What's New at I♥️ Cards

I have started rolling out a new export experience in I Love Cards.

The goal is simple: make exports more reliable, more consistent, and much better for large decks.

Until now, exports were generated directly in your browser. This worked well in many cases, but it also meant the result could depend on your computer, your browser, how much memory was available, or how large the deck was.

With the new export beta, I Love Cards can prepare the export in a more controlled way. That should make a big difference for large decks, and make exported files more consistent from one person to another.

What is new

You will now see two export buttons:

• Export: the regular export you already know
• Try new export (Beta): the new export system, recommended for large decks

For now, the regular Export button stays as the main option. If anything looks wrong with the beta, you can still use the regular export.

Shared decks

This is especially useful if you share decks with clients, students, workshop participants, or customers.

Depending on the access you give them, people receiving your deck can also export it themselves and generate their own print files.

With more consistent exports, the result should be less dependent on their personal browser or computer.

What comes next

This change also opens the door to more advanced export options in the future, including things like CMYK exports for professional printing.

For now, this is still a beta. Please try it on your larger decks and shared decks, and keep using the regular Export button if you need the safest fallback.

CNVS Premium Illustrations is now available in I Love Cards.

This is a new premium illustration pack with thousands of beautiful visuals created especially for facilitators, trainers, consultants, coaches, educators, and workshop creators.

The illustrations are designed by Lucie Agolini.

The goal is simple: help you create beautiful-looking cards in no time, even if you don't have design skills.

Access to this pack is reserved for CNVS customers. If you want to get access, you can buy the CNVS Full Collection here: getcnvs.design/product/cnvs-full-collection

You can also learn more about CNVS on getcnvs.design and read about the CNVS benefits.

For now, access in I Love Cards is enabled manually. After becoming a CNVS customer, request access from Alex.

What you can do

• Browse thousands of facilitation-friendly illustrations
• Add beautiful visuals to your cards in seconds
• Create cards that look polished without opening a design tool
• Use search, categories, and subfolders to quickly find the right illustration
• Make workshop, training, coaching, and consulting decks feel more alive

Why this matters

Good visuals make cards easier to understand, easier to remember, and more enjoyable to use.

Until now, finding the right illustrations could be one of the slowest parts of creating a deck. CNVS Premium makes that much easier: choose an illustration, add it to your card, and keep creating.

This is especially useful when you want a professional result, but you are not a designer.

Learn more

• CNVS Premium Illustrations in I Love Cards
• Introduction to Visual Assets

You can now work on I Love Cards decks directly from an AI conversation in Claude AI or ChatGPT.

Describe what you want to create, discuss the goal, improve the structure, and let AI help you turn the idea into a real deck. This is powered by MCP behind the scenes, but the important part is simple: you can create by talking.

What this makes possible

You can ask AI to help you start a new deck from an idea, add categories, write cards, improve existing cards, or adapt the structure of a deck for a specific audience or workshop.

You can also ask AI to adapt the deck format to your needs, for example by adding specific fields like duration, group size, facilitator notes, images, or prompts.

AI can even help with card designs, so you can move from an idea to both the deck content and the visual style more quickly.

Why this matters

Creating a deck is often not a straight line. You brainstorm, reorganize, rewrite, simplify, add examples, change the format, and sometimes rethink the whole thing.

Doing that through conversation feels much more natural. You can explain what you need, ask for alternatives, approve the parts you like, and let AI do the repetitive setup work in I Love Cards.

It makes I Love Cards much faster for creating workshop activities, reflection decks, training cards, coaching tools, classroom exercises, games, and client materials.

Learn more

• Claude AI and ChatGPT Connectors
• How to connect Claude AI and ChatGPT
• Current AI connector possibilities

Alongside the two bigger updates, I also improved a few parts of the everyday creation workflow.

These are smaller changes, but they make I Love Cards feel faster and smoother when you're browsing, editing, or signing in.

Improvements

• Extra compact grid view: see more assets or templates at once when browsing large libraries
• Better illustration browsing with improved search, categories, and subfolders
• Smoother thumbnail loading in the illustration picker
• One-click shadow removal in the Template Builder
• More polished email code sign-in flow
• More reliable AI preview handling behind the scenes

You can now build card templates by grouping elements such as a title and an icon into a container. This makes it easier to create cards with badges or rows of icons. Thank you Nathy for the suggestion!

What you can do

• Add containers to organize several elements (text, icons, images, etc.) into a flow-based layout
• Add the container in the sidebar, drag and drop elements into it
• Add containers both in sections and in overlay or background layers
• Cycle through nested items by clicking multiple times in the preview
• Style your containers like any other element in the template builder (color, spacing, etc.)

What you can't do

• Add containers inside containers

Open the Template Builder

You can now save default export settings for a particular deck. Set up a deck once for the way you usually print or download it, and the download center will start with those choices next time. Thank you Cat for the nudge!

What you can do

• Save preferred export settings for a specific deck
• Reuse the same setup for repeat PDF, PNG, or print exports
• Prepare one deck for home printing and another for a print shop without reselecting everything each time
• Open the export dialog with the deck's defaults already selected

Why this matters

It saves your time, your don't have to select the same settings every time you export a deck. This is also useful for the deck you share with your customers, you can set up the default settings for them so they don't have to select everything every time they export a deck.

Open your decks

Your customers have a better place to store the decks that you shared with them. Their deck library is accessible without a paying account.

As a reminder, deck that your create are stored in the "Decks I Created" page in /create/decks and decks that are shared with you are stored in the "My Deck Library" page in /own/decks.

I fixed a bug with shared deck links that was causing the deck you were trying to access to be lost after the sign-in step. Now, I Love Cards remembers the deck you were trying to access and brings you back to it after the sign-in step. Thank you Cat for the report!

Improvements

• Shared deck claims are preserved through login
• Shared deck claims are preserved through signup
• Email confirmation now keeps the original deck access flow

Why this matters

This makes shared decks easier to use for students, clients, workshop participants, and anyone receiving a deck for the first time.

Mehdi mentioned that the toolbar in the Template Builder was getting in the way of the preview area, and I had been feeling that pain too. So I reworked the layout to keep the tools easy to reach without covering the card itself.

Improvements

• Item toolbar moved to the top of the preview window, where it stays easy to access without getting in the way of the card
• Zoom toolbar moved to the bottom of the preview window for a cleaner editing layout
• Save button moved into the header of the sidebar, right next to the template title

Bug fixes

• Tens of minor bug fixes and optimizations across the app to make everything feel smoother and more reliable