ALT Business Cards

The business cards of ALT have received lots of attention--there was quite a bit of talk before the conference about how to best represent yourself through your card. Letterpressed or stamped? Foil or flat ink? Edge painting? Traditional size? Include a little surprise with your card? Enclose in an envelope? Textured paper? Smooth? Vellum? Die cut? Clearly, lots to think about. It's been a while since I've designed a hand-out-worthy business card for myself, and with time not really on my side, things were kept pretty simple. 

This afternoon I spotted my little ol' card in a business card round up over on Creature Comforts, along with Muffin's beautiful card! (Mine's the one with the little floral print, one of the papers from the Pebbles Floral Lane collection.) Ez was so fun to chat with, and totally willing to answer any and all of our questions about photography! 

Need more business card inspiration? Here are just a few: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

{image via creature comforts blog}

New Year

Oh, hey there! It's 2012. It's been a while :)

The holidays were fun--parents drove to Utah from Tay-hass, got stuck in Roswell because of snow, and made it to Provo on Christmas Eve. Little Lucy and Lizzy (scroll to the bottom of the post) came along for the ride, and I think we all scheming ways we could keep them here in Utah!

I just spent the last two days in Salt Lake for ALT and to say that it was amazing would be a severe understatement! So many amazing, talented, beautiful, creative, inspiring, influential, encouraging people, all with different stories, all together to learn and be inspired by others. Classes, round table discussions, panels, keynote speakers, parties. 30 pages of notes and thoughts. Dreaming big. Just a few of the highlights: 

• Spending time with the adorable and talented Muffin...so glad we went together! Muffin and I met in school, and our paths have crossed several times since. Love this girl!
• Listening to Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest. Loads of respect for him, and next time I get the 404 error message, I'll be a little more patient :)
• Meeting and spending time with and making new friends...and meeting 'the face behind the blog.'
• Thought-provoking questions.
• Setting goals for this year and working to accomplish these goals.

Loved my time at ALT. Well worth it.

Here's to a fabulous 2012!



Oh! One other bullet point! My sweet, funny, and talented friend, Katie, was so kind to let me stay with her in Salt Lake. Katie used to live just a few condos down from me, and ever since she moved to Salt Lake, Provo hasn't been the same!

Krista (on the right) hosted a little party before Christmas, and Katie (on the left) came down from Salt Lake and helped me decorate a gingerbread house. I like to think that ours turned out the best :)

Floral Lane

Love, love, love the papers in the Floral Lane collection. Bright, fun colors; cute and simple patterns. The thing that makes this paper even more special is that it's printed on a textured cardstock, making it feel extra special, if you're into that kind of thing. (That would be me!) Click over to Facebook and "like" Pebbles and you could win a uge prize!

Yes, uge.

Mindful Home

I sooo need to have this print in my room. That little reminder about the bed and hamper hit a *little* too close to home for me! :)
via the lovely blog, my happy little life.

(click to see larger.)

Pretty, Pretty

I love, love, love gathering inspiration and find myself saving (all too often) all kinds of random things that I tuck away for future projects. Sketch books are another fave of mine, so when I saw these sketch books with little pieces of "life" tucked away in the glassine envelopes, I kind of fell in love!
via birch & lily via A Creative Mint.

And the idea of expanding your sketchbook to a mood board...LOVE!
via decor8.

Kind of a random post--just sharing some things I love! :)

Warm Up Your Desktop!

Just got back from checking the mail and I came back inside wishing I were here:...at Venice Beach! I was in California last week for CHA and we had some time to head down to Venice Beach for an afternoon...I've been dreaming of 70 degree weather ever since! A full CHA recap coming soon! (Dinner with Channy + kids, pics from the show, Lakers game, the bride of CHA, delicious food and more...be excited!)
Until then, warm your desktop up with some fun wallpapers from Fossil! I currently have this one up and am loving it:A few other faves from their collection:Thanks Jessica at How About Orange for the heads up!

Daily Drop Cap :: Y

es, this would be my most favorite letter from the talented, Jessica Hische's Daily Drop Cap! (I had to think of a sentence that started with "Y" so I could use it :) Jessica is an incredibly talented designer, typography being one of her specialties. Today was the end of the series, but a few guest designers are lined up to complete another alphabet! Check out all the other beautiful letters here.

Creative Suite 5 :: Yes, Please.

Just one of the a.ma.zing new features in the new photoshop...

L is for LOVE.

ove, love LOVE Daily Drop Cap by the most talented typographer, Jessica Hische! I love her clean and crisp style...so awesome! Everyday is a new letter of the alphabet and I think she's now about halfway through her fourth alphabet. Love this L!

Creativity Is...

...inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun. Love this! Check it out over here. I kind of want to take a paper cutting class now!

My Valentine

She just doesn't know she's my valentine. Can't get enough of this little love bug!

100 Posts!

Finally!! A new post! I'm kind of getting tired of looking at my birthday post! :) Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes!

This is also a "historic" post for this blog...this is my 100th entry! Yay for me! I think it's time to have another give-away...what do you think? Any ideas for a give-away?? (Side note to Marissa--don't worry--your little Easter Candy Give Away Prize is still in my car ready to be put in the mail! I promise I'll send it off this weekend!!)

The last few weeks have been totally crazy busy, but so fun at the same time! One of the highlights: Channy was here this past weekend!!! We kicked the weekend off at Temple Square and saw the Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. It was so fun seeing this amazing movie together! Our freshman year, we were able to spend a semester in Nauvoo together, so seeing this moving together brought back so many fun memories! We spent the rest of the weekend shopping, eating yummy food, visiting with Channy's sweet 94-year-old grandmother, spending time at Channy's-in-law's house in Midway, playing with a BB gun, watching movies, episodes from this last season of American Idol and and just enjoying each other's company! (Thanks Channy for the picture!)

It's been a busy few weeks with side projects...we're having a bridal shower for one of my roommates next week, so I did up some quick bridal shower announcements:
We've also been working on her wedding announcements...hopefully they'll be done soon! I've been working on a couple other projects on the side, so I'll keep you updated on those as they start coming together! Oh--and sorry about the very yellow camera picture of the shower announcements! Don't worry, my sweet *NEW* camera, yes, THIS one, died on me. Mom just laughed at me when I told her...she's very aware of my struggles with electronic devices! I seem to have the worst luck with things like cameras! Thankfully, this camera is still under warranty and will soon be on it's way to get fixed!

One last thing...I really want to take a letterpress or calligraphy class this summer. If anyone knows anyone in the Provo area that's kinda crafty, let me know! I need a fun summer activity!!

Happy Friday-the-Thirteenth (tomorrow)! Ah!