We may still be wearing our wool socks, but Mountaincow is planning ahead for Easter and Passover! We want to give you plenty of time to stock up on Mountaincow’s new scalloped stationery – nothing says spring like these sweet decorative-edged cards. Invite friends and family over for Easter brunch and if the egg hunt isn’t enough to keep the little ones busy, give them their own Easter stationery to color. You deserve new stationery too, and with PrintingPress Extreme you can create a monogram with two colors. Hosting the Passover Seder this year? Create sophisticated menus and place cards for the special meal.

Egg it on
Every family has their own holiday traditions. Start your own by inviting your family to hop on over to your Easter brunch. Make the meal even more special by adding menus and place cards to coordinate with the invitation.

PrintingPress users can print our spring-y invitation using A6 Scalloped Cotton Candy stationery. We added a daisy-clad egg to the top of the card and used the Noodles font from Fonts & Graphics 3. The menu used the same layout while the place card used Noodles Strong for easier readability. We lined the envelope with a daisies (pink & green) liner.

Platinum users have two eggs-celent choices for sending their invitations. Using a flat White A7 card, we printed a wildly decorated egg with the party details written in white in Meegles from Fonts & Graphics 3. We then cut out the egg to fit in an A6 Clover envelope. Not feeling scissor happy? Just print the A6 version to slip in an envelope with a stripes (pink & green) liner. To order the cut-out combination, please order A6 cards and envelopes and add in the Comments section during checkout “please substitute A7 cards for the A6 cards.”

With PrintingPress Extreme, you can bend your text to look like an Easter basket! We used the A6 Scalloped Butterscotch stationery, and added an arrangement of eggs in the center of the card. The first line of the invitation is bent into a semi circle to be the basket’s handle, and the rest of the text is written below, using character spacing to make each line a smidge smaller than the one above it to create a tapered bottom. The envelopes are lined in yellow.

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Initial reaction
PrintingPress Extreme can help you create a unique monogram in many different styles. The alternate font feature allows you to use different fonts, colors and styles for the side letters of your monogram We created a monogram using the Ryan font, then used the alternate font feature to make the center letter brown and the side letters green to tie in the two colors of the A7 and A2 Pistachio stationery. We then set the alignment of the letters to Diagonal down. For more information on alternate fonts in monograms, see this month’s Extreme Tip.

Noteworthy
Whether it’s used to thank the Easter bunny for all those jelly beans, or to send grandma some holiday cheer, Easter stationery for kids can make a great party favor for your Easter brunch. We used black and white outline drawings for our stationery so that the little one can break out the crayons and have some fun making it his or her own. We used White Scalloped stationery for all the cards to make it easy for your young Picasso’s colors to really pop. Since the stationery is a gift, we only printed the return address on the envelopes. For the PrintingPress and Platinum projects, we created a reply envelope with the address made smaller and placed at the top of the envelope where a return address would be printed. PrintingPress Extreme users can create a Return Address envelope.

PrintingPress users can get things hopping with this sweet little note. We added the little guest’s name in green below an Easter bunny and eggs in the Charlotte font from Fonts & Graphics 3. Pair with an A2 Clover envelope with a polka dot (pink & green) liner.

Our Platinum design uses a background image of spring flowers above the name in a floating text box which can be placed anywhere on the card. We kept the name at the bottom in the Noodles font from Fonts & Graphics 3 in pink. Pair with A2 Blush envelopes.

For the Extreme project, we added a large, decorated Easter egg to the center of the front of a folded card, and wrote “a note from Amanda” in Brina Strong from Fonts & Graphics 3. We then bent the text so it curved around the side of the egg. We paired this card with an A2 Violet envelope to match the color of the writing.

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A night different from all others
Like most meals during Jewish holidays, the food that is served at the Passover Seder is steeped in tradition and meaning. Adding a menu card to the table set with the symbols of the holiday, the wine and the candles, can add a special narration to the meal. And since it is often a large gathering with guests bringing dishes to complete the table, the menu also allows you to give credit to everyone who spent time in the kitchen.

Two beautiful candlesticks adorn the top of the menu made using PrintingPress. The names of the dishes are written in the Noodles font from Fonts & Graphics 3. Both the menu and place card are printed on White Scalloped stationery.

Our Platinum design uses a funky blue and green asymmetrical polka dot border with the word “Pesach” (which means Passover in Hebrew) written at the top of the menu in the Hebrew Malkah font from Fonts & Graphics 2. The rest of the menu and the place card uses the Beckles Wide font and is printed on Blueberry Truffle stationery.

The Extreme project takes a meaningful Passover prayer, “Next Year in Jerusalem” and curves it into a semicircle over Elijah’s cup, one of the strong symbols of the holiday. The menu is written in the Benjamin font from Fonts & Graphics 2 and is printed on Ivory Scalloped stationery.