Inside My Pink Purse

Here we move again!

pinkpursecreative — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:50:55 +0000

Call me fickle, I don’t care but I’ve gone back to my blogger site. Follow me there.

http://pinkpursecreative.blogspot.com/

Caution: I’m Hot!

pinkpursecreative — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:54:38 +0000

I was so excited to get these new coffee cozies completed and posted to my etsy shop. I couldn’t wait to share some of the images with you. It just makes me giggle every time I look at them.

Look at all the great color combinations!

Embroidered Black Coffee Cozies

Inside the black embroidered cozies: purple, grey, lime green and white.Look at all the fun color combinations!

Nordlund Holiday Card

pinkpursecreative — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:37:39 +0000

I’ve been working on custom holiday cards for the Nordlund family and wanted to share some images with you. The most important thing when starting a new project is communicating with the client. If everyone is to be happy with the end result, you need to find out what their expectations are; color palette, layout ideas, likes/dislikes.

This family isn’t very religious and they have many friends who don’t celebrate Christmas. The first step was deciding that this would be more of a holiday card and can appeal to a larger audience. We choose a winter theme and stayed away from a typical Christmas color palette (red and green) instead choosing blues, purples and whites. I picked an incredible patterned paper by Heidi Grace and paired it with a deep purple (almost looks black in the photos).

They wanted to incorporate a photo of the kids as well which led me to creating the bracket. I die cut these with my new Sizzix Epic Six using a heavy silver metallic paper (thanks to Bramkamp Printing). This creates a nice landing spot for the photo to live. Setting it off to the left helps create interest in the layout and gives room for the holiday greeting. The holiday greeting was stamped using a Stampin’ Up stamp and their metallic ink in Platinum. I am so in love with this ink since it has a really metallic finish and is completely opaque. Plus it dries quickly! Happy Holidays was stamped onto a dark blue pearlescent paper (scraps/cut-offs from Poeme) and will be applied in the upper right corner using dimensional stickers (Hobby Lobby).

The client is providing the photos but I assisted in cropping the image and showing her how it would look on the finished card. Since the photos aren’t arriving until next week, I completed as much of the work in advance so I just trim the photos, stick them down and place the greeting.

I hope you enjoy this and I’d love to hear your comments! I’ll post pictures of the completed cards in a week or so.

Hello world!

pinkpursecreative — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:00:30 +0000

I’ve decided to move my blog and see if Word Press can give me more flexibility. It will be a learning process for awhile so bear with me. If you’d like to read the few posts I’ve already written, you can visit my blogger blog at http://pinkpursecreative.blogspot.com/.

Thanks for visiting and I hope to see and hear from you soon!