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PrintingPress Platinum sample
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PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 sample
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PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 sample
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PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 sample
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PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 sample
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Vogue Note Cards
A new season means new fashion, and our new folded note cards are hot off the presses. The powerful design features of PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 allowed us to create these fabulous, hip designs. We used our printer’s borderless feature to print all the way to the edge of each note card. For more information on borderless printing, review the Tech Tip from the November 2004 issue of the Mountaincow Monthly.

Bold black and white designs are everywhere this season, including our first note card. We added a custom border to the front of the White 4-bar folded note card and created a custom pattern that uses an image of black and white cherry blossoms. We added a green inner pen to the border and then added the name using the Benjamin Caps font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We paired the note card with a Clover 4-bar envelope with a Deep Pink envelope liner.

Step into spring with our leopard pump note card. Printed on a White 4-bar folded note card, the shoe sits atop the name written in the Noodles font from Fonts & Graphics 3. We created a custom border using a custom pattern of pink on pink dots and added an inner pen with a green dotted line. Paired with a Magenta 4-bar envelope lined in animal print (leopard), it is bound to get noticed in anyone’s mailbox.

Bold black and white peonies abound on the front of our third note card. We used floating images to repeat the same large flower in each corner of the White 4-bar folded note card and added floating leaf images in between the flowers. We used a floating text box with the Make White Transparent setting turned off to add the name to the front of the card using the Benjamin Caps font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We added a pink custom border to the text box using the Bumps line type and set the text box’s Inset to 50 to increase the amount of white space surrounding the name. Slip into a Magenta 4-bar envelope lined in Pink.

 

 

 

Mom’s the word
Don’t worry if you haven’t found the right gift for Mom yet. Spruce up the same old flowers and chocolates that she gets every year with a fabulous pack of personalized stationery! We have flat and folded versions of each design, so you can make both or pick the one you think she’ll use the most. Print her name on the card and her return address on the back of the envelope and she can write personal notes for hours. Slip the stationery into a clear bag or just tie it with a ribbon and you’ve got a gift that will thrill and impress.

For the mom with a little sass in her step, try our PrintingPress design. We combined our White / Teal stationery with bold Deep Red envelope liners for a striking look. We added the name in red using the Noodles font from Fonts & Graphics 3 along with a red dress to the front of the White A6 flat card and the White A2 folded note card.

If your mom is on top of the current trends, then she’ll love our Platinum design. We used our new Peony stationery in A7 flat and A2 folded note cards and lined the envelopes with our animal print (zebra) liners for a striking look. We kept the cards simple and used floating text boxes to add the name in the Benjamin Caps font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We increased the horizontal spacing in the text boxes to give the text an airy look.

For an art deco flashback, check out our PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 design. We started with our traditional A7 flat and A2 folded Café au Lait stationery and mixed things up a bit with a custom pattern of white spirals on a brown canvas. We used a custom border with the Line (Top) shape setting to add a strip of the pattern at the top of the card. For more information on the new line border shape, see this month’s Extreme Tip. We added a blue inner pen to the border and then added the name in a floating text box with the background color set to the same blue. We added the name in all lowercase letters using the Arial font and added a custom border to the text box using the Ticket (Landscape) shape. We gave the text box an inset brown border by adding a blue outline and a brown inner pen to the custom border. Since the border goes all the way to the edge of the card, we used our printer’s borderless feature. For more information on borderless printing, review the Tech Tip from the November 2004 issue of the Mountaincow Monthly. For the folded note, we added a blue border to the card and then filled the background with the same custom pattern. We used the same text box to add the name to the center of the card.

 

 

 

 

PrintingPress sample
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PrintingPress Platinum sample
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PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 sample
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Memorial Day Picnic
After a long, cold winter, we’re ready to skip spring and head straight into summer! If you’re feeling the same way, use our charming Memorial Day Picnic invitations to kick off the summer season with a dozen or so of your closest friends.

For a traditional nautical theme, we top our PrintingPress design with a blue sailboat We chose our White / Midnight A6 stationery and a Deep Red envelope liner for a patriotic look. We added the information text in Benjamin Caps from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings for a classic invitation.

For a fresh style, try our Platinum design. A sweet strawberry tops the White 4-bar card. A red and white dotted border surrounds the text, which uses the Benjamin font from Fonts & Graphics 2. We lined the Deep Red 4-bar envelope using a stripes (pink & red) liner to complete the fun.

Our PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 design features three playful seahorses atop Granny Smith A2 Two Tone stationery. We added the invitation text in green using the Meegles font from Fonts & Graphics 3. We used a custom border with the shape set to Line (Bottom) to add two green dotted lines at the bottom of the card. For more information on the new line border shape, see this month’s Extreme Tip. We adhered the White 4-bar card to the Avocado A2 card with a double-stick tape gun. Slip the completed invitation into the Avocado envelope lined in Deep Pink and you’re set.