It’s a girl just born a few hours ago!   Our 5th grandchild!   This little announcement gave me instant gratification!  Anyone can go out and purchase a gift for a newborn however I opted to personalize my gift with a custom birth announcement that Emily can hang on her bedroom wall!

I used the fabulous Deutica  Mandolyn font styles to create the message and created the boarder from some of my original artwork!  I think my Daughter-in-Law will be pleased!

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 I’m a a stickler for making my own party invitations.  And you know what???—-it’s worth the effort.  Why?  Because your guests will remember the event and be even more enticed to come to your party!  Plus making something handmade is just so therapeutic!

For this month Duetica Lettering System project–I decided to use a funky little font called Piper.  I just love the whimsical feel to this font especially for a little girls party.

Each of the little “dress” cards were all handmade from some original dress sketches I made.  Each dress form is the same pattern however each was embellished a little different from each other using a fine point pen, colored pencils and rhinestones!

Be sure to check out all my other design team members to see what they came up with using this simple font system!

Becky Conley
Candice Windham
Christy Monge
Eileen Hull
Kathy Peterson
Kristie Taylor
Niki Meiners
Rebecca Lynn
Suzanne Sergi
Veronica Goff

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It’s June and that “spells out”  my next project for Duetica Fonts!   For this project I decided to make an OPEN HOUSE invite using some of Duetica’s “fun” fonts and some sketch art using  Photo-shop and then print it out!

My inspiration came from  two very simple shapes–a house and a heart!  Next came the fonts.  In this project I used the font TIN-WHISTLE in two different styles– #’s AOO and FOO.  But there are more styles of this font available too!

Isn’t this a fun font!   Notice just the slightest changes to make it truly your own style for your next open house celebration!  Oh when you send it— send it from the “heart”.  Craft on!  P.S.  For more design inspiration from my fellow designer friends–go to http://duetica.com/blog/  and http://www.duetica.com/gallery/gallery.html

And be sure to check out the other Duetica design team member’s projects too!

Becky Conley
Candice Windham
Christy Monge
Eileen Hull
Kathy Peterson
Kristie Taylor
Niki Meiners
Rebecca Lynn
Suzanne Sergi
Veronica Goff

Stay Inspired!    www.KathyPeterson.com

My fellow design friend, Violette Clark, has offered to give away a copy of her newest book JOURNAL BLISS. Starting on June 15th you can visit www.CraftForHealth.com and post your comment on her entry.  That’s all you have to do! Then we’ll draw a name from the comments for the winner. We’ll contact the winner and they’ll have a chance to send us their original art journal page and inspiring story about their own healing journey thourgh art journaling on Craft For Health.

Violette is one of my favorite artists and has so much spirit. Her art beams of color and thought provoking whimsey. We’re very excited about this give away at Craft For Health and I’m sure you’ll be empowered by her inspiring story of making art for her nephew who became paralized from a sport injury. Click here to enter starting June 15th.