Printing in gold/silver

[AuntyQuated]

For those of you who would like to print in gold or silver I found this handy hint on another site.

In Word choose click on the tool bar where you can change the colour of the text. In my version of MS Word that's a bold, underlined Capital A.
Then choose 'More Colors', then 'Custom' and make sure you have RGB selected in 'Color Model'.
Then enter the numbers in the appropriate boxes as given below.

Gold / Red 204 / Green 204/ Blue 0

Silver/Red 151/ Green 151/ Blue 149

They are matt but quite effective.

[champs]

thanks AQ

[Dingle]

I'll have a go when I get the chance, thanks AQ.
Out of interest, I have been told that, if you are quick off the mark, you can heat emboss prints as soon as the come off the printer. Haven't got round to trying that either.

[AuntyQuated]

try these too, this gold seems better

Gold
R-192/G-168/B-104

Dark Gold
R-165/G-138/B-82

Silver
R-151/G-151/B-168


Dingle - will have a go with the embossing from the printer NOW

have loads to do eg. housework but what the hell

[Dingle]

AQ. Was suppose to be "working" with dd on her speech & lang this afternoon, but she is full of cold and reallygrumpy!

[AuntyQuated]

Dingle you are a superstar!!!!
It works a treat. First attemppt didn't as printed in pale blue thinking it would be easy to cover but the powder didn't seem to stick so printed it off in black using thick bold font, poured on the powder and HEY PRESTO

i wish i'd read this 1 hour ago...i've been making gift tags by printing them off, going over them with an embossing pen, them powder, heat. this would have made it a lot quicker and sharper.

thank you

[Dingle]

He he he,,,,must have a go!! OOh what can I do, I migh try some script for my Xmas cards!!
I'm quite excited now! What a pathetic little life I lead!

[AuntyQuated]

was so excited then forgot to say...
poor DD, hope she feels better soon. Ds has had a bad cold and been poorly since Friday, today is the first day he hasn't needed a sleep after lunch. hopefully, back to school tomorrow.

[champs]

love to your dd dingle, I have seen this method on C&C, they had special paper but i wondered if it would work on normal paper, Thanks for the tip. and to you too AQ for testing idea, will try it out on my Cards.

[Dingle]

I am making invites for our God-Daughter's Communion and needed these settings. I thought a few of the newer cardmakers might be interested in this.
I haven't tried all the colour variations, but it is really easy to do. I will make myself a chart in excel so I will always have the settings to hand!

How sad am I?

Thanks AQ!

[champs]

prob as sad as me, who has it in notebook from last time

[Dingle]

Champs - if I put it on paper, I can never find it underneath the reams of paper,card,craft mags,embellishments! My mum was making cards too, but now she spends so much time at the hospital on dialysis she has given me all her stock!
My conservatory looks like it has been hit by a whirlwind! I am slowly, but surely organising it!

[champs]

hee hee, i meant windows notebook on computer. I couldn't even tell you where my thousands of paper notebooks are

[Dingle]

Oh yes! "in notebook" rather than "in a notebook! Oh you can tell I am not very computer literate!

[champs]

sorry but PMSL!! dont know why but this really made me laff.

[Dingle]

We got a bumper pack of notebooks because we can never find one when we want one, that was months ago.....only just found them again. I think I hid them so that ds wouldn't use them all!

I am alone in this.

[champs]

..... yes!! lol

[AuntyQuated]

bump for carolinett

[Carolinett]

I'll try this out thanks actually I've got a colour printer next to me in work I'll try it here.
Now you are going to think I'm really thick but what is a bump & what is a thread & if you have got cards to show where do you put them & how can I see other peoples cards please.

[Dingle]

A thread is simply a subject posted, therefore this would be the "printing in gold/silver"thread.

To bump, means to put a message in a thread to bring it to the top of the "active" for someone to see.

AQ has fairly recently set up a Yahoo site where we are loading our cards. You can see others cards on The Gallery thread,using general a general ID and password, but to load your own it is best you set up your own Yahoo ID. AQ is the best person to see you through this!{grin]HTH

[AuntyQuated]

if you email me
[email protected]


i'll send you the instructions

[Carolinett]

"Brilliant" not to clever on Web talk it's all clear to me now, only joined yesterday and like most IT people, did not read the manual.
Thanks again be back PM hopfully.
Off to a few meeting atempting to drag 120 doctor surgeries in North Wales into the 21st centry with IT technology & beleive me some of them are kicking & screaming.

[Carolinett]

Forgot to say I'll email you later for assistance Thanks again

[Carolinett]

Before I asked you the question about a site for posting cards I sent one to the site help desk yesterday just got this reply from them.

don't think we do, though I know there was some talk of card-making mumsnetters putting something collective on the small business sections.

Probably best if you ask the other card-makers on site and see if that's in the offing.

If there's a collective wish for pics in this area we'll certianly talk about it at our next meeting (May)

Hope that helps

Carrie
www.mumsnet.com

[Carolinett]

What do you all think about our own card site on this web page I think it would be great ? Anyway I'm out again proberly won't be back on until I get home.

[cheekychops03]

Top idea. As long as it is easy to use.....not v. computer literate