Email received last week via my contact form:
Corrie,
Love all the forms you’ve designed. Any practical advice or resources for a beginning form maker?
You rock,
Bob
First, thanks for the kind words, Bob!
In no particular order, here are all my thoughts about making forms.
Forms for me: I make forms that address a need for me. That means [...]
I am very very very excited to announce that my new “side business” is finally opening its virtual doors. VERY.
Introducing Custom Shadow Box at www.customshadowbox.com!
Business plan? What business plan?
The [rather uncreatively named] business is meant to be a side project for me. I enjoy working with my hands, and this is an opportunity to try [...]
In my t-shirt design, I’m using Envelope Distort in Illustrator for tweaking the shape of the words. Envelope Distort is awesome for getting words to fit into weird shapes. There are a few ways you can use Envelope Distort in Illustrator CS2 — I’ll show you what I did for the t-shirt design. Then, I’l [...]
Heavily inspired by Paige Pooler and this guy at istockphoto, I’m trying a new style of illustration. I call it the “retro round-head big-eyed woman-look.” (Take a look at the links and you’ll see what I mean.)
So, here is my first attempt at a retro round-head big-eyed self-portrait using Illustrator:
Question — should I go with [...]
Armed once more with Illustrator and a color printer, plus scissors, a glue stick, and x-acto knife, I started in on making favors for this weekend’s baby shower. (You may already have read about the invitations and note cards, and caught my honey pot tutorial from yesterday, but in case you didn’t, there are the [...]
This morning I started on the last component of the Baby Bee baby shower paraphernalia. The other bridal shower organizers decided on getting inexpensive “honey stix” for favors. My job was to figure out a cute way of packaging them. I’ll have to post the results later on, but as part of my project, I [...]
I have insomnia (lack of sleep + caffeine = wired), which means that I am getting a lot done. Tonight (this morning?) I worked more on the baby bee baby shower project by creating a simple notepaper design for my friend to use for thank-you notes. Here’s how they turned out:
Doodah suggested that I incorporate the cheering groundhog into the monthly goal tracking forms, and thanks to Illustrator’s Live Trace function (using “Comic” setting), it didn’t take very long (I just had to adjust the paths for the letters and words). You can download the updated PDF or Word document versions on the Monthly Goal [...]
Two of my good friends are pregnant for the first time, and I’m helping to throw separate baby showers for both of them along with some of the other women in my church small group. The original plan was to have the invitations for the first shower ready to go by this morning. On Thursday [...]
I decided to take some time this morning to make a monthly calendar spread for my new organizer in Illustrator. Similar to my weekly pages, I wasn’t going to put actual dates on the pages, but wanted to have a base layout that I could then fill in. So, basically, I wanted to make a [...]
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