Category: Graphic Design

Graphic Design

Smith Family Tree

Jessica Smith

Are you ready for the most adorable thing ever? Are you really ready? OK, here goes. LOOKATTHEADORABLEFAMILYTREEIDESIGNEDFORMEANDHUBS!!!!! *breath*

I am so very pleased with how this project turned out. In fact, it might be my favorite thing that I’ve ever designed. EVER. (EVAAAAAARRRRRR, right sisters?)

*drumrollllllllllll*

Welcome to our “family tree!” It’s not a real family tree because those follow some sort of genealogy structure, but I love it just the same.

I designed this print in InDesign using five different fonts (the hearts are a font!) and three different colors (brown, green and pink in different transparencies). InDesign has this great feature where you can draw a line and then make your text curve to the line, so I used that to get some of the names in our tree to curve like tree branches.

The Fonts:

I only did our immediate families because once you get past that we get wayyyyyyy to crazy. Already we have three sets of parents! I had to contain our crazy somehow 🙂 Our parents are in brown and paired with one another and a small pink heart. The dark green names are those of my siblings. The hubby has none, so they are all mine *evil laugh.* Then the lighter green font are the various last names of our family. I am a Bauer turned Smith. My older sister is a Rivera. My dad is a Bauer and my mom a Rowicki-turned-Brown. Tierney is my mother-in-law’s maiden (and now middle) name, and Shaffer is my step mom’s maiden (now middle) name. The date is our wedding date, when our families became one big happy family (our one-year anniversary is coming up so soon! Holy cow.).

I absolutely love how well this print turned out. This might be the first of my designs I have professionally printed for us. It is just perfect.

Do you have a family tree in your home?

 

Graphic Design

Swag-tastic

Jessica Smith

It’s not often that I post about work stuff, but my coworker and I recently created a lot of fun swag for our newest cohort of full-time MBA students. The giveaways are so cute and designed by yours truly, so I just had to share 🙂

John and I created four different T-shirts (purple, green, red and blue), a sweet backpack, and slinky post-it notes! It was so fun designing all of the swag — I hope our MBAs love it all as much as we do.

It’s so awesome to get to be creative at work. Makes me love my job 🙂

Graphic Design

Don’t sweat the small stuff

Jessica Smith

Good news and bad news.

Good news is yay, a new post!

Bad news is my wrists have been bothering me a lot lately, so I’m probably not going to be crafting as much as usual until I figure out what’s going on with them. So lame. I think I have tendonitis in both wrists, and simple everyday tasks are becoming a bit painful to do (buttoning buttons, typing, using a mouse, staining furniture — that is an everyday task, right?).

So, instead of crafting at night, I’ve been sitting my butt in front of the television with ice packs on my wrists. Hopefully my wrists are back to normal sooner rather than later, but until then I made myself a little pick-me-up reminding me not to sweat the small stuff. So many people are going through much worse than sore wrists — it’s all about perspective.

So to help me keep that in mind I made this new background for my computer:

I made it in InDesign with different fonts and colors. I made one section at first, grouped the words, then copied and rotated the text before changing the colors. Cute, right?

Hoping to do a new craft tomorrow night. We’ll see how that goes. Until then, thanks for stopping by!