Posts Tagged ‘powerpoint’

In true obsessive form, I went a little overboard with the hand-lettering thing and flipped through my sketchbook for more inspiration for greeting cards.  I recently attended a cousin’s wedding and, without having purchased a card (because they were all horrible), I decided a pretty, fliffy-looking hand-lettered card would be better.  Being very unorganized that day (after a full day of travelling), I neglected to tape the card to the box.  Hopefully it will stay on under the ribbon via the magic of static electriciy.  At first I was at a loss because I could NOT think of a single thing that wasn’t “Happy Wedding!” or something just as profound.  I didn’t really come up with anything particularly profound; it actually was inspired by a quote from J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.  “To die would be an awfully big adventure”.  Of course, dying is not really appropriate for a wedding card, so I came up with this:

Hand-lettering from my sketchbook

Hand-lettering from my sketchbook

Via the magic of PowerPoint and Paint it turned into these:

They are now available in the doomshop for you to give to your very favorite newlyweds!

 

I’ve finally fallen into the “hand-lettering” craze and tried out some paper/computer hybrid experiments.  First, I sketched out the “thank you” in my sketch book and took a picture.

Sketched it out.

Sketched it out.

Then, with the magic of powerpoint and paint (yeah, I don’t have photoshop, so I’m super low-tech… comparatively speaking), I was able to get a nice image, but it wasn’t quite right yet.  Then I loaded it back up in powerpoint and got these varieties.

Want some? They can be purchased from the doomthings store on Zazzle: