In all excitement, my addiction to Wedding planning and design is getting a taste of something for real. No. I’m not getting married, but my friend from highschool is, and she and her fiance have decided to let me design and make their wedding invitations myself!!

To help with this project, I just ordered a couple samples of cardstock from handmade-paper.us and I just bought myself a die-cutting & embossing machine! I’ll get to try it out and create some wonderful personalized designs. I’m really excited about it even though I don’t always work with paper crafts, but maybe this will be the start of a new passion!

Here are some more photos of when my friends came over. I took them into photoshop and did the same treatment on them as my final photos. I tried to pick cool pictures… Let me know what you think.

that my friends helped me out with over the weekend. I took about 300 shots or more. I overexposed them all so that I could get a weird effect. Note that I am not good at photography to begin with. In fact I’m downright awful.

Originally I would have liked to use filters and mess with the photos during the developing processes to make them look more weathered and a bit surreal… I didn’t know how to do that, nor could I as these were digital pictures… not film. So here are the final three I chose, and with them are the photoshopped versions of the images with what I envisioned in my mind how they SHOULD look (if I knew how to do it during the actually photographing process).

Since I’m participating in printmakers.info print exchange 6, the theme is ‘homage’ interpreted as you will. But I don’t really have any visions for it. So let me ask you this:

When you think of the word “Homage” what do you think of?

I’ve been wanted to make more prints lately, but I haven’t managed to bring myself to. Sad isn’t it? How come I always get great big plans but when it comes time to implement them, I can’t do it? Horrible.

Well this time I’ve forced a deadline to be creative onto myself by signing up to participate in Printmakers.info Print Exchange Six. The theme is homage and the the deadline is July 5th. So I’ve given myself a goal. Now to just… come up with an idea!! Hopefully I won’t have a creative block. I’m very excited about this because one of the prints I actually come up with will be put on display [somewhere that i can't remember.] I’ve even added a counter over there –> so I can time myself. Oh, and by the way, I linked myself on Printmakers.info, yay!! Do you make prints? Go there!

On another note, yesterday I scored some pre-stretched cheap-o canvas-paper canvases that my work was gonna throw away. Woo hoo! I’m gonna gesso the crap out of the cheap print on the front and create somethin’ pretty. I scored 3 square ones that and 1 long one. I dont know the exact sizes but they’re pretty good in size. I can’t wait. I’m gonna dig out what sampler paintstiks I have and go to town. Plus I’m gonna order a new set and maybe some extra ones too. This way I can actually oil paint without having to “paint”. I can draw my paintings… (which I’m better at anyway.)

1:48pm
Well I just spent my lunch break drawing out another design for print. It’s a jellyfish and I think it will be about…. 2 or 3 plates. We’ll see. I have to sit and plan the carving just a little better, but here’s a sneakpeek.