The Print Shop is a great program for
making your Christmas/ Holiday letter. You can print it to be
mailed or save it as PDF to be emailed. The Print Shop
provides a huge assortment of holiday clipart, as well as photo
tools and text tools, to create your uniquely crafted letter.
Here is my example which I designed
with "printer-ink friendliness" in mind.
I started with a blank letter size
project. To make my background, I added the
clipart Scroll Glitter Tree which I resized,
positioned, and reduced its opacity to 31%.
I added the clipart Word Art Merry
Christmas Snowflake Blue Red to the top of my page.
You can choose any decorative items for your border top.
I like to include a family photo, and
to make things more festive, I'll frame my photo
with Christmas Tale Red Ribbon Wrapped Frame. You may
want to take things further and include a collage of photos -
vacation pictures, the grandkids, the pets!
Now here is a great feature in The
Print Shop. Right-click the object to choose Wrap Text
Around Object.
Add your text box and type in your
holiday message. While still in edit mode, right-click inside
the text box and check Wrap Text Around Object.
Position and size your text box over the page. If you don't
see the text wrap around your object, it is because the
object must be above the text so here is what you do
next.
Select the object, right-click it, and
Move to Front.
Now you see your text wrapping around
your object!
And that's how you can make
your festive holiday letter with The Print
Shop.
written by lindarobin
