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Virtual Baby Shower Button
I love doing small jobs for previous customers who want to keep the same look and feel of my original design even for temporary advertisements or little features. Ashely Walkup from Beauty 4 Moms and Embracing Beauty is going to be featuring a virtual baby shower on her WordPress blog, Embracing Beauty, and asked if I could create a little button for her to advertise this event. I was delighted to do it, especially as it involved two of my favorite things – girlie design and babies! Let me give you some basics on how I designed this button, and share with you how to wrap text around a path in PhotoShop. Continue reading
Easy Faux Quilt Design in PhotoShop
Have you wondered how you can create a quilt style with threading or material like repeating pattern in Photoshop? This tutorial will show you specific steps on how to accomplish this. Continue reading
Sneak Preview of BookRoom Reviews
I’ve been busily working on a site redesign and reorganization for BookRoom Reviews. Here’s a little preview of what it will look like when it’s finished. I still have this new design on a test platform, so if you go… Continue reading
Recent Projects
Well, I’ve been very busy on some projects recently as well as other “life” stuff that have kept me from being able to post as much as I’d like to. I just completed a full WordPress website for a company that I did a WP blog for several months ago. They wanted their whole site transformed and consolidated into one WordPress Site. It was a huge process as I had to set up WordPress in their current hosting location, transfer the old blog over to it, and completely design and add content to their site from top to bottom.
Backgrounds, Icons, and Buttons
Well, as you can see if you’ve visited my site before, I’ve just updated the theme again. I like to create new design themes for my own site both for variety as well as to demonstrate some nice Artisteer, Photoshop, and WP tweaking techniques. I’ll list a few of those techniques in this post.
Customized Family Christmas Card
This was another Christmas card I just did for a family who wanted a very customized look. They also needed a few different versions of the same card for their business, close family and friends, and others on their Christmas card list.
The image to the right is the family version, but you can view their business version in my gallery.
This is what they requested: Continue reading
Family Christmas Photo
This was a project for a family who wanted to send out a family Christmas Card but in a 5×7 size to easily fit into a frame. They also wanted a theme that was more of a wintertime feel rather… Continue reading
Coral Formations by the Sea
This is a photo I took while in Guam this past year. I edited and designed this picture specifically for the hand carved frame pictured here. It is formatted to be printed as an 8×10, and I have both the… Continue reading
Lavender Prayer Journal Cover and Tab Inserts
I’ve just uploaded the prayer journal I’ve been talking about to my Store page. It’s a free Word Document that is completely formatted and ready for you to add in your own person details and print. See the store to… Continue reading
Creating a Digital Portrait in Photoshop
I did a post a couple of months ago on this topic when I was working on one picture of a set for a customer. I’ve now finished the other picture which is of his precious baby. This one is… Continue reading
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