John David's 1st Birthday Invitation!

I had the chance to design my friend Jenn's son's birthday party invitation! She wanted it completely Peter Rabbit themed, and I had a great time reminiscing about all those characters!

Lily's Run flyer, tshirt design and logo

This past week I helped a friend from work with a logo and flyer design. An 8 year old girl in her neighborhood has just been diagnosed with Advanced Neuroblastoma cancer. They are hosting a run to raise money for this long, hard battle ahead. I was so honored to help with something like this.

Here is my logo design:

Here is the guys t-shirt design: (Lily loves peace signs)And here is the front and back of the flyer I made, which they will put up all around town!

Front:Back:All the contact information is on the flyer, if you feel like you would want to donate money to this sweet little girl!

Jen's Program and Table Numbers Design

I helped design my friend Jen's wedding programs, that folded in half to be fans!

They turned out so beautiful I loved them!Here is how they looked day of:

I also designed the table numbers and helped print and put them together!
They matched the theme and everyone loved them!

Garden Shower Invitation

I just got the chance to design a garden party invitation (the girls new last name will be Gardin... cute!) for my friend from college, Brittany. She'd seen some of the invitations I had done on this blog and hired me to do one for her! It was really fun!

Ethan's Baby Announcement

What a cute baby! Loved designing Sara's birth announcement for Ethan!

Creative Bridal Shower Gift

I always want to do something a little different for gifts for people, just never seem to have the time to do it! WELL I had time finally one day, and decided to be a little 'crafty' with my gift for Tiffin. I bought towels & wash cloths off her registry that I tied together with twine, found a cute basket & weaved ribbon through it, filled colored vases with bath salts, added candles and vwala we have a cute gift different than the norm!

BBQ- Rehearsal Dinner Invitation

This past week I got the chance to design a rehearsal dinner invitation! I loved putting a spin on the BBQ cooking into romantic under the trees!

Hunter's Over-haul

This past week I spent ordering pictures, buying frames, and custom matting each image. My husbands company desperately needed help with decorations around the office since buyers come in there a lot, so I offered to help spice it up. Next on the list is just to paint it now!

When you come in on your right...

In the conference room... (all ads published in newspapers)One over the printer: (old logo)A grouping of 4 when you come in on the left:

All the images were either black and white or sepia, all taken a long time ago. Very very cool!

Wedding Designs

I helped design my friend, Molly's wedding invitation packet which included: a front sticker, invitation, direction card, reception card, and rsvp card. It was very fun!

Invitation Front Sticker:Invitation:

Favor Box stickers:

Party for a Cure Website

I love comparing what people do in Microsoft Word to what Graphic Designers can do. I was sent this that a friend had designed in word for a pub crawl to raise money for juvenile diabetes:

And after a couple hours I turned it into a working website that you can visit here, or if not you can see below.

Cynthia's Baby Shower Invitation

I had the chance this week to design an invitation for a baby shower that my mom is hosting. Her friend, Cynthia, loves lambs, polka dots and is having a little girl... so this idea was pretty simple! My mom is putting ribbon at the top of each invitation, so that's why there is some space up there.

I also made thank you notes for her...I love it when invitations and thank you notes match! Here is the Front:
Back:

They are giving out these favors as well to match from the company I work for:

Twin's Birthday Invitation!

My sister's twins are turning 2 very soon and I had the chance to design the invitation for their birthday party! It's safari/zoo themed and I really enjoyed getting to draw all the animals and use such bright colors!

Thank You Notes for the Shower.

As an engagement present for our good friends, Molly & Marshal, I designed and printed her thank you notes that she can send out after the shower! I printed labels with all the addresses for her envelopes to help save her some time too! They match her invitation perfectly, you can see it here.

Molly's Bridal Shower Invitation

I am in a wedding in May for our great friends, Molly & Marshal. All the bridesmaids are hosting a shower for her in March and I was able to design the invite for this one as well! We chose the color theme to be a classy black, white and pink, which I think looks very nice!

Here is the invitation: (took out some important details/names)

Sara's Baby Shower!

As I have already posted here, I designed Sara's baby shower invitation. I also designed coordinating thank you notes for her, with the addresses already printed on the envelopes to help save her some time!

I also made favor bags for each guest, with cute little name tags on them!
Here is a close up:
Fun fun!

Logo Design

This past week, a coworker hired me to design a logo for her friends new consulting company. They had a basic idea of what they wanted, I just refined it and made it look "more official".

B&W version:

Tara's Wising Up Cover!

My amazing sister wrote her own biblestudy! She had the dvd from Beth Moore but obviously couldn't take the image from the cd. SO That's where I came in :)

Tiffin's Save the Date!

My good friend from Charlotte, Tiffin, is getting married! I got the chance to design her save the dates for her, which was real fun!

Lara's Baby Shower Invitation.

My sister & her friend, Jenn, are hosting another shower for one of their friends. They found an invitation they liked- but just in the wrong colors, so I just recreated it in the colors of the nursery! (once again whiting out stuff that doesn't have to be shared with blog land)

Sara's Baby Shower Invitation

I just finished designing an invitation for a baby shower that I'm co-hosting for my best friend Sara! I'm super excited about it, as this idea came pretty fast and I had a blast drawing all the graphics too! (covered up parts that blog world doesn't have to see!)

Christmas Gifts 2008

I have started giving our family friends a homemade dessert every year for Christmas. Of course I am different from most people, where I could care less about the dessert and instead just focus on how it's presented :)

I decorated some mason jars by layering Christmas scrapbooking paper and printing out a Merry Christmas greeting! I wrapped ribbon around the mason jars as well for decoration!Next was time to make all the tags. I could have done more on these but I was tired!
Next it was time to make the cookies! MAN were these a pain, Pinwheel Peppermint Cookies! Basically sugar cookies from scratch, half the batch and dye it red. Then layer the red batch over the other half and roll it up like jelly rolls. Freeze then slice them up and bake. They will look like this when you are done:

You then make the peppermint frosting. Then stick two cookies together with the peppermint frosting in the middle (just like an oreo). I chose to individually wrap each one and curl ribbon on the edges to look like this:

I bought some really cute fabric on sale at JoAnn's and cut into circles to cover the lids. Tie it up with some twine and you are done :)

Finished product: