Onam cards: a pookalam, a snake boat, a sadya

Greeting cards for Onam, Kerala's harvest festival, sent to family and colleagues or made in class. Each card prints its greeting as written: Happy Onam above a half pookalam, Happy Onam across the sky over a chundan vallam snake boat, or Wishing You a Happy Onam over an Onam sadya on a banana leaf. Each has room for a message. The cards come in watercolour, flat colour or a child's crayon drawing.

• a card sent to family in another city
• a card for a colleague at the office
• a card made in an Onam class
• a card for a neighbour during Onam

Frequently asked questions

Where is the message written?

The pookalam card has a clear empty panel, the sadya card has four ruled lines below the greeting, and the snake boat card leaves the inside blank.

What is a sadya?

The festive meal of Onam, served on a banana leaf with rice and small dishes. The sadya card shows one.

What are the three styles?

Watercolor has marigold, banana-leaf green and kasavu cream washes. Flat color uses gold, deep green, red and cream. Crayon is a child-made drawing with wobbly lettering and waxy strokes.

Can I change the greeting?

Yes. Type the greeting you want and the same card layout is drawn. The wording shown here is the sample.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.