How to Make Your Own Greeting Cards Using a Personal Computer

You Don't Have to Purchase Software to Do it

You can make your own greeting cards with your personal computer. It doesn't matter if the occasion is a birthday, anniversary, Christmas, Valentine's Day, or Sweetest Day. You don't have to go out and buy new software to do it either. You can also send e-mail greeting cards to someone at no charge.

The official Microsoft website, www.office.microsoft.com, can lead you to a variety of templates to help you create your own greeting cards. Do a search for greeting cards while using the site, and you will be led to links that will help you either create your own card, use an existing template, or use clip art to make the cards.

The templates are for a variety of occasions, including Easter, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Hanukkah, for greeting cards for holidays from a business, New Year, Valentine's Day, and other occasions.

If you click on one of the links, you will be taken to a decorative template that would make an appropriate greeting card for that holiday. You will be given simple to follow instructions to download the template, which would make a decorative greeting card if printed on card stock paper, or even regular paper. You will not be able to download the templates, however, if you have a Windows 98, Windows 95, or Windows ME operating system.

If you use clip art, it can be added to your Microsoft Word Clip Organizer, even if you do have an older program. Once it is downloaded, you will see the clip in a Word document. After you insert that clip into a Word document, you could print that image on a card stock paper, or plain piece of paper, and add whatever text you want for that holiday. Examples of some of the clip art you could download are a decorative Happy Birthday banner with a cake, a cross for Easter, a baby in a manger, the three wise men, a present, or other art for Christmas; and a picture of a bride and groom for a wedding or anniversary.