Late Christmas Cards

How late is too late to send a Christmas greeting card you may ask???  Do you think your friends and relatives are going to refuse the mail because it is late?  No, everyone loves getting a real piece of mail no matter when it arrives!  A late greeting card will just make people smile and know they are in the company of real friends who aren't worried that they will be judged!!!

Traditionally, I keep a fun gingerbread bowl on the kitchen table to store our holiday greeting cards that arrive throughout the holiday.  I see most of my visiting children take some quiet time to read every card from that bowl.  So, our later arriving cards don't get read by our visiting family but we enjoy them even so.  I hear that there are lots of people who regularly send their holiday greeting cards late.  Some say they do it so their card gets more notice but truly, most of us are just running late. 

Goodness, we just experienced a year when there was an extra week in between Thanksgiving and Christmas and yet, I don't know a single person who felt that they had more time.  Christmas just snuck up on everyone this year it seemed!

SendOutCards has some great solutions for late holiday greeting card senders.  If you don't want to send a late Christmas greeting card, we have a fabulous assortment of New Years greeting cards or Calendar greeting cards. Check out my December post about Campaign Cards: TIP #6 for more information on New Years or Calendar greeting cards.

Today, my daughter-in-law, Aubrey, showed me this card that made me laugh.  You have got to take a look at it.  You can find it in the Humorous sub-category under the Christmas category.  Or, it is easier to just use the SEARCH BOX at the top of the Card Catalog and type in: january.  Do not capitalize the word January as the search tool does not like capital letters!  You will need to view it from your SendOutCards account to really read it easily.  

Enjoy and Happy Late Card Sending!

Holiday Greeting Card Tips-Send a Sample Card

SendOutCards Campaigns

 Using the SendOutCards Campaign feature for sending Holiday Greeting Cards

Send yourself a hard copy

 

TIP #6-When I am going to send a card to over 100 people, I send myself a hard copy sample card of a large campaign in case I don’t notice a mistake (from my computer screen).  I can be pretty picky so you may not have the same need to see it first.  If you call SOC, or use the online chat feature, after you send yourself that sample card, they will refund that cost to your account.

Of course, if you are sending a holiday card right about now, there isn't the luxury of time to send yourself a sample card first.  If you really want to follow this advice, think about switching your holiday card to a New Year's greeting card or a Calendar Greeting Card is you have a business.  We have many, many great new cards in both of those categories.

Check out the New Year's greeting cards in the category: Holidays and sub-category: New Years.  There are even sub-categories in that section so click on the one you want. Businesses in the heath or finance industry are particularly well suited to sending a New Year's card and mentioning achieving goals for the new year.

A business can send a year-at-a-glance 2013 Calendar Greeting Card that will sit on your customer's desk all year long and the card only costs 62 cents!!!  That is a lot of months of keeping your name fresh in their mind every time they pick up that card . . . and for such a little cost.  Check out our new calendar cards in the category:  Special Collections and sub category: Calendar Cards.  We also have Calendar Elements if you would like to create a custom calendar card and add personal photos or images for only 1 more point.

The possibilities are endless!

I know the card catalog well.  Call me at 503-524-1111 if you want some suggestions. 

Holiday Greeting Card Tips-Adding Contacts

SendOutCards Campaigns

Using the SendOutCards Campaign feature for Holiday Greeting Card sending.

Adding people to your Contact Manager

TIP #5- At this time of year, hopefully you have already added your family, friends, customers and business associates to your Contact Manager.  If not, and if you have your contacts in any sort of Excel-type fie, you may add them to your SendOutCards account all at once with the Importing Contacts feature. Otherwise, plant yourself in front of a fun holiday movie and add your contacts one by one.  That is what I did before I realized there was an Import Contacts feature!

Check out the HOW TO IMPORT CONTACTS tutorial on your HELP drop down menu plus, Customer Service will help with technical issues if you experience any.  At this time of year, choose the CALL BACK option with Customer Service or use the Online Chat feature in the bottom left hand corner of your screen.

Once you have all your contacts into your system, you WILL feel jolly, jolly. jolly joy since it will then be SO easy to send a simple heartfelt card all year long!

Holiday Greeting Card Tips-Personalizing

SendOutCards Campaigns

Using the SendOutCards Campaign feature for sending Holiday Greeting Cards

Insert Name Feature for fun personalization

TIP #4-Remember to have fun with photos, text boxes, thought bubbles and personalizing your card on both the front and inside with the insert name features.   When you use the INSERT NAME feature, do not cut and paste it.  You MUST click on the INSERT NAME feature on the EDIT-PERSONALIZE IT page for it to work as a live mail merge feature.  

I used the FIRST NAME-INSERT NAME feature on this card.  When printed, whatever I have in the first name cell in my Contact Manager, will be auto-filled onto the front of my card.  Watch the tutorial about using Campaigns from your HELP drop down menu on your Main Menu Page red line for more explanations.  Call me at 503-524-1111 if you still have questions.

Holiday Greeting Card Tips-Signatures

SendOutCards Campaigns

Using the Campaign Feature in SendOutCards for Holiday Greeting Cards

Signatures and Personal Font

TIP #3-If you purchased the $25.00 handwriting/ 4 signature font option, it takes about 10 days to 2 weeks for it to get into your system.  For those of you who may have procrastinated mailing in that font page, a remedy to still using a signature is to scan an image of the signature that you use on your holiday cards and adding it as an image (photo) to your system.  Write it in a fun holiday color since you will not be able to change the color in an image of course, like you may change font colors.  When using a scanned image as your signature, remember the background of that part of the card should be white.  One of the fun features of purchasing a $5.00 signature, is that your background may be any color and there is much more flexibility.  Call me at 503-524-111 for further explanation.

Holiday Greeting Card Tips

SendOutCards Campaigns

A campaign is a card or set of cards that you wish to send over and over again or to a group of people in your Contact Manager. Watch the informative Tutorial on Campaigns in the HELP section and call me if you have more questions. Here are some tips and tricks:

1-Because there will be some days that the company will print almost three quarters of a million  cards in December, SendOutCards pulls cards from your account more than one time a day (we cannot depend on the midnight Mountain Standard Time deadline).  If you are planning to do some individual editing to some cards in a large campaign, post date the send campaign option on the last page of your campaign so you have time to do that. When you edit a card, you MUST click the continue button until you click SEND CARD button again so SOC knows you are serious about that change.  You will NOT be charged again.

2-When I create a detailed card, I ALWAYS hit the Print Preview button to make sure my computer screen is showing how SendOutCards will print it.  If there is a difference between the two displays, always believe Print Preview and be careful of your margins.

Spiders really BUG me

I mentioned in an earlier post that spiders give me the creeps.  I know that they have a good purpose on earth; I read that spiders and bats eat tons of insects.  In fact, bats can eat 600-1000 mosquitoes in an hour; that is one busy bat!  Yuck, but yeah!

This hatred I have for spiders is more of a fear.  But why, considering their size to mine???  I don’t know, but a spider of most any size can immobilize me.  That is why I was CRAZY this year to put spiders on my Halloween greeting card to my customers.  I received one back in the mail from someone who moved their offices.  Yikes; I couldn’t even touch the part of the greeting card that had the spider while putting it in a new envelope to re-address it!

                             It would be frightening not to have you as a customer!

But I had fun lots of fun with my Halloween greeting card this year.  I normally send cute greeting cards but this one was a bit edgy and it made lots of friends laugh.  Was that really you?” they asked.  Yes, me, ratted hair and a lot of hairspray!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

And yes . . .

SendOutCards is so cool it is scary!

Halloween is around the corner; yikes!

I used to enjoy picking out funny or cute Halloween greeting cards for the family but I would spend quite some time in the card isles doing so.  Now, I easily find the ones I like from my SendOutCards account from the comfort of my computer.  Since Halloween is such a playful holiday, have fun choosing greeting cards that will make people smile.

There are entire subcategories devoted to family, humorous and of course, children!  The choices are endless with spooky, bright or bloody colors to create the tone you wish.  Choose from monsters, mummies, spiders, bats or black cats or on the lighter side, candy corn, pumpkins, or cute costumes.  Just have fun . . . knowing you will add a happy moment to the person receiving the card.

 

Are you old enough to remember the spider pages in the Golden Book Encyclopedias?  Well, truth be known, I couldn’t even bring myself to touch those pages.  Turning the page gave me the creeps.  As I started thinking about a fun Halloween card creation this year, I choose a template that had spiders since my previous Halloween cards have been on the cute side.  As I started working with the template, that old feeling came back to me and I am certainly glad that I do not have to handle the cards with spiders on them.  Ha Ha . . . just my family and friends have to touch them.  Eeck!

 Vishing you a vonderfully vicked and vild Halloveen! 

Happy Halloween Card Sending!

Thanking Fathers

Has Father’s Day snuck up on you like it did me?  My goodness, the weeks and months are passing by at light speed!  So, if you didn’t get a Father’s day greeting card in the mail yet, it is NOT too late.  Just give your dad a call on Father’s Day but put a nice message into a greeting card over the weekend.  It could start by saying, “Dad, as I think about you on Father’s Day,  . . .  Why put it into a greeting card?  He will pick up that card over and over again to read your words and bring a smile to his face.

  Dads love feeling appreciated.  Father's Day is a perfect time to express your appreciation. If you need help thinking of what to say, try to be more specific than general.  You may think of a special outing you shared that brings fond memories to the two of you, think of some advice he gave you that helped you, or a funny saying that you can remember him saying repeatedly.

 "Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a Dad."

Anne Geddes

Happy Father’s Day Card Sending!

Showing Appreciation

 “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more . . . 

It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” 

Melody Beattie

When May Kay Ash, founder of the billion dollar Mary Kay business, started her business, she had a goal to write three thank you notes a night. This practice not only expressed her gratitude to the people with whom she met and with whom she did business, but also allowed her to maintain a positive attitude all day long as she sought out people to whom she would send these thank you notes.

There is a magic in the attitude of gratitude.

Think about it, having the attitude of gratitude can shape your thinking and experiences.  As you are looking for someone or something for which to be grateful, THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO NOTICE, people doing good and the good things happening in your life daily!

How do I know this to be true?  I have always been a letter writer.  I was pretty good at writing greeting cards to thank people for things they did but I was also very good at writing letters to complain about something if I felt I had been served unjustly by a business or some situation.  After using SendOutCards and following the goal to write a heartfelt greeting card a day this is what happened to me:

 First, as I wrote a greeting card expressing how I appreciated someone, I had good feelings as I thought about the ability to brighten the day of the person getting the greeting card.  It didn’t take much time before I realized that I was the one benefiting from this simple process.  Of course, the person getting the greeting card feels good also and I have had some many amazing responses to the greeting cards.  I also realized that the energy to write a letter of complaint was draining, re-living negative, angry emotions all over again as I wrote.  So, sometimes when I have not received good service and am tempted to write a letter of complaint now, I stop and think of what business has served me exceptionally and write a note of gratitude instead.  It feels so much better!

Second, the best part of my goal is that I am looking for the positive or to notice someone doing something nice.  It has changed my outlook.  I LOVE the feeling.  And all this from a greeting card company who, when I first heard of how SendOutCards worked I said, “A greeting card written from your computer?  It won’t have the same impact.”  NOT TRUE!  Even as strong of a greeting card writer as I had been, I would have not had the experiences I have enjoyed if I faced the many obstacles and cost of sending greeting cards the traditional way.  I LOVE sending a REAL greeting card in the mail with the ease of doing it from my computer and being able to personalize it even more with my own photos!!!

I invite you to join with me and take a 30 Days of Gratitude Challenge. Send out at least one heartfelt greeting card a day expressing appreciation to someone you would like to thank.  It could be something you observed that day or to someone for whom you wish to express gratitude for the part they have played in your life.  This costs about a $1.00 a day.  If you send out at least one greeting card a day expressing appreciation for 30 days and you don't see a positive impact in your life I will refund your $30!

Let me know if you accept this challenge!  You will be glad you did!  It is a nice way to live.

Gracias, danke, merci . . .whatever language is spoken, “thank you” frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey towards perfection.  There is a simplicity, even a sincerity, when “thank you” is spoken.  Thomas S. Monson

Happy Card Sending!

Memorial Day Memories

 This nation will remain the land of the free

 only so long as it is the home of the brave. -Elmer Davis

I love the reminders I have seen this weekend of the meaning of today’s holiday, Memorial Day.  My favorite sight was a flag lined cemetery.  It was inspiring to see all the flags waving in the wind.  Memorial Day memories bring lots of warm feelings of family and friends, trips to the coast, barbeques, picnics and just plain backyard fun.  All of which are precious things for which the gratitude of our freedoms make even more meaningful.

Have a wonderful Memorial Day!

Gobs of Graduation Greeting Cards

 To you, graduate! May the next part of your journey

bring you more joy, wisdom and success. Congratulations!

Do you know someone graduating this year? Whether it is from high school or college, this is an important occasion in their lives to recognize and celebrate.  Goodness, in our family, we celebrated the kindergarten, elementary and middle school graduations also; it is fun to celebrate important milestones!

SendOutCards does have GOBS of Graduation Greeting cards.  Go to the Category Expressions, then Congratulations, then Graduation or just type graduation in the search box at the top of the Card Catalog if you wish to see a smaller selection of graduation greeting cards.. 

My Wish to You On Your Graduation Day

May the world offer you as many wonderful things

as you have to offer the world.

Send a graduation greeting card acknowledging this accomplishment, offering your congratulations and wish for luck in the future. If you don’t know the graduate well, send one of our graduation greeting cards with a message already on the inside or find a quote or poem to add to the greeting card.  Many websites offer quotes like thinkexist.com or brainyquote.com; just use the search tool for graduation quotes.

Graduation is not the end; it is the Beginning.

If the graduate is a close family member this is a fantastic time to share your love and appreciation in writing expressing heartfelt feelings of the characteristics that make the graduate special to you and bound for more future successes.

And of course, as always, we have humorous graduation greeting cards if you feel so inclined. One of  my favorite funny graduation greeting cards is the one pictured below.

Your family is so extremely proud of you.

You can't even imagine the sense of relief they are feeling right now.

This would be a most opportune time to ask for money. Congratulations Graduate! 

Happy Graduation Greeting Card Sending!

Don't Forget the Women in your LIfe

Do you know a forgotten mom, some woman who may not hear from family on Mother’s Day?  What a nice idea to send a Happy Mother’s Day card with a short, cheerful message about your gratitude towards your relationship with her!

 Mother's Day is the best reason to say

all the things you should have said during the rest of the year.

A woman doesn’t have to bear children to bless many lives with her divine nurturing qualities.  Think of the many women in your life, not including your own mother, who have influenced you for good; some women having children of their own and some without children.  There are many of them.  Wouldn’t it be nice if you took this week to send a heartfelt card of gratitude for the role that they played in your life?  This is a great month to think about the nurturers in our lives and celebrate those relationships.

Happy Card Sending!

Remembering Mother

In 1998, I read an article by a leader in my church, Thomas S. Monson, who wrote of the Mother Forgotten and the Mother Remembered.  Once read, I have never forgotten its powerful message about the affect on all of us to remember and honor our mothers.  How true it is that, when we stop to remember our mothers, we are prone to improve our behavior as we live to honor her. 

As Mother’s Day approaches and we rush about to find the perfect gift, we need only read the story cited in this article to know what a mother holds close to her heart.  As the story is told, after a mother passes away, her family gathers around the table to open her small metal treasure box.  There are three things inside: her marriage certificate, the deed to her modest home wherein she raised her children and then, the following:

“Then there was discovered a yellowed envelope that bore the marks of time. Carefully the flap was opened and from inside was taken a homemade valentine. Its simple message, in the handwriting of a child, read, “I love you, Mother.” Though she was gone, by what she held sacred mother taught yet another lesson. A silence permeated the room, and every member of the family made a pledge not only to remember, but also to honor mother.”

 A Mother's Love... 

brings peace and quiet shelter

to a tender heart in need of comfort.

Her hope, patience and loving counsel are like

a haven through the changing scenes of one’s life.

As Mother’s Day approaches may we honor our mothers by the good lives we lead.  May we remember our mothers and show appreciation by verbally expressing or writing down the loving feelings of gratitude in our hearts and special memories of her love.  Or maybe just as the story relates, write “I love you” so she may read and reread it.

To read this great article, go to this link: "Behold Thy Mother"

Happy Card Sending!

Don't Forget Mother's Day on May 13

It is not too early to be thinking about Mother’s Day.  I am going to go out on a limb here and say that most moms that I know would LOVE to receive a heartfelt message in a REAL greeting card more than an obligatory gift purchased.  Sincerely written, kind words will conjure happy memories and be read again and again.

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

SendOutCards makes it easier to pick out a greeting card that is more personalized for your mom with its twelve subcategories to narrow your search. No more standing in a card isle for hours!  Use the SEARCH box at the top of the CARD CATALOG to get a Mother’s Day greeting card with a certain theme.  Ex: Write the words (mother, dog) and check the MATCH ALL WORDS box to get cards that have dogs on them that have something to do with mothers.

 You're a dog-gone good mom.

Drop in a few photos of what is going on in your life to personalize it all the more.  Even create a PicturePlus greeting card from scratch with personal photos on the front and inside.  How cool is that!

The most important thing is that you send a greeting card to your mom.  Make the message thoughtful and honest; it doesn’t need to be long.  A simple “I love you” works also.  You can write it today and choose the delayed delivery on the SEND CARD page if you want it to arrive closer to Mother’s Day.

Happy Mother's Day Card Sending!

The Adventures of Flat Stanley

Have you read any of the Flat Stanley books by Jeff Brown? Flat Stanley was an ordinary boy until a bulletin board falls on him while he's sleeping. He is flattened and decides to travel the world by mailing himself to friends!

For a school project, our 11 year old grandson, Adam, created a Flat Stanley and mailed him to us with the instructions to take photos of Flat Stanley, mail the school a letter or postcard telling the students where their Flat Stanleys had traveled and then mail him on to some new location. What fun!Well, it was a sunny day on Easter Sunday (one of our first for a long, long time), so I decided to take Flat Stanley on an Easter Egg Hunt! It made perfect sense, really, since our grandchildren had come up the week before to stay for Spring Break so our home was childless on Easter.
It was quite an adventure since Flat Stanley is a daredevil climber and very sleuth-like in sniffing out clues to the egg with the money in it (in Howard's pocket). I had fun taking lots of photos and then loading them into my SendOutCards account to create a fun three panel greeting card describing some of the eggs he found. I love the creative features of SendOutCards; it allowed me some fun play time in making my own greeting card so easily.
Flat Stanley even went to work with Howard and tried his hand at jack hammering. The photo of that trip was sent by postcard. How easy: just load a photo into the account and create a postcard with that photo splashed across the front! In just a few minutes I had a very personalized post card. I love SendOutCards!!! Flat Stanley is on his way to Mexico with Donna, my mom, and sister, Denise, and then on to St. Louis with my daughter Katie. Here's hoping a Flat Stanley will visit your home for a fun adventure someday! If so, send me a card.

Happy Card Sending!

Have an Egg-stra Special Easter Holiday

I know you'll have an Egg-stra fun Easter holiday!

With the Easter holiday having different meanings to a variety of people, SendOutCards has a basket full of greeting cards to fit your desired mood. In the Card Catalog, after choosing Easter from the Holiday Category, you may select from the categories: Anyone, Humorous, Just For Kids, and Religious. Of course, you may find the style of greeting card you are looking for by using the search button at the top of the Card Catalog by filling the search box with the words: easter, bunny and clicking the button "match all keywords" when you have more than one word in the search box.

TIP: I do not capitalize words in the search box.

Happy Easter

With SendOutCards, I love the fact that I may find the perfect card for the person I care about, write a heartfelt message and my card is sent in a matter of minutes. Also, one of the wonderful features of the SendOutCards greeting card service is the ability to personalize each card by changing the inside message or writing one of your own. If you choose to spend more time on each card, this service allows for that, giving you the chance to design each card specifically for the person you’re sending it to so each one will be unique. You may even look for quotes or poems online and include them on the inside of your card. Or, choose many of our greeting cards that already have a nice thought, poem or quote on the inside and just concentrate your minutes on your personal message at the bottom or on the blank side of the card. And of course, if you like the front of one of our greeting cards and the verse on the inside of another card, you may always cut and paste that message. So many options!

A colorful celebration of new beginnings, miracles, and hope. May the celebration last throughout your life. Happy Easter

Happy Easter Card Sending!

Don't Roast the Easter Peeps

Easter is around the corner. Store shelves are stocked with Easter Peeps, those sugary sweet puffs of fluff in a variety of colors and shapes. No one in my family is really a fan of Peeps so one Easter, several years ago, we decided to try an experiment with pink Peeps since the grandchildren were visiting. We sat around a fire pit and tried to roast them as you would a yummy marshmallow. Thinking they were a type of cousin to a marshmallow, we were shocked to watch in amazement that the fire didn’t roast them turning them into a soft, warm blob of sweet goodness but only melted them into a hardened plastic-like blob; rendering them rather indestructible.

Our Finding: PEEPS DON’T ROAST!

Which explains why this funny article in last month’s LDS Living Magazine caught my eye. I think it will give you a chuckle:

What Easter basket is complete without one of those gooey yellow chicks sitting contentedly on the plastic grass? But Peeps are more than just a lovable and tasty candy; in fact, thanks to research conducted in 1999 by Emory University scientists James Zinring and Gary Falcon, Peeps have gained a reputation for being nearly indestructible.

Strength: Most consumers of the marshmallow treat believe the candy is made primarily of sugar, a substance that dissolves in water. However, Zinring and Falcon found that the Peeps refuse to dissolve and instead merely float on top of the water, hot or cold. Peeps also cannot be dissolved in acetone, surfuric acid, or sodium hydroxide.

Weakness: Zinring and Falcon successfully deconstructed Peeps by dousing them in Phenol, a solvent with the ability to dissolve protein (coincidentally, this solvent is lethal to humans). The candy was dissolved within an hour, but left behind the wax eyes common to Peeps.

Americans, for the most part, are oblivious to this research and continue to buy over 700 million Peeps a year. In their 60 years of existence, marshmallow Peeps show no signs of losing their beloved status in Easter tradition.

And guess what???

SendOutCards has a PINK PEEPS greeting card so you may send a fun card to your favorite "peeps"!

Have a Sweet Easter! (inside message)

Happy Easter Card Sending!

Traveler Tip

Considering that Spring Break is around the corner, I thought I would give you a heads up. Go early to the airport. We have become kind of casual in arriving early for our flights. But this week, we had a rude awakening.

We were traveling on a Tuesday morning no less. We thought nothing of getting to the airport one hour ahead. Well, we were shocked to be standing in a security line for over 45 minutes with no chance of getting on the other side before our flight left. Howard is much more brave than I am so he talked to the nice airport lady and she let us in the First Class lane so we jumped four rows ahead. Thank goodness!

If you are traveling to someplace fun, send a postcard to us here at home! SendOutCards has lots of cards with place names. For example: Skiing in Utah this week? You should be. We were just there and it dumped tons more dry fluffy snow in the resorts. Type utah in the search box at the top of the card catalog. Did you notice that I didn't capitalize Utah; it seems to work in the search better if you don't.

We all love getting mail but I have noticed that grand children and grandparents LOVE, LOVE, LOVE getting personal mail. So if you are traveling, your grandchildren would probably prefer a postcard with a personal message mailed specifically to them over a drawer full of cheap T-shirts! Better yet, make it a postcard with your own digital photo of your trip with YOU on the front and add a thought bubble saying something cute. They will LOVE that!

Happy Card Sending!

The Extra Mile Smile

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach (card inside)

In the latest Wally Amos column in my Costco Connection magazine, he writes about “GOING THE EXTRA MILE” in our personal and business relationships. He teaches us that going the extra mile encourages loyalty and support in employees, customers and friends alike. Here are his comments:

"Going the extra mile indeed means giving everyone you come into contact with more than they expect. Going the extra mile doesn't mean you'll have less if you give more. It means making the people in your life feel special. It's letting them know that you genuinely appreciate them.

It could be something seemingly as small as a thank-you or remembering their birthday with a card. That extra effort lets people know you are not taking them for granted. The reward for making others feel special is that you also feel special!"

Later in the article Wally Amos continues:
"I heard a former high school teacher turned superintendent say that every time he would see a student in the halls he would imagine the initials MMFS on his or her forehead: MAKE ME FEEL SPECIAL."

Everyone wants to feel special and we have that ability by simple acts of kindness we exhibit at any given moment. We can touch and improve someone's day by just giving them a smile, a word of encouragement or even showing them that they are needed. USE the simple process of SendOutCards to drop a note in LESS THAN 3 MINUTES and it will not even feel like an EXTRA MILE effort since it is so easy! A REAL greeting card in the mail will allow someone to read and reread your kind words over and over again to extend that special feeling they receive even farther! I promise:

YOU will also feel better!

I highlighted in orange so I could say to you, "Orange you glad you did this?"

From Thomas S. Monson, a leader whom I admire:
"THINK TO THANK. Take things with gratitude rather than for granted."
Happy Card Sending!

But I lose the inside of my card!

Yes, it’s true. When you choose the POSTCARD option from the SendOutCards card catalog, if your card had an inside message, it does not appear on the back of your postcard. It is a matter of giving you more space to write your heartfelt message of the back of the postcard. But if you just LOVED the inside message, this is all you have to do . . . On the pop up window where you choose the POSTCARD button:

1. First click the INSIDE button at the top
2. Highlight the words below the card where you see the message written in regular type then right click to choose COPY or copy it (CONTROL C)
3. Now click the POSTCARD option
4. On the “Personalize It” page (where you are taken to write your message), click in the box that says, “Click here to type your message”
5. Paste that previously saved inside message: Hit CONTROL V or right click to choose PASTE

You might need to hit your space bar to activate the inside of the text box. You may also want to resize the words so you have enough room to write your personal message below or above it. There you have it! You didn’t even need to memorize the cute verse to retype it. Cute postcard!!! Brighten someone’s day with a cheery postcard sent in the mail to remind them that Spring is around the corner and wish them a joyful Spring . . .

Happy Card Sending!