“Living a Life of Impact” graphics

Our church has a “fall focus” every year when the students come back where everyone – children (sometimes), junior high and high schoolers, college students, and adults – comes together to focus on the same topic for six weeks. In the past, the church has used packaged “curriculum” such as 40 Days of Purpose or [...]

Parody Poster: Grey’s Anatomy

This was one of the easier posters to recreate. Here’s what the original poster looks like:

I started out looking for a similar font, settling on Haettenschweiler. Some of the letters were slightly different and the apostrophe was very different, but it was close enough for me! I created two separate text layers for each [...]

Parody Poster: Heroes

Here’s the first of a new series of posts describing how I created various TV show parody posters using Photoshop.
First, here’s the original reference desktop graphic that I used as inspiration:

The first step was to come up with a font that was similar. In Photoshop, I typed “HEROES” and changed the font several times to [...]

Print Design: FBC Brochure

This is a project I completed several months ago, but it’s taken me a while to actually take pictures of the completed product!
A couple years ago, I had created a simple tri-fold, two-color brochure for my church. This year, they asked me to put together a full-color, updated brochure based on a shorter, wider tri-fold [...]

Weight Training Workout Sheet v2

I’ve revised the weight training workout sheet:

Categories have been changed to chest and shoulders, arms and back, legs and abs.
Each column now has both weight (w) and reps (r) for three sets so that you can vary your weights and reps.
Out of necessity, there are five columns instead of seven.

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Weight Training Workout Sheet

Steve and I have been consistently going to the gym three times a week to work out, which consists of biking to the gym (nice warmup), lifting weights, playing basketball (Steve) or shooting around/watching (me), and biking home (nice cooldown, and sometimes we stop off somewhere to go out to dinner). Last time, we played [...]

Custom Shadow Box business cards

One thing checked off my monthly goal tracker sheet! I finally designed business cards and placed an order for 250. I paid extra money for printing on the back side and for glossy paper; I’m excited to see how they turn out.

The next time I wake up and can’t go back to sleep, I’m designing [...]

My new business cards

They came!

Baby carriage baby shower wrapup

This Saturday was the baby shower.
I’ve already shown the invitations and favors, but as this is a wrap-up post, I’ll show them again!
The invitation was based off of an istockphoto vector illustration, recolored to match our blue/green theme:

The invitations were on different colors of cardstock, which I happened to already have available, so they were [...]

Baby carriage baby shower favors

This Saturday is the second baby shower that I’m throwing this year along with a few other organizers. The invitations had a baby carriage theme, so I carried the graphics on to the guest favors. I made custom tea bag envelopes using a pale shade of the lime green from the invitation graphics. Here’s [...]