AshleyRose's pink/orange boarding pass STDs - ROUGH DRAFT - Feedback?

[lhsing]

wow! it looks great! was it a lot of work? i was thinking about doing something similar... and was wondering if you cut everything by hand or...?

[seaprincess]

Pretty colours! Good luck!

[Emily&Matt]

I think you have done a fabulous job! Love the colors! I don't think it's too much info. Not everyone uses the internet.

[ashrose]

Wow! This thread exploded overnight. Thanks for all the comments.

 

I would have used photoshop... but my laptop doesn't have it and I don't have the money to buy it again... so I just used MSFT Word (07).

 

To make the background, I found a pretty textile print that I liked (from here: Indian Textile Patterns,Designs for Fashion Designers,For Housewives) and put it into word and colorized it to make it white. I really didn't think the shape looked like what I wanted, so I actually took two of the designs and manipulated them around to get a pattern that I liked. I used the freeform shape tool to draw the funky wavy shape and filed it with a gradient. I used the snipping tool in Windows Vista to do a "screen capture" and made the two in to one graphic.

 

To make the boarding pass shape, I used the rounded-corner square tool and made two of them... one long and one short... and put them together. I then made a white square to temporarily hide the intersecting lines. I took another screen capture to make it one graphic and then made the white area transparent so I could put my background in it.

 

There really is an easier way to do it, but I was ticked that I didn't have the right tool and did what I could using Word.

 

I'll post the template shortly. The fonts that I used were Calbri and Blackjack (blackjack from dafont.com).

[ashrose]

Here's the template. I included four versions in that document:

 

1. The pink/orange background with the outline.

2. A blank outline in case you want to use your own background.

3. An outline with the background the brown bottom border -- as I used it.

4. A sample (my first page) using the fonts/text boxes where I had them.

 

I used two non-standard fonts that you will want to install:

 

Blackjack

Black Jack Font | dafont.com

 

and

 

Fleurons (for the little symbol on the side). Just pick a dingbat font you like and put a little icon in between the date/location if you choose.

 

Let me know if you have any questions. I haven't printed them yet... so I will let you know how the final product turns out later.

 

Hope that helps!

 

 

(i like that guy)

 

 

Boarding Pass Template for BDW.doc

[lhsing]

wow - these are beautiful!

 

in terms of colors, i think it would depend on which one is your primary vs. accent color. i would use your primary color for the pocket.

[Kristy!]

My aunt and uncle are missionaries in Kenya and I know they have a terrible time accessing the internet. If you feel it's too much info for everyone (which I don't because I think the more info the better), then just send the ones with more info to the missionaries and the first two tickets to everyone else.

 

They look great!

[samanthag]

WoW!!!

They look awesome!!!

[ashrose]

As an FYI... I'm playing around with sending a STD boarding pass and passport ... I haven't yet played around with to the passport enough to know if I'll actually do it... but stay tuned. I want to give more information because we've been talking to his family and their response is "we can do a vacation in cancun cheaper than the resort"

 

... I don't have it in my budget to pay for 50 guest passes cause they want to save 300 dollars that they will end up spending by staying at a non AI.

[dmarie17]

Those are gorgeous! Great job!