While it's cold here in Colorado as December rolls around... (and I imagine Santa is busy making toys up at the North Pole) - we forget here that sometimes Santa just needs a holiday - or as noted to our team back when I was contracting at
office.microsoft.com - yes, Christmas
does happens during the summer in some parts of the world...! And so, in an effort to show Santa in warmer climes, I went to work on a summer-inspired set of Christmas stationery.
The Summer Santa Stationery Set offers images of Santa chilling at the beach with a cool drink, relaxing under the shade of the local palm tree, also visited by, you guessed it, a crab called Sandy Claws. The set for Word 2007 (or later versions) contains everything you need for festive entertaining, and offers the following -
1) Gift Certificate, 2) Stationery, 3) Party Menu, 4) Party Invitation, 5) Thank-you Cards, 6) Large Gift Tags (Placeholders), 7) Small Gift Tags (Address Labels) and 8)
Letter Envelopes.
Download the entire set for free and customize in both color and content.
(Note - these were items created while working with the Microsoft Office extensive library of free clip-art... to create content for the free download template library). For this project the goal was to highlight Word 2007's ability to create
themes that allows you change color palettes at the touch of a button.
And was constructed from items available in their free MS Clip Art Library particularly: MS Clip Art - Style 1450.
If you are interest in using using clip art in this manner, you might
study this earlier post that offers an instructional blog entry. And for more holiday-themed downloads (for both Halloween and Christmas) that are free from Microsoft, by designer Robert Aaron Wiley, please check out the Bindlegrim website for
Free Stuff! 
