Need help with greeting card?

[Guest]

I am trying to make a single fold greeting card. I have an image to put on
the front, and want to add text, and stretch the image to about half the page
(to the fold in the center). Is there a basic template or wizard that will
help me add and/or edit my own images, and texts?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I am trying to make a single fold greeting card. I have an image to
put on the front, and want to add text, and stretch the image to
about half the page (to the fold in the center). Is there a basic
template or wizard that will help me add and/or edit my own images,
and texts?

See what's offered at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT101043221033.aspx.

If this is more than a one-time thing, though, look into programs that are
specifically built to create greeting cards. They're very easy to use, and
they come with tons of clip art and editable text. Here's an example:
http://www.amazon.com/Nova-Developm...1009?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1185998254&sr=8-2

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[Graham Mayor]

Home made greetings cards if you don't have the required amount of artistic
flair (and you don't or you wouldn't be asking the question) simply make you
appear a cheapskate. Go to your local card shop and buy one!

If there is a special reason why you need to produce your own card eg where
I live Mother's Day cards are not available and at 91 my mother likes to
receive a card, then Publisher has a wide range of card templates, from
which you can cobble something acceptable. Print on photo paper.

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[JoAnn Paules]

My mom makes almost all of her own cards these days. Partly because she
likes to save a few pennies here and there and partly because she enjoys
making them. She would never use Word to do it tho. She uses an older
version of Print Shop that I gave her. She gets real fancy at Christmas with
little stick-on froufrous and glitter. No, they aren't as pretty as
store-bought but they are from her heart and that's what counts. ;-)

(BTW - I was the recipient of the first one and stuck it on my refrigerator
door for a while. Seemed only fair.)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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[Guest]

I am not asking how to do the art, just how to format it so it prints out the
way I want it too. I have an image, I have text, I just can't figure out
exactly how to format it so that the image covers the top 1/2 of the front of
the page, and the bottom 1/2 of the back of the page?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Fold a piece of paper to provide the layout you require. Draw on it the
positions of the text and image. Open out the paper and put borderless text
boxes with their layout property set to in front of text on screen (page
setup probably in landscape mode) to match what you see on the paper. Put
your graphic and text in the appropriate boxes.

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[JoAnn Paules]

Altho some may laugh at your suggestion, I think it's excellent. Instead of
fussing with what we think it needs to look like and then finding out we're
wrong, your method is a once-and-done deal.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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