Greeting Card Campaign: 8-25 Kiss and Make Up Day

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August 25 is Kiss and Make Up Day, a celebration of forgiveness and reconciliation. We've all had fights and they always seem like they are so important at the time, but when you come right down to it, what is more important than forgiving and forgetting, especially where it's the one you love you've been duking it out with. Not only that but the "making up" part is actually a whole lot of fun.

 So send your favorite sparring partner this romantic card to celebrate the day. You might even want to pick a little fight, just to get things rolling if you know what I mean.....

Just click on the caption below the coupling celebrating Kiss and Make Up Day and it will take you to a pdf file in Google Docs. Remember, instead of printing from Google Docs, click on "File" in the upper left corner, then select "Download" and copy the file to your own computer.  Open it with Adobe PDF Reader or whatever PDF reader you use and print the card from there. For some reason Google Docs doesn't handle fonts well, even though they are supposed to be embedded in the PDF document itself.

This is a side fold card, so when it prints, be sure to tell your printer it's in "landscape" format so you get the whole file. Flip it on the short side to print double-sided. This will save you a lot of time so you can get right down to the "Kissing" part of the day.

© by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 8-20 Bad Hair Day

Everybody has bad hair days once in a while but today, August 20, however is National Bad Hair Day, the day we all have one together! Celebrated on the birthday of boxing promoter, Don King, the original bad hair day guy, Bad Hair Day is a day we can all let our hair go as wild as we want.  And why not?  All the really cool people do.  There's Albert Einstein, Don King, Donald Trump, Carrot Top, Martin Van Buren and Abraham Lincoln just to name a few.  So don't feel bad if your hair is a disaster - at least not today.

Albert Einstein - King of bad hair.
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Celebrate bad hair day by sending your loved one this printable Bad Hair Day card. Just click on the caption below Albert Einstein and it will take you to a pdf file in Google Docs. Remember, instead of printing from Google Docs, click on "File" in the upper left corner, then select "Download" and copy the file to your own computer.  Open it with Adobe PDF Reader or whatever PDF reader you use and print the card from there. For some reason Google Docs doesn't handle fonts well, even though they are supposed to be embedded in the PDF document itself.

This is a side fold card, so when it prints, be sure to tell your printer it's in "landscape" format so you get the whole file. Flip it on the short side to print double-sided. This will save you a lot of time. Have fun teasing your hair into some wild scary hair-do and presenting her with this Bad Hair Day card o' love.

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 8-16 International Tell-A-Joke Day

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It is ironic that International Tell-a-Joke Day falls on the day a famous comedian died.  And no, he didn't die in the Catskills or at a comedy club in Hoboken and no one was throwing tomatoes.

Josias (Joe) Miller was a 17^th century British comedian, author and actor who died on August 16, 1738. He wrote the classic humor volume (Joe Miller's Jests) which was a standard humorist's tool for many years. Later, his book was renamed Joe Miller's Jokes after the English language watered down the term jest to mean hoity-toity style humor as in "Surely, you jest." which is followed immediately by, "I do and don't call me Shirley."

Tell your beloved that your love for her is no joke with this clever (if I do say so myself) International Joke Day greeting card. Just click on the caption below the dying comedian and it will take you to a pdf file in Google Docs. Remember, instead of printing from Google Docs, click on "File" in the upper left corner, then select "Download" and copy the file to your own computer.  Open it with Adobe PDF Reader or whatever PDF reader you use and print the card from there. For some reason Google Docs doesn't handle fonts well, even though they are supposed to be embedded in the PDF document itself.

This is a side fold card, so when it prints, be sure to tell your printer it's in "landscape" format so you get the whole file. Flip it on the short side to print double-sided. This will save you a lot of time.

Tell her a funny thing happened on the way to your life.........with this International Tell a Joke Day card.

Greeting Card Campaign: 8-13 Skinny Dipping Day

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It's National Skinny Dipping Day, a celebration of a time-honored rite of passage - deliberately swimming in your skin. It's not really skinny dipping if you fell on water skis and had your your suit peeled off of you when you hit the water at 45 miles an hour. It's only skinny dipping if you shed your shorts on purpose.

Skinny dipping is one part swimming, one part sneaking and most of the time one part romance. If you've missed the opportunity, to celebrate this momentous holiday, send your sweetie a card, pick out a lonesome swimming hole and celebrate!

Just click on the caption below the picture of the accidental skinny dipper and it will take you to a pdf file in Google Docs. Remember, instead of printing from Google Docs, click on "File" in the upper left corner, then select "Download" and copy the file to your own computer.  Open it with Adobe PDF Reader or whatever PDF reader you use and print the card from there. For some reason Google Docs doesn't handle fonts well, even though they are supposed to be embedded in the PDF document itself.

This is a side fold card, so when it prints be sure to tell your printer it's in "landscape" format so you get it turned right. Flip it on the short side to print double-sided. This will save you a lot of time.    In the meantime, enjoy a refreshing dip if you can find a spot somewhere. Just print off this card and invite your best friend to hit the water with you.

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: August 7 - Lighthouse Day.

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It's Lighthouse Day!  This is the anniversary of the official act of the U.S. Congress, which took place on August 7, 1789, giving the Federal Government oversight of American lighthouses. Lighthouses historically were placed near dangerous rocks and reefs along hazardous coastlines to help keep ships at sea from straying too close to disaster. Many are now abandoned, replaced by automated equipment that does a better job than simple and sometimes fallible lighthouses. There's a certain romance about lighthouses and many are preserved today as historical landmarks. 

This is a side fold card, so when it prints be sure to tell your printer it's in "landscape" format so you get the whole file. Flip it on the short side to print double-sided. This will save you a lot of time.  Have fun and enjoy celebrate Lighthouse Day today by sending a card to the light of your life today.

Just click on the caption below the picture of the lighthouse and it will take you to a pdf file in Google Docs. Remember, instead of printing from Google Docs, click on "File" in the upper left corner, then select "Download" and copy the file to your own computer.  Open it with Adobe PDF Reader or whatever PDF reader you use and print the card from there. For some reason Google Docs doesn't handle fonts well, even though they are supposed to be embedded in the PDF document itself so print them from Adobe Reader or some other PDF reader instead.

Tell your sweetie that she is the light of your life with this printable Lighthouse Day Card.

Greeting Card Campaign: Quotations Day

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It's August 4 - Quotations Day.  It was on this day in 1855 that American author John Bartlett first published his public speakers cheat book - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Since then it's been the secret weapon of public speakers, writers, teachers and anyone else who want to make others think that they are well read.

Got a favorite quotation. Post it in the comments section below, but do me a favor. Look it up in a reputable quotation guide.  Mark Twain and Albert Einstein have more quotations out there on the web than either could have written in a lifetime if they'd slaved away at the typewriter from dawn to dusk from the time they could write until they died. Do the author of a quote the courtesy of getting the right name on it.

And for your information, the quote, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics," was probably not originated by Mark Twain. He attributed it to the 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. It has also been attributed to Leonard H. Courtney, who used the phrase in 1895 and two years later became president of the Royal Statistical Society.

Better yet, make up your own "famous quotation". Today is the day for it.  Here's our card for the day - a sweet quotation from you to your loved one.

Just click on the caption below the picture of the Bartlett's Book of Quotations and it will take you to a pdf file in Google Docs. Remember, instead of printing from Google Docs, click on "File" in the upper left corner, then select "Download" and copy the file to your own computer.  Open it with Adobe PDF Reader or whatever PDF reader you use and print the card from there. For some reason Google Docs doesn't handle fonts well, even though they are supposed to be embedded in the PDF document itself.

This is a side fold card, so when it prints be sure to tell your printer it's in "landscape" format so you get the whole file. Flip it on the short side to print double-sided. This will save you a lot of time.  Have fun and enjoy celebrating a great Quotations Day.

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7/31 Devoted Couples Day

Happy Devoted Couples day.  It's also Best Friends Day and National Mutt's Day, but you can't pass up "Devoted Couples Day" if you want to make an impression with that romantic greeting card. There's no food that goes with this one, only pure love. But don't worry this side fold card is sweet enough to get you onto her good side.

It's a side fold.  Follow the usual procedure:

1. Download the full page photos above by right clicking and then clicking on "save as"
2. Open your word-processor or publishing program.
3. Create a blank two page, double-sided, landscape format document.
4. Turn the photos sideways and paste to cover the document front and back.
5. Print on cardstock on normal or better settings.  Print two-sided with both pictures facing the same direction and flipped on the short side if you have a double-side printer.
6. Fold in half vertically and sign your name with appropriate expressions of love and affection.

 This is a good one for an "out to eat someplace romantic" tactic.  Enjoy the day with your devoted loved one.

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-19 Flitch Day

Flitch Day is an odd little ceremony that was common in 15th century England and may have existed on mainland Europe as far back as Saxon times.  The holiday, traditionally celebrated on the 19th of July, survived into the 1700s with remnants of the custom still surviving in remote areas of England. The festival involved setting up a panel of judges before which couples presented themselves for cross-examination.  The couple had to swear before the judges that they had been married for at least a year and a day and that they didn't regret having married.  If they convinced the judges and survived cross-examination by the appointed prosecutor, then they were awarded a flitch of bacon. 

By all accounts the awarding of the flitch was an very rare event, the English apparently having a distinct skepticism where happiness and the institute of matrimony are concerned.

Declare your support for marital bliss today by buying your blushing bride a flitch of bacon and giving her an attractive card with your handwritten declarations of love inscribed at the bottom in the blank space provided.

Print the inside rightside up

Print the outside upside down

This is a top fold card, so, place the pictures in your document in portrait orientation, covering the whole page, facing opposite directions (one up/one down) on the front and back of some nice cardstock - something in a nice bacon-pink color would be perfect.  Print the pages in portrait mode with the pictures facing opposite ways when flipped along the long edge.

Remember, nothing says, "I love you" like a huge slab of BACON!  It's a very romantic gift that keeps right on giving.  For you vegetarians out there, a case of veggie bacon is always a big hit with the missus.

© 2013 by Tom King