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Hello color!
What better way to wish your sweetie a happy Valentine’s Day than with a flamingo-pink card? All you need is a little graphic and simple wording, and you’ve made a Valentine from the heart.

To create this project, design a folded card 8.5 x 5.5 inches with a vertical fold and a matching envelope. For the card, choose “Printed on both sides” so your design appears on both inside and outside. For the outside front, we used the “Webding” font to make a heart using the letter ‘Y’. Or you can use any heart picture you find on the Internet – visit www.google.com and click the Images tab and search for “heart” and see what you find. We used “Beckles Wide” to write “Be Mine” and the inside message.

For more color combinations, check out Mountaincow’s new line of stationery, all eye-catching hues that will even make the mailman stand at attention!

Spread the love: Valentines for everyone!
Handing out Valentines to everyone in your child’s class is a wonderful idea – how about adding an extra special touch by printing the children's names on the envelopes? With PrintingPress it's even quicker and easier than handwriting, and once the names are in your address book you’re ready for your child's next birthday party or sleepover party.

To add your child’s class list into your PrintingPress address book, click on the Address Book and choose New Address from the Address Book menu. For each friend, enter their first and last name along with as much of their address information as you have. If you leave the "Name for Inner Envelope" field blank, the entry's first and last name will fill in by default. If you'd like to print just the first name, be sure to type in the name manually.

Measure the envelopes of the Valentines you bought and create a new project designing an envelope the same size. Be sure to select “Inner” when asked what type of envelope you are making. This way, just the names of your child’s friends on the mailing list will be printed onto the envelopes.

Holidays aren’t over until you’ve sent your thank you notes
Just because the tree is down and the menorah is packed away until next year doesn’t mean you’re done with your holiday chores. Now that the merriment has simmered, take the time to say thank you for all the wonderful loot you found under the tree this year.

Use Mountaincow’s blank stationery to create personalized thank-you notes. Click here to see our selection of folded note cards that make perfect thank-you notes.

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Wedding 411 Packet
Information at your fingertips:
every page is almost an inch
longer than the one in front of it,
creating an easy-to-find index
tab for each category.

Getting to know your printer
Whether you’re printing your first PrintingPress project or your fiftieth, we always recommend doing a test print on scrap paper before using stationery. Printing can vary depending on the machine you use, and you’ll want to make sure all your settings are correct.

First, determine if your printer is aligned on the right, left or center. Often printers have paper guides that will help you determine this. If both paper guides are adjustable, your printer is probably center aligned. If the left paper guide is adjustable, you’re right aligned, and an adjustable right guide means left aligned.

Next, it’s important to know the difference between a portrait and landscape orientation. If you were to design a sign where the top is 8.5 inches wide and the height is 11 inches tall, and then put a piece of paper in the printer, that is a portrait orientation.

If you want your sign to be 11 inches wide and 8.5 inches tall, you would need to print this as a landscape orientation since an 11 inch sheet won’t fit in a standard printer without rotating it. When you rotate the paper, you tell the printer to rotate what you are printing by choosing Landscape in the Print window.

Some printers rotate clockwise (right) and others rotate counter-clockwise (left). To determine the direction of the landscape rotation, experiment by using a piece of paper that is 5 x 7 inches. Set the print box as “left rotation” to see if it prints properly. If not, then your printer needs to be set on “right rotation.”

Computer Cupid: making Valentines at Kate’s Paperie
If you live in the New York City area, please visit us at your closest Kate’s Paperie location for a demonstration for making Valentines.

Friday, January 30
Kate's Paperie
140 West 57th Street
12 - 3 p.m.

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