Mountaincow Monthly (March 2005)

	HOME · MOUNTAINCOW MONTHLY NEWSLETTER (MARCH 2005) Easter falls on March 27th this year, so hop on it! Since it’s too cold out for an egg hunt, why not invite folks over for a cozy brunch? We’ve got a couple cotton-tailed images for your celebrations. Want to stay in touch? Give new friends your card – your calling card. Why hand out your boring biz card when you can make something more chic and personal? Wedding season also means it’s anniversary time. Celebrate the lovebirds’ milestone with a photo from their wedding day. Planning a wedding? Create save the dates that will help guests remember the place, too.

	Some bunny is having brunch Whether you break out your good china for Easter Sunday or invite the neighborhood over to ransack your backyard for eggs, we have the perfect invitation for you. For a more informal party, use our PrintingPress 2.0 design complete with a cute bunny and basket of eggs. For the invitation, print on white cards and pair with Purple envelopes. Print out coordinating place cards so your guests know if they belong at the kiddie table. Our Platinum design uses a green rickrack border and a silhouette of a rabbit on Mountaincow’s new Confetti stationery to create a simple and sophisticated invitation. All the text is placed in a text box in order to fully justify it. This will make the text line up evenly on both sides. The place cards use the same border and rabbit design above the guest’s name. But don’t stop there: You can use these images for other Easter crafts. Print out a couple of bunnies, cut them out, glue them to popsicle sticks and place them near the hidden eggs as clues for your younger searchers. Or make a little note to tuck into each Easter basket.		PrintingPress sample (click photo to enlarge) PrintingPress Platinum sample (click photo to enlarge)

	PrintingPress Platinum sample (click photo to enlarge)		A vow to celebrate A milestone wedding anniversary is a fantastic reason to celebrate. You may not have the original guest list from the wedding, but get a hold of the original wedding photo and you’re on the way to a very special invitation, thanks to the background image feature in PrintingPress Platinum. To get this and many more powerful design tools, upgrade to Platinum now. First, use our template for the party details. We created a super modern style by using alternating shades of pink to separate the words instead of using spaces. Before adding the photo, change the information to reflect your party while you can see it clearly. Next, import the photo as a background image. Depending on the size and orientation of your photo, you may need to crop or rotate it. We used a black and white photo and gave it a kick by recoloring it to match the RGB value of 101, 66, 35. We set the transparency to 80% so the invitation is easy to read. Because we used pink for the text, we paired the invitation with our Blush envelopes.
	Pick a card, any card In the day of voice mail, cell phones and email, it may seem like it’s easier than ever to stay in touch. Not if you never check your messages, change your email address often or forget to turn on your cell phone. So when your friends ask, “what’s the best way to reach you?” don’t fumble for a pen, just hand them your calling card. Here you can list the numbers or email address you want friends to use. Using a 3x3 card, we printed our straightforward PrintingPress 2.0 design on pink card stock. To make a strong statement at the top of the card, try an ornate font on your last name’s initial. We used Benjamin Decorative from our Decorative Letters and Numbers collection. Because it’s not the size of standard business cards, your friends will know this should stand out, be posted on the fridge or stuck in the rolodex. The Platinum design uses a green block with a white tulip as a background image. The text is also written in white, so when the card is printed on white paper, the flower and text really pop.		PrintingPress sample (click photo to enlarge) PrintingPress Platinum sample (click photo to enlarge)

	PrintingPress sample (click photo to enlarge) PrintingPress Platinum sample (click photo to enlarge)		Location, location, location Sure, the primary role of a save the date card is to tell your guests to, er, save the date, but why not include more details of your big day? Any information on the location of the wedding will be especially helpful for any guests who need to make special travel arrangements. The PrintingPress 2.0 design conveys a beach wedding with an image of a sand dollar. The date and place of the wedding is printed on a white 3.5 x 5 card and sent in a Dusty Blue 4-bar envelope. The Platinum design uses a background image of the New York City skyline to clue guests into where the celebration will be held. The couple’s name is written in black and all the other text is written in white so their names really pop. The save the date was printed on 3.5 x 5 white paper and mailed in a Magenta 4-bar envelope. If you really want the information on your save the dates to stick, try printing them on trimmed down sheets of magnet paper.
	*How do I use the Easy Invitations* Bonus CD?** To use the bonus CD included in Mountaincow's new book Easy Invitations, begin by following the installation instructions to install the CD onto your computer. For Windows users, the fonts from the CD are automatically installed into your “Windows\Fonts” folder so you can use them with any program. The graphics are now available in your “Mountaincow\Images” folder, and the project templates are now available in your “Mountaincow\Samples” folder. For Mac users, follow the instructions to manually copy the Fonts into your System Fonts folder and the images to a folder on your hard disk; the project templates are not currently available on Mac. To open the project templates on Windows, run PrintingPress and choose Import Project from the File menu and open the folder shortcut to “Easy Invitations” in “My Documents”. Select “Samples” and then “Easy Invitations Projects” to open the project file you want. To add a graphic, choose Insert Image from the Image menu, click Browse and open the “Easy Invitations” shortcut folder in “My Documents” and then “Images” and then “Book Project Images”. If you have PrintingPress 2.1 or Platinum 2.1, there is an easier way without having to browse you computer each time. To open the sample projects, choose New Project from the File menu and click on “Create a new project based on a sample project” and then choose “Easy Invitations Projects” and select the project you want. To open the images choose Insert Image from the Image menu and click on the “Book Project Images” folder and see the previews. To find out what version of PrintingPress you are running, choose About PrintingPress in the Help menu.
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