How to Create Your Own "Line" of Greeting Cards By: EileenBergen http://www.theartfulcrafter.com[Illustrations located at http://www.theartfulcrafter.com/cards.html]Do you like to design and print your own greeting cards usingany of the popular graphics programs, Greeting Cards, available? Do you want somerecognition for your work? Maybe even a backdoor way tosupplement your income?Why give the company that made the program all the credit? Makeyour greeting cards uniquely yours by creating your own logo.
Then every card you send or sell will have your personaladvertisement attached.You can easily do so using your greeting cards program's "BackPage Art" or create your own logo from scratch.First, create and save your logo. In your graphics program, opena blank page. Go to the "Art Gallery" and look through the "BackPage Art" or any other, Greeting Cards, category, such as "Backgrounds" or"Flowers", that you would like to use in your logo.Select your design(s)and paste them onto the blank page.
Add atext box and type in your data. Be sure you include your name,phone number and your e-mail so customers can get in touch withyou to place an order. Vary the fonts and text colors until you are satisfied.Click on the artwork you selected from the "Art Gallery". Moveyour mouse over the artwork until the "Move" symbol (looks likea fancy plus sign) appears. Click and hold down to move theartwork where you want it in relation to your text. Release click.Size your artwork by finding the corner and/or side arrows withthe mouse and, in similar fashion (Click, hold, release), adjustthe size to fit in with your text and make a pleasing logodesign.
Lasso all the parts of your logo and Group. This will allow youto copy and paste your logo as one object to be pasted intoother projects with one Copy command. Save your logo design, butleave the file open.Then create your card, leaving both files open. If you've madeyour card by customizing one of the cards that came with yourgraphics program, go to the back page. Use your computer mouse to lasso all the pre-supplied back pageart; then Delete. You now, Greeting Cards, have a clean "canvas" for your logo.
Switch to your logo file. Click, Greeting Cards, on the logo to Select it. Click, Greeting Cards, Copy. Switch back to the back of your card. Click Paste. Move the logo to bottom center or wherever you wish. Size it tofit the card by pulling/pushing one of the corner arrows. You're done!Instead of using the prepackaged cards that come with theprograms, make up your own. The more, Greeting Cards, originality you put intoyour cards, the greater the potential of getting some orders foreach card you send or sell.