How do you find old friends you've lost touch with over the years? Sending Greeting Cards has become popular and trendy as people get tired of the electronic world. A quick look through Instagram will show you thousands of beautiful cards, either one-of-a-kind handmade beauties, or cards you can modify by adding your name before having them printed. This is awesome for those wanting to send real life birthday cards or thank you notes or Christmas cards to friends, neighbors, relatives and relations. But what do you do when you want to reconnect with a long lost love, or a dear friend you have not seen for years? How can you find that friend? With the advent of the internet, you might well succeed. Here's a list of options: Gather all the info you can remember. Did your friend join the military, did your friend go on to college? Did you friend speak of visiting relatives in a particular town, or state? Did you friend mention a summer camp they attended regularly? What line ...
It starts with lessons....... Every day I try to learn something about what you can do with a drawing program. Often I am thinking at first that I will never have a use for whatever particular gem of info I am learning that day. But as I keep working, I find that most of the new skills I have learned can be useful in creation of my next International Birthday Card. I find myself creating something I never even knew I wanted to make, and thinking of which language would work best with my new design. That's How I Came to Make a Greek Happy Birthday Card Once I am done following a video lesson, it's time to practice. In this Greek Happy Birthday Card, I found that I could make repeating patterns as a border reminiscent of the Greek flag. Naturally, I needed figure out how to make a pretty good drawing of some of that wonderful Greek pottery quite famous in Ancient Greece. The classic shapes of Greek storage vessels, such as that of The Amphora will always be in style. So far, I...