Make a New Year greeting card with Halkmark Card Studio

Tet is coming with hundreds of things that are busy to worry about houses, treat friends . and something that is indispensable are cards that bring greetings to your loved ones. Halkmark Card Studio 2004 will help you create greeting cards, calendars, posters and real business cards.

Compatible with every Windows program, you can buy at CD Software stores (2 discs) or go to the website www.hallmark.com for reference.

Design your own greeting card template

- Select the card size: go to File> New menu, in the window that appears, select the size of the card page. The program provides quite a lot of samples, please choose for yourself a sample like that.

Depending on the type of card or calendar, the interface will design the face of the card, the calendar will be different. Here I choose the theme Cards / Invitations . Now in the main interface, you will see the card has 4 faces: front ( Front ), back ( Back ), left ( Left ), right ( Right ). You turn to design the 4 faces for a complete card. In this article, I only design the front of the card, the other faces do the same.

- Writing wishes: Click the Text button, in the Add text dialog box, type your greetings into the card. If you have trouble finding the most meaningful wishes, you can refer to some pre-written templates by clicking on the Greetting button. In the window that appears, the program offers multiple themes by topics such as Holidays, Friends, Love, Kids, Female Relatives . select the topic that matches the greeting in the greeting card, then click on the greeting form there.

- Edit the text: Change the font press the Font button, change the font color in the Color section and change the size in the Size section. In particular, if you want to make the text rotate beautifully, check the Curve Effect then select the rotation direction according to the provided templates below.

- Insert Clipart: Click the Clip Art button, in the window that appears, use your mouse to drag the slider to see the Clip Art list, then select the best Clip Art to insert into the card. Similarly, you can insert pictures into the card by pressing the Photo button, then browse to the folder that opens the image.

- Frame selection: Select Hallmark Papers (the tool is above the card), the list of frames appears, you select the most pleasant frame.

Make cards based on available templates

From the main interface of the program, select the topic of creating cards by going to menu Cards> choose the topic of creating cards ( Holidays, Birthdays, Special Days, Day by Day, Ecards ). Corresponding to each topic will have hundreds of different card templates, please choose for yourself a sample!

Next, you click on the text on the picture and instead your greetings. After you have finished editing the text, use the arrows to move the text into the appropriate position for the image.

Save the result

After you've created the perfect cards, go to File> Save to save the created card. You can also apply the same steps as above to create yourself a Christmas card, birthday . "no touch". Good luck!

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