My Best Design EVER!

2010 was one helluva year at Hamco. My husband and I eloped in Florida at the legendary Mai Kai in Ft. Lauderdale and had an amazing reception at Cliff Bell's in Detroit when we came back (I planned on posting that invite months ago, but STILL haven't gotten around to it, but will...eventually). We started house shopping in August and shortly found our dream home. Fast forward to November when we finally closed and have been working our butts off to get the place livable (again, another post for another day) and ended the year with the greatest gift ever, the birth of our son Henry.

He is the best thing I have ever created. Hands down. Every day he gets more amazing and we are so in love with every smile, every coo and even every poopy diaper.

This is the announcement I created for him. My sister-in-law had created some personalized greeting cards for him, and I used her rocket artwork and added the moon and the birth info. The photo was taken by the hospital photographers. I printed them on photo paper using my HP9800. The greeting cards were printed using Snapfish.

Slackin' on the blog already...I know

Last week I put together an invite for a co-worker/friends son's graduation party. It's her oldest child, so first graduation and she's really excited about the party. I wanted to come up with something clever and fun to announce the event. I also wanted something really simple to that we could use paper and printers that we had on hand and customize it to incorporate his school colors.

And no, her son is not named Ella...I've changed the information to respect her privacy. Any of you who know me will get a kick out of the thought of Ella actually graduating. Technically, she's almost old enough, but I don't think she has the brain capacity or language skills to pass kindergarden—she's my cat!

Ta da! (I really need to work on my photography skills. My pictures are the worst!)

So, once again, I put the die cutter to the test! First, I cut the scroll and holes on some nice, bright white, recycled 80lb cover stock. We ran the invites through the laser printer. Quick and easy! The 2010 charms were an ebay score and we were so happy to see they were the perfect size. We found some nice metallic red envelopes to coordinate with the red bow and put it all together. She's so happy with the result and I can't wait to hear what kind of response she gets!