Invitation

Here is an invitation announcement that I designed recently. I was asked to use purple, work with the picture and to add some kind of torn paper look. This is what I came up.

What's Happening With Me

This is going to be my new blog header in a few weeks.

The matching blog background

My current blog header. I liked this when I first designed it but if you look all three kids have different colors on so it makes matching it difficult! Then when I changed backgrounds I would change the font color on Becky's Home Life to a matching color. It is actually blue right now.. not red.

This is a page I designed that I thought would make my blog more personal since it has the family member names on it.

I glanced over to my blog and noticed that I didn't post anything at all the entire month of December! WOW! I did want to post all of my christmas photocards and as promised I will. In the mean time, I've posted a few personal things that I have worked on recently. School is really filling up my time! I also have another great UFC flag project coming up! So until next time.. try and stay warm!

Christmas Card Collection - MISTY GREY WINTER

If you are interested in owning your own collection for personal or commercial use, please send me an email! More designs to come....

Christmas Card Collection - MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS

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Christmas Card Collection - RED VELVET

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Christmas Card Collection - WINTER COLORS

I have designed a Christmas Photocard Collection for Carol Lee Photography. I'll be posting them one by one just for the holiday season! Keep an eye out for the rest.

If you are interested in owning your own collection for personal or commercial use, please send me an email!

Adobe Bridge

My new found love on my Mac. This was a hidden treasure that I didn't even realize I had. On my computer is Creative Suite 4 which Bridge comes with CS2, CS3, and CS4 so I had it this entire time without realizing it and was thrilled to learn about the program. I am taking a Digital Imaging class now and we jumped right into this program to help manage and organize our photos. This is great for photographers, and designers who may have a ton of photos that need organized, watermarked, copyrighted and more.

With Adobe Bridge you can view large amounts of images, rate the images from 1 to 5, view EXIP metadata, apply ITPC metadata, filter images, batch rename the entire set of images with a click of a mouse, and open files in Adobe Camera Raw or Photoshop, create galleries or slideshows in Flash or HTML. This software is such a time saver! I look forward to working more in Bridge.

Website Mockup & Floor Plans for Coffee Shop

For part of the Coffee & Cookies Branding, I was to design a mockup website for the company. This took elements that I previously had designed and put them together. The colors, my picture of the coffee, beans & cookies, and the logo design. I really like how all this came together. I didn't post my layout plans that I sketched out for the coffee shop, but the sign and menu inside the restaraunt is also on the wall with a chain so I copied that into the layout of the design for this webpage.

Storyboards

(If you click on the image, a larger one will pop up and you'll be able to read it much better! You must read the notations under each thumbnail to understand the narrative story.)

I had a project to design a 10-15 second web commercial that would be scattered across the web for Coffee and Cookies. This is the one that I drew up for the slogan... Coffee and Cookies.. Just Heavenly.

This was a lot of fun. I've never done storyboarding before and found it really interesting! I love the artsy, sketch part of the project. Simple, but attention getting thumbnails.

Promotional Advertising

For one of my recent lab projects in my classes, I was to design two versions of a promotional ad for the same fictional company.. Coffee & Cookies. Unity, Balance, Perspective, Typography, Composition, and anything else that would make the ad "pop" These are the two that I decided on. The first ad, Coffee & Cookies, is actually a darker brown. The picture that downloaded to my blog is a little off on colors. I need to figure out what causes this.. it happens a lot!