For those of us who live in the U.S., the patriotic season begins in late May with Memorial Day and stretches out to November, when we honor those who served in the armed forces on Veterans Day. There are also other holidays in between, including Flag Day, the 4th of July and Labor Day. Those would be considered the primary patriotic holidays but there are also plenty of others. The first, Armed Forces Day, actually falls before Memorial Day. Then we have Citizenship Day and Patriot Day in Se...

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Deciding to use Halloween clip art can give business messages and craft projects visual impact beyond what you might expect. Using it is a good idea for people who are not artistic but still want to have more professional-looking Halloween cards, invitations, scrapbooks and personal web pages. Anyone can use it, but I've experienced that scrapbookers have even more creative uses for Halloween clip art, because they use it to make printable or digital scrapbooking papers. They may have started...
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This gorgeous Victorian image would be lovely for a wedding thank you card or reception table place card

With economic times being as tough as they are, many weddings won’t be as opulent as they might have been a few years ago. But not to worry, because the World Wide Web allows many options for designing quality wedding components at home. Getting much of what you need for your wedding online can make a big difference in the final price tag. You’ll be happy to know there's quite a bit of ...
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Christmas will be here sooner than you think, so once again the time has arrived to begin making Christmas crafts. Each year allows me to once again get creative. It also means researching new craft ideas I haven’t made before. But that’s a blast, so I’m happy to do it. I’m pretty sure that I can find everything I need pretty quickly. Ordinarily my creative process begins with searching for vintage Santa clip art that inspires me to create something wonderful. Since this is an Christm...
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