Birth Announcement

Here is a birth announcement I made for my cousin when she had her baby.  Yes I am aware that I am a several months behind on posting this!

New business cards!

I figured it was about time to update the look of my business card.  My old ones still had my maiden name on them, and I just wanted to give it a more updated feel and also include my blog on it.  

I designed these and printed them out myself.  They aren't the greatest quality, and I did consider getting them professionally printed via Vista Print, but in reality I rarely give anyone my card and I felt it would just be a waste of money getting them printed just so they could sit on my desk and eventually collect dust.  After making these cards I took a trip down memory lane to my very first business card I designed.  And my second.  My newest one is my third, and its cool to see the evolution of my business card through out the years.  The first and last cards are my original Illustrator files.  The middle one is just a scan because something when wrong with it's original file and I couldn't get it to open.  

Design work!

Ugh, let me tell you that I spent almost an hour trying to write this post only to have good ol' Safari freeze on me after I was nearly done with my post THREE TIMES...ugh!!!!

Well, over the past few months I have been turned off from drawing. I haven't touched a pencil, and really don't have a desire too lately either. I think I was mostly turned off by last year's The Sketchbook Project. I spent all of last fall/winter drawing in the same sketch book, trying to perfect it, and finish every single page, only to find out that after traveling to 5 major cities, it was only viewed once...ONCE! Needless to say I will not be participating in it again this year.

Instead I've been concentrating on my design work. Aside from my day job working as a photo retoucher, I was able to score some side work for Hazelman Farms. I redesigned their current logo for them, and am also working with them on designing a website for a client of theirs.