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Creative and marketing tips
for PE PRO
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PE PRO includes several borders, decorative accents, fonts and other designs elements to help you make a wide range of custom products and designs.
This creative tip is designed to show you several features built in to PE PRO that you may not have known about. There are other ways to do some of the things we are showing you, but we wanted to introduce you to functions and features so that you can use them on your own designs.
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A holiday ornament invitation
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Setting up the card
. 1) Click on the New Document icon  and then on the Image Library Card icon  , and click Browse
. 2) Open the PE Blank Templates folder, select the Pocket Card Horizontal template (4 1/2" x 6 3/8") and click Open
. 3) Right click on the card, click Layout and set your left, right, top and bottom margins all to 0.50
. 4) Insert a text box using this icon  and select Ambassador font, 14 pt. and black color, click OK
Inserting and adjusting the border image
. 5) Then insert one of our Free Border Images using this icon  and click Browse. This sample uses border design 506MFCB.cmp
. 6) Select 506MFCB.cmp in the CS Library folder, click Open and then OK. Don't worry about the color. We'll change that in steps 9 and 10 below
. 7) Right click on the border image and click Layout
. 8) Change angle to 90° and the width and height to match the full size of the card (Width is 4.5 - Height is 6.38), then click OK
. 9) Click and drag the image to center it on the card
. 10) Right click on the image, click on Special Attributes and select the Hue tab
. 11) Slide the bar to change the hue color of the image to -178, click OK
. 12) Right click on the image, select Layout & change image size to fill up card (Width is 4.5 - Height is 6.38)
. 13) Click and drag the image to center it on the card
. 14) The border image layer is on top of the text box we created above so we want to move this layer behind the text box layer. Click on the Arrange Objects icon  and click on this icon  to send it to the back
. 15) To lock the image down so we don't accidently move it, go to the drop down menu, click Page and then click on Fix/Unfix Objects
. 16) Select the item you want to fix (in this case we want to lock down the image number 1). Move it over to the Fixed Objects window using the arrows 
Add desired text
. 17) Click on the edge on your text box to activate page mode (this will be shown as a light blue border around your text box). Click and drag to place the box on the right side of the card. Use the black bullets to increase the width or height of the text box as designed.
. 18) Click inside text box, enter text and highlight with Crane Hand font, 40 pt. Then right justify using 
Inserting additional image 114DACB.cmp
. 19) Insert one of our Free Decorative Accents using the Image icon , then click on Browse. Open the Decorative Accents folder, select the image you want. This example uses 114DACB.cmp. Select item (click open) and then click OK
. 20) Click on the image and reduce or enlarge the size, as desired, by using the black bullets on the edges
. 21) Click and drag your picture inside the leaf border, being careful not to overlap it with the ornament
Adjust anything in the invitation as desired. You have now created a lovely invitation using several of the free images provided by Personalized Expressions and using some of the built in features of PE PRO.
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For a free hands-on demonstration of how to create similar products, contact Cristina Poulsen at cristina@cbdcards.com
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Personalized Expressions / Colors by Design
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Nuys, CA 91406
800/832-8436
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