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PrintingPress Extreme sample
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The dotted line
PrintingPress Extreme 4.0’s new dotted line border and shape tools make it even easier to create fun, flirty designs. We’ve designed adorable personalized stationery using our Café au Lait stationery using A7 flat and A2 folded cards that will have you sending notes to all your friends.

At the top of the flat card, we created a rectangular band using Extreme 4.0's new shape tool. We set the background to our dotted daisies (pink & brown) pattern and added a brown 8 point dotted line border to the shape. We set the width of the shape to 5.5 inches so that it would extend beyond the edges of the card and then moved the shape up so that only the bottom line would be visible. We created a text box with a brown background and a custom border, and then added the name in white in the Noodles font from Fonts & Graphics 3. For more information on creating custom borders using the new dotted line feature, see this month’s Extreme Tip.

For the folded note card, we added a brown 8 point dotted line stationery border and a background using the same dotted daisies (pink & brown) pattern. We duplicated the text box and increased the point size of the text.

 

Double the fun
Did you know that one in about every 35 births in the U.S. results in twins? In case you’re one in 35, we created special announcements for when you’ve got double the news to spread.

An adorable image of two peas in a pod tops a flat Scalloped White A2 card for our PrintingPress design. We used the Noodles font from Fonts & Graphics 3 for the announcement and the signature, and then included the babies' names and important information in Times New Roman. We made a coordinating thank you note with the pea pod image on the front of a folded Scalloped White A2 card. The announcements and thank you notes both use our Clover A2 envelopes.

Our Platinum design has one twin’s name and information at the bottom left of the card and the other twin's stats at the top right. We printed the announcement on Café au Lait stationery and lined the envelopes with Avocado. We added the word “baby” in a floating text box in the center of the card in large brown Ryan text and then added another text box with the word “baby” flipped vertically and written in green to coordinate with the envelope liners. We combined the Ryan and Noodles fonts from Fonts & Graphics 3 and the Benjamin Caps font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings.

Our Extreme design uses a checkerboard design to separate the twins’ names and details. We used floating text boxes with yellow and green backgrounds to create the checkerboard, and added a stationery border of matching green dots. The babies’ names are written in dark green and white using the Ryan font. The announcements and coordinating thank you notes are printed on A2 flat and folded Scalloped White cards and paired with Clover envelopes with Yellow liners.

 

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PrintingPress Platinum sample
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PrintingPress Extreme invitation
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How engaging
When you get engaged, you want to shout it from the hilltops so all the world can share in your joy. We’ve got the perfect way for you to gather everyone together to toast your engagement with our engagement party invitations.

We used an image of an elegant chandelier in our PrintingPress design for a stunning, sophisticated invitation using A7 White / Magenta stationery. We created a folded 5x7 card, oriented horizontally, so we could add the chandelier image on the left side and the text could be aligned to the right margin of the card. We used a combination of the Benjamin Caps and Alyssa Afternoon fonts from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We wrote the couple's names in magenta to match the chandelier image and Magenta envelopes.

Our Platinum design uses A6 Café au Lait stationery. We set the left margin to 1.5 inches to move the brown text, written in Benjamin Caps from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings, farther in from the left edge of the card. We added the couple’s names in green using the script font Noodles from Fonts & Graphics 3 to make them stand out. We put each name in a floating text box so that it could be to the left of the main text’s left margin. We lined the Chocolate envelopes in Avocado to coordinate with the couple’s names.

The Extreme design uses the new shape tool to create a grid of squares in a variety of solid colors coordinating with the Twilight envelopes and Avocado liners. We replaced one square with a photo of the happy couple. Their names are written in Alyssa Afternoon in green and the party details are in Benjamin Caps from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings.