Can you believe Easter is almost here?  Our designers have created a great variety of brand new designs that will help you celebrate Spring with style. All the beautiful colors of the season have a place in our Easter collection this year. Esther from our design team shares some of her favorite Easter designs.

Whether you are having a formal affair or a fun Easter egg hunt, your celebration is sure to be a success with our beautiful invitations.

Elegant Floral Easter Party Invitation

Basket Of Eggs Easter Party Invitation

A Very Hoppy Birthday Easter Party Invitation

1. This is a lovely square invitation featuring our new rounded corners!  This invite is a bit formal yet still whimsical with its shape and floral pattern.  The colors are reminiscent of early spring.

2. What could be more fun than an Easter Egg hunt?…This adorable Easter Egg hunt Invitation, that’s what!  It’s circle shape and bright colors make this cards stand out from the rest.  The brown basket color is carried the the back of that card, making a bold background for your own text to stand out.

3. Is your little hunny bunny having a spring Birthday?  Why not embrace the holiday by sending these fun birthday party invites?  The polka dot background is perfect for Easter and highlight your little cutie’s photo.

Are you looking to send out a Spring Time greeting to friends and family?  Want to say “Happy Easter” in a special way? Here are some lovely new card designs that are perfect for your style.

Whimsical Blue Scalloped Trifold Easter Card

Cute Bunny Easter Card

New Beginning Cross With Banner Easter Card

1. This is a fun yet simple Spring and Easter card.  Fill this tri-fold up with photos or verses that are meaningful to you and your family.  It’s elegant flourishes mixed with modern type make this a card that your friends and family will want to keep.

2. Hoppy Easter!  This is a simple and cute way to say hello or wish your loved ones a Happy Easter.  The adorable bunny on a clean linen background is fun and modern mixed with blue and white type.

3. Looking for a more traditional card or want to share your excitement about the season?  This is a great card with a classic wood background and added modern banner. As a folded card, you can add a verse inside and have plenty of room for writing greetings to your friends and family.

We all wish you a very Happy Easter and hope that this spring season brings warm and sunny new beginnings for you and your family!

St. Patrick’s Day is a great day to gather with friends and family. It’s also a great time to send out greeting cards to family and friends. This holiday is often characterized by green,beer, and shamrocks, our design team has worked to capture the essence of St. Patrick’s Day in several designs of St. Patrick’s Day cards, party invitations, announcements and more! Erin from our design team shares some of her favorite designs for the St. Patty’s Day collection this year.

Irish Pride St. Patrick's Day Invitation

Modern Gray And Green Stripe St. Patricks Day Card

Beer Mug St. Patrick's Day Invitation

Lucky Clover Square Texture Invite

St. Patrick's Day Beer Party Invite

Irish Luck Birth Announcement

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1. Irish Pride

Show off your Irish pride with a party! Using the Irish flag as the overall design for the front of the card, decorate it with a fun phrase and a love of beer. Customize the inside to fit your day of festivities, and make it fun by using varying stylized fonts.

2. Modern Green and Gray Stripe

This modern rounded corner card is the perfect way to say happy St. Patrick’s Day to your family and friends. Include your family photo, and personalize it with a thoughtful message. This card offers the customary colors to fit the day and also adds a modern touch of texture over a section of the card makes the overall look more dimensional and fresh.

3. Beer Mug

The beer mug St. Patrick’s Day is perfect for the party go-ers. Using festive colors for green in the back overlapping with a texture makes the background pop. The frothy beer mug sits at the center of attention with plenty of space to add your party details over the top.

4. Lucky Clover Square Texture

Spice up your party with this lucky clover rounded corner textured invitation. Using clovers to layer the page with texture gives the overall look of the invitation a festive and fun feeling. Customizing the information is easy, while just clicking and entering your party details.

5. St. Patrick’s Beer Party

Send your party invitations as a circle card! This Irish drinking party invitation is perfect for bringing in St. Patrick’s Day. Using festive Irish lingo, and covered in shamrocks, your guests will know they are in for a night of fun and frivolity!

6. Irish Luck Birth Announcement

St. Patrick’s Day is not only about indulging in food and drink, it’s about celebrating good luck too!  Our elegant Irish Luck Announcement is perfect to send to all your friends and family to let them share in your joy as you welcome your  new addition to your family. You can easily customize the information and add a photo of your lucky baby.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! “May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.” ~Irish Blessing

Valentine’s Day – the time of the year when love is celebrated the most. For a very long time, the holiday has been celebrated, and the special day will be upon us very soon once more. Here at PurpleTrail, our designers have been putting a lot of effort into the Valentine’s Day Card and Invitation designs on our site, and our Intern Yazmine has also been working on a special task.

As our intern, Yazmine had the project of creating her very own design set for Valentine’s Day. Her inspiration was heavily on blues and teal, with touches of pink and red. Lace was a main factor for the look, and the theme seemed to lean towards a sweet and whimsical-esque look, with parasols, hearts and clouds adorning the design; this collection is inevitably named “Pastel Valentine’s Day”.

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Pastel Valentine’s Day (Set) Card

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Pastel Valentine’s Day (set) Invitation

Pastel Valentine’s Day Address Label

Pastel Valentine’s Day Classroom Valentine

We hope you enjoy your Valentine’s Day and treat someone special to a sweet Valentine’s Day card.  Thanks Yazmine!

Valentine’s Day is coming up and our design team has created some sweet Valentine’s Day cards and party invitations to help you celebrate the occasion.  Esther from our design teams share her favorite Valentine’s Day story as well as some of our lovely Valentine’s Day designs.

Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays.  It may have something to do with my very first Valentine’s Day at school.  When I was in first grade, My mom had told me about how we would have a party in class for Valentine’s Day and I had spent a long time creating my Valentines for the other children.  I was very excited as visions of candy hearts and Smurf valentine cards filled my dreams the night before. The morning of Valentines Day I was giddy with anticipation and I hugged my mom before heading out the door.  Just then she noticed something on my legs… little red spots.  “You have chicken pox!” she said.

And just like that, my dreams for a perfect first grade valentine party were crushed.  I spent the next two weeks itchy and bored, recovering in my room.  One day, my mother came in with a box for me…my first grade had mailed all of my valentines to me!  It didn’t make up for missing the party, but it was wonderful to know that they were still thinking of me.  I still have all of those valentines in a scrapbook somewhere.

Our designers have created some fun new Valentine’s Cards and Valentine’s Party Invites for you to choose from.  Take a look!

Valentine’s Day Cards

Zebra Heart Valentine's Day Card

Sports Balls And Stripes Valentines Day Card

Pink Owl Valentine Card

1. Show off your wild style with this funky card.  With Zebra print on the background and fun type on the front, it will certainly stand out from the rest! There is room to place your photo on the back and write a greeting.

2. Is sports your thing?  Give this unique and playful card this Valentine’s Day.   A blue background is accented with a stripe and various sports balls are highlighted.  This card is fun to receive and to give because of it’s circle shape!

3. An adorable owl is center stage in this large, folded card.  You can place your picture on the front and a message on the inside.  Whooooo could resist this cute owl?

PARTY INVITES

Grunge Love Rocks Valentine's Day Party Invitation

Hugs And Kisses Tic Tac Toe Valentine's Day Party Invitation

Cocktails And Chocolate Martini And Stripes Valentines Day Party Invitation

1. This is a grungy, stylish party invite with a great texture as a border and a creative illustration on the front.  You are sure to have a rockin’ party when you send this invite!

2.  This card is part invite, part greeting.  A clever, square card that looks like a game of tic-tac-toe and hugs and kisses!  A clean white background highlights the pink invite in the center.

3. Here is an elegant 7X5, two sided card featuring an adorable stripe and classy martini glasses.  Simple and chic, your friends will love to get invited to this party!

We at PurpleTrail wish you lots of love and warmth this Valentine’s Day!  What is your most memorable Valentine’s Day?

·         2012 is the year of the dragon – specifically being the water dragon. Dragons symbolize good fortune and intense power, and are seen as divine beasts.

·         For New Year, elders give the younger children red envelopes which carry money, and other gifts are exchanged as well such as fruits (never pears), desserts like chocolate, cake, or biscuits and other small gifts.

We hope that everyone celebrating Chinese New Year has a happy, healthy and prosperous new year and that you find yourself surrounded by those that you love.

Hanukkah and Christmas have come and gone. The New Year is on it’s way!  How will you celebrate New Years?  Send out fabulous New Years invitations and invite guests with some style.  Our collection of New Years invitations has traditional designs as well as flashy designs with bold colors. Erin from our design teams highlights the season’s best.

Purple And Blue Geometric New Years Invite

Rays Of The New Year Party Invitation

Colorful Confetti New Years Invite

Purple Disco Party New Years Invitation

Popping Bubbly New Years Party Invitation

1. Purple and Blue Geometric New Years Invitation

This unique New Years invitation is sure to kick off the New Year right. Using bright blue and purple, and a geometric design gives this invitation a look like no other. By using shapes with outlines, you can create this repeat pattern and design it how you like. Just overlay shapes over one another, changing up the line quality and it gives you a fresh new style. Using a fun font for the headline is a great way to carry the theme through the invitation. Topping it off with simple lines of text information with white dots to break up the lines.

2. Rays of the New Year New Years Invitation

This modern navy invitation is bold and directive. In our embellishment library we have lots to choose from, but we have a great selection of headline embellishments, which is where you will find the New Year 2012 font. Being able to use those as embellishments you can increase the size giving it this dramatic look. Everything is clean and simple, and its great to use the guides in PurpleTrail Design Center so everything looks crisp and organized.

3. Colorful Confetti New Years Invitation

This colorful New Years invitation is a great invitation for all ages who may be throwing a party. Using bright polka dots that overlap one another gives it this fun confetti like feel, like its falling from the sky. To carry the dots through the invitation we used bold colors to create much larger ones for text to be put. It’s a simple layout, but has such a fun feeling to it. This invitation looks best when the overall information is simple and not too complex. Using two simple fonts interchangeably is a great idea to have some diversity but you don’t want to take away from the bright and colorful confetti.

4. Purple disco party

This bright disco party is for the party animal going out on New Years Eve. Using the disco ball embellishment and overlapping some grunge texture is a great way to give it motion and style The font is unique to this invitation, using a few interchangeably. The headline is blocked out in a tight formation, making everything even then using a line barrier to separate it from the other information is a great way to create space in your invitation. Then using some texture in the bottom half to bring off the overall look and style of the invitation. If you use a small amount of texture on the front, don’t be afraid to make your card a two sided card and carry it over to the back.

5. Popping Bubbly New Years Invitation

This double-sided circle card is great for a sophisticated New Years party. Using white linen over a gray background gives it a nice texture for the design to lay over. Using a wine bottle as the main focus on the front, we have captured bubbles coming out all over the design. Using simple circles with just the outline, and overlapping them slightly is a great way to create the look of floating bubbles. The font is simple and fits the sophisticated look of this invitation. On the reverse side, its best to use the same background style with linen, and always carry over the same color and font face so the invitation has a cohesiveness.

We hope your New Years celebration is fantastic. Happy New Year!

The Holiday Season is at it’s peak right now and if you are anything like me, with all of the craziness of holiday parties, family get-togethers and shopping to do, the last thing on your mind is getting out those Holiday Cards!  Well, you are in luck!  Instead of feeling guilty, why not send out a New Years Card instead!

PurpleTrail has a great variety of New Years Cards ranging from Photo Cards, Calendar Cards, Folded or Flat cards.  We even have unique formats like circle and squares.  We also have cards with family letters included on the inside or back.

With so many designs to choose from, we are sure you will have a great time creating a card to wish your loved ones well this New Year.

Beautiful Blue Stripes New Years Photo Card

City Skyline New Years Greeting Card

Earthy New Years Photo Card

Gray Linen Bold New Years Card

Family Photo New Year Card

Radiant Red Floral Calendar New Years Card

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1. Here is an adorable, whimsical creation featuring a photo on the front and a family New Years Letter on the back.  The bold turquoise stripes add a fun backdrop to your photo, and the banner shows off the funky typesetting of our designers.

2. Send your greetings from the city to your friends and family.  This simple statement features a bold, city scape and a modern type treatment.   If you are looking for a simple card that still says a lot, look no further!

3. Here is a unique and fresh design, featuring fun colors and a cool texture and clean type.  This is definitely one your recipients will not want to toss in the recycling, but hang on the fridge!  You can place three of your favorite photos in the center, and write your greeting on the front or the back.

4. This design doubles as a New Years greeting and a keepsake calendar.  This trifold has funky lettering on the front and a subtle linen texture.  The simple design allows you to highlight your photo.  You can even add more photos or a letter on the back!  Your friends and family will love receiving this special gift even after the holidays are over!

5. Are you looking to add more photos of your family from 2011?  This card allows you to add as many photos as you like, with enough room at the bottom for a greeting.  This is a lovely, subtle color palette, which adds to the beautiful simplicity of the design.

6. Send a useful greeting this year!  This circle card has a calendar predominant on the front and back of the card, on top of a bright, cheering red background.  A beautiful pattern borders the design, with your greeting highlighted on the bottom.

So go ahead, forget the Christmas card and enjoy the Holidays to the fullest!  Just remember that the perfect New Years card is waiting for you at PurpleTrail when the dust settles next year.  See you then!

Sending calendar magnets for the celebrate the New Year is a great way to reach out to family and friends.  It’s a gift that they will truly use all year long! You can also use magnet calendars to organize your sport team’s season and give one to the whole team.  Another great way to use magnet calendars is to create a list of important dates your family has like birthdays, anniversaries, weddings etc. Erin from our design team is here to show us some of the great designs in our calendar magnet collection.

Family Tree Dates Calendar Magnet

And Blue Simple Square Magnet Calendar

Wishing You The Best Calendar

Sports Season Magnet Calendar

Damask Cream And White Calendar

1. Family Tree Dates

A unique take on the calendar, this is a personalized calendar to show all the important upcoming dates in your family’s year. With a soft cream background and pinks and greens pulled from the floral embellishment brings a softness to the overall magnet. Easily customizable, you can add or delete the months you are showing. It’s a great keepsake for all friends and family to have on there fridge.

2. Green and Blue Simple Squares

A fun and playful calendar magnet with bright green and turquoise you can customize it with a photo of your choice for all your family and friends to enjoy. By using a white border to divide each frame gives it’s a playful look around each section. Top it off with added details such as dots and a heart from our embellishment tab in the design center.

3. Wishing You the Best

Picture perfect for the holidays, here is a calendar you can add multiple photos of your family for everyone to enjoy. With a simple layout, just drag your photos over each one to drop it. Within PTDC, you should be able to easily crop your photo how you like. With the calendar easily visible down the center and send it off with a personalized message, it’s a perfect gift to give.

4. Sport Season Magnet

This calendar magnet is a great idea for your children’s sports season schedule. Here we have a soccer season schedule split into the fall schedule. Adding a photo to your magnet gives it a nice personalized touch. It’s easy to just drag and drop your photo over the existing design image. All home games are circled in red, and the full schedule is listed to the right. All you have to do is plug in your information and drag the red circles over the proper dates. You can easily change the colors of the design to fit your team colors!

5. Damask Cream and White

If you are looking for a non-photo calendar we have many great options, but this elegant and sophisticated calendar is a stand out option. Using a cream background with a soft white damask is a great background to make your calendar pop. Using a simple grey calendar from our embellishments, and using a dashed border to enclose it puts a finishing touch on it. You can easily personalize your information into the calendar for all your friends and family to know your current information for the year.

Whether you need a sports season magnet calendar, a family magent calendar, or just want to create a go to calendar for your fridge, our collection of calendar magnets is easily customized for whatever your calendar needs are!

Have you sent out your Business Holiday greeting yet?  There is still time!  Our designers have created some fresh new designs for your Business Holiday Greeting cards this year.  The Holidays and New Year is the perfect time to reconnect with clients, customers or other businesses and thank them for their business and friendship.  Don’t miss an opportunity to reach out this year.

You don’t need to settle for traditional, bulk cards either, from classic to whimsical, we have the perfect style to fit your business.  if you are tired of the same, dull corporate cards year after year, check out PurpleTrail’s great selection of unique Corporate Holiday Cards. Esther from our design team shares some highlights of our 2011 Business Holiday Card collection.

Red Snowflake Banner Business Holiday Greeting Card

Flashy Red And Grey Business Calendar Holiday Card

Elegant Silver And Blue Swirls Business Holiday Card

Red Seasons Greetings Business Holiday Photo Card

Green And Red Poinsettia Business Calendar Holiday Card

Holiday Wreath Business Greeting Card

Brown Linen And Blue Snowflake Business Calendar Holiday Card

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1. This card is a refreshing break from the traditional card you may have sent in the past.  I love the light blue, white and red colors that make this card unique.  The linen in the background gives the card depth and  texture.  The banner adds a whimsical flare to this modern card.  There is plenty of room to write greetings on the inside, and your logo can be added to the front of the card easily.

2. If you are looking for a card with more room, this may be the one for you.  This trifold allows you to add photos and text to the inside and outside of the card.  You can write a message to your clients, and it even includes a calendar that they can keep all year long.  A classic design with a modern feel, this design is perfect for any business, large or small.

3. This is an elegant design that is a great way to connect with your customer base.  A simple greeting in bold font, is surrounded by a beautiful pattern.  It is a unique square format and is folded, so there is plenty on room to write on the inside.

4. Add a photo to you card to make your Season’s Greeting even more personalized!  It is much easier for clients or potential clients to remember you, or want to work with you if they see a photo of you.  So why not add a photo to your card and establish a sense of trust?  This is a simple holiday greeting, with a clean font, helping your photo to stand out.  The blue on the back side adds contrast and depth to the design.

5. Send a bold statement with this fun, festive calendar card!  This card has a great balance of graphic styling and bold, fresh color.  What a better way to reach out to clients than with a cool calendar that they will want to use all year long!  I love getting free things in the mail that I will actually use.

6. Keep it simple.  Looking for something easy to send?  This is a flat card with a traditional, clean design.  The only thing that you need to do is add your business name and logo…yay for simplicity!

7. This is a fun, whimsical circle card that is also a keepsake calendar.  Your clients will love receiving this card in the mail.  A warm brown is accented by blue and white with a linen texture over it.  If you would like to make it even more memorable, we can even make this into a ornament card for you.

There’s still time to order your Corporate Holiday greeting cards, but don’t wait too long!  Take a look at our great selection and we are sure you will find something that fits your budget and your style.