Make a little birdhouse in your soul. <3 1600x900 wallpaper, a re-arrangement of a notecard design I made up this morning. (For sale soon!) When the general layout popped into my head last night, it was bright aqua and red. That *is* where I started this morning, but… wound up somewhere rather different, that I like far better. :)  Almost went much less saturated, almost went more green, but went back towards my blue mainly because I think it will look better as a print. (I resisted the urge to go all the way back to my fav color. Really!)

Birdie drawn by me! In curves, no less! (I now use inkscape for drawing vectors - simple, low-memory, straightforward and FREE. <3) Textures and branch vectors from… bittbox, the graphics fairy, and spoongraphics. Fantastic pattern-fills from gimei.

Sneak peek of my wedding program!  (For some reason I feel like it’s more of a peek, and giving away less, if I leave all the clutter of my workspace in the image. And some Edge for distraction. ;p )

I’ve done three other ones in the past few weeks at work, two of them riffs on the first one that I didn’t do the original designing for. Very standard affairs, listing out every song and every person and every reading. (P.S. Weddings with full Catholic masses attached? Do NOT make for happy program layouts!)  Tiny black basic text, white background, monogram on the front, brief “personal” message on the back.  All of them folded into little booklets.

So, I knew from the start I wanted an aqua half-sheet.  And quickly decided I wanted to summarize and simplify as much as possible.  I’m not entirely sold on the layout for the actual ceremony bit in the middle - but a simple centered list just wasn’t doing it for me, and using that font (which I adore) means doing some kind of work-around for how large the capital letters are.

Tom is, as ever, absurdly un-opinionated on them.  He is not typically a fan of my designs anyway, but, will just have to deal. ;)