‘Tis The Season….For Minted

Many of you know that I worked at Minted last December (in addition to my full-time job) as a design associate doing design and layout of their immensely popular holiday greeting cards. Minted challenges their community of designers each year to come up with fresh, modern, and creative designs for each new season. It might seem a bit early to start thinking about the holidays and holiday greeting cards but in order to gear up for their busiest time of[Read more]

Real Wedding: Alexis + Michael

Early this year I had the pleasure of working with a bride, Alexis, who was planning a destination wedding to Mexico! I worked with her to create an elegant wedding invitation that used vibrant ocean and beach colors to give an exciting introduction to the guests and what they could expect from the wedding in Playa del Carmen. Often times a destination wedding takes a lot of the planning pressures off of the engaged couple so the invitations and programs[Read more]

Sunday @ the Sciandri’s

I finished painting the railings on our deck today and I am quite happy with the way they turned out. Gino isn’t sure about the lights underneath, so if you like them, let me know and together we will try to convince him to keep them! I am also quite proud of my cute little cupcakes. I baked cupcakes to bring to work tomorrow for a co-workers birthday. I am not know for my baking skills so I did use[Read more]

DIY: Photo Letter Collage

Last year for Christmas I drew my brother David’s name for our sibling gift exchange. He was a little bit difficult to shop for so I decided to make him a photo collage with letters from his name and frame it. I took some photos of letters with dimension and style around town and cropped them to show just that letter of his name. I also wrote the location of where the photo was taken on the back. Turns out[Read more]

Minted T-shirt Design Challenge

I submitted a few t-shirt designs for the Minted T-shirt Design Challenge on Facebook. Check them out and if you like any of them, click the “like” button on the photo in Minted’s photo album or leave a comment. There is  $500 dollar prize and the final t-shirt selection will be printed as Minted’s first t-shirt. Spread the word and vote!   Thanks =) CUTE MINTED STREET SIGN IDEAS + GOOD DESIGN = MINTED I HEART MINTED HELLO MY NAME[Read more]