Happy New Year!

To Do: 3 Major Art Projects

I made a promise to myself this year: to give or make some aspect of my Christmas gifts.

To Do
Finish handmade Christmas cards (12)
Finish handmade Christmas ornaments (5)
Sew applique onto velvet ribbon for NYE dress (1)
Work on mermaid painting (1)
Finish Thank You card design (1)

I do not know how this is going to work out.

Happy Holidays!

Awesome Design Community Site: Adventures in Making

I have some seriously amazing and talented friends and my dear friend, Alison Lang, created Adventures in Making. AIM is a creative community born out of Alison's nature to be a "Design Mommy." She has always been an amazing resource by offering up much needed direction and advice. I haven't joined in on the fun yet but I plan to.

If you need design direction or a community filled with creatively talented individuals, go there!

Happy 4th of July!

Design: Mariners Opening Day Shirt

I love baseball. There's nothing like Opening Day at the Mariners :). My former Mariners husband, Ichiro and I got a divorce when I started having an affair with Hyphen. In honor of my new Mariners husband, I made designed an Opening Day Shirt.

This is the front:

This is the back:

This is me on Opening Day!

Featured Earrings: Textured Metals

Last night I took a 4 hour textured metal earring workshop at Seattle's Pratt Fine Arts Center in the Central District.

I could have made earrings that look like these (via Anthro):

Instead I made these:

Much more my style! All you need is L-O-V-E :).

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2010 Everyone!

Personal Design: Wastal Family Holiday Card

This year my parents let me design our family holiday card. I originally went with this design:

Then my friend Casey mentioned that it might seem a little too edgy (def my style but maybe not so much for the family holiday card). So then I came up with this:

Here's the back of the card:

And then here's the inside:

What do you think? Suggestions for next year's card?

I'm a Fan: Royalty Free Vector Designs from Vector Jungle

If you're in need of a really fan-freaking-tastic royalty free vector graphics, let me introduce . . .

(Drum roll please)

Vector Jungle!

Enjoy :).

Corporate Identity and Personal Design: Thank You Cards

I've designed a couple of thank you cards in the last couple of months. I'll be writing thank you notes after Christmas, so I thought it would be an appropriate time to post them.

This is a corporate design for Mercent. The CEO wanted it be clean and minimal as to match the overall corporate brand. Here's the winner:

I decided for my personal thank you cards I wanted a look that combined modernity with antiquity. Usually, floral patterns and prints don't do it for me but I really loved the finished result: