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We at Mountaincow have a major sweet tooth. That’s why, as we dream of spring, we’re introducing our new line of stationery! You’ll flip over the darling pinks of Cotton Candy, Bubblegum and Tutti Frutti, or the tangy greens in Sour Apple and Rock Candy. We’ll show you how utterly stunning our combos look as fondue party invitations, personalized stationery and even birth announcements.
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Fondue! Since a fondue party is a unique event, it’s very important that your invitations introduce your guests to the fondue idea. This will set the mood, get them excited and also alert any of your lactose-intolerant friends that they might need to take extra medicine before your party. Our PrintingPress design uses the green card of our new Sour Apple stationery to immediately grab your guests’ attention. The wedge of Swiss cheese and fondue pot are both in the same green as the text to match the envelopes. Let your guests know exactly what’s in your fondue pot – especially if you have more than one, by creating descriptive place cards. Add a picture with your description of your cheese or chocolate blend. You can also make place cards for the dip-able foods like the different types of bread, meats and fruit. The Platinum project uses a background image of a fondue fork to set the mood. Since the fork bisects the card diagonally, we aligned the text to the right at the top of the invitation and to the left at the bottom. We used our new Lemon Drop stationery which combines a soft yellow card with a green envelope. |
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For more fun spring color combinations, check out our new line of Sweet Stationery. Packed with spring-inspiring greens, darling pinks and grape-y purples, our Sweet line is available in bulk quantities or in packs of ten. You'll see more of our new color combinations used in the projects in this newsletter.
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For a cozy, wintry style, we turned to warm wool fabric patterns. For this Platinum Only project, we added a pink hounds-tooth pattern as a background image and just typed the details of the party in green using our modern Beckles Wide font. In order to make sure the green text stands out against the pink background, we set the background image to be 60% transparent. For a more modern look, we typed the return address in a single line across the back of the envelope. Turn to your fashion magazines for more background pattern inspiration. Feed your need for plaids, tweed, argyle, pinstripe and gingham. And don’t forget, Fonts and Graphics 2 offers 50 different choices!
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n Low Maintenance For something Grape, check out our PrintingPress design. We’ve personalized the lavender card by typing the name down the right side. The secret? We made the right margin 3.75 inches so just the name fits perfectly centered in a narrow field of text. Chew on this:
our Platinum design uses
our new Bubblegum stationery. We added a border to a small flat card and
then used a text box to center the name at the top of the border. Here’s
the trick: in order to block out the border behind the name, turn off
Make white transparent on the text box.
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a sweet baby Using colors other than soft pinks and blues are a sure way to set your birth announcement apart from the rest. The Sweet Stationery line is full of great colors for babies. However, if you’ve chosen colored paper but still want to use a photo, order lots of copies of your gorgeous little one’s mug and use double-stick tape to attach the photo to your announcement. This may be an extra step but you’ll get the best results. Our PrintingPress project has a safety pin on the front of the blue folded card of Rock Candy. We printed the baby’s first photo on photo paper and cut out a 2 inch square. (Check if your computer can print them as a contact sheet or wallet sized and you’ll get multiple photos per sheet.) We used double stick tape to adhere the photo to the inside top of the card. For a twist
on the traditional baby photo, Platinum
users can recolor and repeat the snapshot. The simple green border and
bold colors of the photos give a pop-art style to the announcement but
still let folks see your beautiful baby’s face. We used the casual
handwriting font Colin, available in Fonts
and Graphics 2. This project is printed on 4.25 x 5.5 cards, perfect
for tacking up on a bulletin board or adding to the fridge.
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Hue
it up To find the perfect ink color, always start with a simple color, and then tweak it to your needs. This is done by adjusting the color’s RGB (red, green, blue) or HSL (hue, saturation, luminescence) values. This is how a printer reads color. We’ve created a color chart (below) to help you get started, but with practice you’ll learn how to adjust the values to achieve the colors you desire. No matter what color you’re trying to create, you’ll probably have to do a few test prints to get the shade just right. You don’t need to print an entire invitation to do this, just type one or two lines so you’re not using as much ink each time you print. When using colorful paper, the easiest thing to do is to use a darker version of the color of your paper to print the text. First select all the text and choose More colors… in the color menu. You will see the standard Windows color picker. You can choose one of the standard colors provided as your starting point, or type in the RGB values from our chart below. Once you’ve got your starting color, it’s easy to adjust. To darken the color, simply drag the black triangle at the right of the window down towards the bottom. The preview of your color will adjust as you drag the slider. For more fine adjustments, simply type a new value in the luminescence field. To move into the world of contrasting colors, you’ll need to start adjusting the hue of your colors. Once again, pick the basic color you want for your text as your starting point. Once you’ve done your test print, you’ll see how the colors work together. If your text color isn’t right, it’s time for some color mixing. If you’re trying to print green on blue paper, you may need to reduce the amount of blue since the paper itself is already blue. To print green on pink paper, you may need to pull out some red since there’s already red in the paper as well. Once you’ve found colors that you like, use the button at the bottom of the color picker to save them into your custom colors. You have 16 possible slots to save colors. But beware; clicking on the Add to Custom Colors button will pick its own slot to store the color. To specify which slot should be used, select the slot before you begin adjusting your colors.
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