When it comes to birthday party planning for my kids, I’ve always taken charge of creating my own invitations and thank you notes. I’m not very crafty or creative, but once we settle on a theme everything else seems to fall in place. For my daughter’s 4th birthday, she chose a Hawaiian them, complete with a luau, tikis, and fun pink and line green colors. I designed her 4th birthday party invitations and had them printed, while blank Thank You notes were ordered from Tiny Prints. The thank you notes were plain with a pink hibiscus trim, and it was up to me to either hand write each card or print them up. Since my handwriting is horrible, I chose the latter!
When it comes to printing on card stock, I’ve become a pro. I always have my handy ruler to make sure all my measurements are correct, and I print on regular paper before I start the “real” printing, just in case my measurements are off or I forget to change a setting. When you print on card stock, always remember to change the size on your document AND your printer. In my case, the card stock was 3 1/2 x 5 with a 1 inch trim, so my printing had to be slightly off center.
I created my own template on the HP Rove 20 using Microsoft Word. Don’t be fooled by Microsoft Word being only a word processor. This mighty program packs a punch when it comes to crafts and its become my favorite because its so easy to manipulate settings to make them do what I want. Thank you notes are super easy to make and doesn’t require much skill, but if you check out my personalized placemats post you will see that you can use fun graphics and add charts to create the look!
Once I added my text, I was time to tell the printer that it was going to print on smaller paper, where I was feeding the paper from, and which direction I expected my letter to face. Yes, I’m demanding, and I expect my technology to keep up with my demands. The HP Envy 4500 printer doesn’t make it hard to get what I want, and the best part is that it’s pretty easy to set up and get around the menus.
Do you like making your own projects? I love the freedom of personalizing everything, down to the font and colors used! One lucky reader can win an HP Envy 4500 printer to complete some awesome crafts, photo printing, coupon printing, or whatever you may ever need a great printer for! With the holidays just around the corner, I’m sure this printer will be a hit! Just fill out the form below:
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I’d use the printer to make Christmas cards
I would print family photos!
I have so many pictures just sitting in my computer 🙂
I would make cards with it!
I would use this for everything from coupons to family photos! Thanks for the chance to win:)
I would use the printer for scrapbooking, coupon clipping, and my husbands school work since he’s decided to go back to college.
Printing coupons and using the other functions. Thank you, Jerri Davis
couponing and my kids some DIY things.but this could save my family a lot of money! and i need a good one for my kis pictures.i want to hang them up but seems like everything is on the computer.and is a hassle to get to store and get them printed out..and i also got some pictures of my kids and my family when we was small i would like to store on a usb device!
I would start saving by printing coupons then advance to crafts
I will use the printer to clip coupons. I am a stay at home mom and this printer would be great to have.
I would use it for my coupons 🙂
I would use it to print out coupons, I am a senior citizen living on a small check and printing out coupons would help me a lot. thanks for this awesome giveaway! connie d.
Family and friend pictures and for cards.
I will use this printer to print high quality photos. I like that it can really do everything that I need it to do.
I’d use it to print photo Christmas cards.
I would use it to print my photos.
I would use it to print recipes and coupons,
I would use the printer for my daughters school work, my business papers, and of course, coupon print outs.
The printer would be for our office and school docs.
I would use it for family documents, cards and homework. 🙂
I would use to print coupons, pictures of my kids, photographs, scanned copy of older photos, homework assignements
I would use it to print out coupons and school papers
I would love to use this printer for personalized and homemade x-mas and other special occasion greetings cards! Printer possiblities are endless and between kitchen recipes and business documents it would be fantastic to have for home and or business type use.
to print Church programs
i would use it to print my coupons
I would give this printer to my daughter, a Sophomore/Junior in college who has just gotten her own apartment and doesn’t have a printer, yet. I think she would use this for everything. One cool thing she does is crochet, so she might be able to print crochet patterns—chem/biology papers and crochet patterns–that’s my girl.
I would use it to print out coupons!!
I’d make Christmas cards.
Holiday place mats for the kids
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i would print photos
I’d use this to print off papers for my classes. I’m a college student and could use this!
I would use this for crafts / cards/ pictures
I would use this to make labels for my homemade preserves to dress them up. Make cute gifts when they are all done up.
I would use this printer for printing photos and making collages