Hyena Cart Design for "K&A Designs", Part III

Here's a screenshot of Stormy's finished design!

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Hyena Cart Design for "K&A Designs", Part II

Stormy chose the second background (with the circles) and wanted a more "cute" font for her header. Here are a few different ideas. The first is the original for comparison.

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Hyena Cart Design for "K&A Designs"

I'm so excited to be working with Stormy of K&A Designs!

She was looking for a jungle-animal-themed shop with "safari animals- monkeys, elephants, giraffes, birds, cutesy cartoon-ey animals. neutral colors- yellow, green, orange, brown".

We found a darling graphics set and I've designed her shop around the monkey and the color palette from the animals.

Here are a couple of slightly different mock-ups. Colors, animals, placement, etc., can all be changed until they're perfect! Click image to view larger:

Blog Customization for "Project Nightlock"

A huge thank you to my sweet sister for babysitting my kiddos!

She's having an awesome Hunger Games-themed party so I customized a blog where she can post rules, announcements, info, and etc. for her friends. :)

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Sneak Peak at our new Fabric Design and Pinafore Pattern!

I've been hard at work designing the perfect fabric (printed through Spoonflower, of course!) and pattern for baby girl's 1st Birthday outfit. Here's a sneak peak!

Fabric is available at Spoonflower. I'll be asking for pattern testers soon!

Free Summertime Logo for "Steep the Senses"

Mel sent me some images for her animated banner and I loved this one of the iced tea! I thought it would be a really sweet summertime logo.

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Animated Banner for "Steep the Senses" - Summertime!

Here's Mel's new animated banner to welcome summer!

Animated Banner for "Healing Gems"

Here's Darice's new banner!

Animated Banner for "Fair Trade Family"

Beautiful new banner for Tiffany's shop:

"Auricular Adornments" is now at Creative Mamas!

We're excited to welcome "Auricular Adornments" to the Creative Mamas Congo!

Hyena Cart Design finished for "Fair Trade Family"

Here's the final design for Tiffany's shop! Click image to view larger:

Hyena Cart Design finished for "Healing Gems"

I had a wonderful time working with Darice on her shop. Here's the final product!

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Hyena Cart Design for "Fair Trade Family"

I'm so excited to be working with Tiffany again!

She wanted her Hyena Cart design to match her beautiful new Etsy shop design, with a blue sketchy background.

Here's the mock-up with new header, top navigation buttons, background, border, and font color:

"GaleSong" America's Got Talent Audition Video

GaleSong is the singing group I'm in with my 4 sisters. :) We formalized our group in 2007 and have enjoyed performing for family and close friends. We excel at 5-part harmonies and love a variety of different music styles.
Thought I'd share our audition video. Please leave any kind comments you'd like on the video!
GaleSong YouTube Video

And we'd love a few more fans/likes on our Facebook page if you have a moment:
GaleSong Music Facebook Page

Final Watermark Designs for "Closet on Queen Creek"

Here are Rhonda's finished watermarks in different sizes. LOVE how these turned out!

Hyena Cart Design for "Healing Gems", Part II

Darice liked the aurora background but wanted to try something with a bit more pink, lighter, and perhaps with fairies. She wanted to try the header without the fairy and perhaps lighter as well.

Here are a few different mock-ups! 1st has a lighter pink background and white header. This design seems much softer than the space background one and is pleasant to look at. 2nd has a little bit darker pink than the first, and the addition of fairies. 3rd is the original background but with the fairy taken out of the header.

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Watermark Design for "Closet on Queen Creek"

Rhonda was looking for a watermark for her gorgeous handmade items at: Closet on Queen Creek.

I tried 3 different ideas for her.
1 - Her original header image with the white background taken out. This one was difficult because the original has a shadow effect so quite a few colors blend into each other. It's not as sharp as the others and not my favorite.
2 - I re-drew her font and the crown image so they would be crisp and clear. Also added a nice embossing effect.
3 - I used a special font and the re-drawn crown image. Also added a nice embossing effect.

Samples of the watermarks against a plain background and on one of the pictures from her shop. Click on images to view larger:

Hyena Cart Design for "Healing Gems"

Darice was looking for a new design that incorporates the following: her lotus flower, a fairy, pinks and purples, lots of color, not too much white, and a fun, easy-to-read font. I designed her theme around beautiful swirls of pink and purple space nebula.
Here's the first mock-up!

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Designs for "Fair Trade Family"

Here are the final mock-ups for Tiffany's Etsy Shop, Business Cards, and Watermarks!

I added a thin border around the Etsy banners to help them stand out a little bit from the white Etsy background.

Copyrights shown in various sizes. Owl hat image is a sample of how the watermark will look when applied to an image. Purchase price includes instructions on how to add watermarks to images using free online software. :)

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Note: Personal info blurred to protect client's privacy.

Family History Project - Almon B. Bate

Phew! What an incredible, exhausting, fantastic project this was!

My Uncle Peter found my Great-Grandfather's diary in an old box of things from a relative. He asked me to transcribe it for our Bate Family Reunion today. The diary was written in 1927 when Almon was a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii. What an awesome experience it was to see his handwriting and find out about his experiences.

This was a very involved project and my house definitely shows it! I've spent the past few months transcribing the diary when I could squeeze in a moment, but since the reunion was today I spent most of the past week finishing up the transcription and finding historical maps, images, family histories, pedigree charts, and family group records to help get a more complete picture of Almon's life.

Here's a little collage of the project:

Summary of project:
- Scanned each page of the diary (172 pages)
- Transcribed each page (80 pages in document form) with the help of online Hawaiian dictionaries
- Found and copied maps of Hawaii and the railroad line from Utah to California
- Found and copied images of the boats he traveled on and also his gravestone
- Copied Pedigree and Family Group records
- Compiled everything on my computer
- Copied the files to CD's to give away at the reunion today

After the first few pages I was used to Almon's handwriting. The hardest part for me was trying to figure out the Hawaiian words and places!

The reunion today was fantastic! I met many relatives whom I didn't know before, enjoyed handing out CD's and showing Almon's diary, and scanned documents and pictures that some of them had brought. I look forward to getting to know my Bate relatives better at future reunions. :)