There are more ways to use free printable greeting cards than the obvious one of sending greetings to family and friends. I came up with three "Think outside the fold" ideas to use quarter fold printable greeting cards that you may fine useful, so I thought I would share them with you.
Idea #1
Use a quarter-fold free printable greeting card as a candy bag for Halloween. It is just around the corneryou knowthe time when ghosts and goblins will be running loose in the streets looking for treats or passing out tricks. The bags I am talking about are treat bags to be handed out to all these little demons. Simply take a Halloween version of a free printable Halloween card and fill the back fold with a predetermined amount of candy and seal the open sides with a cute little Halloween sticker. Now you are ready to keep the ghosts and goblins happy on Halloween night and avoid cleaning due soaked toilet paper from your trees the next day.
Idea #2
Along the same lines as idea number oneuse free printable greeting cards to make Birthday party gift bags. Quarter fold greeting cards can be used to hold all those little trinkets that are handed out at the end of a Birthday party. You know the trinkets I'm taking about, the ones you end up stepping on in the middle of the living room floor for the next couple of months until you get so irritated, you through them away. Funny how you never hear "Hey mom or dad, where is that little useless thing that I got at my friends Birthday party?" This idea can be useful in a couple of ways, one, the giving of these little trinkets at the end of a great Birthday celebration and two, keeping the inside note general, thanking people for coming and bringing gifts to the celebration in the form of a birthday thank you card.
Idea #3
This idea for anniversaries might work as well..I know it sounds cheap on the surface but hear me out for a second and it just might work. For the guys reading this out there, it is important that you slide a very nice piece of jewelry or something along those lines into the back fold of the card or you're going to regret you ever read this and said "You know, that sounds like a great idea." I guess what I am saying is that a condom isn't going to cut it. The same goes for the women out there ..the keys to a new Harley or tickets to the Super Bowl are the only way this will have a chance of getting the reaction you are looking for.
Can you see it.let me set it up for you. Your spouse walks up and says "Happy anniversary baby" and hands you a free printable anniversary card..the receiving spouse gives a hug and a kiss and says "Thanks baby" while thinking "What the hell, x years with this person and all I rate is a free @#?/*$ & % printable greeting card.what the hell?" The giving spouse, sensing the up and coming pummeling he or she is about to get quickly says "Open it, I want to see the look on your face!" instead of the look you have on your face right now you think to yourself as you wait in anticipation. The receiving spouse opens the card sees what's in the back fold and "BOOM", joyful marital bliss for another year or at least one would hope so. Remember, the gift has to be good for this to have a chance to work, if not, it will be a different kind of BOOM, a bad BOOM.
Anyway, there are three different ideas for using free printable greeting cards other than the tried and true. Maybe you can think of your own "Think outside the fold" ideas. Good luck and have fun with it.
Ira Coffin is a cartoonist, greeting card and web designer living in Arizona with his two sons'. He does cartoon style free greeting cards for http://www.humozonecards.com and single panel cartoon style greeting cards for http://www.zazzle.com/nopolymon.
Ira Coffin is a cartoonist, greeting card and web designer who enjoys writing from time to time. He is currently living and working in Arizona. He does cartoon style free printable greeting cards for his site at http://www.humozonecards.com and also keeps a gallery of cartoon style greeting cards and other stuff at http://www.zazzle.com/nopolymon
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