call Sunday at four."

Grandmas read cards slowly and keep them. Write like it will be re-read, because it will be.

If she is online

Plenty of grandmas open email before their grandchildren do. The digital card arrives as an animated envelope that opens to the artwork — lovely on a phone, nothing to install. It's $1.99 and instant, which makes it the right choice when the day is suddenly tomorrow.