14Jul 2023 by Becca Wyatt No Comments
How to Effortlessly Modify the Colors On Your Print Marketing Products

How to Effortlessly Modify the Colors On Your Print Marketing Products

Design Tips & Tricks, Guest Posts, Product Uses, Products and Services
At 123Print®, we are dedicated to revolutionizing the customization of printable products online, providing unparalleled options to create truly unique and personalized items easily.  One-Click Color-Changing Products We are thrilled to introduce our new color-changing hot spot, enabling you to effortlessly modify the colors of our products with just a few clicks. This feature allows you to instantly update the colors of any item you create – all from the same page. For instance, instead of searching through a selection of products to find the perfect color, you can now make easy adjustments to the color of your choice in seconds. Check out one of our sleek new business card designs that features these handy hot spots that enable you to instantly change the color of any of the elements of the…
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07Dec 2011 by Cindy Berrier No Comments
Five Modern Takes on Classic Christmas Card Styles

Five Modern Takes on Classic Christmas Card Styles

Design Tips & Tricks, Everything Else, Expert Advice, Family Lounge, Fun and Humor, Wedding & Family
Christmas is a time for tradition.  Even people with the most progressive of personalities and forward thinking tastes tend to open up to tradition and reminiscence during the yuletide season.  Whether it’s hanging a few heirloom ornaments on an otherwise modern themed Christmas tree, mixing in kitschy childhood decorations with impeccably stylish home décor, listening to old standard Christmas songs by artists that wouldn’t otherwise grace one’s iPod in a million years or even just carrying on traditional family celebrations passed down through the generations; it seems that there is always room, and maybe even some desire, to include a touch of classic Christmas. That’s why we asked the design team here at 123Print to pick out a few Christmas card designs that are undoubtedly modern in design but yet…
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01Nov 2011 by Cindy Berrier No Comments
Think Before You Font

Think Before You Font

Design Tips & Tricks, Expert Advice, Fun and Humor, Small Business, Wedding & Family
Sometime around the end of last week I walked into the office and before I could even sit down at my desk my colleague and fellow 123Print writer Shannon was all but levitating off the ground in a state of near-panic. “You have to look at the new calendars page on the site right away,” she exclaimed nearly breathless. I expected that maybe there was a typo we didn’t catch in proofing, perhaps an honest misspelling that spell-check “fixed” into a NSFW four-letter word, but no. It was worse. Right there in the headline was the most egregious of all things typography – the headline font was Comic Sans. Several expletive-laden phrases later and I was surrounded by our entire web design team who, after several expletive-laden phrases of their…
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28Sep 2011 by Cindy Berrier 2 Comments
7 Common Errors Found on Business Cards – Or Any Customizable Product, Really

7 Common Errors Found on Business Cards – Or Any Customizable Product, Really

Everything Else, Expert Advice, Fun and Humor, Small Business, Wedding & Family
Let’s get one thing straight. Sometimes our brains work faster than our fingers when it comes to typing. You know your phone number like the back of your hand. You know how to spell your name faster than someone who doesn’t have your name, and you know all of the contact information for your business and can rattle it off at the speed of light. None of that is an issue. The issue becomes when your fingers are dancing across the keyboard and you get lost in that clackity clack sound of the keys and make a bunch of ridiculous typos. A lot of times, our Customer Care Representatives get calls about how someone received their business cards or wedding invitations and their name is spelled incorrectly. I’d like to…
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06Sep 2011 by Cindy Berrier No Comments
Harry Potter and the Elaborate Wizard Wedding

Harry Potter and the Elaborate Wizard Wedding

Everything Else, Wedding & Family, Wedding Lounge
Here at 123Print, I am the resident Harry Potter nerd. I take great pride in this title, despite the fact that I turn about 1000 shades of red whenever it’s mentioned. In case you’ve been living under a rock the very last Harry Potter film (Deathly Hallows Part 2) came out in July and has made approximately $500 billion. That number is only slightly exaggerated. As a diehard Potter fan, knowing that there is no longer anything Potter related to look forward to was quite depressing. I figured I’d look forward to taking my long-awaited pilgrimage to the Holy Land for Potter fans, Universal Studio’s The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but then after that it would just be waiting for Deathly Hallows Part 2 to be released on DVD.…
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23Aug 2011 by Cindy Berrier 1 Comment
How Do You Choose Which Typeface to Put on Your Design?

How Do You Choose Which Typeface to Put on Your Design?

Design Tips & Tricks, Expert Advice, Small Business, Small Business Lounge
Kate is 123Print's Creative Director, and has been with the company for five years. Before coming on as Creative Director as well as overseeing Design Services, Kate worked at many different Taylor Corporations and studied design at Buffalo University. Choosing a particular font may not seem like it'd be difficult, but it can actually be quite the task! Here are some down and dirty tips on choosing which font to use on your design: - A good rule of thumb when choosing which fonts to put on your design, is to stick with no more than two fonts. Anything more than two is overkill and will be distracting. When it comes to fonts - less is definitely more. - If you opt to go for two fonts, garner some interest…
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22Aug 2011 by Cindy Berrier 16 Comments
One Man’s Wedding Lessons Learned – The Wedding Invitation Wording Edition

One Man’s Wedding Lessons Learned – The Wedding Invitation Wording Edition

Wedding & Family, Wedding Lounge
I’m going to cut right to the chase on this one.  Trust me, you don’t want people to look at your wedding invitations and either laugh or be baffled by the wording. You also don’t want to put yourself through the torture of coming up with your own wedding invitation wording from scratch.  Sure, you can go really casual and just wing it, put whatever you want on the invitation and do what feels right.  That’s a great way to go if you’re really free-spirited, you’re having a totally non-traditional wedding and you’re either not going to get, or don’t care if you get, unsolicited advice and input from family and friends.  But let’s face it; this isn’t an invitation to a barbeque party or a kegger at the frat…
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22Aug 2011 by Cindy Berrier 5 Comments

5 Tips for Designing a Professional Business Card!

Design Tips & Tricks, Expert Advice, Marketing Info, Small Business, Small Business Lounge
Include only necessary information. Your business card should be a quick message telling others what you do, and where they can contact you to get more information. Essentials include: Name Email Website Phone I would also recommend adding your job title that describes what services you are offering, especially if there is no clear indication on your business card, through use of logo, design, or other text elements. Layout. Again, I prefer to keep it simple, and include only what is necessary. This allows you to leave ample space between lines, as well as use a legible type size so that anyone can retrieve your information quickly and easily. As a rule of thumb, you should stick to a point size ranging from 9 to 11. You should NEVER use…
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