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1
Jun
2011
bridal invites
I wanted to share these bridal shower invites I designed for a friend of mine who was throwing the party for her sister. I was requested to use yellow and hydrangeas (I just happen to love both!) I really enjoyed working on them! I took the opportunity to make custom envelope liners…my first time. I totally loved how they turned out!
22
Dec
2010
Girly, but not frou frou
I LOVE to do girly things (did you know that about me?) – but I don’t think I am frou frou about it. I have a few pinkish things brewing for the spring that I’ll post about when the time comes…but in the meantime I wanted to share a birth announcement I designed. I, of course,enjoyed the sweetness of it all. The photo was just too precious, isn’t she a dear?
1
May
2010
Pink Baby Shower
My dear friend Sonia is having a girl! To celebrate her sister threw her a pink themed baby shower complete with pink cupcakes and pink tissue paper flowers made by Sonia! One of my favorite games was a contest to make the best looking Play-Doh baby…I didn’t do too well on that one!
I was happy to help out with some of the paper projects. I used an Indian block print pattern in pink to make a “Onsie Laundry Advice Line” as well as a coordinating banner and favor tags. I wish Sonia all the best with her pregnancy and I can’t wait to meet her little ‘Cutie Pie’!
14
Feb
2010
Happy Valentines Day
I LOVE Valentines Day – but with two boys I have to keep the ‘frou frou-ness’ to a minimum! My older has been fascinated with cootie catchers and is completely amazed that I used to make them when I went to school (you know WAAAAY BACK in the dark ages).
So with some help with graphics from ‘Lettering Delights‘ I made these awesome monster themed ones for him to give to his friends at school. Once I got in to the rhythm of things the folding went pretty quickly. They were a hit with the girls and boys!
Also, seeing that my charcoal grey felt worked so well on our holiday cards I decided to give it a go again with our Valentines Day Cards….nice, don’t you think! (I have a feeling this felt will be showing up a lot until I can get it out of my system)
15
Dec
2009
Merry Holidays!
Every year I do a photo holiday card of either us and the boys or just the boys. I always think it is more interesting to photograph the boys because you never can guess what you will end up with and since I am not in the photos with them I get the joy and aggravation of taking the pictures! This holiday season was no different, I had an idea of what I wanted to do and a half baked plan on how to execute it! I knew it would be absolutely impossible to get the 2 monkeys with a decent photo in the same frame – so I devised a plan to shoot them separately and then through the magic of photoshop make it appear that they were in the same frame! I took over 150 photos and really only about 3 were usable for my purposes….(love that memory is so cheap!) You can’t even tell that I am begging, pleading, threatening them through the whole ordeal. I love how the finished product came out:
and here are some outtakes from the shoot:
Some behind the scenes details:
For the back drop I had a bolt of charcoal grey felt that I propped up on stacked chairs. I have a wall of windows directly in front of it for the natural light. (I know I have a real professional operation going on here!):
Our grey felt backdrop
I took a few photos of just a draped sheet for the middle message portion of the card:
the 'middle' of the card
Then the rest all came together in Photoshop….
It was alot of fun to work on this year’s holiday card…I am already making plans for next year’s production!!! Stay tuned!
