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BadgeMaker Store: Card Design Templates

BadgeMaker Store

The BadgeMaker Store offers free and premium card design templates for you to download in BadgeMaker Design. These card designs make it easy to adjust and create the perfect design with the identity of your organization.

You will find different types of card designs in the BadgeMaker Store. Card templates for Healthcare, Education, Corporate, Food signs, Retail, Transport or Weddings for example. The Store updates from time to time with new products. The card design bundles have templates for employee badges, invites, id cards, access badges, name badges, menus, table cards, foodsigns and more.

Browse all designs by clicking on the different preview images on the Store home page. Get inspired whether you’re an ID badge maker or looking for that professional touch to your food signs.

Find the card design you want and add or purchase that card design bundle to ‘My items‘. Select the free or purchased card design in ‘My items‘ and download it. Once you’ve downloaded the design, it will be automatically opened onto your BadgeMaker canvas. Use the template by changing the colors to fit your corporate identity, add your own images and link your data.

BadgeMaker Store: card design templates

How to select a free or purchase a premium card design from the Store

To browse the store, go to ‘Store‘ in the main menu and click on ‘Browse store‘. In the Store you see an overview of all the card design bundles available to select and add or purchase to ‘My items‘.

Click on the bundle image to learn more about the bundle and its card designs.

Click on ‘Add to My items‘ to add a free card design bundle or click on ‘buy now‘ to purchase a premium card design bundel and make them available for download.

Browse BadgeMaker Store
Premium Card Design Templates

Store: My items

All the free selected or purchased card designs from the Store can be found in the ‘My items‘. These card designs will always be available for you to download.

Click on ‘Download‘ to download the selected card design, give the downloaded card design a name and start working with it in Badgemaker Design.

BadgeMaker Store My Items
Card Design Templates in My Items ready for download
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BadgeMaker Design Toolbar: Shapes & Images

Thank you for choosing BadgeMaker, this post explains more about using the shape and image tool in BadgeMaker Design when creating your card design.

Step 1. First step of your card creation is to choose a background

Open BadgeMaker Design and start a new card design. The next step of creating a card design is to create a background. Choose a blank background or use the shape or image tool to create a background. For the card design in this blog we use an image as background.

Select the Image tool and then click on the card on the canvas. Resize the image-element to cover the card. Now go to the element properties and select an image. Click on the “Select Image” button, select the background image for your card design and click the “Open” button. When your image has the correct size and you do not want the image to stretch, check the aspect ratio box. This will keep the original ratio of the image intact. If you want the same background image on the backside of the card you can copy and paste the image.

BadgeMaker Design Toolbar
BadgeMaker Design, add a background image with the image tool
BadgeMaker Design, select image in Image element properties

Step 2. Add your company logo to the card design

Add a logo image to the front of the card, so the card represents your companies identity. Click the image tool again, click on the card and select your logo image. Do not forget to select the aspect ratio box. Resize the logo to fit the card using the handlers at the corners of the image.

BadgeMaker Design, add a logo with the image tool

Step 3. Use the shape tool to create a shaped layer

Now use the shape tool to create a lighter area as part of the design. Click on the Shape tool, click on the card and resize the shape element to your liking.

To adjust the color and border go to Element properties and click on the Style tab. Set the border thickness to zero. Click on the background color to select another color or change the transparency of the shape.

We will make this shape slightly transparent and click on ok.

A great start of a card design using shapes and images.

BadgeMaker Design Toolbar Shape
BadgeMaker Design Shape element properties
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New Design setup in BadgeMaker Design
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Get started with a new card design in BadgeMaker Design

Thank you for choosing BadgeMaker, this post helps you to get started and setup a new layout in BadgeMaker Design.

Step 1. Start BadgeMaker Design and a new card setup

First step is to click on the BadgeMaker design icon to start the software for card design. DesignStudio offers three menus, the main menu, the quick menu and the toolbar. Click on “File” in the main menu, followed by “New Card Design” or use the quick menu and click the New Design icon to start a new design.

BadgeMaker Design New Design
New Card Design

Step 2. Set the configuration of the new design

Use this pop-up window to set the configuration of the new card. Name your card design. Select a size format from the dropdown or select “custom” to manually enter a size. The CR80 card is used for most card designs and the ZC10L is the large card format for the Zebra ZC10L printer. A new design is double-sided by default, check the single-sided box to create a single-sided card design. Check the Magstripe box to add a Magstripe to your design.

In this example we will setup a double-sided card with Magstripe, portrait mode for the front and back with a specialty layer on the front side. Be aware that you need a printer and ribbon that support the specialty layer to be able to print a card design with specialty layers. Now click on the create button to get started with this layout.

New Card Design Setup BadgeMaker

Step 3. Start designing this card

Ok, the card setup is done, we are now ready to start designing this card. You can work with the canvas in different views, showing for example only the front side or back side.
Click on this second tab in the top right corner to change the card settings if needed. You are now ready to use the toolbar and start a great design.

BadgeMaker Design Canvas New Design
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