85-year-old Tony Klain prints 11-year-old Riley's card designs

Tony Klain, 85, uploads animal drawings by Riley Haughey, 11, at his home office and cleans up imperfections before printing them as greeting cards. Riley, a fifth grader, draws the creatures at her kitchen table with markers and calls the series Riley's Critters. 'I just really like the close up of looking at how markers go onto the paper. It kind of is like magic for me,' Riley said.

Klain has no grandchildren of his own. He became a friend of the Haughey family six years ago when they lived as backyard neighbors.

Whitney Haughey, Riley's mother, said the family wanted a cost-effective way to get Riley's Critters onto greeting cards to help pay for Riley's dance classes. Klain offered to handle it. 'He was like, I can do it,' Whitney said.

At his home office, Klain prepares files for cards such as one he calls Cherry the squirrel. He keeps Riley's brush strokes and her signature paw print in the shape of a heart. 'I don't like to change what she's done,' Klain said.

Klain's wife, Phoebe, made similar artwork. After she died, Klain said, 'she left a whole bunch of journals, and she did a lot of really neat drawings and stuff.' He taught himself Photoshop by scanning drawings from her journals and arranging them to match each month for a calendar.

Riley reviews the finished cards when they come off the printer. 'It looks good,' Riley said. Klain said, 'Makes my day every time I do it.'