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We’re getting ready for spring with playful designs featuring our new envelope liner patterns. Our Easter Egg Hunt invitations will have the kids lining up around the block to scour for eggs in your backyard. Feeling social? Our PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 dinner party invitation will bring guests to your door for a wild party. Need to shake off the winter doldrums? Our light-hearted new spring stationery designs will help spread some springtime cheer. If you’ve got a little one celebrating a birthday, we’ve got fun fairy tale designs fit for a prince or princess.
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Our PrintingPress design features one lone chick chasing a herd of pastel bunnies hopping across a flat Scalloped White A6 card. The party details are added in the same green as one of the bunnies using the Charlotte font from Fonts & Graphics 3. Paired with our new Pink Lemonade envelopes, this invitation is as sweet as the jelly beans in your Easter basket. We made our goody bag tag using a Scalloped White 4-bar card with the same troupe of creatures across the top. Type in each child’s name and print, and then punch a hole and tie it to the bag. If you’re feeling crafty, then our Platinum design is for you. We added a background image of a purple and pink Easter egg to a White A7 card. We used scissors to trim around the edge of the card after printing to make the invitation look just like a giant Easter egg. We added the party details in white using the Meegles font from Fonts & Graphics 3. Tuck the egg into a Blush A6 envelope and send. If you’re not feeling snippy, you can print the A6 version of the invitation directly on an A6 card and skip the scissors. We created a matching goody bag tag using the same background image on a flat place card and printed each child’s name. We used White 4-bar cards and trimmed around the edge of the egg. Punch a hole and it’s ready for the ribbon. Our perfectly preppy PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 design features our new Baby Girl stationery. We created a custom pattern for the background of the card using white dots on a field of pink. We filled a shape object with another custom pattern to create a striped rectangle with a black Line (top) border at the bottom of the card. A black bunny silhouette tops the invitation which is printed on a White 4-bar card using our printer’s borderless feature. We turned off our printer’s Photo Enhance print option to make the pink just the right shade. For more information on borderless printing, review the Tech Tip from the November 2004 issue of the Mountaincow Monthly. We adjusted the address on the Pink Lemonade envelope to print in lowercase to coordinate with the lowercase Times New Roman text on the invitation. For the goody bags, we created a sheet of place cards that we printed on stickers. We used 2 x 4 inch stickers purchased at an office supply store and used the borderless printing feature again to make sure the design covers the entire sticker. We repeated the background pattern and striped shape from the invitation and printed the guests’ names in lowercase Times New Roman. For more information on creating multi-up place cards and labels, see this month’s Extreme Tip.
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a jungle out there We added a thick custom border to the White A7 card using our zebra pattern to coordinate with Mountaincow’s new animal print (zebra) envelope liners. To coordinate with the Avocado envelope, we added a green inner pen to the custom border. We then set the vertical alignment of the main text area to Align Middle and added the details in black using the Benjamin Caps font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. For an airy look, we increased the character spacing of all the text using the Increase Horizontal Spacing button in the Text toolbar. Since the zebra 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. Add an animal print (zebra) liner to the Avocado A7 envelope to complete the look. We created place cards using the same wild border, Benjamin Caps text and expanded character spacing. We also used borderless printing for the place card, tricking the printer by using the 3.5 x 5 inch photo size for our 3.5 x 4 inch place cards. We also checked the Feed stationery bottom first option in the Print window to make sure that they print correctly on the smaller size.
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Put a spring in your
step Our PrintingPress design features our new Baby Girl stationery and our new lace (pink) envelope liners. We added an elegant pink design that matches the lace pattern to the top of a Scalloped White A7 flat card and added the name in the same pink using the Alyssa Afternoon font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. Slip the note into our new A7 Pink Lemonade envelope. We repeated the design on a Scalloped White A2 folded note card, paired with an A2 Pink Lemonade envelope lined in lace (pink). For a sophisticated look, try our Platinum design. We added a border that coordinates with the floral tile (twilight & avocado) envelope liner to a White A7 flat card. We used a floating text box to add the name in the same color as the border's inner pen. We expanded the horizontal spacing in the text box for a clean look. 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. Line the Twilight A7 envelope with a floral tile (twilight & avocado) liner and you’re set. We created a matching folded note card that uses a White 4-bar folded note card, Twilight envelope and floral tile (twilight & avocado) liner. The 4-bar folded note card was also printed using our printer’s borderless feature. You’ll go wild for our PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 design. We added a thick custom border using our new animal print (leopard) pattern to a White A7 flat card. To coordinate with the Blush envelope, we added a pink inner pen to the border and added the name in the same pink using the Noodles font from Fonts & Graphics 3. Since the leopard 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. Slip the card into an A7 Blush envelope lined in animal print (leopard) and you’re ready to send a note that’s sure to get noticed. Our coordinating folded note card uses a White 4-bar folded note card, Blush envelope and animal print (leopard) liner. The 4-bar folded note card was also printed using our printer’s borderless feature.
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very royal birthday Our PrintingPress design features our new Baby Girl stationery. A magical unicorn tops a Scalloped White A6 card with the invitation details written in pink using the Charlotte font from Fonts & Graphics 3. Slip the invitation into the addressed Pink Lemonade envelope and the royal revelers will soon be at your door. The matching thank you note features the same unicorn printed on a Scalloped White A2 folded note card. Help your birthday girl pen her thanks, then slip the note into a Pink Lemonade A2 envelope. A pink dream castle sets the theme for our Platinum design. We printed it on a Scalloped White A6 flat card and added the party details in pink using the Alyssa font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. Paired with a Blush A6 envelope, it’s bound to meet her royal approval. We added the same castle to the thank you note, printed on a Scalloped White A2 folded note card. Once your princess has finished adding her personal touch to the thank you note, send it in a Blush A2 envelope. For the swashbuckling youngsters in your life, our PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 pirate ship design is sure to please. We added a custom background to the invitation with the margins set to zero to create a field of blue across the entire card. We added a pirate ship image at the right of the card with the party details printed in white using the Ryan font aligned to the left margin. We used a floating text box to add the birthday boy’s name to the sail beneath the jolly roger. We set the text box’s Text Shape to Random Jitter for a spookier look. We used a second floating text box with a custom dotted line border to add the birthday boy’s age to the top sail. We used our printer’s borderless feature to print the invitation on a White A7 flat card. For more information on borderless printing, review the Tech Tip from the November 2004 issue of the Mountaincow Monthly. We added a jolly roger to the back flap of the Dusty Blue A7 envelope and set the return address text box’s Text Shape to Circle to surround the skull and crossbones. Pirates who don’t say thank you have to walk the plank, so use our matching thank you note printed on a White 4-bar folded note card. Slip the note into the addressed Dusty Blue 4-bar envelope and send.
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Stick it to ‘em You can use the Label or Address Label stationery type to create a sticker in PrintingPress Extreme. The Label stationery type will print an entire sheet of the same sticker, while the Address Label stationery type will print a sheet of addressed stickers using the names in the project’s Mailing List. To set up your sticker sheet, first enter the height and width of an individual sticker in the Individual label size section. Next enter the height and width of the entire sheet in the Full sheet size section. Now count the number of rows and columns of stickers and enter them in the Cols and Rows fields in the Number of labels section. Finally, measure the margin from the top edge of the sheet to the top edge of the first sticker and enter it into the Top field in the Margins (from edge to first label) section. Repeat for the left edge and you’re set. Note that asymmetrical sheets are not supported.
PrintingPress Extreme also allows you to create multiple place cards per page. Specify the height and width of a single place card in the Unfolded Place Card Size section on the Layout page of the stationery wizard. To print more than one place card per page, choose Multiple (P) or Multiple (L) in the Cards Per Page section. Choose Multiple (P) if your place cards are right-side up on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet when you hold the sheet so it is taller than it is wide. Choose Multiple (L) if your place cards are rotated 90 degrees on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet when you hold the sheet so it is taller than it is wide.
Click the Next button and specify the full sheet details. Enter the height and width of the full sheet (which does not have to be 8.5 x 11 inches) in the Full sheet size section. Enter the number of rows and columns in the Number of place cards section. For multi-up place cards, you can specify different measurements for the top, left, right and bottom margins of the sheet.
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