Lauren's mommy wanted to combine her birth announcement with their moving announcement and the timing on when they were getting these mailed meant we could also make this their family holiday card. Convenient!
Here's what we came up with (names and info have been changed to protect privacy).
I created this wine label for a very small vintner in the Livermore Valley in California. She wanted to use an illustration of a pair of castles that are close to where she grew up in the label. She grew up near Manderschied, Germany and used to play in these castles when she was a little girl.
Here's what I came up with:
I created the image using watercolor along with pen and ink. Then I scanned the illustration and added the text in Photoshop.
I really love how it turned out, and when it's printed on a textured, adhesive paper, it looks like an original watercolor.
My Uncle Mark makes wine as a hobby. But not as a let's-make-a-bottle-of-wine-and-see kind of hobby, more like let's-buy-one-ton-of-grapes-and-make-twenty-gallons-of-zinfandel kind of hobby. He's entered his wine into state and county fairs and likes to give it as holiday gifts too. And as a family member, I'm always happy to help with crushing or bottling when I'm in town if the timing is right. It's fascinating to learn about the process, even down to the chemistry.
And his Zindandel and Viognier are my favorites.
This was the first label I created when he first got started. I did the grapes and leaves in watercolor and then added the text in Photoshop.
I created this label a couple of years later using a photo that a friend took of my uncle while he was harvesting grapes.
There's actually a second version of this label where the grapes are green and his hat is red, thanks to the magic of Adobe Photoshop. That label is used when he's bottling white wine.
I think it's time for a new one... any ideas?
My little sister is graduating!! She finished her bachelor's degree and our mom pretty much demanded that I design an announcement for her.
I had a lot of fun tracking down photos of her younger self.
I had fun with some wraparound address labels too, the return address is printed on the far end of the label. I used the wheat-colored envelopes from Paper Source.
Congrats Jackie!!!