Mumsnet users share the best/funniest personalised cards they've received with Card Factory

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Receiving a card - be it for your birthday, Valentines Day, Mothers Day, Father Days or Easter - that has been specially made just for you can be both heartwarming and humorous...especially if you have a young DC who writes the first thing that comes to their minds. So Card Factory would love you to share the best/funniest personalised cards you’ve ever received.

Here’s what Card Factory have to say: “We know how important finding the right card can be when it comes to celebrating all of life’s moments. This is why we have put together a fab, exclusive range of personalised cards from only 99p! Made and designed by us – with those finishing touches added by you - get great quality without breaking the bank.”

Did a loved one root out some really old and perhaps slightly embarrassing photos of you to plaster all over the card? Maybe your DC wrote a message that was hilariously unfiltered but oh so sweet? Or have you ever received a card that brings back so many great memories every time you read it?

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My sisters made me a personalised card for my 40th - a lovely throwback with old and recent photos. It really makes you go on a trip down memory lane!

I like the still life vegetables ones in funny settings.

It reminds me of the first ever card I sent to my crush when I was 14 - he worked weekends at the supermarket in the veg section, so, to my (now) mortification, I sent him a card that had a photo of petit pois on the front and the caption

"Peas be mine"

Cringe. But very funny thinking about it now!

My little girl was born in Sept, received my first Christmas card off her and my OH had not changed the name in the front
Merry Christmas Mummy
Love Kyle
(Not sure who Kyle 🤦🏻‍♀️) 🤣

My friend made a collage card with university photos stuck on it when I was feeling down. It really cheered me up.

I loved the big card my sister got of our faces in reindeer saying little deers

I've made plenty of them but never actually received a personalised card. My fave ive sent was one to my granny with lots of pictures of her grandchildren and great grandchildren on the front. She adored it and kept it up over the fire-place for a good couple of years until she died in November.

Any card that has an old photo on it will always get my vote. Reinforces the length of friendship and shows a bit of effort made, as well as being fun to receive.

I always ask the DC to make me a card. They are late teens now and still do this for me. I've kept all of them.

My cousin and I agreed that when buying boxes of assorted Christmas cards we would leave the bauble ones til last for people we didn't like as much! Every year after we sent them to each other...

This was my favourite personalised card, from my mum and dad.

One of one of my siblings attempting to brain the other with a small log (from when they were children)

DS made a lovely card for me for Mother's day a few years ago. He wrote on the inside: "I love you more than chocolate sweets chips Dad"
Still makes me laugh :)

My birthday is the same day as my friend's dog, so last year I got a personalised card from him, with a picture of me, and one of her.
Message read:

"Happy Birthday (dogs name), and you too I guess Balloon"

I got this card from my sister last year!!! It made me laugh lots, deffo my favourite card ever!

A card that had an old photo on it. The photo was an old one taken at a photo booth of me (the oldest) and my sister's. My baby sister is sitting on my knee, her face bright red. Yes she was pooing, went all over my dress, breastfed!

A very dear friend was skint but wanted to send me a special card for a milestone birthday. She used a couple of photographs of us as teenagers, stuck them to a piece of folded A3 card, then added dozens and dozens of faces of celebrities that she'd cut from old magazines to it.
It must have taken her hours and I couldn't stop looking at it, I kept noticing a different celebrity each time

My dd has made me a variety of cards in the past, but apart from struggling to decipher what she had written, there's nothing particularly humorous or unfiltered.

My dd makes great cards and has done since she was little - but I don't appreciate them any more than any other art she does - I don't really get why you need a bit of card to say happy birthday or whatever. Why does Happy Birthday have to be written on a card, personalised or otherwise? Would an email not do it?

has to be the one with the hand-drawn picture of me and DH, coloured all in skin tones (no clothing apparent), which was apparently supposed to be our wedding day

Mine was from a friend who's an amazing cartoonist and had drawn a caricature of me. It wasn't overly flattering, but did really capture me!

Cards made by my kids are always my favourite ones, my eldest always puts loads of effort into it and will write a silly poem or fill it with homemade 'confetti' or something, and always signs it from first name surname

As a Midwife, caring for a woman in labour , we were having problems with the electric bed, no power etc, and the engineers not available overnight etc - eventually we changed rooms, had a working bed and the baby was Safely born. When the parents left hospital with their son, they gave me a lovely thank you card, with a fuse sellotaped inside-for the bed in room 12!!!!

My husband (romantic but a procrastinator!) has made quite a few personalised cards for me over the years but never gets round to writing inside them! So his bedside table has loads of these cards...all blank! 🙈😂 I’m not allowed them till he gets around to writing in them...we have been married 15 years now so I can’t wait to see how many more years I have to wait to get them 🤣

The first card that my daughter ever wrote her name in by herself was last Christmas - I don't usually keep cards but I kept that one.

I think the only personalised cards I've had have been from DS, but I have treasured the thought he has put into making it mine

I once received a beautifully hand drawn Mother's Day card from my youngest son; it had clearly had a lot of thought and effort put into it. When I opened it, however, it said 'Happy Moths Day!" and DH promptly collapsed with hysterical laughter.

I have a phobia of moths.