What to use to create greeting cards?

I used to love making greeting cards. But am having trouble doing this on a Mac. Any suggestions?
Thanks,

Pages.
Also:
Good place to look for software:
http://www.macupdate.com/
And for free alternatives to some popular software packages:
http://alternativeto.net/
(If you see an ad there for something called MacKeeper, ignore it and on no account install it - it is malware.)

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