Showing posts with label grandparents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grandparents. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Cards Great for Camp


Good Wednesday morning to you!

Text cards or regular cards are great for your kids or grandkids at camp.

Are you a grandparent that likes to keep a daily journal?  If you do it faithfully, you have a passion for writing and keeping memories.

I have months where I keep a detailed journal.  Other months, I just don’t do it.  I’ve done this over the years.

I love going back through the months I kept.  I re-read the information of each day.

One time, my husband said, “What was happening on this particular day?”

Lucky for me, that was during a month I journaled.  I was able to go back and pull it up and tell him what was happening.  It was wonderful.

I loved writing so much that when my kids went off to camp for a week during the summer, I wrote letters for each day they were gone.  Since I knew where they were going, I started sending them out a few days before they left, and figured how many letters to send before coming home.

They found this amazing.  Frankly, so did I.

But they loved getting the mail.  So many others did not get mail, and were envious of my kids.

Text cards or regular cards also catch the eye of your loved ones, and the others that come into contact with them.  The mailman notices those, “Cute little envelopes they pick up every so often.”  Yep!



A PDF is available upon request.  Leave a comment, but email me at cjz phone at gmail dot com, and request the 8.10.16 pfd.  It should arrive within 24 hours.  If not, leave me another comment.

Here’s the breakdown to use this card.

Since there is a pdf for this set, you can get it.  The work is done for you.  But to do it yourself, just follow the instructions below.

HOW TO USE THESE GRAPHICS: To size it how you want it, right click on the picture and choose save as.  Save it to a location on your computer so you can find it.

Now open a new Word document.  Go to the Insert tab and choose picture.  Find the saved picture on your computer and insert it into Word.

When you click on the new image, you’ll see the four corners have little squares.  You can grab any corner and drag it to the size you wish.

Now you can right click and copy this new size, and paste it under that picture on the beginning of a new line. 

Makes several copies different sizes, and print them. 

Choose the size that works with the picture of your card recipient.  Cut and glue them in, and you’ve got a card or text card.

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Thanks for your time.  See you again on FRIDAY!

Enjoy!  Please consider leaving a comment below.  As a thank you, I’ll send you a copy of my COLOR MY WAY THROUGH MY PERSONAL JOURNAL: Thirty-one Pages to Get a Little More ME Time.  Please email me your valid email address to receive it.  (This will also put you on my email list.  But don’t worry.  I won’t share or sell your email with anyone else.  I respect your privacy.)



My email is cjzphone at gmail dot com.

Cj at Grannies Print Shop.blogspot.com; designed to help grandparents reach out to their grandchildren, so that closing the miles equals smiles.  Make a connection again, and let your grandkids know you are thinking of them.  If you consider making a physical card, you are remembering how wonderful it used to be to receive REAL MAIL from friends and family.  It’s a dying art, so I hope you’ll help keep the tradition alive!

Monday, August 1, 2016

Grannies Print Shop: Welcome!

Hello, and Welcome to Grannies Print Shop!

Since I've retired, I now have time to devote to my graphics.  Yeah!

I wanted to be able to use my graphics in a way that benefited my family members.

My daughter was out gathering her mail one day, when her six-year old daughter, E, said, "Mommy.  Why don't I get any mail?"

A very good question, I think!  How about you?

My daughter called and asked if I would send letters to my granddaughter, much as I had done many years ago with her older daughter, TS.

"Well, of course," I happily said.  For now, I had a way to use all the graphics I've been making over the last eleven years.

And so, I began.  I added a total of three people that get personalized, decorated letters.  Two of them are my two granddaughters, E who is 6, and TS who is almost 16.  My mother is in a nursing home in MO, so she was added to the list as well.

The letters are physical projects, and go out every other Monday.  That's about two a month.

But I'm sure you also have loved ones that would love to receive either "real mail" or texts with their pictures decorating them.

Currently, I send a scrapped picture to each granddaughter every day.  It is sent by text mail with a short message that says, "Hi E (or TS).  I hope you're having a terrific day.  Grannie loves you very much."

If you have a grandchild you'd love to thrill; this just might be for YOU grandparents.

Maybe just a picture every other week.

Basically, this is what Grannies Print Shop is about.

Every Monday, I will put up a template or item for you to pick up.  Save it to your computer, and use it yourself.  Whether you print pictures out or use a graphics editing program to insert pictures and text, it is yours to share your own message to YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

I know there are a lot of programs out in the internet world that will let you edit and add to your pictures.

I am starting off today with this free scrapping template.  Put a picture of someone in it.  Add words if you wish.  Take a picture of it with your phone, and then text it on its way. (You may NOT sell or copy as your own, but they are free to share with your loved ones.)

If you have questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments.

Enjoy my first share!!!  (It's a Texting Template.)

Download this one now!!!


The size is 840 x 940 pixels:  3.021 MB.  (It is a jpg.)

Have a great day, and please leave me a comment.

Cj
Grannies Print Shop

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