My apologies for my absence from the Oomphasis blog…HAS IT REALLY BEEN (almost) TWO WEEKS?!?I won’t try to make any excuses because I honestly can’t remember what I’ve been up to that’s kept me away. I’ve been working on designing a wedding invitation for a friend of a friend; I think it looks pretty good, but the proof I printed out isn’t one hundred percent right — as in my printer seems to want to print the file out a few percent larger than its actual size. So some of the elements are closer together than they should be and it’s just making me a little crazy. You’ll see soon.
I was also helping the same friend design a bridal shower invitation for the aforementioned friend of a friend. After some trial-and-error with the printer (always the darn printer!) we printed them out and put all the pieces together, tied it all up with a ribbon and voila! Beautiful bridal shower invitation. You’ll see that soon, too.
What you *can* see now are two greeting cards I designed. One I made specifically for my father-in-law, who was oh-so generous in donating an ENTIRE Sunday to installing light fixtures to drastically improve the lighting in our house, helping fix a pipe that froze and cracked over that HARSH (sarcasm here) winter we had (*rolling eyes*), and installing and setting up a programmable thermostat (now I can see the temperature I’m setting! It’s no longer above my eye level!). Even though I made it with a specific purpose, I think it could still function metaphorically and be given out as a thank-you for other things too. The other is something I’ve had in my sketchbook for a while, and since I was in the card-making mood I figured I’d go ahead and make that one too.
Enjoy! :)
(I just had a thought: this might make a nice postcard, no? Who doesn’t love receiving a postcard?!)