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This organization is in my neighborhood, trying to make a difference in the lives of children. I support them wholeheartedly and donated the design time and layout to them for this project. The background photo is one I created myself from a photo I shot several years ago. I built the entire design off of that one photo.

Created to spark some interest in upcoming missions trips and provide a bit of info about each of them.

This year was an “Election” theme. Red, white and blue streamers! Very festive, fun and classic all wrapped up in one. Hope those bankers have fun at their annual event this year!

A co-worker asked me to make a “Mickey Mouse themed banner” for his son’s birthday party. Here’s the result! It’s about 4-feet across and one foot tall. Printed off a wide-format Designjet printer on paper.

It’s no secret among my acquaintances that AJ’s Pizza is my favorite, favorite, favorite pizza. Their pizza is just fantastic. Here is a box topper (more to come) designed for the Manhattan location. There’s going to be a series of them, and I’ll post them as they are designed.

This one is a 1×5. Recreated from a dinky thumbnail image. I love Illustrator!

Check out their etsy shop here! One partner does sewing, the other makes jewelry! I got to make their banner.

I found the most wonderful, creative way to tell my husband I love him this year for Valentine’s day and I just have to share. I wish I could take all the credit, but I was inspired by this post on the Dating Diva’s website.

In a nutshell, I came up with a scratch-off lottery ticket, one for each day, with a special treat for each day. (Actually, three different ones for each day.) Some days it’s a thing I’ll do for him, some days it’s something I’m buying for him, and other days it’s decadent treats – I’d reveal them to you but since we are only on day 2 of February as I write this, he hasn’t scratched all the days yet and I don’t want to ruin the surprise.

First, I printed out the template (I created it over my lunch break (on Feb. 1st) and printed it out on a heavyweight cardstock. Then, when I got home, I filled in all the boxes and covered each with clear packing tape. Then, I mixed up the silver acrylic paint and the dish soap. Gloppy stuff!

I wanted to give these to him as soon as he got home from work. I had about 3 hours to get them completely done – which I did, but they had to dry. I set the wet sheet up in front of a space heater to speed up the process. It took about a half hour for them to dry. I rotated them every 5 minutes or so as to not pucker the plastic tape underneath them with too much heat.

When he got home, I showed him my handiwork and told him we should wait till after dinner for the first lottery love ticket. (I wanted to make sure they were dry) The smile on his face was worth all the work and he seems to love it!

If anyone wants the blank template here’s a link to download it! It is a 3-page PDF

This is one of my favorite customers to see upload a job at HCP. The work I get to do for them is refreshing and fun and really gets my creativity flowing. This is a full-spread of the 2012 Plant Wishbook cover, inside and out. They designate the cover photo and I pretty much take it from there!

The Kansas Catholic Conference is producing a series of reflections by some of it’s members and needed to put them into a format that they could send out to their parishioners via e-mail and also print. Since there is more than one, they needed a good format that could carry over to all of them and make them look like a series. They provided me with a few logos, samples from previous years and the copy. I encouraged a one-page, non-folding format to save the secretaries at each church the time of folding them all by hand.  This is the final result. As the others are complete, I’ll add them too.

They will print out well on the average desktop or laser printer. The points are made clear and easy for those who are going to scan it. The layout is easily expanded for future letters which may or may not be longer than the first one. There are interesting visual element too without overpowering the overall professional, seriousness of the information.