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, select Stationery Background, Add Background in the Design menu. The Add stationery background window will appear. A preview of your background appears on the right side of the window.

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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 the birthday party invitation example below, we created a custom pattern using a diamond shape in similar shades of blue. Then we used point-size justified white text to make the birthday boy's age really stand out against the blue background.

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