Wyatt's Birth Announcement

Another successful digital design in the bag. I did Tessa's maternity portraits as well as Wyatt's newborn portraits and then got the honor of designing his birth announcement.

Have a holly jolly custom Christmas.

Last year we sent out Christmas cards that I designed using one of those online order systems and although they were fine, I hated them. I didn't know how to do my own that were decent last year so I just settled. This year I was bound and determined to design my own that I loved.

Well, I did it. And, although its not super spectacular. I do kinda like them. So here it is, the Dever family Christmas card for 2010:

Look for yours in the mail soon!

I did enjoy designing it though so if you need a Christmas card still send me an e-mail and let me take care of it for you!! :)

Ben's "Suprise" invite

So I spoke about this a while ago in this post. This party was supposed to be a suprise, but wasn't but I still didn't want to blow it by posting this. But here it is. TA-DA!

I'm glad everyone was a good sport about the horrible yearbook photos :)

Better Late than Never

Megan didn't get a gift at her bridal shower from me because I bought the wrong size shadow box. So she has to wait until her lingerie party to get it. But here is what I made for her.

 

I shadow boxed her invitation. Sorry about the weird glare on the glass, I just took a quick picture. The glass also shows the glue at the top :( bummer. But I added little wedding charms and things around it. There is also a bunch of loose rings at the bottom but you can't hardly see them. Hope she likes it.

Digital Design

The more I play with my design programs the easier they get. Well duh, right?! But I've actually had a purpose to use them to creative digital invitations for two events this week. I was super excited with how both of them turned out. They have completely different feels but are both very much my "style." The first one is for a surprise party that is well, not really that much of a surprise but I still can't post it yet. So that will come later, in about a month or so :) The second one still has some text that will change as plans develop but the design is done for it! I have already had a ton of compliments on it so I tend to love it even more. Let me know what you think!

 

And yes, I blocked out certain pertanent information to a group of young, hot girls playing in a big town :) So no, you can't find us, well not as easily now.

Creativity in different forms

I've always liked to design things. I just have never put my mind to actually mastering a lot of things. And, although I like to work with paper, I do not think I'd like to scrapbook. I have a very addicting personality and I think if I ever delved into scrap booking I would be A) broke B) unemployed and C) divorced because I would probably become so engulfed in it that I would have no life. But a special occasion came about and I insisted on being the creative force behind it. My best friend is getting married in November and I wanted to custom design her invitations to her bridal shower and lingerie party. I took a simple card stock, paper and velum concept but put them together two different ways and came out with two very different invitations. I really like both designs and am very proud of how they turned out.

This is the invitation that I did for the bridal shower. It was a "western" theme to it and I wanted a very raw and natural feeling to it. Megan's favorite color is also red. Lots of red. Which you can tell when you see the lingerie shower invite:

 

The lingerie shower was glued on all four corners so it was a completely flat invitation but the bridal shower invitation was tied together so it had three loose layers. I really liked how both of them turned out :) I did two graphic invitation too this week but they are still in the finish stages so I'll post them when they are done! I really look forward to doing more of them for other people.