Moving? Send out stylish moving announcements from PurpleTrail. You can easily spread the word for friends and family to update their address books with any of these moving cards and moving announcements.  Use the design center to personalize a design with your new address. Erin from our design team shares some of her favorite moving announcements from our collection.

Established Brown Home Moving Announcement

Brown And Blue Sunny Palm Moving Announcement

White Sketched Bags Moving Announcement

Blue New Pond Moving Announcement

Brown And Taupe Chevron Pattern Moving Announcement

1. Established Brown Home Moving Announcement

This modern brown home moving announcement is a great way to share with your friends and family that you have established new roots. Using a house for a monogram look detailed with your established moved in date. Also detailed with a brown bar, there is a soft wood grain texture overlaid on the brown embellishments for an added touched. This design is made to be simple, but sophisticated and modern. You can easily customize your families moving announcement information in our design center.

2. Brown and Blue sunny palm moving announcement

Moving to some place warmer? Well this moving announcement says it all. With a brown sketch palm tree, it adds a whimsical look to your announcement and using varying font styles can also tie into the whimsical feeling of the entire announcement. The background color is a soft blue with brown text, which you can easily customize to fit your family’s personality. Also, add rounded corners to your card for a unique and softer look.

3. White Sketched Bags Moving Announcement

This circle card is great and a unique way to tell your family and friends that you are packing your bags and moving. Using a whimsical sketched embellishment of suitcases sets the tone for the overall look of this announcement. Using all white text really pops against this blue-gray background color. Using varying typefaces really makes this card have a unique look to it, and keeping everything consistent and uniform helps achieve it. Decorated with an arrow and simple dots also is a great way to break up a lot of information, and also looks great when done successfully. Customize this design easily in our design center to create a great looking and unique moving announcement!

4. Blue New Pond Moving Announcement

This new pond moving announcement is a fun way to share with your friends and family that you have moved to a new pond. With different blue accents throughout, this multifold moving announcement has four panels on each side to decorate your card with. Embellished with white outlined fishes throughout, this is also a great way to feature your family photos and new house photos to your loved ones.

Brown and Taupe Chevron Pattern Moving Announcement

5. A simple way to say, we’ve moved! Using a soft taupe background color and a chevron pattern at the top adds a fun design to this moving announcement. The headline of this card is contained within brackets, which are a popular and modern way of sectioning off information from the other, here we have used it to showcase the headline. Simply add in your new address, and viola you are done.

Our designers at PurpleTrail have just rolled out our brand new Bat Mitzvah and Bar Mitzvah designs.  We are so excited about all of the beautiful designs and we are sure you will love them too.  We have matching design packages that include Response Cards and Thank You’s, taking the stress out of your son or daughter’s big event.

Here at PurpleTrail we are constantly thinking of unique ways to make your design and shopping experience fun and rewarding.  In our brain storming we thought, wouldn’t it be great if you could use  the design center to personalize your Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah card to spell your name in Hebrew?  So, we’ve created the Hebrew alphabet in our embellishment library, making it simple to use Hebrew letters to spell your name or add a sentiment on your card!  Here are some examples that we’ve designed using our new Hebrew embellishments.

Pink Personalized Hebrew Bat Mitzvah Invitation

Blue And Gold Stripe (Set) Bar Mitzvah Invitation

Simple Pink And Brown Star Of David Pattern Bat Mitzvah Invitation

Personalized White And Blue Tree (Set) Bar Mitzvah Invitation

1. This is a beautiful Bat Mitzvah Trifold card, which allows you to place photos and text throughout the design.  It has a feminine feeling, with two shades of pink in the background.  This design includes a RSVP card, which guests can tear off and send back to you.  This way, there is no need to purchase a separate response card.  Easily Change out your name on the front or add a sentiment using our Hebrew letters in the embellishment library!

2. This is a quad fold card with a lovely, traditional blue and gold background and a fun Star of David pattern throughout.  There is plenty of room to add sentiments or additional photos in this card.  You can change the name on the front with our new Hebrew Letters in the design center.

4. Your Hebrew name can be front and center on the top of this fun brown and pink modern Bat Mitzvah card.  A brown and white pattern give this invitation a contemporary feel.  This invitation has a lovely pink color on the reverse, and you can upload a photo to add to the back also.

5. This a unique and fun Bar Mitzvah Invitation!  Your Hebrew name sits on top of a blue textured background with a whimsical illustration of a tree, symbolic of growth.  Add your photo to the front and edit your party information on the back in our PupleTrail design center.

We are sure you will love this idea of personalizing your Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah cards but go ahead and try it for yourself.  Log in to PurpleTrail now and check out all of our brand new designs in this category!

Are you ready for graduation?  Purple Trail is the perfect stop for your Announcements and Invitations.   We have a variety of beautiful and innovative designs in our graduation category, but we are famous for our trifold and quadfold cards. Esther from our design team shares some of our fresh new multi fold graduation announcements and graduation party invitations.

These cards allow you to place as many photos and text into the design as you would like.  Personalize your own design by changing colors, text and adding your school emblem or anything else that you would like!  Stand out from the crowd and show off your creative style by adding your own personal touch.

Here are a few of my favorite trifold and quadfold designs:

Multi fold Graduation Announcements

Brown And Blue Banner Monogram Graduation Announcement

Black And White Scroll Frame Graduation Invitation

Sunflower Yellow Timeline Graduation Announcement

1. This adorable, modern trifold announcement has a turquoise striped border on the bottom and a brown scalloped border on the top. With your photo on the front and a monogramed banner, this design is simple and cute and the perfect way to showcase your grad.

2. Looking for an easy yet sophisticated announcement?  This is the perfect black and white elegant card.  With room for several photos, this announcement also features a simple black and white script with a classy frame. This quad fold design gives you eight panels to customize so you have lots of room to share accomplishments and photos of your graduate’s journey.

3. Look to where you’ve been and where you are going…this fun yellow and white quadfold Graduation Announcement has your grad’s photo on the outside, and a timeline of their life on the inside!  Place four photos and text on the inside or add more if you would like.  A beautiful sunflower is placed on the front and back of this unique card.

Multi fold Graduation Invitations

Black And Gold Graduation Party Invitation

Navy And Gold Seal Graduation Invitation

Wood Texture With Grunge Graduation Invitation

1.  A fun and easy invitation, this design says classy and whimsy at the same time!  The black and yellow invitation can be changed to your school colors or any color you would like. This trifold card features funky text and plenty of room for all of your photos.

2.  Here is a classic, traditional trifold card featuring a gold wreath and your name on the front.  The card is gold, blue and white but can be changed to your school colors.  A perfect blend of sophisticated fonts makes this design a keepsake for your friends and family.

3. A quadfold Invitation with a bit of an attitude, this card really shows off your style with it’s wood grain background and grungy texture.  Be unique and edgy, by sending out this fun quad fold.  Place your photos, change the color or add more text…it’s up to you!

So go ahead and celebrate with one of these multi fold graduation announcements or graduation party invitations. The graduates have worked hard and definitely deserve to be commemorated in a special way.

Graduation is an exciting time in life. Whether it’s high school, college or kindergarten graduation, it’s an occasion to commemorate.  PurpleTrail’s design team has created some sensational graduation announcements for the class of 2012. The collection includes stylish photo announcements, simple and elegant announcements and circle cards and multi-fold cards. Erin from our design teams share some of her favorites.

Elegant Black Monogram (Set) Graduation Announcement

White Flourish Photo Collage Graduation Announcement

Circle Frame (Set) Graduation Announcement

Green And Black Ribbon (Set) Graduation Announcement

Overlapping Photo Graduation Announcement

Purple And Gray Chevron Pattern Graduation Announcement

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1. Elegant Black Monogram

Keep it simple with an elegant monogrammed graduation announcement. Use classic black and white, or change it to your school colors, it’s easy to customize to your liking by filling in the text with the information and details for your big day.

2. White Flourish Photo Collage

Take your circle card to a new level. Use this unique photo layout to express your graduate’s style. Just drag and drop your photos in the design center, it’s that easy. Add a flourish to add some elegance, and customize your type and color to fit your school colors or favorite color.

3. Circle Frame

This structured graduation announcement shows off your collection of photos. Using a simple circle monogram to bring them all together for a  classy look. Customize your graduation information easily using our design center tools. All colors can be modified in our design center to fit your needs.

4. Green and Black Ribbon

This modern green and black ribbon graduation announcement is perfect for someone who doesn’t want to include photos. Using a stylish modern ribbon to represent a monogram look, the graduationy year is highlighted beautifully. Customize and change the type how you like as well as the colors. Top it off with a matching ribbon across the bottom.

5. Overlapping Photo

This graduation announcement is a fun and flirty way to express your favorite photos. Using one large photo as the backdrop and adding an additional photo to the top gives it a fun look. Make sure your background photo has enough blank space to place another photo over the top. Keep the type simple and not too cluttered.

6. Purple and Gray Chevron Pattern

One of many multi folded cards on PurpleTrail, you can see the many options of how you can organize single or multiple photos. Our purple and gray chevron pattern graduation announcement, is a fun and flashy way to show off your graduation milestone. Make it a stand out card from the others. Customize and personalize your card by picking your school colors and school information.

Remember, all of our graduation announcements can be customized to represent your style and school colors. Congratulations Graduates!

We are pleased to announce our collection of  Memorial Cards. We have received many orders in the past from customers who have created their own Funeral invitations, Memorial Cards or Custom Magnets through our design center so we have now created a category just for this types of cards and stationery. Our design team has created brand new designs for those of you who have lost a loved one and are looking for a special way to commemorate their life. Esther from our design team shares some of the new designs.

Through our research we found that there are very few resources out if you are looking to purchase classy, beautifully designed memorial cards.  We are very proud to say that we are one of the first card and stationary companies to offer such a variety.  In this category you will find Memorial Cards, Funeral or Memorial Programs, Invitations, Thank You Cards or Keepsakes in every size and shape.  These are very meaningful pieces to send to family or friends or keep as a reminder a person who you will never forget. We even have matching sets in some designs, to make it easy to send out a Memorial and Thank You’s during this difficult time.

Here are a few of our latest designs:

White Flourish And Lavender (Set) Memorial Card

White Flourish And Lavender (Set) Memorial Card Inside

This lovely lavender trifold makes a wonderful keepsake for a life well lived.  Add photos to the front and back, and as much text as you like.  The lavender and white color are soothing but not drab and the pattern is a nice feminine touch. This set also has a Thank You card to match.

Woodgrain Fleur Des Lis (Set) Funeral Service Invitation

Woodgrain Fleur Des Lis (Set) Memorial Thank You Card

Woodgrain Fleur Des Lis (Set) Memorial Magnet

This elegant set is a simple way to express your gratitude for having this special person in your life.  The dark wood makes a stunning impression and the classic fleur de lis symbol adds an added touch.

This set includes a Keepsake Magnet, Thank You Card and a Funeral Service Invitation.

Rustic Brown Tree (Set) Funeral Program

Rustic Brown Tree (Set) Memorial Magnet

Rustic Brown Tree (Set) Memorial Thank You

Here is a classic looking striped Memorial Service Program, Keepsake Magnet and Thank You Card.  The background color is easily changed to commemorate the tastes of what your loved one may have wanted.  The dark brown gives it a unique, almost antique look.  The simple design let’s you place photos and text anywhere you would like, with enough room to share memories, poems or songs.

This simple, delightful card allows you to share photos of your beloved friend or family member.  With it’s beautiful linen background and bright color, this would be a wonderful keepsake memory to send out to all of those who knew her.

We are very proud of our selection of elegant, unique cards that can allow you to share and keep the memory of your loved one as beautiful as they were.

Hut Hut! Football season is fast approaching to the big game, the Super Bowl and here at PurpleTrail we have all your Football Invitation needs covered. Erin from our design team is here to showcase a few designs from our vast selection of unique and fun invitations.  Since we offer full customization, you won’t have any trouble making your football invitations tailored to your style and favorite team colors with the quick and easy to use tools in our design center.

Green Linen Super Bowl Party Invitation

Season Ticket Holder Football Invitation

Festive Super Bowl Party Invitation

Green Touchdown Dance Football Party Invitation

Black Tailgate Party Football Invitation

1. Green Linen Super Bowl

This green linen Super Bowl invitation is perfect for the big game. Using transparent sun rays as a texture in the background with linen texture over the top makes the green have a sophisticated look to it. The text is very simple in the overall invitation, and the center focus is the football to make it really pop out on the green background. You can easily customize your information and the background to fit your party needs.

2. Season Ticket Holder Football

This ticket inspired invitation is perfect for a tailgate to the game or turn it into a party invitation at your cozy home. A simple layout makes it easy to customize it for the user. Just click and edit the appropriate text for your party, and select the colors to change it to your team colors.  Keeping it simple and clean makes this design really stand out. Also having a larger amount of white space really makes the other items pop.

3. Festive Super Bowl Party

This edgy football invitation has a very retro feel to it, with sun rays as the background and a grunge style border. The text is easily customizable within the forest green border between the embellishments. With this specific design, it is an example of an embellishment taking up the whole card. You can change embellishments to be whatever size you like in the design center.

4. Green Touchdown Dance

Here we have a simple square formatted card, with a green stripe textured background and a black border.  This touchdown dance invitation is easily customizable with font and color choice. The backside is similar to the front, so the invitation has cohesiveness throughout.

5. Black Tailgate Party

This grunge inspired tailgate party, is draped in a dark background color, to make all the grunge and text really pop out. It’s outlined in texture, and the headline is bold and big. Making the headline of your party larger than all the other copy is a great way to get this look. You should always give your information a hierarchy when you are designing your invitation.  Don’t be afraid to add color, but make sure it’s a color that goes well against black so the paired colors don’t cancel each other out.

We hope you have a memorable Super Bowl party!

Our design team has been working to create some beautiful new designs for Chinese New Year. Esther from our design teams has put together some of the highlights of our Year of the Dragon Chinese New Year collection.

Happy Chinese New Year!  If you celebrate Chinese New Year, you know how special this year is.  2012 is the year of the Dragon, a symbol of power, strength and unification.  You may also know how difficult it is to find Chinese New Years cards or Invitations that suite your style!  You want to send the perfect greeting to your friends and family, wishing them a prosperous and healthy new year.  At PurpleTrail we offer a variety of fresh, newly created designs.  Or, if these aren’t just right, edit them or even create your own!

Here is just a sample of what you will find on our website right now:

Chinese New Year Cards:

Welcome in the new year and send a warm greeting with these fun cards from PurpleTrail.

Black And Gold Dragon Photo Chinese New Years Card

Square Dragon Chinese New Years Card

Three Photo Chinese New Years Calendar

Black Trifold Chinese New Year Photo Card_outside

Black Trifold Chinese New Year Photo Card_Inside

1. A simple yet elegant way to send your wishes for the new year.  This card features a black background with a swirly fun dragon and gold lettering.  There is plenty of room for photos, place as many as you would like on this card.  You can even add personal touches to the back of the card!

2.  Here is a unique, modern take on a traditional holiday.  This bold design features a fun, square card, with the dragon symbol in the center and 2012 inside of a banner.  Your greeting will be on the back,  with room for you to write your signature or a personalized message.

3. Why not send a 2012 keepsake calendar to your loved ones this year.  This card can be turned into a magnet and will be a lovely gift to receive.  The Chinese character for Dragon is featured in gold on the backdrop of a grey linen sophisticated background.  Place a photo of your family on the front for a sweet greeting.

4 and 5. A  wish for Peace and prosperity for the new year, this trifold card can be used just the way it is, with photos on the inside or add more photos, embellishments and design it however you like!  Our designers have added plenty of Chinese new years embellishments to our library, you’ll have plenty to choose from.

Chinese New Year Invitations:

Whether you are throwing a traditional celebration, or a funky get together…we have a variety of party invites to choose from.

Bright Fireworks Chinese New Years Invitation

Red And Gold Year Of Dragon Chinese New Year

Delicate Bird Gold And Black Chinese New Years Invitation

1. Simple and modern, this a fun design that features bold type and traditional colors.  Fireworks become a pattern on this card, creating a visually stimulating and entertaining invite!

2. Celebrate the year of the dragon!  This is an elegant design that could range from traditional to modern.  The gold banner is the backdrop of the chinese character and english version of “year of the dragon”.  A linen texture gives it extra emphasis and tones down the gold, giving it depth.

3. Send a different style of card by choosing this circle invitation.  Black and gold, this design stands out, not only because of it’s round format, but it’s bold colors and beautiful bird embellishment.  The elegant script and Chinese Characters on the front give it an additional detail that only adds to it’s elegance.The information is on the back in a lovely layout that will be admired by your guests.

Here’s wishing you much prosperity and peace in this New Year of the Dragon 2012!

The air is getting chilly and the snowflakes will soon fall as we head into the winter and holiday season. The designers at PurpleTrail have put together a selection of winter wedding invitations to fit your winter wedding day theme. As always, any of our wedding invitations are customizable to fit your color palette and can personalized with your photos. Erin from our design team shares some of this year’s beautiful winter wedding invitations.

Silver And Blue Swirls Wedding Invitehttp://www.purpletrail.com/invitations-cards/389349

White And Red Flourish Holiday Wedding Invite

Taupe Winter Birch Wedding Invitation

Snowflake Red Monogram Wedding Invitation

Believe Christmas Photo Card

1. Silver and Blue Swirls Wedding Invitation

This elegant wedding invitation is perfect for a magical winter night. Sophisticated blue and silver swirls and a center framed box fits any wintry wedding occasion. By using the colors from the background to carry it through to the front copy, gives the invitation a sense of cohesiveness. Adding in a script font for the couples name, gives your invitation an elegant feeling.

2. White and Red Flourish Wedding Invitation

This white flourish against the red background is a great way to make a simple invitation pop. Using a unique but fun flourish can really add to your wedding invitation. Using a simple font for the main copy, and adding a script font to the couple’s name, separates the information nicely.  Also, another way to break up information is adding a barrier in the form of a line, or in this case a dashed line.

3. Taupe Winter Birch Wedding Invitation

The color taupe is great for all occasions, but used with white birch trees, it gives you a great sense of the holiday season even if it’s not in traditional colors. This is a simple wedding invitation that can fit all themes of a brides wedding. Just click on the separate text boxes to add in the appropriate information so it is easily customizable for your big day.  I would suggest leaving the font color white, so you get cohesiveness in your overall design.

4. Snowflake Red Monogram Wedding Invitation

A simple wedding invitation with a hint of a winter touch, we use the color red to represent the holiday with a red snowflake as an accent design. The use of a monogram for a wedding invitation is very popular, so we added a monogram circle interconnected with the snowflake. This design uses three different fonts to make a very simple design very stylized. Using a simple, easily readable font is great to use for main copy. In this case, I chose to use a script font for each of the couple’s name, and then an elegant but simple font for the middle and last name. It breaks up the information very nicely, and gives you a simple and classy wedding invitation.

5. Believe Christmas Photo Wedding Invitation

Using photos for your wedding invitation is a popular and great way to express the joy of your big day. Using a photo at the top of this invitation is great, with a decorative embellishment underneath. Using the font colors from the image you use and the embellishments is a great way to choose your colors. Depending on your wedding colors, matching the font to you event is a great choice, and turning the image black and white so there is no conflicts between colors. Using simple fonts, gives this elegant feeling wedding invitation a very modern look as well.

Enter if you dare….Halloween is a busy season here at PurpleTrail, with orders starting in September, we felt it was a great idea to give our customers some matching Halloween sets with address labels. You can create the perfect spooktacular Halloween Party Invites with coordinating address labels.  We checked in with Erin from our design team and she shares some address labels from our Halloween collection. Each of these address labels has a coordinating party invitation that you can customize.

Nightmare On Our Street Address Label

Haunted House Address Label

Family Pumpkin Carving Night Address Label

Cute Halloween Animals (Set) Address Label

Fancy Pumpkin Address Label

1. Nightmare On Our Street

Simple and spooky, this haunted house definitely fits its name. Using all black as the background, the moon illuminates the spooky house with bats flying in the air. Using the same colors and fonts from the invitations, this is a great way to top off your party invitations when sending them out.

2. Haunted House

This eerie address label fits perfectly with its haunted party invitation. Using the fence embellishment to carry over from the coordinating Halloween party invitation, and the textured background gives this a spooky look and feel. Personalize this address label for a faboolous party invite package.

3. Family Pumpkin Carving

Although this address label is a set to the family pumpkin carving night party invitation, it’s a simple address label that can fit any invitation style. You can customize the background color and the font colors to fit your party, no matter the theme. You could even use this design as an everyday address label to have on hand.

4. Cute Halloween Animals

The cute Halloween animals invitation has a lot of cute little elements to it. To not over clutter this address label, we used a couple elements from the matching Halloween invitation. We chose to highlight the owl and use the same font. You can easily find the cat and ghost embellishment in our system to change out if it those options match your theme better.

5. Fancy Pumpkin

This elegant and detailed pumpkin address label is a great match for our fancy pumpkin Halloween invitation. This pumpkin is filled with all things spooky and Halloween themed yet the overall aesthetic is of a more sophisticated nature. All these details create a very stylish Halloween invitation and Halloween address label set.

Get your Halloween Cards and Halloween Invites ready! It’s not too late!

Would you like to see your family and friends photos featured in some of our beautiful Invitations and Cards?  If you have been designing on the PurpleTrail Design Center, you know that we have hundreds of photos that are used as placeholders in our designs.  These photographs are an integral part of the design and can add personality and depth to the overall esthetic.  We get these photos from various sources, but some of these photos we get are from customers like you!

We are now undergoing an update in our photo library and are looking for creative, beautiful photos of kids, babies, weddings, couples, families and pets!  We are especially looking for:

• Multiple pictures of kids or families in varying poses
• Photos of weddings that include many aspects of the wedding and people in the ceremony
• Cute babies!

If you would like to see your photos being used in our designs, you can submit your photos to us, by e-mailing us at ptdesigners@purpletrail.com.

The Important Details:

• These photos will be used as placeholders only and will not be printed or e-mailed with customers designs.
• We CANNOT accept photos taken by photographers who have a copyright to their photos!  Please do not send these, they will not be accepted.
• Please make sure you have the rights/and or permission to use these from everyone in the photo.
• Please send photos that are medium to high resolution, black and white or color.

We look forward to seeing your photos!
Esther
Creative Director
PurpleTrail