another baby blog

oh cJ has many friends who are pregnant. her blog has inspired many of them to start blogs of their own!

mK is also having her first baby due in september. i created a blog banner for her that catered to her wishes of: neutral colors, baby animal, and the tag lines: "God's gift to us. m&s baby 2009."

well, mK suggested a teddy bear. i think that's a bit cliche, so i went for ducklings. when i asked her if that was okay, she mentioned that she did not like birds or ducks (me neither..but i do like silhouettes of them); however, simultaneously i had already created a few blog banners and sent them her way with the duck silhouettes.

just as i pressed send, i got her email about her not wanting to use ducks. but then she saw the blog banners i made and she loved them!

so here are the banners i created. the swirl not only is decorative, but it also represented to me "God's gift" of the baby to m&s.

please check out her blog to see which banner she selected!

this is too fun. can this be my full time job please?

kim-squared

yeah, well, if you don't know already i have a wedding/life blog called kim-squared.

it's my blog baby and i love it and write an entry everyday. i made the banner for it a long time ago when i bought vintage alphabet blocks. i was already on the hunt to collect them to use them in our wedding, so i thought it would be fitting to also use them for the blog banner. i don't know where the original banner file is, but the image above is what i used for it. To see the banner, visit my blog.

for ina kwon :)

i never shared with you the blog banner i designed for inakwon. i like to call her ina kwon because that's what i like to call her. plus i have another ina friend, so it makes her special that i have to say her first and last name.

ina kwon did not ask me to make her a blog banner. i just decided to one day. and she loved it! cool. check out her blog and her wedding process here.

anyone else need a blog banner? soliciting requests right here.

baby blogs

cJ asked me to help her begin a blog. she is pregnant and wanted the perfect way to share information with family and friends! i suggested a blog, of course!

i offered to create a blog banner for her.... since she does not know the gender of the baby, we used colors she liked. i incorporated her tag line "milestones to memories" and her love of trees and leaves to create a banner that used ginkgo leaves.

why ginkgo leaves?

i love ginkgo leaves! i used to pick them up all the time in japan and thought to myself: these look like perfect hearts. so i used them to symbolize the "milestones to memories" tag line.

here are the banners i created. to see which one she picked, please visit her blog: babyjohn2009.





now, how can i convince my sister-in-law to blog?

finally waba has a blog!

you must check out deglaze me.

my sister writes about food she cooks, eats, and loves.

she is quite the foodie!

here's the blog banner i made for her:

save the dates.

envelopes

I like feeding envelopes through my printer.

christina's blog banner

I really want my little sis to start blogging.

she has such a passion for food and just received an awesome SLR for christmas!

she's thinking about a creative name for her blog...

..in the meantime, i'll present some banner ideas i created for her using blog titles that I like:

I am not sure why I kept with the skyblue and eggplant color scheme but i like it.

Dude. I love font.

which one is your favorite?

purple swirl suite for mike & olivia

olivia wanted to create her own invites. i created a simple invite to inspire her to elaborate and make it her own. here is my draft...

i like how the font used for their names has the same type of swirls as the decals.

i am eager to see her end product! good luck girl!

Dude. I love brushes.

vpL blog bannerS

I have this friend named vpL (not to be confused with Visible Panty Line).

He has a blog where he rants about current events. I made a blog banner for him today:

We also created a new blog for him where he can share some of his creative writing pieces. I decided to name the blog "short-shortz" (get it??) and created this banner:

Dude. I'm cool.

envelopment: yellow flower suite

here are pictures of the yellow flower suite in an envelopment that i of course made myself with paper and tape. ha!

Dude. Envelopment is a word.

yellow floral suite

on the plane ride back to san diego today, i was inspired to design a more sophisticated invitation suite.

invitation:

info card:

rsvp card:

i imagine it will be in a 5x7 envelopment with the invite glued on one section and a pocket that will hold the info card and rsvp.

mhk like crazy blog banner designs

crazypolaroids-white:
simple-white:
simple-gray:
triopolaroids-gray:
polaroidsfancyfont-blue:
crazypolaroids-blue:

all pictures, text, font, background colors are editable.

illustrator mock-up

i only know how to use illustrator from trial and error.

here are some drafts i produced: