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1 Welcome to Reflections of Edwardian Ladies A collection of card and stationary items created from a beautiful selection of Edwardian Ladies Original Artwork created for you by our own graphic artist Card Creations Plus Reflections of Edwardian Ladies is simplicity itself to use.. Simply choose your Lady Design and proceed to the product range, choose your product and press print! It couldn t be easier! There are 25 varying themes to choose from, enough to suit any taste or occasion. Let s explore the CD. There are 4 Project Instructions sheets accompanying this CD, these are available through the Help button, follow this link - This is your opening screen, on the top righthandside you will see three white buttons. The first one on the left is the Help button, the middle one is the Minimise button and the one on the right is the Close Down button. These buttons will be on the top right of every screen on the CD. Across the lower middle of the page your will see the words Click to Enter clicking here will take you to the Theme Screen. You have now reached the Theme screen, as you can see there are the 25 Lovely Edwardian Ladies for you to choose from displayed here. There is this extensive help file accessible from the downloads page on our website - Just click on the? at the top right of any screen. When you hover your Mouse over each Lady her Name will be displayed on the Top Banner of the screen. To proceed to the Product Selector page, just click on your chosen theme. This applies to each design on the Themes screen.

2 On the Product Selector screen you have the choice of the following topics:- Character Cards DL Cards and Top Fold Cards 3D Cards - Decoupage Sheets to Fit your A5 Cards Backing Sheets Landscape and Portrait In Plain, Faded Plain, Pattern, Faded Pattern, Textured and Faded Textured Accessories - Bookmarks and Tags and Ribbons Cameos - Cameo designs to fit A6 Cards Backgrounds - Original Backgrounds to Mix and Match your designs. Line Art - Clear Line Drawings to Print Out Envelopes in C6 Envelope/C6 Box Envelope C6 Notelet Envelope 13.5cm Square C5 Envelope Gift Card and Envelope DL Envelope Writing Paper A4 and Paper Size Switch facility for A5 Inserts With Text writing facility Calendar Single years 2010, 2011 and 2012 Link to Master Decoupage file in 3d 2 Card Builder To select your product just click on the icon, this will either take you directly to the product or to a drop down menu for you to make your choice from. We will explore the first option in the Menu Character Cards Here you have a choice of DL Cards and Top Folded Cards. The DL Cards print out over 2 sheets, the first sheet onto Decoupage paper the second sheet onto Matte Card as this is the basis for your finished card. The second choice is the Top Folded Card. Just select Print. Just follow the instructions for both styles for making up, sheets available from Card Creations Plus Downloads

3 Your next choice is the 3D Cards. In this section you will be able to change the colour of the Background, the Colour of the Lady s Hat and Clothes. Hue Shift Sliders for changing the Colours. We have now reached the Backing sheet section, here you have choice of Landscape and Portrait style sheets. There are 6 backing sheets for each design in each format. I have chosen the Portrait style of sheet for the Estelle design for this example. This image shows the full choice of Portrait Backing Sheets for this design, this is repeated for the Landscape choice and for all 25 of the designs on this CD. To Print your backing sheet just click on the Printer button, Don t forget to tell your printer what paper you are going use And also to set your printer to print a borderless page if you have this facility. Above the Print button is the Back Key to Return you to the Product Selector screen to allow you to make further choices.

4 The next section on your Product Selection Screen is Accessories. Click on the button and you will see a choice Bookmarks, Tags & Ribbons. Bookmarks This is an example of the sheet to print out. You can also use the Magnifying facility to look more closely at the design and text. Just click anywhere on the sheet to activate the Magnifier. Tags and Ribbons Tags & Ribbon sheets are the next option in this section, on each sheet you have 2 full length Ribbons, 2 half length Ribbons and 3 Tags. One of each of the Ribbons have preset text applied and the other 2 have an option to Type in your own text. To add your own Text, click on the button at the bottom of the right-hand list. You have the choice of approximately 100 embedded fancy Fonts and Font sizes up to 32 points. Once again the Print option is as for the backing sheets so there is no need for me to cover this again. The only difference is that you do not need to set your printer for borderless printing for the writing sheets. Let us now explore the Cameo section. These are single layer designs but 3D layers can be created by taking the base file from the Original Folder into either 3d2 Cardbuilder or Master Card-builder. The Cameo designs in this section have been designed to fit a standard A6 card. However if you wish you can print out the design and then Matte and Layer to create larger styles of cards..

5 Our next section is the Background Section. We have created this section to give you maximum flexibility on this CD. By doing so you can choose whichever background design you wish and then choose a different design 3D sheet to create a uniquely original design. The opportunities for these are endless. Line Art - This is a new venture on the Card Creation Plus design CDs. Here you can print out the base line drawing, this can be onto any medium you wish i.e. Vellum, Inkjet Acetate, Cardstock etc and then apply colour, glitters or even emboss as you desire. For anyone who likes Stamping this will give you a Stamped image onto any medium quickly without the fuss of using ink pads and powders. You will be able to create some very unique styles using these Line Art files. Envelopes are the next section we come to. C6/ C6 Box this will fit your smaller cards these envelopes have the white address box which now has the facility to type in your text. Click on the image to activate the Text facility to add Text to the front of your envelopes. Notelet These envelopes match a Notelet style but can also be used for your cards - these envelopes have the white address box. Click on the image to activate the Text facility to add Text to the front of your envelopes.

6 13.5 cm Square Card These will fit your medium square cards, it is not possible to make a template for the larger square cards from an A4 sheet, but you can make plain ones from 12 x 12 square paper. Just choose your paper design to fill the template. Click on the image to activate the Text facility to add Text to the front of your envelopes. C5 envelopes These need two sheets of paper for printing off to create these larger sized envelopes, which your A5 cards will fit into easily. When you click on print you will get the reminder box come up telling you to make sure you have a second sheet of paper in your printer. Once again they have the white text box. Click on the image to activate the Text facility to add Text to the front of your envelopes. Gift Card and Envelope These are small envelopes created to fit the small Gift cards for you to add to your presents. These do not have the text print facility. Last but by no means least, is the DL Envelope. The DL Envelope, like the C5 is printed out over 2 sheets of A4 paper. When you click on print you will get the reminder box come up telling you to make sure you have a second sheet of paper in your printer. To add Text Click on the image to activate the Text facility to add Text to the front of your envelopes.

7 Writing Paper is next in the Product Selection Menu. Of course your may prefer to write a letter so we have thought of that also you have a choice of the larger A4 size or by clicking on the button marked Switch Paper size you can print out 2 sheets of A5 Writing Paper. Next in the Menu is Inserts, you have the following choices all in either Landscape or Portrait orientation:- For Both options you have the following choices: I have added some example pictures for the different choices. 4 This is Oval in Landscape Landscape refers to the orientation of the Backing Sheet Not to the position of the Oval. For these examples I have chosen an Oval Landscape and Portrait with a Faded Plain Fill See the pictures right and left. All Inserts offer you the Text facility, this is activated by clicking into the image as in the Envelope section. This is the Oval in Portrait. Portrait is the orientation of the Backing Sheet and Not the positions of the Oval.

8 All the inserts give you the option to print out in a smaller size. Click on the Switch Paper Size to create smaller inserts. Our next section is Calendars. You have a choice of 3 different years , 2011 and You can also choose which picture your want in each month and the CD will load this for you. To achieve this we do the following:- Choose your year Choose your month You had already chosen your picture but if your wish to change this picture to another one just click on Back and then the small thumbnail picture on the righthandside. This will take to the Theme Selection screen for you to make your choice. To complete, just click on the Print button and select the paper quality to print onto. The last section on the Menu is the link to 3d2 Card builder. Please Note, this link will only work if you have 3d2 Card Builder program already installed on your PC.

9 If you try to use this link without 3d2 Card builder being installed on your PC you will get an error message on your screen. By clicking on this link you will be then be taken to this screen on 3d2 Card builder. For full written information on the running of 3d2 Card builder program follow this link to the extensive Help file - All Design Files on this CD can be taken into Master Card-builder to edit and create further designs. This completes the Help file for Reflections of Edwardian Ladies for further information, help and future downloads, please visit our Website at where we are always at your service. To exit the CD just click on Click to Exit on the final screen to clear back to your desktop screen. You have now explored the CD I hope you enjoy using it.