Homemade Greetings Cards Make your own greetings cards, birthday cards and Christmas cards
You can use any word-processing or desktop publishing software to make your greetings cards. These instructions are for MS Word, but the process is similar whichever software you use. The clue is that you will need to INSERT the photo into the document. What you need Blank greetings cards and matching envelopes.  The cards come in two sizes A5/A6 - an A5 sheet of card that folds in half to form an A6 size card A4/A5 - an A4 sheet of card that folds in half to form an A5 size card Or you can use a sheet of plain card and cut it to size
What to do A5/A6 cards Start a new blank document Click on File then Insert/Picture/From File Find the photo you want to use - and then double click on it to insert it into the card You might have to change the photo's 'layout' properties so you can move it freely. Double click on the photo to open the 'Format Picture' menu. Select the Layout tab and then click on 'square' The handles (little squares) that appear when you click on the photo should have turned white (they were probably black before you changed the layout properties) You can resize the photo by clicking and dragging these handles (press the left mouse button, hold it down and move the mouse)] You can reposition the photo by moving the mouse until you can see a four headed arrow and then clicking and dragging For an A5/A6 card you want the photo to occupy the top right-hand quarter of the page Print your work onto a plain sheet of paper until you have the photo positioned correctly.  You don't want to waste precious cards. A4/A5 cards As above, EXCEPT: Change the page from portrait to landscape by clicking on File/Page Setup and then selecting landscape Position the picture on the right-hand half of the page
Adding Text You can add a greeting on the front of your card, such as Happy Birthday, Happy Christmas.  There are two easy ways doing this: Using a text box Usually the drawing toolbar is displayed at the bottom of your screen - if it isn't, click on the drawing icon in the top toolbar - this will turn the drawing toolbar on.   (If you’re not sure which of the icons is the drawing icon, use your mouse to point at each icon in turn on the toolbars.  A legend will pop up to tell you what each icon does.) Click on the text box icon (on the drawing toolbar at the bottom of your screen) Move the mouse onto the screen and click and drag (hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse) to draw a box.   Type in your text You can resize and move the textbox as you did for the picture You can change the text box properties (fill colour, lines etc) by RIGHT clicking on the border of the text box and selecting ‘format textbox’ from the menu Using WordArt If you want fancier text, use WordArt - also available from the drawing toolbar Click on the WordArt icon and follow the on-screen instructions Once finished, you can resize and move WordArt in the same way as the pictures