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Drag the files to the desktop and drop. If that doesn't work, try right-clicking or control-clicking and select download file from the dropdown menu. Or else copy and paste into another application. Whatever. The whole sizing thing is a problem.
Everything is sized to workout for a card produced by an ordinary 8.5x11 folded in half. But with the printers these days, sheesh. They have minds of their own. Resize at will.
This could give a person a start, but beyond that it might occur by now that using pictures of your own hands the charm of your card increases by several factors, as would your own fish, especially hand-drawn, and your own background for that matter.
The posts are created first. Careful measurements and scoring required for all folds, but oddly, not for cuts. Get all that out of the way right off because the work space gets a bit messy after that. Construction-wise, it all gets down to making the posts exactly. They're actually kind of cute. Here's how to do it. Take a sheet of card stock and score it half an inch from the edge the full length of the sheet, either way, long way or short way. This will be the "glue" edge of your post. Then make a parallel score as distant from the first score as you want the height of the post to be. Then make another score half inch from the second score. This is the opposing edge that also gets glued. Do this again. Be sure to go; + half inch, + height of post, + half inch, it's easy to get mixed up. Cut on the score that divides two of the glue strips. Now you have two strips that are scored. Determine how long you want to post to be, that is, the length of its footprint when you glue it to the card, and make a fold there, scoring helps again even though you're making a short fold intersecting all the other scores. This doubling over provides the four tabs needed to glue the post, one of which will run along the spine of the card. A bit of trimming necessary separate the glue tabs. This whole scoring of the card stock first saves immeasurable time even though you might end up scoring more than you actually use because all your measuring is finished right there at once. Unlike the picture below, all four tabs of your post will be the exact same size. They have to be, you scored them that way. The only thing that can vary after cutting the strips is the length of the post, not the height, because that was already determined by the scoring too. This determining of the length of the post is entirely intuitive. It depends completely on the size and shape of the thing you expect the post to support, and its placement on the card parallel to the spine. They form little I-bars. 
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