Chinese Batik pattern

I go in and out of being interested in patterns. OK, scratch that. I am ALWAYS interested in patterns. I go in and out of feeling some sort of desire to play around with designing them. I kind of think it's a holiday thing. Something about the holidays makes me want to hang out in Illustrator and Photoshop.

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Pattern Play

I made this in photoshop with one of the free dover clips (sign up here) of the week and a free download from Mae.

Owls

These are part of our Save the Dates...which I still haven't finished but seriously just need one more weekend. I just need to actually do it!

This is a shot of all the owls before I paired them with their background paper. You can see that I still have their feet to cut out. Cutging out their feet probably took twice as long as the rest of the owl in entirety.

Welcome Home Sign

It's hard to read in this picture, but this was the sign I had hanging in my cousin's apt for when she and her (new) husband got home from their honeymoon.

This was another really simple project. All you need is paper, yarn (or string whatever), scissors, tape and a pen.

Welcome Home Boxes

My fiance and I recently house sat for my cousin while she was on her honeymoon. When she left her apartment, she had all these vases filled with flowers from the wedding. By the time she got back they would have all been really quite dead so we cleaned them. It seemed sad to just have these empty vases welcoming them home, so I filled the largest one with little welcome home messages. I used the left over paper from the banner I made. It wasn't fancy, but it was fun, and most importantly she loved it.

I should try and remember to do things like this more often. Random acts of crafts...or something like that. :)

Woot

Take THAT Halloween!

*cough*

Just say'n.

Also:

What's inside: here.

How I made the outside: here.

Work mast

I made this mast for the this week's newsletter. (I do a weekly newsletter for work.) I'm not sure we're going to get to use it due to some last minute changes so here it is! (Click to see the larger version :)