i'm back! and also programs.

long story short: tony danza (one of our cats) spilled water on my computer. no info lost, it works just fine so long as it's plugged in, but it no longer charges the battery. so my laptop is now essentially a desktop. the good news: i have a brand new macbook pro and i love it! so i was out of commission for a while, thus the silence. but now that i'm back in the computing business i've made up for lost time on my programs and i am so happy with them!!

one of the reasons i kind of wished i could have gone with tomatoes instead of poppies was because there was a certain feel i was after that seemed easier with tomato images... i was telling my sister m how i wanted something like the front of a seed packet, an old sort of hand-drawn vintage look. well, i found a poppy image that i thought might work pretty well. i've gotten much better with photoshop over the years and was able to tweak it just the way i wanted. we did decide to go with the cd sleeve option - i LOVE the way these are coming out!!

i will try to get a photo of the flower detail - they look just like they were done with colored pencils. i am absolutely thrilled with these. they are right in line with everything else we've done - the website, the invitations - with the poppies, the font, the minimalism. and i truly love love love the feel of them. once i finally figured out how to do the image transfer (separate tutorial post in the works), it's been going pretty smoothly, too.

so happy! and although we are using up some paper for this, i'm still counting it in our thrifty and eco-friendly category. here's the breakdown: $40 including shipping for the 50 recycled cardboard cd sleeves from an eco-friendly company. no paper used in the printing - they're printed on overhead transparency sheets and the ink is transferred to the sleeves. the transparencies are wiped clean and reused over and over and over again. i'm only using two sheets for them. used one sleeve to practice and make all my mistakes so i don't waste the others! not bad, i think. can't wait to post more when i get working on the inserts!