Xcards is a Newark, New Jersey-based card company that is looking for original writings for their greeting card line for ex-relationships. Their target audience includes ex husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, father in-laws, and mother in-laws. They want contributors to “provide a suggested image of how cover of card should look with title for cover as well.” They pay $25 to $75 per card. For details, visit this page.
Emotional Rescue is a UK-based greeting card company that publishes hilarious and cheeky greeting cards. They are looking for writers, artists, or illustrators to write or draw cards for them. According to their website, they “pay well.” To learn more, refer to this page.
Blue Mountain Arts is an established publisher of greeting cards. They want “contemporary prose or poetry written from personal experience that reflects the thoughts and feelings people today want to communicate to one another, but don’t always know how to put into words.” They previously indicated payment of $300 for exclusive worldwide rights to use poetry in greeting cards and other products. To read their complete submission guidelines, visit this page.
Kalan LP supplies innovative and trendy gifts and novelty items to retailers across the United States. They are always seeking fun and original ideas for their products. They encourage contributors to submit their ideas: “from greeting card copy to one-liners for magnets, shotglasses, and other product lines.” They compensate the chosen ideas. To submit ideas, visit this page.
GrammaBurp is a family-owned humorous greeting card company. Their cards feature vintage photos. They want freelancers to first request them to be placed on their freelancers list. When they have projects available, they will send the freelancers one or more photographs that need text captioning or gaglines for. They pay $50 per gagline. To learn more, read their freelance writer's guidelines.
ComstockMarKetPlace is a greeting card company that is best known for its “adult humor cards - ranging from mildly risque to rude and crude.” For gaglines, they pay $50 per idea. To learn more, refer to this page.
Cardthartic is a greeting card company that is looking for “passages messages”. They “welcome messages that sound like you — just as natural, conversational and personable as possible.” They pay $50 for each published message. For details, refer to this page.
Oatmeal Studios is a humorous greeting card company. They are seeking humorous greeting card ideas. It is not necessary for writers to draw a visual but they should provide a brief description of it. Their rate for writer copy is $100 per idea. For details, read their writers’ guidelines.
Snafu Designs is a greeting card company that sells humorous cards in most of the 50 states of USA and also in Canada. They have a full line of greeting cards including birthday, wedding, retirement, Halloween, Christmas and Thanksgiving cards. They want clever ideas that are aimed at their “smart adult audience.” They pay $100 for any idea that they use. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.