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Halloween Card
It's easy to make your own Halloween greeting cards.
Even if you're too old for trick-or-treating, designing a fun Halloween card is a great way to get into the spirit of the holiday.
Halloween Clip Art
Clip art provides an easy and inexpensive way to personal your handmade Halloween cards. Free Halloween clip art is available from the following websites:
- Hershey's Trick or Treat: Hershey's offers more than chocolate with this assortment of Halloween graphics.
- Hella's Multimedia: Find clip art that works well for all your Halloween craft projects.
- The Teacher's Guide: This site features cute, not spooky, Halloween clip art.
- Kaboose: This website has links to Halloween clip art from a variety of sources.
Spooky Free Fonts
Set a festive mood for your Halloween greeting by choosing a spooky font. For example:
- Bloody: Design the front of your card with this font that looks like letters dripped in blood.
- Eency Weency Spider: This easy-to-read sans serif font features tiny spiders dangling from the letters.
- Zombie: This font is reminiscent of an old horror movie.
Dingbats, fonts that are made up of a collection of small pictures, are a great alternative to Halloween clip art. If you're looking for free Halloween dingbat fonts, check out these links:
- Punkins: Halloween pumpkins are a great addition to any card making project.
- 10 Lil' Ghosts: These adorable Halloween ghosts would work well for a number of craft projects.
- Halloween Borders: This versatile dingbat font has skulls, tombstones, pumpkins, ghosts, bats, and other Halloween images.
Halloween Quotes
Quotes are a great addition to any handmade greeting card. If you're looking for Halloween quotes, consider the following:
- "Where there is no imagination there is no horror." --Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
- "The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art."--Franz Kafka
- "There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." --George Carlin
- "Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." --Mark Twain
- "If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost." --Lloyd Douglas
- "From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!" --Scottish saying
Additional card making ideas can be found at:
- Favorite Halloween Quotes: Find memorable Halloween quotes from a variety of sources.
- Sayings for Halloween Crafts: Pick a clever Halloween saying for the front of your card.
- Halloween Jokes and Sayings: Kids will love these cute Halloween jokes.
Sample Halloween Card Projects
If you're having trouble coming up with a design for your Halloween card, consider using a fellow crafter's work for inspiration. You can easily personalize a project by choosing your own color scheme, adding a unique saying, or using slightly different artwork.For sample Halloween projects, check out the following links:
- Batty Halloween Card: Add dimension to your project with this clever pop-up bat.
- Spook Much: A fuzzy spider and a memorable quote make up the front of this special greeting.
- Vintage Witch: This sophisticated card adds a touch of class to your Halloween celebration.
- Happy Halloween: This card uses small beads for a hint of sparkle.
- Skeleton Card: This spooky guy is easy enough for kids to help make.
- Easy Pumpkin Card: Embossing and foam adhesive make this pumpkin card extra special.
Simple Shortcuts
Don't have time to create a card from scratch? Visit the following websites for an assortment of printable card crafts:
- Canon Greetings: Download a variety of printable card projects, including Halloween greeting cards.
- HP Print: Download free Halloween card projects.
- Print Free: This large directory of printable crafts has many different Halloween greetings to choose from.