Remember When Background Extras and Patterns

I always have extra patterns left over, and I’m playing with the idea of giving them out with the extras each month for SNL.

 

PLUS, these backgrounds were some of my favorites. But I’d already submitted the main Remember When kit.

 

Remember When ... ?

"Remember When?" is what I decided to call this kit after the History Muse bit me and I started to work on some scrapbook elements and backgrounds to go with old antique family photos in SNL's colors this month.

I spent many hours in September and October, pouring over boxes of old photos from my Mom’s garage. Some were hers, some were my grandmother’s, some were my great-grandmother’s, and some belonged to my great-Uncle.

They were a good deal of the inspiration for this kit, and the additional set of backgrounds that coordinate with it.

Of interest: the font for the title and date is called American Scribe from Three Islands Press it seemed like an appropriate one for this project. It’s a font that is based on the handwriting of Timothy Matlack, the clerk who penned the Declaration of Independence.

The Forgotten Garden

Once upon a time there was a beautiful little garden. But one day, no one showed up to care for it. Nor the next day, nor the next.

 

It was abandoned, yet blooming. It was forgotten, but never lost. Its barely visible paths were poignant, melancholy, shabby, and now it waits for your care, your touch...to bring it back to life...

 

(These are some of my favorite parts of my SNL contributions for June.)

 

 

Summer Cover - Work in Progress

Here's part two of the Summer Flower Cover I have been working at. I’ve just submitted this as a draft idea for the summer cover design for the Sunday Programs at church. Stunning Lily from a stock photo by Claudia Meyer, then painted over. (I just can't leave perfection alone, I always have to mess it up....) Pretty fantasy brushes from Graphic Identity.

May Flowers

Preview element from my SNL kit for May.

Unfinished Summer Cover Draft

This is a first concept draft for the summer program covers. I’m not sure what direction I’ll be going or if it will even make it.

 

 

Summer Camp Promo Screen

 

Here’s a real quick promo screen and print ad for the upcoming summer youth camps for church from their ‘reverb’ grayscale (bare) speaker graphic.