Birthday Subway Art

Howdy howdy. I have a million things to be doing right now to get ready for miss Ellie's party tomorrow... so what do I do!? Play on the computer!! I wanted a fun little subway art to put up in our living room, but couldn't find anything that I liked. So I decided to make my own. Then I thought I'd be nice and share. ;)

I wanted something to match the theme- sort of carnival-ish and bright and colorful (also referred to as rainbow- but if I say "rainbow party" everyone, including my hubby, snickers... so now it's is a "bright and colorful" party instead!) Anywho. Hopefully it will add to the colorful atmosphere tomorrow (and compensate a little for the fact that I really slacked on the party prep...)

If you would like it too, Here ya go.  CLICK HERE.

Merry Christmas 2011

I wanted to do something fun for a Christmas card this year, not just the usual "picture, merry christmas" etc. So I found some inspiration and this is what I ended up with.

Hope you all have a wonderful celebration of our Savior, full of joy, love and service!

Here is the other card that I sent out to those who I thought might not be interested in reading an entire page of Brewer Family happenings (the typical "family picture...Merry Christmas kinda card). :)

General Conference Packets for my Primary kids

*Update*

I fixed the link to download this from the blog and have added the jpg file for the crayon label. I will no longer be e-mailing out these files. Please read the instructions on how to download the file from here.

I've hosted the file on my husband's server (carbonated labs) so don't get confused when that's what the URL says. :)

Thanks!

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So I wanted to put something together for all my primary kids for this coming Conference. I looked all over the internet (got sucked into Pinterest for ideas! Darn that pinterest!!) I found a bunch of cute ideas, but nothing that I was overly fond of. So I copied a few ideas, came up with a few of my own and then made my own packets for the kids. I think they turned out so cute too!

I have a bunch of different sections with activities and then treats for completion of each section.

I made the packages small so that I could do lots of little pages per full page (saves paper!) Now they are small and portable. I made my own little covers for the packets and then covers for the crayons mounted on cute card stock for each kid so they all match. Then I used some of the extra metal rings I had from Ellie's quiet book and put them all together. I had to add some little fabric pieces to each, to add some color (because now they are "scrappy" tee hee hee). And then attached a treat bag at the back with treats for each section.

Some of the sections I included were: Listen carefully - where they have to listen for each of the words during conference), Bingo pieces - that they can cut out and put on the bingo sheet I included, Scripture match-up - where they have to match the scripture to what it's about, armor of god - they have to find which name goes with which piece of armor, name that apostle - match the apostle with his initial, a word search and crossword puzzle and lastly some talk sheets and pictures of all the apostles- so they can cut out each apostle and put it on the talk sheet they want to highlight with notes etc.

Here is the link to the PDF if you'd like to download it. Click HERE.

I saw a few comments that you couldn't download the PDF. I clicked on the link and it opened in a print window. If you click on the print icon and then select "Print to PDF" then you can select where to save it and print it from there. Hopefully that works.

Here is the crayon label. Just click on the image below to open it larger and then drag it to your desktop. or you can right click on it and choose "save target as" and then choose your desktop. Either of those should work.

Newest Client: McKay Manor Musers

So I got a new client a few months ago and she has managed to keep me very busy! This new client happens to be my aunt, but hey- it's a new client anyways. She started a new business with her daughters and has had me do everything from creating her logo to designing website pages and pattern covers etc!

It's been a fun process, but it's hard to make something for three people with totally different tastes who don't know what they want. Let's just say there have been a lot of edits and re-dos. ;)

Here are a few of the items I've created so far.


McKay Manor Musers logo

Business cards

Website pages

Homepage

Log in page

Product page

Here are a few different pattern covers that we've done (let's just say, she is indecisive and is having a hard time with just one cover...)

Full page pattern covers

Half-page pattern covers

Marketing Samples

I am a woman of many talents! ;-) I do ads, magazines, but am also technically on the marketing staff here at BuilderFusion, Inc. So I get to do all that fun stuff as well as any marketing that we do for Builderfusion. This is really fun. I get to be a little more creative on this stuff because I usually have more time and my boss has great ideas to help push me a little. Here are a few of the things I've done for our company.
For every area that we do a Parade magazine, we also do the ad sales. So I get to design a media kit for all the sales guys to send out. This is the template I designed and we just change the colors for every area.
This was a brochure I did for a marketing idea that my boss had. The top portion is the front of the tri-fold and the bottom is the inside.

This is one of many of our customer success stories that we do and put up on our web site to show potential companies how awesome we are!! ;-)
This is one of the newest ones. We are starting to do a media kit to send out to potential national sponsors. This is just one of the pages for this.
This was a "direct mail" piece sent via e-mail to let HBA members in the Tennessee area know that Craig (our President) was going to be in town.

Magazine Samples

Not only do I do ads, but occasionally I do an entire magazine. Oooohhhh. I help out with occasional Parade of Homes magazines, but also have the EO magazine that is all mine. This magazine goes out to all Executive Officers of Home Builders Associations across the U.S. I think this is a lot of fun too, but prefer ads since I can move around from project to project rather than being stuck on one for months on end and have ads to do on the side! Magazine design is fun because it's rewarding to see an entire project/magazine that was all your own handy work! So here are a few of the covers of those magazines as well as a few pages.


This cover was a lot of fun. We took the picture of this guy reading a paper, blurred him and then got rid of all the text on his paper. Then we had to add the texture of the paper back in and make our own paper to stick on top. It was so much fun! I think it turned out pretty cool and for all the work I put in, I'm quite pleased.