Tuesday, August 24, 2010
TO BE CONTINUED...

My bags are all packed and I'm ready to start a new chapter of my life in Boston.

I guess this post is an official goodbye to my hectic wedding season. Thank you for following and supporting me in my creative endeavors!






I received Bethany's thank you card recently and it brought me back to those days of sitting in front of the computer for hours with my tablet drawing and mulling over things that start with B. Fortunately, and unfortunately, I won't have that kind of time anymore to take on these kinds of projects.




{momentary pause of suspense}




Sike! Just when I thought it was over, Nate's and my good friends decide to get engaged. The bride, Jen, then decides to 'hire' me. Geez, how can I say no? THANKFULLY, this time I have ten months. Am I taking on any more projects? NO! I don't want to fail graduate school, guys. Keep me in school, please!

I seriously don't know how I was able to work on and complete four weddings in a matter of six months. That's just insanity for you right there.

Be prepared for more wedding goodness...

  JANET posted at 10:10 AM | 3 comments




Thursday, August 12, 2010
OLIVIA'S BIRTHDAY INVITE

This is my first project in which I had to create a BIRTHDAY invitation, let alone a birthday invitation for a toddler! Tertia, who I had created a few elements for her wedding, requested that I design her daughter Olivia's first birthday party invitations. She wanted me to go with the theme of O-shaped things because of her daughter's name and because the cutie is turning ONE (what a milestone!). I really had to step into an element of overflowing kyootness and gushing smiles.

I used Google Buzz to help me out with some O-shaped ideas, and gleaned some insight from a few friends (actually, just two! hehe). Estera contributed the idea of a sun and moon, and Junia contributed the turtle and and ladybug.

Tertia also wanted me to leave one of the bubbles empty so that she could sew on a button. Darling, right? Since she is all the way in Chicago, I sewed on my own button for the following pictures.

Note: Of course the venue, address, and phone number are fake. Don't want any Internet creepers crashing and hanging around a kid's birthday party...



















An email from the mom:

Wanted to just thank you again for Olivia's beautiful invite. I used your design to have a company make a board showing all of her first 10 months of life.

Hope you two and your guests have a wonderful party!

  JANET posted at 4:32 PM | 8 comments




Tuesday, August 3, 2010
CHEAT SHEET APRONS

About a week ago, I saw this as a plug on a cooking blog. Thinking it was a totally cool idea, I decided to make one for my good friend's upcoming birthday present.

I'm definitely not a cooking expert so I really had no idea as to what cooking tricks and tips to put on her custom apron; so I just decided to design a handy cute conversion chart.

The blank white apron was purchased at Michael's and the iron-on transfer paper at Staples.

It was my first time using iron-on transfer paper, so naturally, I ended up using/wasting 3 sheets of the expensive paper and then burning a portion of it while transferring. That is why I have no pictures of the actual product, but the following pictures show what it was supposed to look like!




Junia's name is on the chest and the chart is upside down for easy reading while wearing. Practical, right?




Here's a closeup. Junia loves sunflowers.



Maybe I should just start making these as gifts! Replace the name and switch up the flower!

  JANET posted at 6:39 PM | 5 comments




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