Greeting Card Campaign: Labor Day

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This year Labor Day comes on September 2nd.  Labor Day is legally held on the first Monday of September. The holiday was originally promoted by various labor associations and unions to celebrate their "strengths of and contributions" to the United States economy. Whether you feel like celebrating union "contributions" to the economy or not, Labor Day offers a day of rest for most working stiffs and marks the end of the summer holiday season.  It's a last change to go to the lake, barbecue or enjoy the beach before school starts up and autumn begins.  Remind your sweetheart that she is your own personal "Labor" of love with this printable greeting card.

Just click on the caption below the picture of the Labor Day guy.  The link 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 to enjoy not laboring today.

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 8-22 Punctuation Day

"Holy Hyphenation, Batman!  It's Punctuation Day!" 

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Yes, dive into the dictionary, hold down your shift key and run your finger across the number keys.  August 22^nd celebrates everyone who has any remote idea how to properly use a comma.  You may think a semi-colon is something they do at the hospital with a long tube and a TV camera, but today, it doesn't matter. Drag out your ampersands, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks and interbangs and write a note to your "darling" - the light of your life inside this spiffy Punctuation Day Card.


Just click on the caption below the drawing of the non-specific, non-trademarked Batish-like person 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 remember:

Punctuation is your friend.  Without it how would Batman ever have defeated the Joker (Or the Riddler, Penguin, Two-Face, The Scarecrow, Mr. Freeze or Solomon Grundy for that matter)? No punctuation, no Biff!  Pow!  Oof? or "Wham!!!!"

Just sayin'

Tom King
© 2013

Greeting Card Campaign: 8-17 Thrift Store Day

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August 17 is Thrift Shop Day!  If you're trying to save a few bucks on back-to-school stuff for yourself (face it, your kids are NEVER going to let you get away with thrift shop stuff for them), you can't beet the Salvation Army Store or Goodwill.  Watch for red tag days, you can really walk off with some bargains.  I once got a 1500 dollar sofa in good condition with only one stain on it which my wife eradicated in short order.  The price?  $45.  Can't beat that with a stick.

Tell your sweetie she was the best bargain you every got in your life with a Thrift Shop Day Greeting Card.  Just click on the caption below the shop-a-holic 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.

© 2013 by Tom King

8-15 Angel Food Cake Day

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It's August 15, Angel Food Cake Day - Light, fluffy, sweet. Angel food cake is just like your angel - light and sweet.  Spongy and fluffy, but we won't carry the analogy that far. Make your Sweet Baboo an angel food cake and give her this Angel Food Day Card to let her know how much she means to you.


Just click on the caption below the picture of the husband in love 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 with this fun card. Download it at ( https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2b-BO76yyifaDNuWGc1TXF5blk/edit?usp=sharing ) and enjoy the cake.

© 2013 by Tom King

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: 7-30 Deviled Egg Day

Well, it looks like we're continuing our tasty treats theme this week with "Deviled Egg" Day, a day on which we all celebrate the delightful deliciousness of that pot luck delicacy - the deviled egg.  Though no one is sure why cutting a boiled egg in half, smushing up the yokes with mayo and pickle relish made them "deviled" eggs, but they certainly are a devilishly delicious treat that goes with almost anything.

We've gone with a top fold card this time.  Remember to print the inside of the card upside down with respect to the outside of the card.  Here's the procedure for a top fold card:

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, portrait format document.
4. Paste the photos on the front and back of the page in your document.the photos should cover the entire page outside and inside.
5. Print on cardstock on normal or better settings.  Print two-sided with both pictures facing the same direction and flipped on the long side if you have a double-side printer.
6. Turn the card sideways and fold in half vertically, sign your name with appropriate expressions of love and affection.

It's even better if you make some deviled eggs for her to go with the card. They are delicious. Even your angel will think so....

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-29 Lasagna Day

Okay, now this is a thing worth celebrating.  It's Lasagna Day, hip, hip, hooray.  I'm with Garfield on this one - Italian food is supposed to be the food of romance. Well I think lasagna is the most romantic danged thing anyone ever invented.  To celebrate we have this card.

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, sign your name with appropriate expressions of love and promises to take her out to the Olive Garden tonight.

You can't beat that with a romantic stick!

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-27 Walk on Stilts Day

Tell her she makes you feel ten feet tall with this "Walk on Stilts Day" greeting card.  Where this holiday came from, I'm not sure, but the idea is to try out a pair of stilts today. Though that is not likely at my advanced age, I owned several homemade pair in my youth and could get about quite nicely on them.  Made me about 6 or 7 feet tall and at age 11, it was interesting to get a view from grownup altitude.  Made me realize just how small I looked to the grownups.

This card is a side fold, so when you place the pictures in the document, both should be in landscape format and both pictures right side up.  The pictures are standard 8 1/2 by 11 cardstock size.  Just right click, download the pictures, put them into your word processor or publishing program and print up your card. Leave it in some surprise place for her to find.

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-25 Act Like a Caveman Day

Not sure where this one came from - probably from people who like hair-dragging or perhaps those who enjoy being dragged.  There's no accounting for tastes.  At any rate, as a celebration, "Act Like a Caveman" Day is as good an excuse as any for tossing a mastodon on the barbie.

This is a side-fold card.  Like all side-fold cards download the pictures by right-clicking on them and then choosing "save image as".  Drop the images into your document. They're sized so they fill up the whole page.  Print front and back on cardstock so that the tops of both pages face the same direction, front and back. When you're done, who knows?  Perhaps you're favorite cavegirl may be in the mood to join in a bit of hair-dragging, stalactite rattling fun back in the old cave.  You never know.

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-24 Tell an Old Joke Day

Today we celebrate ancient old jokes - the sort the cavemen told to the dinosaurs (Three trilobites walk into a bar....).  For today we've come up with a little self-deprecating humor so as not to imply in any way that your Sweet Baboo is any sort of joke, old or new.  The spoof here is based on the chicken crossing the road joke, the venerable light bulb joke and the knock knock joke.

It's a side fold card.  Download the images, drop them into your word processor or publishing document and print in landscape with both images upright on the front and the back of the cardstock you print the card on.  

Look up some elderly jokes and have a laugh.

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-16 International Juggling Day

Okay, my source de' holidays failed me last week.I was misinformed by a normally reliable website as to the correct day for National Hot Dog Day which is July 23 - today! Of course, this is also National Hot Dog Month, so who cares? We can technically celebrate hot dogs every day in July and how cool is that?

To make up for the missing day, I offer this sweet card for July 16th - International Juggling Day.  Tell her she keeps your world spinning. You don't have to tell her Juggling Day was last week.  You'll get it right next year. 

Anyway, the Hot Dog Day card I did on the 16th should actually be for today.  I would have done "Mosquito Day" which is also today, but I couldn't think of anything romantic about mosquitoes (at least nothing serious).  To make up for the mistake, I'm offering a catch up card for the 16th of July which is actually International Juggling Day, a day to not only appreciate juggling as a performing art, but to tell your Sweetheart that she keeps your world spinning.

 

This is a simple side-fold card.  Print it in landscape view with both sides right side up in landscape view.  Sign your name above the bit about being her favorite clown.  Should get you a smooch.  At least that's the idea.  Right click on the images and download by clicking on "save as".  They are for your personal use only. The copyright is just to protect the ideas for my own ebook of greeting cards (which it will take me a year to create apparently.

Anyway, if I get time later, I'll do another one for today which is also, I discovered, "Ice Cream Cone Day" and "Vanilla Ice Cream Day" - rather redundant perhaps, but then how can ice cream be redundant? Or you can celebrate Hot Dog Day Part Dieux, or just blow it all out and have hot dogs AND ice cream.


© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-20 Nap Day

Grab a chaise lounge out in the yard, spread a blanket at the beach, string a hammock between two trees or curl up on your bed under a ceiling fan with the air conditioner turned up.  It's Nap Day - a celebration of snoozing, a time to get comfy and a time to cuddle. 

This card is a top fold, so after you right click on the pictures below and download them place them in your double-sided document so the front of the page or outside of the card is upside down and the back or inside is right way up.  Print on a nice cardstock and leave it on her pillow in the morning before she wakes up.

Follow up with an invitation to an impromptu nap in the afternoon.  Wear a nice cologne in case it takes a little while to doze off. 

© 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

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-17 Get out of the Doghouse Day

If you seem to stay in trouble more than you stay out of trouble (and frankly, you probably wouldn't have been reduced to the extreme of sending a card per day if you weren't that sort of doofus), then today is your day.

It's "Get Out of the Doghouse Day"!  Yeah!

Today is the day when, according to ancient tradition, your wife has to forgive you if you get on your knees and confess your failures and shortcomings (and bring her an unburnt breakfast in bed or better yet, a brunch at her favorite bistro.

Inside of card

Outside of card

This is a top fold card, so print the second page upside down on the back of the first page.  As with all of these, insert the pictures into your Word or publishing software document so they cover the full front and back of a single sheet of card stock.  Download the images by right clicking and choosing "Save image as".

Be careful, though.  This is a day to beg for giveness, not demand it. Start demanding your right to forgiveness and it could easily turn into "Bury Your Husband Under the Back Porch Day."

I'm just sayin'

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-23 - National Hot Dog Day

July 23 is National Hot Dog Day.  We continue our year long campaign of greeting cards with a tender and romantic message for National Hot Dog Day.  What says "romance" better than a nice, well-roasted frankfurter.

This is a vertical card. Place the jpeg files in landscape mode on landscape oriented pages on back to back pages in your document.  Print them so that both pages print so that the tops of the pictures face the same direction.  Print them on a nice cardstock.

Have fun and enjoy the dogs...

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-15 National Tapioca Day

July 15th is National Tapioca Day - a celebration of all things tapioca. If your beloved doesn't like tapioca, you can always celebrate National Nude Day today, but I ain't makin' no card for that one. You're on your own there. This is a family site. 
 

 

I've chosen a kind of sappy romantic theme featuring pudding AND peaches.  These are the graphics (above) for the outside and inside of the card.  Just paste them as full page graphics on the front and back of the page in your document file.  You can use Word or Publisher, PageMaker (like I did) or any other publishing software.  The second page should be printed upside down compared to the first which is why the photo scan is upside down  That way the greeting will be at the bottom of the inside page.  This is a top fold card.  You can buy blank greeting card stock with a nice prefold in it or go cheap like me and buy straight cardstock and fold it yourself. 

I've also included a nice recipe for Tapioca Pudding & Peaches below if you want to get jiggy with the special effects. Nothing says I love you like a sweet treat.  For those of you guys doing something with whipped cream and a big red bow, just don't tell us about it, okay. I don't even want to imagine that.

 

Tapioca Pudding

With Peaches

Ingredients

·       2 cups (2%) milk

·       1 egg

·       tbsp tapioca

·       1½ cups coarsely diced fresh peaches

·       3 tbsp no-sugar apricot spread

·       1 tsp vanilla

Preparation:

1.     Beat egg lightly. Add milk, egg and tapioca to saucepan and allow it to sit for 5 minutes. 

2.     Stir peaches and apricot spread into mixture.

3.     Heat and stir over medium heat until the pudding comes to a boil.

4.     Cook for 1 minute after the pudding starts to boil. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.

5.     Cool slightly; stir. Place plastic wrap directly on surface of pudding; chill.

Makes 4 servings.  If you can't get fresh peaches, you can use frozen peaches if you add 1 or 2 packages of artificial sweetener or 4 teaspoons of sugar to the milk mixture.

Tom King - © 2013