The Shower

Here's a couple pictures I took with my handy iPhone...the room itself is absolutely gorgeous, so it didn't need much decorating.

Table decorations:
* Blue and grey table confetti shaped like flowers
* Plant from Trader Joe's, wrapped in kraft paper and tied with blue ribbon
* Vase filled with oreos, tied with blue ribbon
* Bag of jelly beans
* Plastic box containing matching blue cupcake holder insert (made at 1am the night
before), choco or vanilla cupcake, tied with blue ribbon, and 2 stickers saying
"Rori's Bridal Shower 8/22/10" and "Thanks for coming!"

The fun hanging white balls are actually tissue pom poms. I love them!

Thanks to Dan

These are some of the projects I made for Graphic and Package design classes at Art Center at Night. Thanks to my amazing teacher, Dan Hoy, for making me push the limited skills I had, I'm happy with how they turned out.

Bridal Shower Shennanigans (did I spell that right?)

I'm throwing a bridal shower for my dear friend, Rori, and was given free reign on designing the invitations. I found this cute pinwheel-style packaging at Paper Source, and then heat-embossed a stamp I made that reads "a bridal shower event..." I really liked the "opening ceremony" of it. The invitation was printed on textured, white paper. Designing the girl took quite awhile...first I made her bangs too big, then her arms were too fat, etc. I finally got it the way I wanted though :)












And this is a bingo card I quickly threw together that will be one of the bridal shower games. Players will use little paper hearts I punched out of teal and grey paper as their game pieces (not pictured).

The Perfect Bind

I went to an awesome bookbinding workshop yesterday and made this. The great thing about a perfect bind is that the book opens flat, which is nice for art books. The covers seem a little bulky so I'm going to start making them with a soft cover and larger sheets of different colored paper as sketchbooks. Sometimes you just want to draw on non-white paper. Also with a soft cover, you can actually fold the entire book backwards under itself to make a sturdy sketchpad.

A Chris Sanders business card

My director, Chris, saw Rad's business cards and was dying to have some of his own. How could I say no to the chance to letterpress an incredibly talented and famous artist's business cards? I couldn't. Here they are. They were terrifying and intimidating to print. They were even more terrifying to present to him; thank goodness he liked them.

I ran into the same problem printing Chris' signature as I did with printing Rad's name in the cards below. They took SO MUCH INK to lay a solid color on the letters and took many tries, but after printing Rad's the week before, I was more aggressive in getting enough ink on the rollers. Another problem I ran into is that when I flipped the paper over to print the tiger (I printed that part last), I noticed that it lifted the impression on the text side up a little. The impression is still there, but not as deep as I'd like. Something to remember for the next time I print something double-sided.