Seasonal Desktop Publishing Projects

Find templates, fonts, art, and ideas for your next Halloween party invitation or decorations. Create creepy cards, costumes, coloring pages and other Halloween craft projects.

Make a card, a poster, a decoration for Valentine's Day or for other romantic special occasions using desktop publishing and graphics software. Pick and choose from the individual elements described here to put together a lovely Valentine's Day card, a Wedding announcement, or invites and decorations for a Valentine-themed party.

Discover the colors and fonts of St. Patrick's Day. Grab a free greeting card template or some free images to make your own St. Patrick's Day print projects. What shade of green will your cards be wearing? And what will you do with a free leprechaun hat full of gold coins?

Download one or all of these free St. Patrick's Day greeting card templates. Greeting card designs feature a St. Patrick's Day theme with custom graphics by Jacci.

Sure, any green will do. But what shades of green are most closely associated with Ireland, the Irish, and specifically St. Patrick's Day? And not just green. How about orange and gold? Find out.

Pick and choose the shamrocks and leprechauns you want to use or learn how to draw your own. Here are free graphics, tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator, and other programs, and other imagery and icons for use in your St. Patrick's Day projects.

With or without the Easter bunny, what do the colors of Easter mean and what colors are pastel or related to the religious meaning of Easter?

A lot of dingbat fonts contain a mix of characters including a few Halloween appropriate symbols and creatures. But because they are not strictly Halloween-themed it can be hard to know if a general purpose dingbat contains any useful Halloween images. Browse this collection of free dingbat fonts that do contain hidden Halloween images.

The clip art, fonts, and templates here (including some of my originals) can be used by anyone for whatever occasion you deem appropriate, but for those of you celebrating the 4th of July you'll find that this collection of images have a U.S. Independence Day theme. Some are useful for any project that requires a patriotic theme. Use them for...

Find templates, free fonts, free clip art, plus ideas and inspiration for creating your own Christmas cards, decorations, and family projects.

Use holiday-themed paper, a newsletter format, some pretty fonts, drop caps, and a decorative envelope or stamps to send out your family holiday letter this year.

Make your own Christmas stationery or dress up fliers and invitations with holly leaves or snowflake frames. Free clip art downloads and tips on making your own borders from dingbat fonts.

In TIF, GIF, and PNG formats, get turkeys, pumpkins, and cornucopias. Grab the original public domain version or one of my modified, colorized versions.

Download two free greeting card templates and matching envelope template.

Download a free template for two oversized gift tags.

Spell out Web greetings with free snow-capped letters. These are graphic letters, not digital fonts.

Get freeware, shareware, and commercial fonts for teaching handwriting (or just to give your projects that 'school days' look). These fonts mimic various writing techniques including D'Nealian, Zaner-Boser, and Getty-Dubay Italic. Make your own worksheets for teaching and practicing print and cursive.

Make your Halloween message sizzle with flaming fonts or send frosty greetings with snow-topped or snowflake fonts. Grab some goblins, ghouls, and ghosts in the form of standard clip art or dingbat fonts with a Halloween theme.

Put a scary message on your Web site. These are letter graphics, not a digital font. Includes some punctuation.

Find free templates in PDF and other formats for party invitations, Halloween decorations, costumes, coloring pages, and even pumpkin carving. Page 2 is especially for kids.

Harry Potter is a popular party theme, especially for Halloween. Start with some Harry Potter fonts then find more Halloween and magical party fixings.

The color of blood is red, red-orange, crimson, bright red, brownish red...

Use these tips and resources to design and print your own greeting cards for holidays, special occasions, or no occasion at all.

There are many reasons to choose DIY invitations over store-bought versions, including cost and personalization. You can save money by designing your own invites. You can create a more personalized invitation that expresses who you are, fits a specific party theme, or incorporates personal elements such as photos. Use these tips and resources to...