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Happy Ho-Ho-Holidays!
Whether you have a party in the works, or you’re just thinking of gathering your friends around the ol’ tree, we have some great projects for you.

Both of our designs take advantage of the bright, shiny ornament images from Fonts and Graphics 2. Platinum users can make the red ornament a background image on a 4.25 x 5.5 card, and select Background Image, Set Transparency in the Design menu and set the opacity to 100 percent. The text is written in the Beckles Wide font in a text box and the color is set to off white. For more information on white text, see the April 2004 newsletter. A selection of the colorful ornaments brighten up the back of a white A2 envelope above the return address, also in Beckles Wide.

To carry out the theme at the party, your guests can keep their drinks straight with a wine glass tag. Using the place card feature, we’ve created a template for you to cut out on the dotted lines. The tag will slide right on the base of a wine glass, and with everyone’s name on the tags, there will be no lost drinks and extra glasses to wash!

The PrintingPress design uses the ornaments and the Benjamin family of fonts available on Fonts and Graphics 2. Using a white folded 8.5 x 5.5 card, we wrote in Benjamin, “Ho, Ho, Ho” and substituted the last “o” with a red ornament. Inside, we used Benjamin Drop Cap and placed ornaments in assorted colors for all the “o”s. We used Benjamin Drop Cap for the address on the red A2 envelope.

  

 

 


PrintingPress Platinum sample
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PrintingPress sample
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To continue the festive theme at the party, we created a tented menu card with a list of all the holiday cocktails being served. If you are serving food or providing a program of entertainment, add all the details to your menu. You can also add the date of the party and print an extra one for your scrapbook. We printed the menu 2-up on a full 8.5 x 11 sheet and then cut it in two to create two vertical folded 4.25 x 11 menus. We repeated the invitation design using Benjamin Drop Cap and assorted ornaments. We selected everything and copied and pasted it to the other side of the menu card. When it prints, the outside back will print upside down so it’s readable when folded.

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Tag, you're it!
Wrap your presents with an original touch by making your own gift tags. Using the place card feature, you can create a tag with a personal message and your name. Create a mailing list of all the gift recipients on your list and their name will print directly on the tag. If you're giving gifts to more than one person in a family, just add additional place cards for each family member in the Status window. You can change the color of the tag to match your wrapping paper by choosing Background Image, Recolor Background Image in the Design menu. Print on a 3.5 x 5 card and cut out the notches on either side using a utility knife or sharp scissors for the tag to hook onto a one inch ribbon. Your card won’t be missed and you’ll never have to deal with hand writing names or taping on gift tags again!

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A coupon to clip
Didn’t find that perfect gift for your Aunt Mary in time to put it under the tree? Have a gift that is impossible to wrap? Create an IOU or a gift coupon, or even a booklet of them, with PrintingPress. It’s the perfect solution for gifts that didn’t ship in time and for gifts of love such as babysitting or a trip to the movies.

Our first version uses a combination of Jackson Wide and Isabelle fonts and the menorah and dreidel from the Fonts and Graphics 2 collection. We set the left margin on a white 5 x 3.5 card to 1 inch and the rest to .5 inch. Set the ribbon hole markers to vertical, .5 inch from the edge and 1 inch from one another. To create additional coupons, select Duplicate Stationery in the Stationery menu. Fill out your gift coupons, print, punch the holes and tie with a coordinating ribbon, depending on your design. For variety, use a different image on each page. Slip it into a matching 4-bar envelope you’ve addressed with the recipient’s name using the inner envelope style.

Platinum users can add a festive holiday border to frame their gift. The project is set up similarly, but with the left margin of the card set to 1.25 inches and the other margins set to .75 inch. Because we used a floating image for the border rather than adding it as a card border, you’ll need to hide floating images in

    
 

order to customize the gift text. Just click on the card and select Image , Hide Foreground Images in the Design menu. We used the whimsical Jessie font, available from Fonts and Graphics 2 on the cover and the coupons. Again, create an inner envelope to save time wrapping this gift.

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PrintingPress sample
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PrintingPress Platinum sample
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A very now vow
Looking for something outside the traditional wedding invitation with white paper and black writing? Modernize your wedding by introducing strong, bold colors with the invitation. Start small by using colored text like gray, brown or dark red, or go all out and choose lavender, teal or pink paper for your invitation. Even the traditional ivory card takes a modern twist when paired with a deep chocolate envelope.

Mountaincow now offers our Modern Stationery Line's striking colors in a variety of sizes available in bulk quantities.

In addition to color, there are a variety of ways to update your invitation’s style. Since feminine script is traditionally used for weddings, choose a clean simple sans serif font. Play with the alignment and margins of your text for an unexpected, modern design. To keep your style consistent with the tone of the invitation, choose less formal wording by leaving out titles and making every word lower-case.

For a rich combination of deep teal and brown, print your invitation on a piece of 5x7 Lagoon paper and pair with a brown A7 envelope. For the 2.0 project, set the margins on the invitation to 1 inch on the top, .75 inch on the bottom, and .5 inch on the left and right. Add your text using all lower-case Jackson Junior Sans Wide in brown text and align it to the right.

Create a 3.5 x 5 response card with a .5 inch margin on all sides. Match the font, color and right text alignment to the invitation. Use a brown 4 Bar envelope to create the reply envelope and pre-print your address on the front.
 

Use the same font in black text on the outside and reply envelopes so it shows clearly on the brown envelope.

Platinum users can achieve a sophisticated look by using fully justified text – this means the text lines up evenly on the right and left sides. On the 5x7 ivory card, create a text box and type using Jackson Sans Wide in brown text. In the text box, justify the text both horizontally and vertically, and uncheck Resize text box to fit text in order to stretch the box to the desired size. To have the names of the bride and groom stand out, keep the names on their own line so the letters will spread, and add four spaces to either side of the “to” and “son of.”

Platinum users also have the benefit to pre-printing their guests’ names on the reply cards. This is done by creating a 3.5 x 5 inner envelope and adding a text box with the rest of the reply information. Use a brown 4 Bar envelope for the reply card and a brown A7 for the invitation. Use black text in a matching font.

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Gifts for the gals
You’ve been cooking up ideas of what to get your friends and family all year long, but there are still a few gals that have you stumped. Go for a Mountaincow gift certificate and let her decide. Or read our gift guide to find the perfect product for the ladies in your life. [click here to send this to the man wondering the same thing!]

For the mother hen
She keeps track of everyone’s birthday and is always the first one to make sure the holidays are the merriest, doesn’t she deserve PrintingPress Platinum? She’ll use it for everything from birthday parties to dressing up next Christmas’s table with menus and place cards.

For the scrapbooker
Give her endless word designs with Decorative Letters and Numbers. Even if she doesn’t have PrintingPress, she can still take advantage of the letters and decorative fonts for her page titles and journaling.

For the expecting mom
Get her hooked on DIY projects with a combo of PrintingPress and Fonts and Graphics 2. She’s sure to make darling birth announcements and then knock-em-dead birthday parties every year. Know if she’s having a girl or boy? Add a stack of white cards with pink or blue envelopes to the gift – and you can even throw in some stamps.

For the blushing bride
You’ve already armed her with PrintingPress Wedding when she got engaged, right? Well, now she just needs the paper! Brides can’t have enough thank you notes, so pick folded note cards and envelopes in her wedding colors, or play it safe with ivory or white. Upgrade her to PrintingPress Platinum (you'll need her serial number and email address) and she can print her married monogram on the cards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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