If you’ve got a tween or teenage girl heading off for camp, then check out our PrintingPress Platinum 6.0 design. We added a fun green and purple border image to a White A7 card. Next, we added a heart shaped peace sign as a floating image. We enabled the Make white transparent feature on the image, rotated it 20 degrees to the right and placed it in the bottom right corner of the border. Next, we used a floating text box to add the camper’s name in purple using the Girls are Weird font from the Easy Invitations Bonus Content CD. We rotated the text box 90 degrees to the left and placed the text box on the left side of the card. Since the border runs to the edge of the card, we used our printer’s borderless printing feature. We placed the return address on the bottom left corner of the back of the White envelope, which we lined in Green for an added pop of color. We added the heart image to the left of the return address and on the coordinating Custom Image StationeryStamps.

Our PrintingPress Extreme 6.0 design oozes bucolic, woodsy charm. We created a two-sided postcard using a Natural Cotton A7 card for gorgeous color and to make sure the card is sturdy enough to be mailed without an envelope. We started by filling the background of both sides of the card in a new tree bark pattern. We added images of carved out areas of wood to make room for the text on the card. On the “address” side of the postcard, we used a floating text box to add the camper’s return address using the Colin font from Fonts & Graphics 2. We added the Engrave text style to make it look like the letters had been carved into the wood and used the Horizontal Stretch feature to widen the characters. For tips on stretching your text, see this month’s Extreme Tip. We added the words “PLEASE DELIVER TO:” above a row of dotted lines to leave room for the camper to hand write in the address. On the back of the card, more space has been “carved out” for the camper to write their letter, and we added a personalized carving to the bottom right corner with the camper’s name in a heart. Since the design goes all the way to the edge of the card, we used our printer’s borderless printing feature. We created coordinating Custom Image StationeryStamps with a personal greeting from the camper.

Wedding dates
If your beach bag includes sunscreen, water, and lots of bridal magazines, then check out our new save the date designs. You want to make sure that your guests block off your wedding date (or multiple days for destination weddings), so sending out a save the date card is important. With our fabulous new designs, you’ll get your save the date cards out in a flash.

An old-fashioned “just married” car is driving across our PrintingPress Platinum 6.0 design. We added the image of the vintage car trailing cans to the bottom left corner of a Natural Cotton A7 card. We used the Palatino Linotype font in a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters in grey to add the info to the card. We added the couple’s names in red using all capital letters. For a personalized touch, we used a floating text box to add the couple’s initials joined by a “+” to the license plate. We lined the Pewter envelopes in Powder Blue and added coordinating Custom Image StationeryStamps.

If you love anything retro, then check out our PrintingPress Extreme 6.0 design. We started by filling the background of a White A7 card in asparagus green. Next, we added three floating shape objects to the card. We set the Shape for each of the shape objects to Round rectangle and filled each of the shapes in the same retro squares pattern. We used the Colorize feature to make each of the patterns a different color. We then added three floating text boxes to add the wedding date information using the Girls are Weird font from the Easy Invitations Bonus Content CD and the Courier New font that is included with Windows. We set the border shape for the text boxes to Oval and Round rectangle to complete the design.  Since the background runs to the edge of the card, we used our printer’s borderless printing feature. We lined the Chocolate envelopes in Custom Envelope Liners filled in the retro squares pattern and added coordinating Custom Image StationeryStamps.

Expanding your words
PrintingPress Extreme 6.0 includes many tools to let you customize your text to create just the look that you want. Sometimes you may find that even if you have the perfect font, it needs to be adjusted just a little bit to get it just right. The Horizontal Stretch and Vertical Stretch controls in the Character palette let you stretch your text as much as you need to get it perfect.

Below we show the “address” text box with the text without any modification other than the Bold and Engrave styles.

Next, we increased the Horizontal Stretch to 20 to make the text wider.

We liked the look of the text at 20, but you can continue to stretch it even wider. Below we show the text with the Horizontal Stretch set to 140.

Check out tips on downloading projects, borderless printing and more in our Newsletter Notes section.

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