Sending e-cards - Valentine's Day Card at the office

When I used Word I had loads of CDs and downloads for making greetings cards.

Then along came free animated cards.

Now they all seem to demand money or are so complicated I never get them finished and uploaded. 

(Or they are too rude).

Now I'm on a MacBook.

Under Pages it has templates section and a list of cards including Miscellaneous.

But you can't rotate you picture in it, which you need to do if you print off an A4 page and fold it in half. 

My solution. I wrote a wonderful Valentine's Day poem.  (Anybody can do this. Write couplets. Four or eight is a easy number to count by sight or on your fingers.  Instructions are in my poetry workbook which I sell through Lulu or at Writers' Circle meetings or you can contact me.) 

 I printed my poem in colour with a coloured border on A4 paper.

In my MacBook I downloaded hearts and typed Happy Valentine's Day.

I printed the two A4 pages. How to link them? Easy. Make a hole in the top of both. Thread through a piece of gold thread (saved from the label on a new garment, a box of chocolates - I store them in my sewing box). Failing that, or in a hurry, grab a red elastic band from your stationery box.  (Link one end through the hole and out through the loop. It's then ready for the recipient to hang on a drawing pin on their office notice board. 

If you can use Word it's easier to print and rotate pictures.

To work out the layout is easy. Either take an old birthday card or leftover unused Christmas card and unfold it. You can then either write the letters A B C D on the four corners of the card.

Or take a piece of A4 and fold it horizontally and then vertically to make a card. Write A B C D on the top right of each page. 

If you want to make it easier, write the letters on all four corners of each of the four sections. and/ or huge in the middle of the page.

Unfold and you should see that A is top left section upside down. D is top right section upside down. B is lower left. C is lower right. If you cannot print upside down, try leaving blank pages and doing a pattern such as a sunburst which works any way up for the upside down pages. Hearts only work right way up, unless you want to turn them into cartoons by adding handwriting.   

Or you could go on line and download something as I have done below.

The weird thing was it had selected five pictures at random from my photo album.

Here's my first effort. I hope you find this interesting.

If you wish to email please do. To avoid scamming I'm putting spaces in the email and writing it out as I would say it.

a n n a l o n d o n 8 (figure eight) ( t h e n a t s i g n ) g m a i l d o t c o m

This code which I've copied is supposed to come out as their video.

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