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You can add a background to your stationery which appears behind any text or images you have on the stationery. You can use any of the 150 built-in images, a photograph, a graphic you download from the internet, or even create a custom background using a solid or patterned fill. In the example below, we used a photograph of the church in which the bride and groom are planning to marry as a background for the save the date card. We converted the image to grayscale and typed in black above the image.

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Note: The light gray rectangle represents a margin and will not be printed.

To add a background to your stationery, click in your stationery and then click on Background Image or Custom Background in the Background palette in the Design palette group.

Using a solid or pattern-filled background is a great way to block out white text. If you create a full-color background and print on a white card, it looks as if you printed using white text. In example below from the January 2010 issue of the Mountaincow Monthly, we added a custom background to the card and filled it in aqua. Then we added a white sea star and then added the invitation text in bold white text to make it stand out against the aqua background.

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Note: The light gray rectangle represents a margin and will not be printed.

You can use PrintingPress Pro Extreme's Repeated Text feature to add repeated text to the background of any stationery, text box, monogram or shape. To add repeated text to your stationery or other object, first add a graphical or custom background using the Background palette. Then click on the Repeat Text or Repeat Monogram button to add the repeated design. In the example below from the October 2009 issue of the Mountaincow Monthly, we created gift wrap with a custom background with a custom pattern of animal print holiday stockings on a field of green. Then we added a holiday greeting using the Repeated Text feature, bending the text into a wave.

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