Card Designs
Permissions, Instructions, and Images
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Description
The Christmas card designs linked on this page are simply
designs we have used for our own cards over a number of years,
expressed in PDF files. The images here have been "de-Brunelle'd". :-)
The designs are all original with us, and so is most of the
artwork. We have used a few images provided royalty-free
as clip art with one software package or another for which
we have licenses. Accordingly, we claim copyright in the
designs and all original artwork.
Permissions & Licensing
We license the use of these designs in the form of the PDF
files for personal use, without charge, upon the following
conditions.
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Your use of the PDF files constitutes your agreement to
the terms of the license. Nothing except this license
gives you any permission whatsoever to use the files or
any part of them.
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If you use one of these files, you must use it without
any edits or modifications except as noted below, and must
print, or otherwise reproduce faithfully, both the inside
and the outside onto appropriate cardstock.
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You may modify the output by adding your own handwritten
message on any of the copies you make. Additionally, you
may print, stamp, or otherwise affix a signature block.
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You may use in any one calendar year up to 250 copies of
each design (you may use more than one) for only your
personal use or use by people in your household - cards you
(or they) give or send to people. The 250 count does not
include cards spoiled or otherwise to be discarded. You
may make another 250 copies to be used in a different
calendar year.
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You may make a similar number of copies on behalf of
a family member not a member of your household who
does not have the ability to make his or her own copies.
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If you want to get a printer or copy service to make your
copies, please print out this page and take it with you
to indicate that you have permission to make the copies.
Many such businesses will not make copies of copyrighted
work without seeing a license.
Instructions
Use of these files is pretty simple. You need a PDF application
such as Acrobat or Okular, and a color printer that can handle
65# cover stock (as the paper houses call the product).
Paper
We have used French Paper products with good success. Most cards we
send out are printed on Parchtone White, but the monochrome design
for the 2017 card will render far better if printed on Parchtone
Natural or Parchtone Gold. French Paper products are available
directly from French in Niles, MI, and here in Texas from OK Papers
in Richardson, TX.
Alternatively for white-background cards would be any plain white
cardstock as takes ink/toner well and feeds well in your printer.
Printing
We use an H-P 8600 all-in-one inkjet printer. Other printers of
similar capabilities should work well. For best speed, we do
NOT recommend using the duplexer, but instead to print the inside
first (for most designs, uses less ink than the outside), about
50 copies at a time, and then to print the outside on the reverse.
While our printer does a pretty good job of feeding and also of
notifying of low ink supply, you need to be familiar with how
your device behaves and provide for it appropriately to avoid
wasting good ink and cardstock. YOU SHOULD EXPECT AN OCCASIONAL
FEED ERROR, even on the best printer. You'll catch these when
folding, if not sooner.
Folding
If you're making a dozen copies or so, folding by hand is not
too difficult. For the larger numbers we do, a little jig with
a fence, or a the surface of a paper cutter, is very helpful,
as is a chrome steel roller to smooth down the crease without
leaving marks. (Ours is just a cutoff of a steel tube, about
an inch in diameter, from a monitor mount.) Probably a round
bar of nylon might work. Have not tried PVC yet. Wood, or
iron pipe (or aluminum or brass), is likely to leave marks.
Card images
Card 2025
Card 2024
Card 2023
Card 2022
Card 2021
Card 2020
Card 2019
Card 2018
Card 2017
Card 2016
Card 2015
Card 2014
Card 2013
If questions, email:
Anne & Larry Brunelle
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