HOME · MOUNTAINCOW MONTHLY NEWSLETTER (APRIL 2005)

May is all about Mom, so give her a gift that’s both from the heart and inspirational. From the heart: personalized stationery in her favorite color. Inspirational: Easy Invitations, the new book from Mountaincow! The spring also means kick off to wedding season. When it’s your turn to plan a bridal shower, look no further than our blooming design. Hosting a Passover Seder? Make menus and place cards for the ritual meal. Throw together a theme birthday party for kids in minutes with our sporty invitations.

Moms the word
Does your mom still keep her pens in that ceramic mug you made in fourth grade art class? Just think how happy she’ll be to receive a home made gift she won’t need to pretend to like. Choose several combinations of her favorite colors from Mountaincow’s extensive stationery collection. Create and print a sampling of personalized stationery – combine sets of flat and folded stationery in different colors so she’ll have plenty of options the next time she writes a letter.

For inspiration, we created several projects for you to use depending on your mother’s style. If Ma favors flowers, use the PrintingPress 2.0 project. The sweet floral design frames Mom’s name written in Isabelle from our Fonts and Graphics 2 Collection and coordinates with Blush envelopes.

If your mom is super groovy, the Platinum project uses a mod pattern of dots within dots. The folded card uses it as a background image, the flat card as a border. Print these designs on white flat and folded cards and pair with Clover envelopes.

Once you print them, pack them in clear bags and tie with a ribbon. And to give her the creative inspiration to make her next pack of stationery herself, throw in Mountaincow’s new book Easy Invitations. The creative mom who loves to entertain will be so pleased with such a useful gift. Really want to score points? Give her a gift certificate to our online store!

PrintingPress sample
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PrintingPress Platinum sample
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Love is in Bloom
Personalize any image by adding a name or initial to it. Add text to a wine bottle label, a baby’s name to a carriage or an initial to a bathrobe by just adding a floating text box. For a bridal shower invitation, we decided to celebrate the couple’s love in bloom and a spring day by adding the bride’s initial to the center of a large flower on our Sour Apple stationery. Don't have Platinum yet? Go ahead and upgrade now.

You can use the flower on more than just the invitation. For the sit down brunch, add it to the place cards. You can even use a ribbon to tie a note around a pouch of flower seeds and tuck it in the napkin of each place setting.

For more stationery for the bride, check out our new Custom Bridal Stationery. Choose the skin tone and hair color that looks most like your bride or bridesmaids; even select the dress color she’s picked for her attendants!

A night different from all others
The Seder is both a meal and service to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Passover. Seders often seat many guests around a long table with one person leading the service so place cards play an important part for guests to know their role in the meal. Since guests often bring a traditional dish, printing a menu card will give your guests credit for what they brought or made.

Maybe you didn’t have time to arrange your Seder plate this year, but don’t worry! The PrintingPress 2.0 menu uses an image of the Seder Plate, a platter used to present all the symbols of the holiday. The Hebrew word for Passover, Pesach, is written in Hebrew in the center. We used our Hebrew font Malkah and for everything in English, we used Benjamin Strong, both available in our Fonts and Graphics 2 Collection. We used white cards to allow the colors of the Seder plate to really stand out.

The Platinum menu has the word Pesach written in Hebrew at the top, and in a text box running down the left margin, the quote “Why is this night different than all other nights?” This question is a theme of the holiday and addressed in the service. The coordinating place card has the Hebrew word “Pesach” floating behind the guest’s name. We used dark purple text on our Confetti paper, but you can use any color that coordinates with your table setting.

Both projects can be made faster than it takes the matzo not to rise. Just download the project and add your menu and guest list. Print, and pour yourself a glass of Manishevitz.

PrintingPress sample
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PrintingPress Platinum sample
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1. Copy the following folder from the old computer to the new one before running PrintingPress on the new computer:

My Computer\Local Disk C:\Program Files\Mountaincow\PrintingPress\Data\

2. Export your projects using Export Project from the File menu and backup your addresses using Export Addresses from the Address Book menu and then copy these to the new computer and use Import Project and Import Addresses on the new computer.