How To Make Greeting Cards

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Informing How to Make Greeting Cards Specific Purpose: To demonstrate to the audience the steps necessary to make greeting cards. Thesis Statement: The three steps necessary to make greeting cards are: 1) Getting supplies ready. 2) Creating the homemade greeting card. 3) Finishing touches. Introduction: • Attention Getter: Have you ever forgotten someone’s birthday and by the time you remembered it was to late to go out and get him or her a gift? What about has anyone ever gotten in a fight with your girlfriend or boyfriend and knew that you had been wrong and just didn’t know how to say you were sorry… or better yet have you ever gotten in a fight and knew that you were right but were just tired of all the fighting but didn’t know how to make it stop. Well I learned how to make greeting cards to help me out in my time of need. • Preview: The three steps necessary to make greeting cards are: 1) Getting supplies ready. 2) Creating the homemade greeting card. 3) Finishing touches. • Credibility: I have grown up in a family of greeting card makers. My mom makes and sells her greeting cards as a way to raise money for the church. My Aunt used to send hers in to craft magazines and they would publish them. I have seen them being made and sold all my life. I have even seen my 12-year-old nephew have girl lining up to go out with him. All because he will spend the day with my mom going to craft stores and make a few cards himself and hand them out to all his girl friends at school and they adore him for it! His line is always “I was with my grandma at a craft store and got bored and was thinking of you so I made this.” In his own words “It works like a charm!” Transition 1: The first step necessary in making greeting cards is getting supplies. A) Getting Supplies 1) Card (base) 2) Pictures/Stamps 3) Ribbons/Buttons 4) Hello Kitty
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