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Not THIS Silva… no, not me, but my cousin Roxanne. She got married to Rudolph, her high school sweetheart of 13 years (they had an on-off and sometimes long-distance relationship) two weekends ago and I, being one of her secondary sponsors (AND her cousin!), was only happy to help with wedding-related designs she needed. Now I don’t offer wedding design as part of my services for clients. That’s reserved for only my closest friends and family, at no charge. If you want to save a bundle on design costs for your wedding, you might want to start dating my male relatives as early as now. Hahahaha! :)

Aside from the Save the Date wedding e-card, I also designed my cousin’s wedding invitations. They didn’t want anything overly-girly and invites that were too formal-looking (embossed Bickham/Edwardian Script fonts, anyone?) , so this is what I came up with.

Due to restrictions on invitation printing, I was allowed only two colors to work with– dark brown and orange. The plant motif on the side is a modified free Photoshop brush/vector image. The invitations were printed for free by one of the bridesmaids whose family owns a printing press. Don’t you just love free stuff! It came out like this:

The invites came in this envelope bound by a satin ribbon with the wedding seal (which I also designed). The wedding’s color motif is green and orange.

Inside, the envelope expands to reveal the wedding details and a pocket containing the entourage list, map, and RSVP info.

Here’s a close up of the wedding logo/seal I designed which was used for various wedding collaterals like souvenir gift tags and wine labels.

The table setting with a wine bottle providing the table number.

The wedding seal and plant/foliage used on the wedding invitations also made their way to the couple’s photobooth pictures. They rented out an instant photobooth for the night where you can have your pictures printed out right on the spot.

My cousins and I (left, in orange dress) goofing off at the photobooth. Pose and Print also printed a large tarpaulin backdrop with my wedding logo design for the background.

Last but not least, I also made a five-minute audio-visual presentation (AVP) with the couple’s pictures which was played at the reception. Some screencaps:

The wedding was a big success. Every little thing was planned and coordinated down to the littlest detail which made for a truly beautiful celebration. Congratulations to Roxanne and Rudolph!

Rudolph and Roxanne – November 8, 2009
Photographed by Atty. Raymond Fortun – http://raymond42n.multiply.com

Tags: avp, Design, envelope, invitation, label, logo, marriage, motion graphics, photobooth, seal, table setting, template, wedding, wine
Posted on Nov 16, 2009 in Blog | 4 Comments »

I’m back from my cousin’s wedding weekend! Before I share the stuff I designed for their wedding though (I’ll save that for my next post), I first have to tell you that CJ from Missy Posh has a Q&A feature on me up on her blog! Check it out.

CJ also asked to take a peek at my studio/work area for her readers. Now remember the bazaar I joined last September? To tell you the truth, I hadn’t cleaned up the studio since! I had strips of paper lying around, stray spiral coils on the floor, supplies unceremoniously dumped on my table. You can’t see what color the tabletop is anymore, seriously.

Well, my cousin was coming over our house to work on last-minute wedding details and CJ needed pictures of the studio so I set to work cleaning and straightening up the studio. I have a couple of pictures up on my Q&A interview but I don’t want to have my clean-up effort go to waste so I’m posting the other pics here. This clean state may not last long as I have another bazaar coming up in December to mess up the place again.

My work table – this is where computer stuff gets done. My laptop, drawing tablet, printer, and DIY lightbox (that white box thing at the end).

This just might be my most prized material possession– my 15″ Macbook Pro. It’s two years old and I bought it myself with my own salary back when I was still working a toxic day job. Below it is my month-old Wacom Intuos 4 drawing tablet, given by someone (who doesn’t want to be named) as an advanced gift for me on my birthday (I turned twenty-something last week).

My craft table. I cut, fold, trim, glue, assemble on this table. On it is my guillotine paper trimmer, bundles of paper for my notebooks awaiting covers, and a couple of pencil holders. Behind it is a drafting table and a green supply cabinet plastered with pictures of Ryan Philippe, Prince William, and various magazine cutouts– relics from my teenage days.

None of us in my family are engineers or architects but my dad likes to have various, useless furniture made and this drafting table is among the rare pieces he had done which we actually have a use for. Its surface covered with a huge cutting mat, this is where I cut large sheets of bristol board into smaller pieces for my notebook covers. The table’s downward slope also makes it an ideal place to work my slide punch (left). The contraption on the right is my wire binding equipment.

A peek inside the green supply cabinet. Some of my papers, packaging supplies, and art materials. Hanging from the door is my small collection of kawaii Japanese/Korean erasers.

Various kawaii erasers shaped like food. Looks good enough to eat!

One of my cabinet shelves. This one has various art supplies from blocks of polymer clay (bottom left) to padding glue, markers, paint, paint trays, brushes…

An orange candy can on my craft table doubles as a pencil holder… so does my Donuts tumbler which holds my scissors and paintbrushes. Behind it is a stuffed dog named Whitey hanging out on the couch.

Thank you CJ for the Q&A opportunity! :) Looking for more artist workspaces? I’m always interested to see how other artists work. Check out Workspaces on ShareSomeCandy for design/creative inspiration and major eye candy!

Tags: artist, Design, feature, interview, photo, studio, tour, work area, workspace
Posted on Nov 10, 2009 in Blog | 6 Comments »

My cousin is getting married and the entire family is off to Tagaytay for the weekend, with relatives from Hawaii and San Diego flying in for the wedding. I made a bunch of wedding collaterals for my cousin including her wedding invites, tags, audio-visual presentation (which I haven’t finished at the time of writing– eek), wine labels, photobooth templates, and this Save the Date wedding e-card.

My cousin and her fiance are high school sweethearts and they took forever (10+ years, I think?) to get married, hence the copy. Below is the original photo I worked with (taken by one of the bride’s friends). It’s a very nice photo so all I had to do was make it extra pretty (that’s not a very designer-ish term).

Didja notice I photoshopped the bride’s arm in the final image? Hahaha… Okay, I’m not supposed to tell you that…

I’ll post the wedding stuff I designed for them next week, after I get back from their wedding weekend!

Tags: caleruega, Design, e-card, marriage, photo editing, save the date, tagaytay, wedding
Posted on Nov 5, 2009 in Blog | 1 Comment »

I haven’t celebrated Halloween in years. I was a very unoriginal and uncreative witch a couple of times as a kid (white face paint, black toga, black pointy hat, and my black leather school shoes) and I’ve gone around the neighborhood trick or treating maybe three times in my life… but that’s it. Halloween isn’t really a big deal for me unlike some people who celebrate it well past their childhood. I know Halloween is a huge event for others so here are a couple of treats (no tricks) for you.

First, are you on Twitter? Because I am. And I have a nice, Halloween-y Twitter background with smiling pumpkins and candy corn.

Want it? You got it.

Just right-click on the image above, save to your computer and in your Twitter settings, go to the Design tab and change your background image, pointing your browser to the image file you just saved. Be sure to turn on tiling.

Don’t have Twitter (what’s wrong with you)? No worries, you can also set the image above as your desktop background in your OS settings. Again, don’t forget to turn on tiling. Or you can download wallpaper fit for your screen resolution:

Sweet Tooth
Choose your resolution: 1024 x 768 | 1280 x 960 | 1440 x 900 | 1600 x 1200

See mine?

I cleaned up my files and folders on my desktop just for this screen grab so you better go download. However if Halloween is not your thing, I have regular, non-holiday wallpapers over on my Downloads section and I’m looking to add more to those if time permits. In the meantime, happy Halloween!

Tags: candy, candy corn, corn, dark, download, free, freebie, halloween, october, orange, pumpkin, scary, spooky, squash, wallpaper
Posted on Oct 28, 2009 in Blog | 2 Comments »

For lack of a proper blog entry, here are some random sketches I made with my new Wacom tablet :P

Tags: doodle, intuos, intuos 4, sketch, tablet, wacom
Posted on Oct 20, 2009 in Blog | No Comments »