Using the home computer to its best advantage, this card idea, supplied by the Lotocky family of Poughkeepsie, New York, is easy to make because the computer does all the work.
Tips
If you don't own a scanner, don't worry: most copy shops
can scan photos for you. Alternatively, have your prints burned
onto a CD-ROM when you have them developed.
| Prep Time: Afternoon or Evening | |
| What you need: | |
| Home computer, paint program, photo-editing software,
scanner, snowman clip art (available with software and on the
Web)
Photos of your kids | |
| Seasons: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa | |
| Materials: paper | |
| Instructions: | |
| 1. | Take a single piece of snowman clip art, duplicate five times, reduce, and reposition as needed using a paint program. (The Lotocky family uses LivePix Deluxe, but any capable paint program will do.) |
| 2. | Next, take a good recent photo of each of your children, scan them, and use a photo-editing program to crop around the heads. |
| 3. | Import the images back into the paint program and position them, then zoom in close to clean up the edges pixel by pixel. Print and fold your cards. |
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