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PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 sample
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Tag, you’re it!
When you finally reach your destination after a long flight, it can sometimes take forever for all the luggage to reach baggage claim. Make sure that you grab your bag, and not a fellow traveler’s, by using PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 to create your very own snazzy luggage tags.

We created two business cards so that we can print two-sided luggage tags. We added a custom background using the animal print (zebra) pattern and a pink custom border. We added the address to one side of the tag using a floating text box with pink custom border and an opaque white background. The address is written in the Benjamin Caps front from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We added the initials to the other side of the luggage tag using a floating text box with a pink custom border. We set the background color to black and the text color to white to make the initials really pop. The initials are written in the Isabelle Strong font from Fonts & Graphics 2. Print both sides of the card on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of card stock, then trim using a rotary cutter and slip each card into a clear plastic luggage tag holder.

 

 

 

Dear old dad
If your dad already has enough ties and BBQ grill accessories, why not spruce up his stationery wardrobe this Father’s Day? Choose from one of our simple, masculine designs and print using the colors we chose or modify the paper and ink colors to use dad’s favorite hues.

Our PrintingPress design showcases an all-time favorite dad hobby:  golf. A brown silhouette of a golfer mid-swing tops our Café au Lait A7 flat card. We added the name beneath the sportsman using the Benjamin Caps font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We added the same design to the front of the A2 folded note card. We created a reply envelope with the address positioned as a return address so that you can print dad’s return address on the back flap of the envelopes. Wrap with a ribbon and you’re set!

For a different twist on the classic monogram, try our Platinum design. We added a large blue “W” in the Ryan font from Fonts & Graphics 3 to the top of an Ivory A7 flat card. We then used a floating text box to add dad’s full name above the “W” using the Benjamin Caps font from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We turned off the Make White Transparent setting of the text box to make the background opaque white and added a simple border of blue lines at the top and bottom of the text box. We repeated the initial and full name above the return address and printed it onto a Midnight A7 envelope. We repeated the same design for Ivory / Midnight A2 folded notes. Note: if you open this project with PrintingPress Extreme, you will need to adjust the text box due to differences in the advanced Extreme text engine. Double-click on the floating text box, enter your dad’s name and check Resize to fit at the bottom of the window. Next click on the Border tab and increase the Inset to 6 pixels and click the OK button.

Our PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 design includes a traditional diamond monogram atop Wasabi stationery. We used the Diamond with points monogram style and added a custom border to add two lines around the diamond. We set both the outer and inner pen to 1 pt and set the 0.02 inch fill to white. We copied and pasted the monogram above the return address to complete the look. We created both A7 flat and A2 folded versions to suit your dad’s taste.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 sample
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Falling in love
If you’re planning a wedding for this fall, you’re going to have your hands full throughout the summer months sorting out all the details of your big day. Mountaincow can help make one task easier with our beautiful sophisticated wedding invitations to suit your style without putting a crimp in your budget.

A silhouette of a Ginkgo branch tops our PrintingPress design, printed on Ivory stationery. We set the margins of the A7 flat card to zero so that the branch could run off the edge of the card. We could used our printer’s borderless feature to print all the way to the edge of the card. For more information on borderless printing, review the Tech Tip from the November 2004 issue of the Mountaincow Monthly. We chose Format Paragraph in the Stationery menu to set left and right indents to 0.5 inches to accommodate the zero margin for the image. We added the information text using the Benjamin Caps and Alyssa Afternoon fonts from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. Paired with an Ivory A7 envelope lined in Avocado, it makes an elegant presentation. The Ivory 4-bar response card uses the same Ginkgo design and also uses an Avocado liner. For the reception, we’ve got a matching Ivory menu and place card.

Our Platinum design is the negative of the PrintingPress design:  we used a green background to block out the Ginkgo leaf and text on the Ivory A7 card. The green background bleeds all the way to the edge of the card, so we used our printer’s borderless feature once again. We used floating text boxes with the text color set to off-white (RGB(254, 254, 254)) to add the invitation details to the card using Benjamin Caps and Alyssa Afternoon fonts from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. The background coordinates nicely with the Avocado envelope liner in the Ivory A7 envelope. We repeated the same design on the Ivory 4-bar response card and envelope, also lined in Avocado. We used a custom cut 4x6 inch card for the menu and a standard 3.5 x 4 scored place card.

You’ll find elements of nature in our PrintingPress Extreme 4.0 design as well. We added the silhouette of a peony to the bottom of the invitation and filled the background of the card in twilight. We set the border of the stationery background to zero so that it would print all the way to the edge of the card. We then added a custom border to add a thin white line all the way around the card. Since we used a custom background fill to add the twilight to the background of the invitation, you can replace the background with any color that you like. Just choose Stationery Background, Change Background in the Design menu, click on the Fill button in the Fill details section and choose a new background color. We added the invitation text in the Benjamin Caps and Alyssa fonts from Fonts & Graphics for Weddings. We lined the White A7 envelope in Twilight to coordinate with the card background. We repeated the same design for the White 4-bar response card, custom cut 4x6 inch menu and place card.