PSE7 ~ I'm inserting a .jpg image into a project, need to resize smaller and it ends up blurry!

Please help!
I am creating a birthday invitation for my daughter using PSE7. I found a few .jpeg images on the web that I want to use. The images should be okay size-wise (a 66kb image) when I try to insert this image onto the invitation (size of the invite is 5x7) - image takes up maybe 1/6th of overall invitation. When I insert this image into the project, it is HUGE. I need to resize it to reduce, but when I do for some reason it becomes very blurry. I can't figure this out! At the very least a 66kb image should be able to be inserted onto this 5x7 invitation as a 1" square and be crisp at that size?? Ugghh!
I hope I am being clear in my request...the image in question is pictured below. When this image is inserted into my PSE project, it would be about 2" high on a 5"x7" invitation...
Also, when I save the whole invitation as a jpg for printing, it's only 120kb file size...shouldn't it be much larger? Am I missing a global setting somewhere that's messing everything up?? Many thanks in advance to anybody offering suggestions...

You're thinking in the wrong terms. You need to be focusing more on ppi (pixels per inch) rather than the file size in KB. Start by making sure your main image is at 300 ppi (you may have to start over from scratch). If the graphics are now way too small when you bring them in, remove them and try a lower resolution, but you don't want to go below about 220 usually (it depends on your printer how low you can go and get away with it).
Go to Image>Resize>Image size to check your invite's ppi, but my guess is that you started at something like 72 ppi. If you did, I'd start over, unless you have enough pixels that when you change the ppi to 300 (with Resample Image turned OFF) it's still large enough.

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Message was edited by: hallerphoto

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