baby shower invitations

First comes love, then comes marriage…now comes the baby in the baby carriage! Congratulations to our newlyweds, Jillian and Matt. They are expecting their first baby in June 2012. It was a pleasure creating 30 of these semi-handmade baby shower invitations.  Thank you to my friend, Nancy, who helped with finalizing design details and precisely cut the pinking shear edges to each piece of ‘baby’ blue material. For more information on how I can make invitations like these for your event, email me : bdavidmill@gmail.com. Prices vary based on materials, starting at $7 each, includes envelope.

brian’s rocky road : candy design

Homemade Rocky Road is the order of the day. My husband, Brian is making his chocolate debut at our local green grocer, Lillian’s just in time for Valentine’s Day. This delicious chocolate treat is loaded with peanut butter, marshmallows and several other delectable ingredients making it the perfect chocolate choice for you and/or your special someone. For more information on how you can order locally or online, please email Brian Miller: brianmiller.bkm@gmail.com.

happy new year!

In honor of long, long ago and happy days gone by, this typography poster design represents the neighborhood many of my friends and I grew up in. Each entry is the name of a street that one or more of us lived on as we attended elementary through high school together. This poster is dedicated to those of us who graduated from Hiram Johnson High School, Class of 78 and still enjoy getting together from time to time. Some still live within a 20 minute drive of this hallowed neighborhood and have raised families here. Others, like me, live hundreds of miles away, but make a trip back home every so often just to reconnect. To all I take a cup ‘o kindness yet, for auld lang syne. Happy new year!

blog design : gresham high school choirs

 

Now that Gresham High School has rolled out its new website, it’s each teacher’s job to create and maintain online information accordingly. Some teachers have neither the time and/or the training to put important data online that is visually appealing, easy to follow and simple/quick to do. As a member of the GHS Choir Parents Council, I volunteered to create a blog for our Choral Director, Janine Kirstein. She has so much to share each year with students, parents, staff and peers that it seemed befitting for her to have a detailed online presence. And, for all the parents out there who rarely, if ever, see information sent home — this blog’s for you! Staying on top of choir information is vital to each student’s success.

The Gresham High School Choir blog is designed to inform, inspire and invite followers to see and hear the beauty of vocal arts through the GHS Choral Program. Choosing WordPress for the blog was familiar, convenient and most aesthetically pleasing. The theme, Dusk to Dawn gave Janine her preferred blue background with simple flourishes that exude art and music. Bonus : at the end of each year, the blog can be printed and kept as a nice journal of events.

ecard design : merry christmas!

Had a ton o’ fun taking these photos of our new kitten, Cloud. He was abandoned outside of a local vet’s office back in October. A friend of my son’s from high school who works at the vet surprised us with an introduction to this little 6-7 week old guy. We fell in love with him immediately and watched as he quickly made himself right at home. He is now a permanent family member. Cloud’s favorite perch and napping spot is atop a chair inside a brown fluffy blanket. This is the e-card I sent out to clients and friends.

win a $1500 destination vacation!

The Gresham High School Concert Choir is heading to Orlando, Florida this spring to compete in the 2012 Heritage Music Festival! Students are selling raffle tickets to raise $$$ to go. Two lucky raffle ticket holders will win 7 Days & 7 Nights at the World Mark resort of choice! For each raffle ticket purchased 100% goes into the student trip account. There is no limit to how many tickets one can buy! Tickets may be purchased thru March 1, 2012. Contact me for more info!

Choir students will use this flyer to inspire, excite and inform their audience as they each raise money to participate in this special musical experience. While creating this, I reminisced about my own high school travels. One trip in particular still stands out above all — our whole senior class flew to LA to spend the entire night [11pm-7am] in Disneyland. The park was filled exclusively with pending high school grads from the west coast. Good times!

graduation announcements : university of oregon

 

Oregon, our Alma Mater, we will guard thee on and on…such is the sentiment of the 2011 University of Oregon graduates. This year I had the privilege of creating personalized graduation announcements for one of UO’s Lundquist College of Business grads, Lenny Pichette. Lenny requested a dark green cardstock for the cover so I chose Beckett Cambric Greenbrier. For the interior card panel I went with Mohawk Solutions Ivory Linen with matching No. 10 envelopes. Lenny’s submitted photo was processed in sepia tone as a complementary nod to his BA degree color of brown. The handcut photo window zooms in on our grad while a nice scenic surprise delivers insight to this grad’s career destination. Once opened, a two-sided tasselled medallion with a UO seal hangs taughtly from slick golden thread as the honorary UO emblem of choice. The ivory linen envelopes made for a cohesive and polished delivery. This impressive graduate has a career position in Seattle waiting for him — congratulations Lenny! Go duck go, keep winning duck win!