Designing for me.....

Just wanted to share our birth announcements and baptism invitations that I designed for our newest edition to our family Alivia Miyoko Ahern. I always have fun doing birth announcements but these were fun and stressful all at the same time. I am my own worse critic as well as my own worse client. It was all worth it though because I love the way they turned out!! The photo that we used was taken by Kelly Highby Photography. Kelly does a fantastic job and we are thrilled with our newborn pictures.

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Baptism invitation

Baby Arin

This is a little late than never. This baby announcement is for my sister-in-law's niece. Arin Elizabeth Cuvala. She is so beautiful and I can't believe how much she looks like my niece when she was a baby.

Catching up!!

So again it has been quite a while since I have posted but I need to deliver the finished products before posting them. I am very excited about these designs. I said before that I was busy with Holiday cards and baby announcements. I delivered the last design tonight so I can finally catch up.

Here are the Holiday cards that I did for my friend Michelle, my mom and sister.

These are the two baby announcements that I just finished. The designs have been done for a while but the babies had to be born before I could finlize them. I am very excited about having the opportunity to help announce these two baby boys.

This design was for my friend Lindsay. We go back a long way. Our moms went to college together so we always saw pictures of each other in Christmas cards. Then by chance we became sorority sisters in Kappa Alpha Theta when we attended college. This is the announcement for her first born Brody. She came to me with an idea that she liked and we went from there.

The second design was for my best friend Sarah announcing their first born Will. We decided that we would do a announcement/Christmas card combo. I was very excited to play with a few ideas that I had had. I gave her a couple of options and this is the one she selected. I am really pleased with the turnout.

Sending warm Holiday wishes from my family to yours. Stay tuned for some exciting designs that I am working on.

It has been way too long...........

It has been a little over a month since my last post. I haven't fallen off the face of the earth and I can't say that I haven't been designing. I just can't post all of what I have been doing lately because they are not fully finished. I have been busy with birth announcements and holiday cards. Two of the birth announcements that I have been working on were/are being designed before the baby arrives so that we could just insert a picture and the birth information and hit print. A couple of the holiday cards I am working on are finished but not delivered yet so I am holding out posting those until they are out of my hands.

So for now I have one of each to share.

This is Grant Thomas Moore. This little boy is the son of a good friend of my husbands. I was really excited to work with them but even more excited about his name. Grant is my brother-in-law's name and Thomas is my husbands name so we joke that the newest addition to the Moore family is named after our family.

This design was for a good friend that was so excited about my collection that we worked up a few proofs to help decide which design she liked best and which design complimented their picture. I think this was a great choice. I love the way the design works with the colors in their photo. Enjoy and check back soon. I have some fun designs to show!!

designs for friends at work........

Here are a couple of new designs that I did for some co-workers (at my real job). The first is a bridal invitation I did for a friend and co-worker that is getting married September 20th. I hosted a shower along with two other ladies for her at work.

The second design was for another friend and co-worker. Her sister gave birth to a little boy on September 11th. Amy thought it would be fun to give her sister announcments as a gift. This is what we came up with for the Greer family.

Twins

My friends Alice and Mike we blessed twice this May when they adopted two beautiful girls Sophie and Grace. They are absolutely adorable. As part of my baby gift to them I gave them a gift certificate to DBS to use as they wanted. Well........here are their announcements.

The new man in my life

Ethan Jay Sieck..........my nephew. My sister Beth gave birth to Ethan in February. I didn't think I would fall in love with another man but he stole my heart.

This is the invite for the shower that I hosted along with Randy's sister Jessica.

I was so excited to do Ethan's birth announcements but I was even more excited when Beth got her proofs back from his first photo session. A good friend of the family Carly has a photography business in Lincoln which worked out perfectly for Beth. Carly was gracious enough to let me use one of the pictures for the announcement. She gets all the credit for capturing such a great photo. Her website is http://www.carleylaflerphotography.com/.

Beth didn't get a chance to get back to Sidney for a baby shower before Ethan was born. Something about sitting in the car for 5 hours pregnant didn't seem too appealing. Plus she thought that if she waited until after he was born she could show him off to our friends and family that we don't get to see all that often.

more designs to share........

My mom turned 60 this year and made a comment that came back to bite her. She has some really wonderful friends that she made sure to celebrate their birthdays with over the years. Some of these celebrations were a little bigger than others but never the less she did something big or little to wish them Happy Birthday. I said that she had better watch because they would get her back. She said "I am sure that they will get a card or something little or maybe take me out to dinner but nothing too big". I decided that we needed to celebrate her 60th big so Beth and I planned a Surprise party for her. We, along with around 60 of her friends and family got her good.
This is my niece Ayla.....she is 17 months now but better late than never.

Lindsey was throwing her friend Kiera a Lingerie Shower and bachelorette party. She was one of my first and is now one of my best clients.
It has been the year of 50th's. Along with Wendy's parents turning 50 so did Nicole's parents and Shannon's mother-in-law. Here are their invites.