You’ve always been an admirer of Victorian times and wish you could fit some of the elegance and style of the period into your life. As you look at the options to design business cards , you realize that some of the floral template designs are just beautiful and bring the Victorian style to mind. However, your business needs call for a very sophisticated, stark style. You take one last look at your favorite floral design. You have already hit the back button on your browser when you remember a scene from your favorite movie where the lead actress dropped a card onto a tray when she stopped in to visit a friend unannounced. Seconds later, you’re looking at that floral design again, because you’ve decided to make your own Victorian style calling cards.

To turn a business card design into a Victorian calling card, you only need to make a few adjustments.

• Choose a line on the card template that is near the middle of the card. Usually, this is the “Address Line 2″ space. Type your full name.
• If the text isn’t large enough for your taste or if you would like a different font, click on the advanced editing feature and make your changes.
• Initial the proof and finalize your order.

You’re getting married and you’ve chosen a date, but you aren’t sure of the location. So far, the only place you’ve been able to find that is free on that date is your Aunt Minnie’s local bingo hall and it really isn’t your dream place. You want to hold out for a better location, but you’re afraid all of your friends and family will commit to other events if you don’t send out wedding invitations. Should you just settle for the bingo hall and try to disguise it with a ton of decorations so you can mail off the invitations?

Actually, if you’ve been looking at VistaPrint’s invitation choices, you may have noticed that you can also choose announcements. One of those announcements is a simple “Save the Date” card, which is ideal for a couple that has a date in mind for the wedding, but isn’t sure of the location. When you send out these cards, you still have a chance to have a wedding in a place that doesn’t bring orthopedic shoes and blue hair to mind, but your loved ones will know that you need them to keep the wedding day free while you are hunting for the perfect location.

“Mom, what is this?” As your child holds up a nondescript little white card, you feel a twinge of embarrassment. You should have gone for a sophisticated style, but instead you decided to save money and bought the cheapest birth announcement you could find. Now that it is too late, you realize that these announcements are actually family keepsakes, especially if you put a bit of effort into choosing the design. Luckily, child number two is on the way and this time you have a chance to get things right.

Since so many people do keep birth announcements for many years, it makes sense to take advantage of VistaPrint’s option for creating beautiful keepsake photo birth announcements. Simply choose one of the designs that will allow you to upload a photo and follow the step by step instructions to get your baby’s picture uploaded from the computer. When you are done, make sure to carefully read over the proof before you press the order button. After all, since you thought it was embarrassing when your first child saw his boring announcements, you can imagine how you’ll feel as you’re explaining to your second child that you misspelled his or her name on them!

As you prepare for the exciting move to your new home, you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed by all of the work you need to do. On top of checking that skinny cupboard beside the stove to be sure someone packed the cookie pans and doing a quick drywall repair job because Uncle John was in a hurry to pack the headboard up before the Super Bowl game started, you just realized you need to send moving announcements. You don’t have time for this! Before you start panicking, try these tips for successfully sending announcements:

 

• Pull out the Christmas card list. If you feel like someone is important enough to send a Christmas card to, he or she is probably going to be on your moving notification list, too. If you’re organized enough to have the Christmas list computerized so you can print mailing labels, your life just got a whole lot easier.
• Once you know how many announcements you’ll need, add a few more to your order. Otherwise, you’ll be mailing your very last card when you realize that you met Sue and Bob after last Christmas and they aren’t on your mailing list.
• If you are planning to throw a housewarming party, take a look at VistaPrint’s invitations before you put finalize your order. You can save postage by including the housewarming invitations with the moving announcements of the people you are inviting.

 

You want to scream it from the rooftops. You’re finally graduating and you’ll never have to sit through Calculus again. However, when your mom brings up graduation announcements, you feel a bit uncertain. Isn’t that kind of tacky? Won’t everyone just think you’re just after a gift? Actually, letting everyone know they don’t need to feel obligated to send a gift when they receive an announcement is fairly simple. Just tell them. Try one of these ideas for getting the message across:

 

• A hug and your sincere congratulations are the only gifts I need.
• Please feel free to give me your valuable advice as I prepare for college.
• I like presents as much as the next person, but this is not a thinly veiled request for gifts. I just want you to celebrate my achievement with me.
• Want to give me a graduation gift? Great! Don’t want to give me a graduation gift? Great! However, feeling excited over my good news is mandatory!
• Instead of sending me graduation gifts, please give a small contribution to Books for Kids or your favorite literacy or school related charity. I want everyone to be able to feel the same sense of accomplishment I feel.

You type your information into the handy customization tool and quickly initial the space that says you are happy with the online label’s appearance. After all, there is no sense spending a lot of time going back over the information you typed in. You know how to spell your name and you’ve lived at the same address for four years. Now, all you have to do is sit back and wait for your new family address labels to arrive. Finally, the labels are here and they don’t look like cheap address labels at all. They’re gorgeous! You take a closer look and see that your last name is now Smiht. You transposed the “t” and the “h” and didn’t even realize it.

Proofreading may seem like a big waste of time, especially when you are typing something like your name, but it is so easy to transpose letters when you are in a hurry.

 

• Look over the entire text and then go through it backwards. Sometimes, our brains automatically correct what we’re seeing on the page and we miss a word that is spelled incorrectly.
• Ask someone else to take a quick look, too. He or she may notice an error that you missed.
• Only initial the proof after you’ve really done a thorough review of the information you’ve typed in.

You have a bright and happy outlook as you enjoy the move to your new home and you want the whole world, including your postal carrier, to know how great your mood is. You’re getting new address stickers and they’re going to have a font that will be as yellow and cheery as the sun.

Unfortunately, those colorful stickers will not make everyone as happy as you. In fact, they may actually cause quite a bit of frustration, as people who saved them to remember your new address struggle to decipher the light print of the yellow font on a white background. As you choose the font color for your address stickers, you should:

 

• Preview the sticker design to see if it is hard to read. Black, brown, maroon or dark blue fonts are a good choice for backgrounds with a white or light color. A light font color on a very dark background is easier to read than a dark font.
• Consider using that font color that is difficult to read on just the first letter of a name instead of using it on the entire label. Customization options make it simple to perform this design change.