Category Archives: Graphics

Graphic design templates and illustrations for parties, showers, birthdays, holidays and kids.

Etsy Greeting Card…and Let the Holiday Season Begin!

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IMG_3433The Christmas season is now official with Thanksgiving under wraps. Our feasting day was wonderful, but I am personally excited to be in full holiday mode! The house is decorated, tree is trimmed and now it’s time to start thinking Christmas cards (oiye!).

If you need a quick greeting and no time to go to the store, I just posted this cute little number on my Etsy site as an instant download. Click, print, and mail!

Also, here are a few pics of our Christmas tree hunting excursion. It was a fabulous day in the northwest and was one of my favorite times we’ve had thus far picking out our tree. But you can see my little peeps were having a stand-off with Santa They wanted that candy cane, but didn’t want to talk to him 🙂

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Two little reindeer peering through the woods! Can you believe the light that was shining through? It almost looks as if I Photoshopped them in, but this is oh na-tur-al!

Thanksgiving Feather Name Cards: Freebie

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IMG_3342Thanksgiving is just a few days away!! Yikes! I need to be in full planning mode now. To help you out with your table scape, here are the feather name cards I mentioned last week. Print them out for free and you can either lay them flat (cut top off at fold) or write on them. I attempted some calligraphy…not my strongest suite, but it’s fun to try new things.

Also, make sure to print out the free matching gratitude cards as well 🙂

Tomorrow I am going to start a mini set-up of my table and I am going to try my hand with some kraft paper down the table and some white marker decoration…let’s hope it turns out. If it does, I will post pictures 🙂

 

3D Printing – Thanksgiving Place Setting Idea

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WishbonePlaceSettingMy husband recently bought a 3D printer…not for any particular reason (that I know of), other than it’s cool and novel, and he is a sucker for anything new and curious in the tech world. I have a hard time wrapping my head around the whole concept because anything you can dream up, you can print. Say wha?!

He’s been printing little trinket things like a crazy, some cool, some not so much. But then he printed a little turkey place card holder for thanksgiving…it looked like a mini raw turkey, but it got me to thinking…what about some wishbones for the thanksgiving table?! Ask and you shall receive 10 little wishbones that he then painted gold for me. Kind of cool, huh? Anyway, I was playing around with my place setting this afternoon. I still have some revisions to make (boxwood sprig may be swapped out for some feathers), but my general concept is coming together.

I just love this time of year for the idea of gathering with family, eating warm comforting foods, and for the sentiments of the season!

Come back in a day or so for some free printable feather design name cards that match the gratitude cards I posted earlier this week…bonus! Also, early next week I am going have my Thanksgiving table scape put together for some easy, modern, yet rustic ideas.

Merry Christmas, Eh?

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I was struggling in coming up with a new Christmas invitation design over the last several weeks and so I was thinking while in the shower – yes, that deep thinking shower scenerio 😉 I’m Canadian by birth right, and while I have essentially grown up American, I still feel my roots there and get comfort in knowing I’m from there. And when I come across a fellow Canadian, there is always something familiar about them.

So back to my thought process…while in the shower, I was trying to come up with something different, because Lord knows there are a million templates for everything and anything out there these days. So I asked myself what makes me unique from my friends…and…well…I’m Canadian. And who doesn’t love some of their quirky words they use?! Within the next few hours, I came up with this bad boy, and I have to say, I am quite taken with it. You can find it in my Etsy Shop and other coordinating items that I will be posting about soon! Eh?

Hello Again…and Thanksgiving Freebie

 

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I’ve put on my blogging boots again after a six year hiatus while my girls were little. My oldest is now in first grade and my younger little spit fire is in preschool still, but next year she is in kindergarten…yahoo! As I am writing at this very moment, she is yelling at her sister in the background about fairness…she is the queen of “UN”fairness and playing to her big sis’s emotions to get what she wants. I’ve loved every moment of it, the good AND the bad, but serenity now!!!

OK – I need to focus here…(full time school next year, full time school next year…).

This year we are hosting Thanksgiving at our house after taking several years break, so my creative juices have been flowing on how I want to dress the table. I can’t help myself but to include a few printables to the mix, so I created these subtle gratitude/thankful cards to display either at the table or hanging elsewhere maybe on a branch or something. I love the tradition of everyone going around the table and saying what they are thankful for at the moment…and following recent tragedies, we are all thankful for something, whether it be big or small! To kick off my blog debut (again), I have included a free printable for your Thanksgiving table.

And come back soon for some coordinating name cards!

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In the next few weeks I will be adding loads of stuff from my Instagram and Etsy, so please come back and visit for design, decor and food ideas. I will be sharing recipes, and freebies regularily!! Hope to see you soon and often!