How to Design Personal Stationery
When it comes to sending notes or letters to family and friends, several people use personalized stationery. Stationery lets the recipient of the letter know who it’s from without needing to see the sender’s signature on the document. You control how colorful and unique the stationery appears. You should let your personality show through the stationery you design.
Things you need:
- Paper
- Printer
- Computer
- Select the paper you want to use for the stationery. If you go to a store, you will see a large variety of weights, types, textures and colors available. Pick a type that is affordable and reflects your personality. Be prepared to buy a minimum of 50 sheets of paper or maybe even more.
- Take a pencil and a plain piece of paper to draw a design for the stationery. Drawing your ideas on paper will save time because you can erase parts that you don’t like and try something else.
- Create a new document by opening a word processing application. Determine if you want to use a pre-made background for the stationery. You can go to many website that have free or very affordable templates. If you see a template that you like, simply click the download option. After you download, you will see the template in a Word document. Be sure to save the document on the computer by selecting the File option from the tool bar. You will then choose the Save As option from the menu. Come up with a name for the file and choose the Save option again.
- Make sure you type in your name, address, email address and website as a header in the document.
- Insert images that you have saved on the computer. Choose the insert option from the tool bar. Next you will select the Picture option. Choose either Clip Art or From File. Make your choice and then click OK. Now you should see the image in the document.
- Make sure you save the stationery template on the computer. Choose the File option from the tool bar and select Save As. Then you will name the file and choose Save again.
- Print out the stationery by putting in the stationery paper into the printer. Be sure that the printer is hooked up to the printer. You will then choose File on the toolbar and select Print from the menu.