"Free Christmas cards" sounds almost too good to be true, but a visit to www.hp.com/go/4holiday or www.mycardmaker.com will get you close. You only pay for the paper.

The Web site offers more than a dozen snappy card designs, including Santa, an angel, a bird, Hanukkah designs and more generic "winter" graphics.

Then you pick a greeting - or write your own - and select an ink color, a typeface, sign it and you are ready to print. The instructions are for front-loading inkjet printers.

You also will find "free" gift tags from home wizard Martha Stewart. And unlike some of her fancy projects, these are easy to download and reproduce. Go to MarthaStewart.Com and you'll find 10 designs and printing instructions for inkjet printers.

Joy Kraft