Catching up before I take time off........

So, it has been two months since my last post but I have been really busy with design work not to mention preparing for our little baby girl to arrive. I thought it would be good if I updated before I took some time off to spend with Alivia after she arrives. I will have one more post hopefully in the near future to showcase the wedding that I worked on in May and June.
Until then.....
This was for a friend's couple shower that is getting married Labor Day weekend.
My girlfriends Brother-in-Law is getting married this August and they were hosting a couples shower for the Bride and Groom.

As another part of that wedding preparation I designed rehearsal dinner invitations to work with their wedding invites for the Mother of the Groom.
This announcement was for a friend of my Sister-in-Law's. She is starting a new exciting chapter of her life and wanted to send an announcement with her new information.

Wendy is at it again. She is walking in the Breast Cancer 3-Day in Denver with a few friends. They are using Footloose and Cancer Free as their team name. Here is their logo.

This is what I have been working on finishing up so other than posting images of the Hruska/Plummer Wedding and maybe a couple small personal projects, I will be taking some time off from designing to get to know our little girl. She should be here any day......and yes when she is here I will post pictures to introduce Miss Alivia Miyoko Ahern!!

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.

Spring brings Showers!!

I have been busy busy with the Hruska Plummer wedding that I will be sharing when I get some photographs of the finished product but until then I have some fun shower invitations to share.

The first is for some good friends that are due just a few short days before we are. I am so excited that our little girls will be friends and that we will be able to have play dates!! So these are for Denise and Mike.This second set is for my sister-in-laws, sister-in-law. I was really excited about theses because she wanted her invites to be of a bride silhouette. I have done many baby belly silhouettes but not a bride. I am very excited about how these turned out.

This last one is in fact another one of my belly silhouettes. Jen wanted a girl version of a previous invite that I had done for my friend Sarah. I don't like to use the same invite more than once so I changed it up a little.

The last is a little funny to post about because........well it was an invitation for me. My sister and my mom's good friend threw a wonderful shower for me back in my home town of Sidney NE. I had to laugh when thinking about doing these but then I separated my two babies.....Alivia and my business. So here is my invite!!

Birthday Time.........

It's been a while since I have blogged about my current designs. I have been busy with birthday invites, baby announcements, baby shower invites, and wedding invites. SO for now, here are the birthday invites that I finished.

For Gavin's 5th birthday he is having a Super Squad Party!!

Suprise Linda!!

Ethan is ONE!!

My nephew Ethan turned 1 today!! I can't believe that it has been an entire year. I can remember the day he was born as if it were yesterday. It was such an awesome experience to be able to be a part of his birth. Anyway - I designed the invitations for his birthday party that we had on Valentine's Day.

It was such a fun time!! My friend Wendy has a cake business called Sweetie P's so we asked her to make a cake to go with the John Deere theme. It was awesome. Thanks Wendy!!

Baby Girl on the way!!

Here is an invite that I created for a baby shower for a friend. She came to me with some photos of the bedding that the parents had picked from Pottery Barn Kids. They were planning on purchasing the bedding as group gift from the invited guests so we only thought it would be fitting to model the invite after the bedding.

So this is what I came up with. I am really excited about the final product!!

Blog Backgrounds

I started designing Blog Backgrounds that work with the Blogger Templates. I have designed a few but here are the two that are active on my blogs.

designed by sabrina
The Ahern Family
If you haven't already checked out our family blog feel free to go to http://www.ahern-family.blogspot.com/

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays from my family to yours!!

Hope that 2009 brings you happiness and blessings!!

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!!