Hints for making your perfect Free printable Christmas Card

• Download a design for your free Christmas Card from the card designs from below. You will likely already have Acrobat PDF Reader installed on your machine, if not to view these Christmas greeting cards and many other pdfs on the Internet you can download it here .
• To make the printable Christmas card use a thick card instead of paper but check your printer is able to cope with the thickness of the card at the very least 160 g/m² upwards. Remember no one wants a limp card which does not stay up
• Also buy an envelope to match the size of the card.
• Do at least one test with normal paper to ensure your Christmas card is printed correctly!
• We also have a selection of printable Birthday Cards, Thank You Cards, Valentines Day Cards and Wedding Invitations

Printable Christmas Card Designs

Green Tree Merry Christmas Card

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Snowman Printable Christmas Card

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Snowflake Christmas Card

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Funny Christmas Card with Meerkats

Download Free Funny Christmas Card with Meerkats (pdf)

Cute Cat Christmas Card

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Santa Christmas Card

Download Santa Christmas Card (pdf)

Bauble Christmas Card

Download Bauble Christmas Card (pdf)

Happy Snowman Christmas Card

Download Happy Snowman Christmas Card (pdf)

Cute Dog Christmas Card

Download Cute Dog Christmas Card (pdf)

Armadillo Christmas Card

Download Armadillo Christmas Card (pdf)

Tree Christmas Card

Download Tree Christmas Card (pdf)

Batty Alex Jack O Lantern Pumpkin Head Stencil

Happy Goul Jack O Lantern Pumpkin Head Stencil

Cross Eyed Sam Jack O Lantern Pumpkin Head Stencil

Zig Zag George Jack O Lantern Pumpkin Head Stencil

Spiky Bob Goul Jack O Lantern Pumpkin Head Stencil

Cut a circle around the stem of the pumpkin head on an angle in a cone shape as shown in the video below. Use a sharp knife with long, sturdy blade. this stops the stem from falling into the pumpkin, ensure the hole is large enough to place you hand in to remove the seeds and stringy membrane.

Scoop out the centre of the pumpkin to be your Jack O Lantern, use a ice cream scoop to make this easier

Find the face of your pumpkin to decide his best face of your Halloween Pumpkin Head. Draw the design or print on of the Jack O Lantern Pumpkin Head Stencils. Tape the design to the pumpkin and mark out the design by punching through the paper into the pumpkin with a sharp point for example a large nail.

What is need to remove scuff marks

• 1 Eraser

What you need to do
To remove the black scuff marks left by shoes off hard wood floors, just simply take an eraser and erase them from the hardwood floor. Yes that’s right its that’s easy to remove the marks.  from wood floors

Tomato and Mango Salsa Recipe

Ingredients for Tomato and Mango Salsa Recipe

• 1 small mango
• 1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro
• 1 large tomato, seeded and chopped
• 1/3 cup chopped red onion
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1 small jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped

How to Make Tomato and Mango Salsa Recipe

1. Carefully peel skin from mango sections attached to seed.
2. Slice the flesh of the mango from the seed.
3. Chop the flesh of the mango to measure 1-1/2 cups.
4. Now combine the remaining ingredients for the salsa in small bowl.
5. Once done refrigerate 2 hours before serving.

Carrot Mango Salsa Recipe
This is a good complement to chicken or fish

Ingredients for Carrot Mango Salsa Recipe

• 1 ripe mango (diced, skinned and pit discarded)
• 4oz carrots
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 small onion sliced
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1 green chili chopped and seeded
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/2 red pepper
• 14oz diced apricots

How to Make Carrot and Mango Salsa Recipe

1. Combine the ingredients together
2. Stir it for around a minute
3. You can serve this salsa either warmed or chilled with chicken or fish.

Mango Salsa Recipe

Ingredients for Mango Salsa Recipe

• 1 large Mango peeled 1/4″ cubed
• 1/4 cup red bell pepper 1/4″ diced
• 1 Jalapeno pepper (opt) finely chopped with seeds and skin removed
• 1 1/2 tbsp fresh basil finely chopped
• 1 1/2 tbsp red wine vinegar
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 2 tsp lime juice

How to Make Mango Salsa

1. Combine all the ingredients in a medium bowl.
2. Mix together well.
3. Allow the mango salsa to stand at room temperature about half an hour before serving or refrigerate up to 24 hours.

Mango Tropical Fruit Surprise with and Black Bean Salsa Recipe

Ingredients for Mango Tropical Fruit Surprise with and Black Bean Salsa Recipe

• 1/2 cup mango, diced
• 1/2 cup pineapple, diced
• 1/2 cup onions, red, chopped
• 1/2 cup papaya, diced
• 1/2 cup beans, black, cooked
• 1 jalapeno, minced
• 1/2 cup onions, red, chopped

How to make Mango Tropical Fruit Surprise with and Black Bean Salsa Recipe

1. Combine all ingredients together.
2. Leave to stand for a minimum of 30 minutes to give the flavors a chance to develop.

Fruit Salsa Recipe

Ingredients for Fruit Salsa Recipe

• 1 cup chopped peeled mango
• 1 cup chopped peeled pineapple
• 2/3 cup chopped peeled kiwi fruit
• 1 cup chopped yellow or red bell pepper
• 1/2 cup finely chopped red onion
• 1 teaspoon fresh lime juice
• 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro
• Ground white pepper
• 1 teaspoon fresh lime juice
• 1/2 teaspoon minced Serrano chili with the seeds

How to make Fruit Salsa

This recipe for salsa will make about 4 cups

1. Combine all ingredients in medium bowl.
2. Season the fruit salsa with white pepper and salt.
3. Leave the salsa for 3 hours then serve.

Mango Salsa Recipe with Jalapeno, Vanilla and Lime

This mango salsa goes well with grilled chicken or fish, or served with tortilla chips.

Ingredients for Mango Salsa with Jalapeno, Vanilla and Lime

• 1 mango, peeled and finely chopped
• 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced
• 2 teaspoons lime juice
• 1 kiwi, peeled and finely chopped
• 2 green onions, thinly sliced
• 1 teaspoon of pure Vanilla Extract
• 1 tablespoon sugar

How to make Mango Salsa Recipe with Jalapeno, Vanilla and Lime

1. Mix the salsa ingredients together in a medium sized bowl.
2. Allow stand 5 minutes for flavors to develop in the salsa.

Mango Island Salsa Recipe

Ingredients for Mango Island Salsa Recipe

• 1 Cup mango, peeled and chopped
• 1 Cup pineapple, peeled and chopped
• 2/3 Cup kiwi fruit peeled and chopped
• 1/4 Cup fresh cilantro finely chopped
• 1 Cup yellow or red bell pepper chopped
• Ground white pepper
• 1/2 Cup red onion finely chopped
• 1/2 Teaspoon serrano chili minced with seeds
• 1 Teaspoon fresh lime juice

How to make Mango Island Salsa Recipe

1. Mix all the salsa ingredients together in medium bowl.
2. Season the salsa with white pepper and salt.

Jamaican Salsa Recipe
Makes 8 servings

Ingredients for Jamaican Salsa Recipe

• 2 mangoes, peeled and diced
• 1 cup of vinegar
• 4 kiwi fruit, peeled and diced
• 2 small pineapples, peeled, cored and diced
• 2 papayas, peeled and diced
• 4 limes, juiced
• 2 cans black beans, rinsed
• 1/2 poblano chili, seeded and diced
• 1 cup cilantro, chopped
• 1/4 cup brown sugar

How to make Jamaican Salsa Recipe

1. Combine all the ingredients for the salsa together.
2. Refrigerate for 12 hours to allow the salsa to develop and serve.

Halloween Game: Pin the Tail on the Black Cat
Draw a big picture outline of a cat on black poster board with a glitter collar and glitter eyes and detachable tail.

Halloween Game: Jack O Lantern Toss-Five paper pumpkins
For the halloween pumpkins uses some newspaper and roll it into a ball shape and surround that with orange crepe paper for the pumpkin skin, twist on top and secure with green string or rubber band). Make different faces on each pumpkin with black marker. Have a look at the Jack O lantern stencils for further ideas

First Halloween game - toss into black cauldron or empty large pumpkin.
Second Halloween game - line pumpkins on table in row and knock off with small light balls or beanbags (I prefer beanbags).
Third Halloween game-roll into bowling ball pins try cheap ones from Walmart - like 5.00, alternatively empty soda liter
bottles. You can use the real miniature pumpkins for this if you don’t want to make the crepe balls.

Halloween Apple bobbing-some people don’t like this because of germs (others are okay with it) but
beware it does make a mess so needs to be outdoors!

How Much is in the Witches Jar Game
Guess how many candy corn in the jar to tie in with estimation in math. The winner that comes closest gets the candy or you can use Halloween M & M’s as well.

Halloween Ghost Bingo Game
Buy some Bingo cards and replaced the word Bingo with GHOST and cut each card to fit inside my cutout of a ghost - lots of fun! Winner has to yell “I got the ghost!”

Howling Halloween Story Game
Tell spooky stories or create a spooky story chain.

Halloween Ghost Hunt Game
Make cutouts of graves, witches, ghosts, black cats and haunted house
shapes - each table has one shape to look for. Hide 6 of these shapes in the
room where the kids can spy for these from their tables and the first one to find all
of their group’s shape wins.

Halloween Race Game
Blow up orange and black balloons then race with the balloons between the kids knees.

Halloween Face
Use some face paint to draw pictures of bats, ghosts, pumpkin shapes, on kids faces.

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To make your free Wedding Printable Invitation do the following:-

1. Choose a Wedding invitation design and download the PDF and associated word document
2. Print the first page wedding invitation PDF
3. Turn the paper over and feed it back through the printer, print the back side of the wedding invitation.
4. Open the word document you will see an example of a wedding invitation wording. change the wording to what you want to make it unique. You may need to change the size of the fonts
5. One your are happy with the invitation wording, print it on the other side of the free wedding invitation.
6. You now have a printed wedding invitation.

Hints for making your Free Printable Wedding Invitations

• To make good printed wedding invitations choose a thicker paper but check your printer is able to cope with the thickness of the paper at the very least 100 g/m² upwards.
• Try different color and textured paper for you wedding invitations.
• Don’t forget to buy an envelope to match the size of the wedding invitation.
• Do at least one test print with normal paper to ensure the invitation printed correctly!
• If you find the paper curls use the single sheet feed option on your printer.
• Print the wedding invitations in batches e.g all page one first etc.
• You will most likely have Acrobat PDF Reader already installed on your machine, if not to view these Birthday cards and many other pdfs on the Internet you can download it here.

Choose Your Free Printable Wedding Invitation Design

Formal Wedding Invitation

Front of Wedding Invitation

Inside of Wedding In vitiation

Download Formal Wedding invitation (pdf)
Download Formal Wedding invitation (doc)

Floral Wedding Invitation

Front of Floral Wedding In vitiation

Inside of Floral Wedding In vitiation

Download Floral Wedding invitation (pdf)
Download Floral Wedding invitation (doc)

Cake Topper Wedding Invitation

Front of Wedding In vitiation

Inside of Wedding In vitiation

Download Cake Topper Wedding invitation (pdf)
Download Cake Topper Wedding invitation (doc)

Heart Wedding Invitation

Front of Heart Wedding In vitiation

Inside of Heart Wedding In vitiation

Download Heart Wedding invitation (pdf)
Download Heart Wedding invitation (doc)

Formal Swirl Wedding Invitation

Front of Wedding In vitiation

Inside of Formal Swirl Wedding In vitiation

Download Formal Swirl Wedding invitation (pdf)
Download Formal Swirl Wedding invitation (doc)

This may sound like a trivial matter, but it really is important because it will let you know what the time limit is for making your preparations.

Some weddings can take up to 3-4 months to prepare for and plan. This is pretty typical; depending on how big you are planning for your wedding to be and how fancy
etc.

If you are not giving yourself more than a month, then wedding planning is naturally different. Because of the differences in the time that you are giving yourself to planning the wedding, it is best to give the best planning methods and you may use them or not use them as they apply to your case.

One of the most important factors that go with planning a wedding is determining who you will be delegating specific duties to. For example, if you are terrible at choosing flowers, who will you assign to do it for you?

It is always best to try to give different duties to others so that you will not be overwhelmed by them yourself. Let’s take a look at some of the various duties that you can hand out:

• Catering: Who do you believe would be the best person to handle all of the arrangements for the food and drink at your wedding?
• Invitations and seating arrangements: This person will be addressing and mailing out invitations and making sure that people are seated in a fashion that will ensure every ones mutual comfort and enjoyment
• Decorations for wedding and reception includes center pieces
  
• Rehearsal dinners etc.
  
• Music and/or DJ
  
• Brides maid and groomsmen gifts and favors
  
• Gowns, and tuxedos
  
• Bridal showers/bachelor parties etc.

All of these things are usual must haves when it comes to a wedding, unless of course, you opt not to have bridesmaids or groomsmen in the wedding. All of these things can be murder to try to do on your own as well.

That is why you have to get in touch with people who are capable of taking over some of the menial jobs for you. All of these things seem small at first, but they can quickly add up to quite a bit of money when they are all combined together.

After you have delegated the responsibilities, you should next set a specific time period to have all of the tasks completed. Creating a wedding to-do list and time sheet is a great way to do this. That way, when all of the tasks are finished you can easily check them off.

You should set up specific times and days to discuss the progress of things as well, just in case things are not going so well. In doing this you will be able to help make sure that all things are running smoothly.

You might be wondering what happens when you have done all of this and are ready to get started. First of all, you have to be willing to follow the general wishes of the couple to be wed; that is unless you are the couple and are planning your own wedding.

When planning a wedding on a budget you have to lower your requirements just a bit. For example, you can’t try to have to filet mignon if you are throwing the wedding on a fish stick budget. I have broken down the various aspects of the wedding planning to the last details so that you will get a better idea of what I mean.

Wedding Plan Steps

Ideally, you would want to have at least a year to plan the wedding, but that is not always possible or desired. For the purposes of this guide, I have set up a 12 month wedding timeline that will certainly make it a little bit easier to host your wedding.

12 Months before your Wedding day

• Announce the engagement
• Set your wedding date
• Create a wedding budget
• Hire a Wedding Coordinator (optional)
• Create your guest list
• Start brain storming ideas and themes
• Reserve your Ceremony spot
• Book an Officiate
• Make reservations for your Reception area
• Book a Photographer and Videographer
• Book Caterer, Florist and Music (Band, DJ, etc.)
• Look for a Wedding gown and Tux, allowing time for alterations and fittings
• Register for gifts
• Select and call the bridesmaids and groomsmen.
• Agree on a date to order bridesmaids’ dresses and grooms men’s tuxes
• Choose a destination for your Honeymoon
• Apply for passports, if required

6 Months before your Wedding day

• Finalize your guest list
• Decide on the timeline and details of Ceremony and Reception
• Order/make invitations, and thank you notes
• Make airline and hotel reservations for the Honeymoon
• Choose a caterer, a florist and place an order for the wedding cake
• Book Transportation (Limo, Antique Car, Etc.) for wedding day
• Shop for any Party rentals

3-4 Months before your Wedding day

• Mail out/hand deliver invitations
• Confirm wedding details and contracts with all wedding vendors
• Choose gifts for your attendants
• Set a date and time for the rehearsal dinner
• Help make travel arrangements for any out-of-town guests
• Make final alterations and fittings for the Wedding Gown and Tux
• Set time with your Photographer for the Bridal Portrait or Engagement shoot

1 Month before your Wedding day

• Apply for the marriage license
• Buy your wedding bands
• Finalize music list and no-play list with band or DJ
• Attend showers
• Make insurance arrangements

1-2 weeks before your Wedding day

• Schedule the rehearsal a day or two before your wedding day
• Make an appointment with a Beauty Salon for day of wedding
• Send a wedding announcement to the local newspapers (optional)
• Make necessary arrangements for name & address change, if any.
• Discuss final details with the reception Site and the Caterer
• Pack for honeymoon
• Write out all checks needed for wedding day
• Send reminders to the rehearsal dinner attendees about the location & time
• Discuss final details of the ceremony and reception with family and bridal party

Wedding day or day before

• Visit your Beauty Salon for manicure and pedicure
• Host the rehearsal and dinner
• Make sure the ushers have the final guest list.

Bear in mind that everything in this timeline is optional and may change the timeline as you add and remove certain
aspects.

Photo Mother Pie

The days when the wedding is paid for by the parents of the bride are practically gone now. Parents will often contribute to the wedding cost as a gift to the couple, but it rather rare for parents to cover the whole cost of the wedding these days.

Usually it is because the parents simply can’t afford it, but couples today often prefer to pay for their own weddings because it ensures that they can do it the way that they want to without interference.

A lot of the time, parents will forego paying for the wedding and pay for the honeymoon instead. Basically this makes creating your own wedding budget very important; especially if you are paying for both the wedding and the honeymoon yourself.

These days, 4 out of 5 couples pay for their own wedding and it helps to know the wedding budget breakdown. The chart below should help to give you an idea of the wedding budget percentages involved.

This chart is a general breakdown of the costs and how much of your budget should be applied to what.

As with the above chart, when creating your actual wedding budget, you should use the chart information as a guided starting point. From this chart, you will next have to create your actual dollar budgeted amount.

When creating your budget, you will first begin with the overall amount that you can afford to spend. The average wedding today costs approximately $19,000. This is not a definite, but this is what the figures currently show.

Now you will need to take that starting amount and apply it to an actual separate dollar amount. Use our Wedding Budget Planner and Calculator Spread Sheet to help you.

With the Wedding Budget Planner and Calculator Spread Sheet all that you have to do is give it the individual amounts and then it will calculate for you how much money that you will have to spend on each aspect of your wedding, with a total overall cost for the wedding.

The Wedding Budget Spread Sheet will show you is what needs to be done in order to fulfill your wedding hopes.

This is necessary in order to know if what you dream of can even be afforded within your set budget. If it can’t, you will have to do any or all of the following:

• Lower the guest list
• Forego some of the services
• Lessen the wedding party
• Forget the extras like limos

It is with the budget that you can set realistic goals for your wedding and whether or not if your budget is realistic to your finances. If it isn’t, you will have to change or get rid of something. It’s that simple.

Once you have decided what you want to include and what you can afford, it is on to the wedding planning stage.