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We’ve unearthed new colors at Mountaincow! This month’s newsletter features elegant additions to our color palette, including Pewter and Slate cards and envelopes. We used these new terrestrial hues (along with some bold favorites) to create sophisticated personalized stationery. Are you thinking of starting your own business? We have a new business starter kit with elegant business cards, letterhead, return address labels and shipping labels. We can also recommend an excellent resource for anyone starting a new business in the Southeast: The Little Black Book for Every Busy Woman. If the New Year finds you in a new home, we have fabulous moving announcements to help you update everyone’s address books. And young lovebirds aren’t the only ones tying the knot; we have beautiful vow renewal invitations and guidance with articles and excerpts from a new book by wedding author Sharon Naylor, Renewing Your Wedding Vows.
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Say it with sophistication Our PrintingPress design uses our new Wasabi stationery for a simple, elegant look. We adorned the top of the A7 flat card with an artichoke image and used the Jackson Wide font to add the name. We added space characters between each letter in the name to add an airy feel. Pen your personal note and slip into the Slate A7 envelope. We added the same design to the front of a Wasabi A2 scored note card. A simple, elegant border encircles our PrintingPress Platinum design, printed on Rain Cloud stationery. We added a custom monogram using the Ryan font from Fonts & Graphics 3 to the top of the card. Both the border and the monogram are in gray tones to coordinate with the Pewter A7 envelope. We added the same monogram and border to the front of a Rain Cloud A2 scored note card as well. To be fair, our PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 design is 100% girly. We added a custom stationery border with the shape Line (left) to print a stripe down the left side of a White A7 card. We filled the border with a bold new black and white damask pattern. We set the margins for the border to zero and used our printer’s borderless printing feature to print the design all the way to the edge of the card. For more information on borderless printing, please review the Tech Tip from the November 2004 issue of the Mountaincow Monthly. We added a pink stripe to the right of the pattern using the custom border's Inner pen feature and then added the name to the upper right corner of the card in the Alyssa font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. Paired with a Magenta A7 envelope, this card makes a bold statement. For the coordinating White 4-bar folded note card, we filled the background with the same black & white damask pattern, and set the margins to zero again to print the design all the way to the edge of the card. We used a shape object to add a magenta stripe right down the center of the card, then added a floating text box to add the name. We added a magenta custom border to the text box using the Ticket (Landscape) border shape. We turned off the text box’s Make white transparent setting to make it opaque. Send in a Magenta 4-bar envelope.
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entrepreneurs We used a delicate version of our new damask pattern in brown and pale turquoise to adorn each piece of stationery. We filled the background of a rectangular floating shape object with the pattern and added an outline of two brown lines separated by white fill. To make it easier to duplicate the exact same pattern on each piece of stationery, we used the Recent Pattern menu in the Color menu. For more information on the Recent Pattern menu, see this month’s Extreme Tip. The letterhead stationery has a strip of the pattern at the bottom of the page, so we used our printer’s borderless printing feature to print all the way to the edge of the page. For more information on borderless printing, please review the Tech Tip from the November 2004 issue of the Mountaincow Monthly. Since we had to choose the paper type Matte paper (heavyweight) to use the borderless setting on our printer, we made sure to use the same setting for all the pieces of stationery so that the color tones all match. Once you import the project, just replace our placeholder company information with your own and you’re ready to send elegant business correspondence. When you are ready for a company logo, make sure you create a unique image for your business by using an illustration program or hiring a professional designer, since you can't use Mountaincow images as your company logo. We recently discovered a fabulous company, The Little Black Book for Every Busy Woman. They offer helpful advice and referrals for overwhelmed new business owners. Visit their website using the above link to find out if they have resources available for your market. If not, get in touch with them to find out more about franchise opportunities to bring The Little Black Book to your area!
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Movin’ on We used our new Caramel Licorice Two Tone stationery for our PrintingPress design. We added an elegant old-fashioned key to the top of the 4-bar Ivory card. We printed the text in gray using the Benjamin Caps and Benjamin Shadow fonts from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We mounted the Ivory card to the A2 Black card using a double-stick tape gun. Complete the look with a Slate A2 envelope lined in Ivory. Our Platinum design uses a background image with a simple house on a field of green to lend color to the Ivory A2 card. We added the text in Dark green and white text using the Benjamin Caps font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We lined the Ivory envelope in Avocado to coordinate with the background of the card. We topped our Café au Lait PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 design with the old saying, “Home Sweet Home.” We used a floating text box to curve the text around the top of a pineapple image at the top of an Ivory A2 card. We added a stationery border using a dotted line with spacing and a large top margin to add a line of dots beneath the pineapple. We used the Benjamin Caps font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings and lined the Chocolate A2 envelope in Twilight.
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Regardless of your reasons for choosing to renew your vows, our elegant invitations using Envelopments® stationery will make sure everyone on your list takes notice. Our PrintingPress design uses a 5x7 Green Tea Gate Fold as the base for the invitation. We mounted 5x7 Blush Pink card stock to the Gate Fold, then printed the invitation on 4.5x6.5 Classic Ecru card stock. We added an elegant green image to the top of the card and added the text in the same green using the Benjamin Caps and Alyssa fonts from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We used a double-stick tape gun to adhere the invitation to the Blush Pink layer. We created a seal for the outside of the gate fold by printing on 4” x 4” custom cut Classic Ecru card stock, using the 4-cards per page feature to create four 2” x 2” seals. We trimmed the seals and then mounted each on 2¾” x 2¾” custom cut Blush Pink card stock. We adhered the completed seal to the outside of the top flap on the Gate Fold. Send in a 5x7 Classic Ecru envelope. We used a Classic Ecru 3.5 x 5 card for the response postcard. In PrintingPress, we created a 3.5 x 5 card for the response details, then created a 3.5 x 5 envelope to print the address on the back of the 3.5x5 Classic Ecru card stock. For a mix of modern and traditional, try our Platinum design. We added an ornate gray border to our new Blueberry Licorice stationery. We printed the invitation text in the Alyssa Afternoon font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings on the A7 flat card. We used our printer’s borderless printing feature to print all the way to the edge of the page. For more information on borderless printing, please review the Tech Tip from the November 2004 issue of the Mountaincow Monthly. We lined the Slate A7 envelope in Blue to match the card. We repeated the same border on the 4-bar Blueberry Licorice response card, and also lined this envelope in Blue. Our PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 design uses our new Black Pepper Two Tone stationery. The invitation is topped by an elegant flourish and has the details in the Benjamin Caps font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We added a custom border to the card and set the border shape to Line (bottom). We set the line type to Dotted (adjacent to fill) and increased the spacing to spread out the dots. We set the border’s top margin to 0.375 inches and the left border to zero so the dotted line goes all the way to the edge of the card. Then we used our printer’s borderless printing feature to print the design all the way to the edge of the Pewter 4-bar card. For more information on borderless printing, please review the Tech Tip from the November 2004 issue of the Mountaincow Monthly. We used a double-stick tape gun to mount the Pewter 4-bar card to the Black A7 card. We used the same design for the Pewter 4-bar response card, tucked under the flap of a Pewter 4-bar envelope. Slip everything into an addressed Pewter A7 envelope and you’re set.
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Pattern Perfect When designing your theme, you’ll need to select Choose / Adjust pattern or Create / Edit custom pattern in the Color menu to select your pattern and specify the scale. Once you’ve finalized your pattern, all that you need to do to use the exact same pattern again and again is choose Recent Patterns in the Color menu and you will see your most recently used pattern at the beginning of the list. The Recent Pattern menu stores the 20 most recently used patterns for your convenience.
If you used your pattern in the past and can’t find it in the Recent Pattern menu, select Choose / Adjust pattern and look in the My Patterns folder. When you create a new pattern, make sure you give it a recognizable name in the Pattern Name field at the top-left of the Create Pattern window so you can easily find it later in the My Patterns folder.
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