Create Custom Greeting Cards with Greeting Card Templates

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Greeting cards convey thoughtful messages to your loved ones. There are many occasions, festivals and other much awaited events when you need to personalized cards. The main idea behind personalizing any greeting is that a sender can give a personal touch to the card. There are many tips and tricks used for customizing a card.

A person can choose to either create a card in a printed form or an electronic form. If you are choosing to create a card in a printed form, you need to collect a few things. A high quality printing paper and search for advanced greeting card templates. A printer prints your card that you have created with the help of templates. The templates are the guidelines which guide a user with many different ideas for creating cards. They range from birthday celebrations, wedding anniversaries, Thank You notes, Congratulations to Christmas, New Year Eve, Easter and much more. You can collect ideas from these themes and add personal touch to the card by using advanced tools. A person can decorate the front side of the card by using funny pictures or bright images, clip-art or even insert a personal photograph. Inserting a personal photograph of the past times gives a sense of human touch to the cards. In the inside page, you can select your own verses or write your own thoughts. Take a print out of it with the help of a printer and envelope the card with a perfume. Perfumed cards leave a deep impact and favorable impression on the mind of a receiver.

In a similar way, you can make electronic cards on different occasions. A person can easily insert pop-ups or animated images into the front page. There are a lot of flash animation cards available on the Internet. You can pick any of them and customize the greeting according to the way you desire. One can even add musical tones or jingles to the greeting. Even in an electronic card, you can insert a personal photograph for making it more memorable for the receiver. Create attractive cards with advanced greeting card templates.
About the Author

Harsin Carter is a full time internet marketer and having inclination towards writing. This article is basically based on creating photo greeting cards using personalized greeting cards and other tools.

Christmas Recipes: Pumpkin Gingerbread

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By: frosty
“Wonderfully flavorful and fragrant bread for the holidays.”

Prep Time: 15 Min  Cook Time: 45 Min  Ready In: 1 Hr

Original Recipe Yield 2 – 9×5 inch loaves

Ingredients

  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 2/3 cup water
  • 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
  • 2 teaspoons ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9×5 inch loaf pans.
  2. In a large mixing, combine sugar, oil and eggs; beat until smooth. Add water and beat until well blended. Stir in pumpkin, ginger, allspice cinnamon, and clove.
  3. In medium bowl, combine flour, soda, salt, and baking powder. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and blend just until all ingredients are mixed. Divide batter between prepared pans.
  4. Bake in preheated oven until toothpick comes out clean, about 1 hour.

Nutritional Information 

Amount Per Serving Calories: 263 | Total Fat: 10.2g | Cholesterol: 35mg

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Christmas Recipes: Sweet Potato Pie

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By: COUGAAR
“This recipe was shared with me by a special friend in Atlanta, Ga. It has long been a favorite, and everyone who tastes it says it is the best they have ever had.”
Prep Time:30 Min  Cook Time:1 Hr 50 Min  Ready In:2 Hrs 20 Min
Original Recipe Yield 1 – 9 inch pie

Ingredients

  • 1 (1 pound) sweet potato
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust

Directions

  1. Boil sweet potato whole in skin for 40 to 50 minutes, or until done. Run cold water over the sweet potato, and remove the skin.
  2. Break apart sweet potato in a bowl. Add butter, and mix well with mixer. Stir in sugar, milk, eggs, nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla. Beat on medium speed until mixture is smooth. Pour filling into an unbaked pie crust.
  3. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 55 to 60 minutes, or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Pie will puff up like a souffle, and then will sink down as it cools.

Nutritional Information 

Amount Per Serving Calories: 389 | Total Fat: 20.6g | Cholesterol: 85mg

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