Drawings engraved across the cover
Pictures, sorted by how much of the cover they take. A band fills the bottom third and reads as the design itself, while a strip is one row the width of the cover, a rule made of pictures that leaves the rest of it quiet. An emblem is a single mark above the name at about a third of the width. One draws a border round the whole cover instead, and the last hands you the band empty so you can fill it a sticker at a time.
Drawings of this kind live or die on the line, which is why they are engraved rather than printed: every stem, spoke and paw is cut into the hide by a laser in-house at a single weight, with no ink edge to go soft. The name above the drawing is yours to type, and the preview draws the whole cover, picture and name together, before you pay for any of it. The making and the posting go like this.
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A band across the base
A single row
One mark above the name
A frame around the words
Build the band yourself
This is the page for when you know the person, not the occasion
Every other category here starts from a relationship or a date. This one starts from the thing somebody disappears into at the weekend, which is often the easier question to answer. If you can name what they would rather be doing on a Saturday, the drawing says it and nothing else has to be written on the cover at all. That makes these the safest presents on the site for people you like without knowing terribly well: a colleague, a neighbour, the friend of a friend who is always in the garden. Nothing on the cover claims a closeness you do not have.
How much of the cover the picture should take
This is the real choice, and it is why the page is arranged the way it is. A band fills the bottom third and becomes the design itself, which suits somebody whose hobby is genuinely their whole personality. A single row is a rule made of pictures, running the full width and leaving the rest of the cover quiet, which is what to pick for a person who would find a big drawing embarrassing. One small mark above the name is quieter still and reads as a monogram that happens to be a picture. And one draws an ornate border around your own words instead, where the frame is the picture and the middle is yours.
Or build the band yourself
The last one on this page hands you an empty band and lets you fill it a piece at a time, which is the answer when nothing we have drawn is quite the hobby. It is also the way to make a cover about two things at once, because nobody only does one: the camper and the dog, the baking and the wildflowers. Assemble it, look at the preview, and take pieces out until it reads as a band rather than a shelf. A crowded band is the one mistake this page makes easy, and the preview is where to notice it.