Ruining the Surprise

Okay I guess this is sort of ruining the surprise.. or maybe I've built up enough anticipation that it's perfect! I'm not sure but right now I'm sharing my newest business logo with you.
It's the lingerie business I'm starting..
I went through quite a few different logos before I found the one that was right for this project so I'll show you  my process as well.
Here's what I started with in my sketchbook.

I got my inspiration from the Yogen Fruz advertisements. They have a cool little banner for their featured Frozen Yogurt. 

Here's the writing I came up with for the banner. I curved it with the banners curves so it would all fit without being too small.

This is how it turned out once it was all together.

I didn't really end up liking this at all. Though I was going to add some filigree to it.. it just didn't seem like it was very professional.

So I decided to change it up completely. This is my logo that I'm working with now and I like how it turned out a lot. 

The bow will be different, vectorized, as I just used a photograph of someone else's for the meantime to see how it would look.

Here's the banner for my Etsy shop to go with the logo.

So what do you think of everything? I'd love to hear comments!

-Heather

Recipe Binder and New Project!

So I've been failing a little on getting my friend's Christmas present done and to her.. but I've finally finished it tonight and decided to show it off!
( I told her not to look at my blog :P )
I was working on a recipe binder for her. I know she really likes girly stuff and cupcakes so I made her the cutest binder I possibly could.

The recipe binder front. A light pink sparkly fabric, I got this at a thrift store for 3 dollars and I still have some left! Awesome!

The binder all put together, pink sparkly felt for the inside.

And finally a close up of it (just couldn't resist taking a picture of the sparkles)

In addition to that, I'm starting my newest project and THIS is what it involves!

That's right! A wedding dress! I won't tell anymore for now but let's just say I'm going to be making it into something else. Exciting.

Comments always welcome.

-Heather

A Brand New Logo!

Hey again everyone!

So, recently I had been thinking about starting my own business. As I went to school for graphic design, I was thinking I should do some freelance stuff and start my own shop online on Etsy.

I knew I'd need a shop name and logo and everything so I started brainstorming with everyone who would help me out and eventually my mom helped me come up with the name Happenstance! ( My initials are H. A. P.) The name just seemed to fit perfectly. 

I decided I would use a Dandelion as part of my logo as well, the original idea was to make some of the dandelion poofs blowing away across the logo but I didn't quite get to that part. 

While I was going through this whole process, I came up with an amazing business plan for something completely different but I'm so excited about it! Unfortunately I won't be using this logo and a completely different logo is in the works.

Curious what my business is going to be?! We'll you're just going to have to wait as I'm keeping it sort of under wraps. I'll give you a hint though, lingerie! :)
Keep checkin' out the blog to see some super sweet stuff.

-Heather

Recipe Template Page 2

Hi again!

As I mentioned before, for Christmas, my boyfriend Dan and I made a recipe binder for his mom! I unfortunately didn't get a picture of it yet but I do have the recipe template page that I created for it so I thought I would show that to you for now.
The idea was for Dan to draw up some artwork for the templates and then me to put that in and create the page layout.

This is what we came up with.

Dan drew up the flower in black ink and then we scanned it in and played with the whole thing in Photoshop. A while ago I had made the watercolour background for fun so I place that in, added some shading and highlights and it was ready to go. We went for a brown and blue theme, and the binder had some lace inside it so I also added that to the template. 

And that's all I've got for today! You can check out more of Dan Auld's work HERE.

Comments welcome!

-Heather

New Crafts

Hi everyone!
Been a while since I posted, I've been so busy with Christmas, working and starting up my new business that I haven't had time to go on the internet much!
But, the good thing about not posting in a while is that I've got a lot of new crafts to show you :)
For Christmas, I made some crafty presents for a lot of people.. as well as a birthday present for my mom.. here they are!

First off I made some recipe binders, one of them I gave to my boyfriend's mom (unfortunately before I took a picture of it! but I will hopefully be able to get a pic in the near future) and one of them I gave to my friend Chelsea. Here it is

The front of the binder. I bought a binder, padded it with cotton batting then covered it in a purple animal print fabric. The inside covers I used a purple felt to cover up the rough edges and empty areas.

This is the inside of the binder. I made the recipe template as well using Photoshop 

Hopefully she gets good use out of her recipe binder!

Another present I made was one for my mom. She had mentioned she wanted some padded hangers for Christmas... turns out padded hangers are extremely hard to find :S, so I made some for her! 

This is the complete set. I took plain wire hangers.. bent the bottom part up to the top part (with the help of my boyfriend), wrapped them in cotton batting, covered them in fabric and sewed them up.

A close up of one of the hangers.

Action shot of the hangers!

As much as I like how the hangers turned out.. and as much as my mom liked them, I probably will not be making these again! They were really tough.

Mom's birthday comes soon after Christmas so I needed to think of another present to get for her. I had this chair sitting in my room for a long time waiting to be recovered and I thought this would be the perfect opportunity!

Before of the chair. Rusted Green-tone paint with grubby fake orange fur.

Redone chair. I chose the same fabric as I used for the hangers, as she's probably going to use the chair inside her walk-in closet. I repainted the chair a creamy white colour and the circular ends I dry-brushed them with a golden colour. 

I really love how this chair turned out, as did she which makes me happy :)

Let me know if you have any comments about any of my projects! I love comments

More projects coming soon.

-Heather

Cupcakes and Mudpies

Hi everyone! 

I promised that there would be some more of Christy's birthday invites to come and here they are!

The past few days I have been working on a birthday invite for a little girl, as well as for the boys.

For the little girls invite, Christy was thinking she'd like pinks and browns, maybe with some polka dots and I came up with this!

This is the front of the invite.

This is the inside of the invite.

 Cute? :)

For the boys, she has a birthday package about digging in the dirt brownie adventure. I thought I could do something like bugs but not so gross :P I made one that I didn't like so much, Christy thought it was cute but I thought I would keep playing around with it to see what I could come up with. Here are the two different birthday invites I designed.

Front number 1 (not so good)

 Front number 2 ( a bit better?)

And finally this is the inside of the boys invite.

That's all I have for now! Let me know what you think :)

-Heather

Invitations and Blogs

Hello again everyone!

I haven't posted in a while but I've been working a lot on some graphics for Christy and I thought I'd share them with you guys!
Christy ( the chocolate maker - check out her website here ) had the great idea of having kids' parties now that she has a big kitchen to work in! She has four different party packages: Wacky cake and cookie decorating, pizza cookie fun, digging in the dirt brownie adventure, and dippity do chocolate I love you. For her website she was thinking of having some fake polaroid graphics that you could click on for each of the four birthday packages. Here's what I came up with for her.
So far it is just a google image in there, not one of Christy's but you get the idea.

Looks great doesn't it?! 

Another thing I've been working on is the invitations for her birthday parties. The idea behind this is that the mom's would go on her website, print out these invitations for the kids to bring to school and hand out to their friends. Here's what I came up with for the older female group.

This is the front of the invitation

And this is the inside of the invitation

The back of the invitation would have her company address as well as the map to the shop. My next steps will be to make a boy version of the invitation, as well as an invitation for younger girls.

I've also been working on Christy's new blog! Hasn't been ready for action at all yet, no blog posts, but I'm working on the design and the separate pages. 

One of Christy's pages is a recipe page. Her idea was that for each recipe she posts, she will create a recipe card. Her "Recipe" page would have several different images of recipe cards posted to it, so everything will be right there and easy to find. Here's what I created for the recipe card.

I love how it turned out, it looks so cute!

That's all I've been working on as of lately.. I will have some more graphics coming up, and I may have a post of "fall finds" clothes, keep checking!

Comments welcome

-Heather