Bunny Card Update

I haven't had too much time to work on the bunny card, but here is where I am now. I have them drawn up in illustrator, but I'll be adding and tweaking them still... like adding detail to the crowns, etc. Once I got the card mocked up, I tried putting random photos onto it, but the higher contrast of the photos with the flat bunnies didn't flow well, so my sister and I decided to make the bunny portion go on one side of the card with the party information and the photos go on the other side, in case anyone wanted to just frame the photos. I think that will work a lot better, but I haven't had a chance to go that far yet.

Here is a detail of the bunnies, so far. I'll be taking them and putting them on the redesigned-double sided card. They still need some more detail and I'll probably try to give them higher contrast or shading to help them pop out more.

Here is the first mock-up I was trying out. The high contrast photos just didn't work with the flat bunnies, so this version will be scrapped and on the new one this side will be all photos and the other will have the bunnies and party info. The orientation will still be horizontal. The text would have gone over the the big crown in the middle.

-Just a note: these aren't the photos that will be in the final, they were just put in to give me an idea of how it would look.

Birthday Invitation Design

My niece has her 1st B-Day coming up and my sister and I have been looking through birthday invites, mainly the photo ones, so we could show how she has grown over the past year. Most of the ones we could find for girls had boring designs or were way too expensive. So I decided to design a custom card, upload it to overnightprints.com, and order from them for a much more reasonable price. Plus since I've ordered from them in the past, I know their work turns out well.

I'm planning to sketch out the design tomorrow and create the invite in Illustrator. My sister wants a princess theme, but simple crowns and wands are kind of boring, so I'm thinking of a bunny in a princess dress wearing a little crown. I want the head to be tilted a little with the crown at an angle. Since, the baby is turning one, I'll have one of the bunny's ears standing up and the other floppy. About 5 pics of my niece will be included, one big and the others smaller. I want to keep the color scheme simple, it will mainly pinks, purples, and maybe whites. I'll play with the design and colors more once I get started.

Expect sketches tomorrow and more process pics as the week goes on.