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Using Your Blank Recipe Cards 

Thousands of you have made the trip over to my blog site “Audrey Jeanne’s Expressions” www.daisiecompany/blogs/audreyjeanne to download the FREE recipe cards provided by The D.A.I.S.I.E. Company.  I hope you’ve enjoyed them and that you’ve made a trip over to the Daisie company website www.daisiecompany.com, so that you can sample the beautiful products that are available to you to customize your gifts of food, make your own greeting cards or create gift bags or boxes from your own home computer. 

If you’re computer literate, surf the net, and email but have never tried creating anything with a digital imaging program, I am going to give you a simple tutorial to show you how you can fill in those blank recipe cards with your own special recipes. 

If you are on a Mac computer, I know that there is a graphics program built into your system, but I do not know what it is or how to use it.  You should be able to find this out by looking through your computer handbook, or visiting the Mac site.  If you are on a Windows computer, you should have a program called “Paint” on it.  You’ll find this program by going to start/programs/accessories/paint.  Open the program and you’ll see this very simple screen. 

 Simply open any blank recipe card by going to the top of the screen and selecting file/open and the file you wish to open.  Immediately save the file giving it a new name so that you always keep your blank card blank!

Once open select the text tool (buttons on the left side, right column, fifth button down it is a capital A).  Draw a box the size and place you would like your text to fill.  Select the font you would like to use and type in your recipe.  It’s that simple!

If you would like to do more with your computer, there are more powerful digital imaging programs available such as Microsoft’s Digital Image Pro, Corel’s Paint Shop Pro and Adobe’s Photoshop Elements.  Each is very reasonably priced and The Daisie Company’s website has free tutorials in each program available to help teach you some of simple techniques necessary to begin creating your own special labels, packaging and recipe cards for your own kitchen creations!  You can also go to their message boards with any questions you might have if you can’t figure out how to do something, there’s always someone ready to respond with a helpful suggestion or two.  

I will warn you… when you start making beautiful bag toppers to go with your dried soup mix gifts, a beautiful box to put your almond roca or peanut brittle in, or make a label to adhere to the top of one of the Glad pint sized plastic containers and you get as many compliments on your beautiful packaging as on your tasty treat… you just might become addicted! 

Audrey Jeanne Roberts is an artist, author and designer in the giftware and home décor industries. One of her greatest joys is to encourage creativity in others. You can read her daily blog at: www.daisiecompany.com/blogs/audreyjeanne or see a small part of her portfolio at her licensing agent’s website: www.gracelicensing.com/artists/audrey_jeanne_roberts

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