Various Custom Designed Invites, Cards, and T-shirts

 

 

We had a Peanuts birthday Snoopy Party for our daughter's 2nd birthday. I made the invites in InDesign to match the plates and napkins I got online.

 

 

 

 

This is a shower invite for a family friend - made in InDesign to match the napkins.

 

 

 

I made these in InDesign, printed them on iron on transfer paper and made onsies for when our 2nd child was born (I had a little sister one as well since we did not know what we were having). The iron on transfer worked fairly well here.

 

Made this in Illustrator for a tshirt since I could not really find any Rocky Marciano tshirts that I liked (sadly not a lot of options out there) I printed it on iron on transfer paper. The iron ion transfer did not work so well here...

 

 

My Dad is a huge Bond fan. I saw 00 Dad on the back of a CD but thought it would be much better with the gun. I created this simple card in Photoshop.

 

 

My husband is a huge Marilyn Monroe fan. So for his 30th birthday I made a simple card of Marilyn blowing out her candle on her 30th. I also used a quote of hers that matches his look on life.

 

 

 

I cut me and my sisters out of a photo in Photoshop. I then jazzed it up with the We Are Family lyrics in InDesign.

This is last year's Christmas card. I adjust the photo in Photoshop and then made the card in InDesign.

 

My mom's favorite Disney movie is Snow White so I made an invite for her 60th party and then made a matching birthday card. I made the cards in InDesign.
 

We did our nursery in Curious George. So we decided to have a Curious George fist birthday party. There were invites at party city but they were just okay and I knew that I could make what I wanted in Adobe InDesign.

 

I quickly moved darn nearly fully to the computer for the custom invites, cards, and announcements I starting making regularly. I now use Photoshop and InDesign to make most of them.

 

I slowly moved to doing the invite fully on the computer. For this Sesame Street invite I scanned the image in but did the rest in Photoshop.

 

This was one of the first custom invites I ever made it is from 2005. I hand painted the illustration and then scanned it in and did the type in Photoshop. I really had no idea what I was doing when I made this. I just knew I did not want what was on the shelves at stores around me. Ultimately wanting something else is what drove me to making my own invites, cards, and announcements.