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Start your own exchange

I’ve decided that I wanted to participate in a printmaking exchange. I haven’t participated in anything in a while, so I decided to start my own. Open to everyone!

If you’re interested, check out the page I made with all of the info you need.



Sweet New Shop!

Today I decided to open a new shop, however I’m still selling the same things.

The difference is, at my new shop, you don’t have to sign up to be a member of the website AND there are no fees. I’m hoping to reach more of an audience, and potentially a slightly different one.

We’ll see! Have a peek at my new shop at Artfire



Getting in business – custom invitations pt. 1

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!



Featured Print

Red Carpet Masscre
Buy it here: Red Carpet Massacre 5×5 Photo Print



web design – i, fanblades

So this semester for my web design class, I needed to… well… make a website. My friends needed a site for their band, bad, so I thought I would use their site as my class project. First thing first, come up with three possible designs.

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The first design ended up being the chosen design with some minor adjustments like moving the menu to the top, making the title of the page a little more vision friendly and improving the design of the social media icons. I decided to incorporate a coda slider to make the site more interesting to navigate. I was required to enable a few spry assets, so an accordion window was used on the bio page. After some major css tweaking, I finally had it acceptable looking in IE6 & 7, though it’s only truly fully functional in IE8, Firefox, Google Chrome, Flock, & Safari.

Finally with it up and running, and a couple more weeks of class to go, there may be only a few more changes. Check it out in action. i,fanblades at http://60hzhum.com