Sydnie Baby Announcement

I didn't want to post this when I first finished it, because I knew my cousin hadn't sent them out yet and wanted to give her time to send them before I stole all the thunder. I am still not sure if she mailed them out, but that's ok. I thought I'd post it anyways. What a cute little baby, huh!? I'm gonna have to start thinking more "girl oriented" since my next announcement will probably be for my littl girl. :)

Jacen and Irma Announcement

This one was done for my brother-in-law and his fiance from Peru. When she came over, she didn't speak much English, so I ended up just working with my MIL to do it. All I was told was that she liked purple and that her middle name was Violeta (not sure if she really liked purple or if my MIL just said that cause her middle name meant "purple") Oh well. it was a fun one to do as well.

More Baby Announcement Samples

Couple more announcement samples. Sorry Em and Jen, I needed a few girly samples and these were the only pics I had. They would've made such cute little girls. tee hee hee.

More Advertising/Promotional Samples

Here are a few more of the ads I did over the past few months (well, the ones I liked doing and turned out well...)

This was a marketing piece I made-probably one of my favorite projects because they told me I could do whatever style I wanted. Finally! Something I want to do! ;) It's actually a spread and the print size was 12x24. I even found the printer to print this and saved our company 5 THOUSAND bucks! No lie! Ya, they know they love me here. ;)

This was for a guy who had never advertised before so he didn't have any ugly ads to send me and say 'make it look like this'. I love those kinds of clients. :)

These guys were trying to back out of advertising the day of print(!), but our sales guy told me to go ahead and design it anyways and send it over to them to look at. Once they saw the ad, they were so happy with it and glad that they kept their ad in the magazine.

Christmas Cards

Here are a few of the Christmas Cards I did this winter. I love doing stuff like this, especially when other people do the hard work and I can use their stuff! Yipee!


This was a card I did for a neighbor. We were going to do it together (so I could show her how), but things got too crazy and busy, so I just put it together for her. What a cute family!
Credits:
1st Card: Elements and paper from the blue card are from the Frosted Kit by Little Dreamer Designs.
2nd Card: Frame and ribbon are from the Whimsical Wonderland Kit by Ellie Lash (her portion). I made the green paper and then the tree overlay is from Jingle kit by vks(?)
3rd Card: The papers are from the Joy to the World Kit by Linda Cumberland. The trees were designed by Little Mrs. Liz. The stich is from the Tis the Season kit by Amanda Burns. I can't find where I got the frames from...but i didn't make them.

Web Site Samples

I've been working on a few web site ideas for our Parade sites here at work. I guess the ones we currently use are just blah, so my boss asked me to think of a few ideas that we could do instead. So that's what I've been doing over the past week or so (hour here and an hour there...taking my time so I have something to do!). Here is what I came up with. I must admit that I am very proud of myself with the brown one(picture book style). It think it looks pretty cool! The blue one has the transparency boxes over the main image, but those are only there so our flash guy knows what kind of animation we want. Let me know what you think!

More Sample Advertisements

Here are a few more recent ad samples from some of our Parade Magazines.