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Get down to business
Having a business card with all your contact information is essential whether you have a budding hobby or an established career. In addition to looking professional and prepared, you now give potential clients and partners a way to contact you. With PrintingPress Extreme, you can create original designs, print a few or hundreds, and change them as frequently as you need.

We used full 8.5 x 11 sheets of Mountaincow’s Ivory and Avocado stationery and cut them to size after printing, though you may also use perforated sheets from an office supply store.

We chose the Business Card stationery type when creating new stationery and used the built-in standard business card size of 3.5 x 2 inches. We set the left margin to 1.5 inches to leave room for a logo. In our design, we created a text box with the background set to a solid color and the letter “e” set to white to block out the background and let the text take on the color of the paper. We added the employee’s name and the company name in Ryan and the rest of the contact information in Benjamin from Fonts & Graphics 2.

 

Back to books
Soften the blow of the end of summer by hosting a fun back-to-school party. Once the kids see their old friends, they’ll actually start looking forward to… well, just create these cute invitations for a fun shindig.

For a pool party, we added an adorable bathing suit image to the top of an A6 White Scalloped card. We added the party details below in the Charlotte font from Fonts & Graphics 3 in a fun, contrasting green. Pair with an A6 Magenta envelope.

To really embrace the theme of this party, our Platinum design uses a background image of a cool purple backpack on an A6 White card. All the text is written in Charlotte from Fonts & Graphics 3 and rotated 6 degrees to the right so it follows the slant of the bag. The RSVP info is rotated 26 degrees to the left. Pair with an A6 Purple envelope.

For a really cool invitation, we used PrintingPress Extreme to curve our text around a pair of funky sunglasses that were added as a background image. We used the Sky Pie font in text boxes so we could use the Text Shape feature to bend the text around the top of the glasses and so we could rotate the text in the lenses to the right and left to fit more party details. We added Pink liners to the A6 Clover envelopes to tie everything together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A milestone event
Bar and Bat Mitzvahs are a celebration of a Jewish child’s entrance into adulthood. Many religions and cultures have similar celebrations and these invitations can be adapted for any of those events – even a wedding!

Our PrintingPress design takes a classic design on Ivory/Ivory stationery and adds a few modern flairs to create a look both you and your child will love. We used the funky Beckles Wide font and Circles (pink & brown) envelope liners to punch up the classic design. The liners are used in the A7 invitation envelope, the 4-bar response envelope and the A2 folded thank you note envelope, and all the text throughout the project is pink and brown to create a fresh, yet sophisticated and coordinated, style. We added the Bat Mitzvah’s Hebrew name in the Hebrew font Malkah from Fonts & Graphics 2.

The Platinum design combines Mountaincow’s newest stationery colors: Midnight and Avocado. The A7 Ivory invitation uses a combination of blue text for the party details in Benjamin Caps from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings, and green text for the Bar Mitzvah's name in Ryan from Fonts & Graphics 3. A graphic adds a subtle line of polka dots centered at the bottom of the invitation. This design is repeated on the response card and thank you note. The Midnight envelopes for the invitation, 4-bar response card and A2 folded thank you note are all lined with Avocado liners.

We created a twist on our two-tone invitation using PrintingPress Extreme, A7 Raspberry Truffle stationery and 4-bar Ivory cards. For a simple, modern look, we used a combination of the Arial font with Mountaincow’s Hebrew font Malkah from Fonts & Graphics 2 on the Ivory card and then mounted it on the Raspberry card. We added an outline to the text of the Hebrew name to help it stand out. See the Extreme tip below for more details on using outlines to create different levels of bold text. The response cards and envelopes use 4-bar Café au Lait stationery. Coordinated thank you notes are created by printing the Bat Mitzvah’s name on a 4-bar Ivory card and mounting it on A2 folded Raspberry Truffle stationery.