A Design a Day: Day 4

Here is a quick little design I threw together tonight, it does need improving and I will definitely do some more work on it. But I just felt like creating something cute so here it is...

What I learnt today was how to use the path finder for a pattern- just by creating a compound path. 

Enjoy xx

Izzy

A Design a Day: Day 5

I was in a little hurry today so I just played around with some geometric shapes and just got a bit creative adding some colour. I didn't really look at a tutorial for this one. Hope you enjoy...

Izzy xx

Design a Day:Day 3

 I was searching for a tutorial to make a nice background and this caught my eye straight away it was so pretty! I was also so excited to find how easy it was. I also learn a few photoshop skills making the background. 

I found this photo on Pinterest that worked perfectly.

I added a Gaussian blur and an overlay of a pattern i created in illustrator, played around with the blending mode then added a grain. Once i finished the background, I added a quote from my friend that she asked me to do up after seeing yesterdays design. It turned out really well and she loves it! 

Enjoy...

Izzy xx

A Design A Day: Day 2

Something I've been wanting to do for a while now is to work out how to get that chalkboard/vintage look to my designs. A bit like these...

 

Once i found a quote on Pinterest, I searched for a few vintage fonts on Dafont.com and downloaded these textures from Spoon Graphics. Other techniques I used were a slight radial gradient and a chalkboard stroke outline to the text. Here was the result... 

TADAA!

I hope you enjoy and have a go yourself, I had heaps of fun!

Izzy xx

A Design a Day

Now that my computer is up and running again and I have my Adobe programs back; I've decided this holidays I'm going to create a design a day starting with this one. It's just a little project that I've been wanting to do for a while now. I hope it while inspire some creativity in me and I can get some good practice with the programs as I am still learning. I'm going to try learning different techniques, today I taught myself how to distribute objects around a circle using this tutorial. And this was the result...

How are you all anyway? I'd like to hear back from you! Comment what you'd like to see more of on my blog maybe some recipes, sewing tutorials, design tutorials, daily doings etc. You choose :)

Izzy xx

Bloglove: Belle and Beau Montessori

I have some exciting news! I have done a collaboration with Nikki for her new blog- Belle and Beau Montessori. She is very excited and can't wait to start posting about her daily doings, Montessori activities and general info about being a mum. If your not a parent you should still go check it out because it is just the most adorable blog! Please show your support as she is just starting out and give her follow on bloglovin or GFC.

If you like her blog and are interested in a new design for your own blog, you can find my contact info here. I have very reasonable rates, just send me an email and i would be very happy to work with you :) Enjoy
Izzy xx