Recent Work: Birth Announcement

My friend Larissa had her first baby, Corinne (isn’t she so adorable), a few months ago. Here’s the birth announcement I designed for her. Congrats Larissa and Doug!

For more invitations, visit my shop!

Big Cartel: Invitations

I’m back! The mini-vacation/bachelorette party was great. I wish I could go back. Only a little less than 2 weeks until the wedding! So exciting!!

Ok, back to blogging. 🙂

One of my new favorite finds, Big Cartel, has some great paper products available. Here is a small showcase of what you can find.

Sweet Graphics

Bespoke Press

Pop and Shorty

zoetropa

Katie Blaird Designs

Journal Grams

Cutie Pie Company

Poster Love

My office (ok…cubicle) is in desperate need of some artwork. Browsing online I stumbled across Poster Cabaret and fell in love.  Not only are these silkscreen posters awesome, but they’re affordable too! I need these:

New Orleans by Matte Stephens

FEIST Concert Poster by Vahalla Studios

Beck and MGMT Concert Poster by Vahalla Studio

Bright Eyes Concert Poster by The Small Stakes

The Decemberists Concert Poster by The Spike Press

She & Him Concert Poster by The Small Stakes

Heavy Rotation: Awesome T’s

At the Grand Opening of The Yellow Button months ago, I fell in love with the t-shirts from Heavy Rotation. The are cool, soft and have awesome graphics. Here are some of my favs:

Recent Work: Wedding Invites

Below are some snapshots of a recent wedding suite I designed. The lovely bride and her soon-to-be hubby were amazing to work with. The wedding takes place this September and I cannot be more honored to have my designs be a part of this couple’s special day. Enjoy!

Big Cartel: More Great Finds

Happy Friday!! Here are a few more great finds from Big Cartel.

Studio Olivine

Printspace (I want everything!!)

JP Prints

The English Muffin Shop

Frank & Gertrude

Have a great weekend!

Invitation Love: “Will you be my bridesmaid?”

When I ran across this post today, I thought it was the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen – I could not resist to post.  I’m not married or engaged, but who wouldn’t fall in love with this adorable invitation?! What a great way to ask your friends to share your special day.

Detailed instructions here: Once Wed

I’m back

I know I’ve  been missing in action lately, but the last month has been crazy for me! Between all the weddings, vacations, parties, weekend getaways, etc. I’m finally able to concentrate on more fun things! I started a new job two weeks ago, so I took some time to adjust to that – and so far I love it! The next few weeks I plan to dedicate to finishing up some freelance projects, focusing on promoting my blog and Etsy shop more and (finally) sharing some recent work with you! In the meantime, this was in my inbox this morning. I think my friends are trying to tell me something, haha. Enjoy!

25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer

(In no particular order)

1. You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
2. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
3. You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.
4. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
5. You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
6. You consider meals interruptions.
7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
8. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
9. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
10. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
11. You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
12. When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
13. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
14. You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
15. You’ve actually $paid for a font.
16. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
17. The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.
18. You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
19. You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
20. You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
21. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
22. You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
23. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
24. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
25. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.

New Wedding Invitations

The sunshine has steered me away from my computer lately, but I did have a chance to add a few new listings to my Etsy shop! Here is a sneak peak:

Visit my Etsy shop for more invitations and announcements.

Packaging Finds

Here are a few great packing designs I found recently.

images via lovely package and the dieline

and Happy Mothers Day!