HB Creative Design

little sister

2010-06-25T23:35:00.000-07:00

What a blessing it was to create this announcement for this sweet new baby! I am so honored that this cutie's mommy decided to contact me again to make her newest addition's baby announcements. What fun it was!! I wish I could take credit for the cool feature of the black and white photo with the pink bow, but this is how it was sent to me and then I just went from there in creating the perfect ensemble. Thanks, Kristi, for letting me design your little one's birth announcement. What an honor!

P.S. Not too long ago, I was able to design Miss Caroline's big brother's birthday invitation. What fun!

the birthday boy!

2010-02-04T16:54:00.002-08:00

I was so pleased to be able to create this birthday photo card invite for this cute little one-year old boy! I had the pleasure of making some thank you notes for his sweet momma awhile back and I can't believe his first birthday is already here!

Happy Birthday Cannon!

two in one photo card

2009-12-23T11:08:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to share this photo card I created for a friend of mine who just had her FOURTH child only 2 weeks ago. I had told her I would love to create her little guy's baby announcement (I was honored to create her baby girl's announcement, too!). I suggested that maybe combining her Christmas card and baby announcement might be fun, and she said that sounded like a good idea. I'm in LOVE with how it turned out and she adored it, too. I think this is just her style.

Christmas greetings for friends!

2009-12-19T21:33:00.000-08:00

I love getting the chance to design Christmas cards for friends! Most of my friends know that I do photo design cards on the side, so I normally don't advertise it or pressure anyone. But each year I am always asked by a friend or two to design their Christmas card. This year I had the pleasure of creating a couple of Christmas greetings that two friends could send out to say Merry Christmas!

Look for a couple more Christmas greetings to come!!

Christmas cheer!

2009-12-14T15:51:00.001-08:00

I just love making photo cards at Christmas time.

Here are a couple I've done for my family...

This one was created for my mom to use in her Christmas card this year.
She wanted something simple with a picture of the grandkids being the main focus. I really like how it turned out!

This was last year's {even simpler} card for my mom. She used it in the front of a greeting card, so that is why there is the large white border around it.
Look how much they've grown!

I whipped this one up for my sister's card this year.
It may look familiar as this was very
similar to our Christmas card in 2006.

More samples to come...including ours for this year!

baby boy Bradley

2009-12-07T23:24:00.000-08:00

What a blessing it was for me to create this baby announcement for my very dear friend, Kim. Her sweet baby Bradley was born just about a month ago and he's the cutest little thing!

two birthdays are double the fun!

2009-09-01T08:43:00.000-07:00

In the middle of July, I was asked to make a couple of birthday photo card invitations for a sweet gal who I had met through a good friend of mine. I had actually created her daughter's birth announcement a year ago! It was fun to do this for her to have something that she could have as a keepsake and send to her family for birthday invitations. I loved seeing how much sweet little Rachel had grown in a year!

That same day, they would be celebrating the 33rd birthday of the sweet little one-year old's uncle's birthday and his sister wanted something she could send for his invitation as well. It was actually a bit tough for me to create something for a male since I'm so used to using frilly flowers and such, but I liked how it came out. Simple, but still manly.

**Each of these photo cards were 5x7**
{envelopes included}

little brother

2009-07-12T22:14:00.000-07:00

In the past six months or so, I have been able to create baby announcements for close friends of mine as gifts to them. Many of my girlfriends are having their second or third babies and it's an honor of mine to be able to do something special and unique for them to welcome their newest little one into their family. It makes a great little baby gift!

Here is the newest one I created about a month ago. Sweet baby Gavin has two older brothers, so this was the perfect little gift to give a momma who already has everything for a boy!

*This is a 4x6 photo matted on white to create a 5x7 finished look*

brown and pink polka dots

2009-05-29T11:38:00.000-07:00

I was able to create this baby announcement for a good friend of mine who had her second little girl. I had so much fun coordinating the main picture with the overall design. Aren't the brown polka dots with pink adorable!? I really enjoyed being able to create something special as my gift for the newest arrival to their family!

*This is a 4x6 photo matted on white to create a 5x7 finished look*

a simple and sweet way to say thank you

2009-05-15T09:25:00.000-07:00

I was so excited when I was contacted by a very sweet gal who lives all the way in South Carolina. She was interested in having me design a thank you-style photo card for her to be able to send to her family and friends for some baby gifts she had been given when she had her newborn son. After "talking" through e-mail back and forth, I was able to come up with something simple, but cute for her. She was so much fun to work with and I look forward to the next round of photo cards I can create for her! She's already said she will definitely be back for more!

*This is a 5x7 photo card and because she was interested in writing a thank you on the back, I matted it with white cardstock (just a thin border was seen).*

baby sister

2009-04-26T22:33:00.000-07:00

I was able to create this baby announcement for a good friend of mine who had her second child, but first girl. It was fun to come up with something different and unique and to do this as my gift to her in celebrating her new arrival!

*This is a 4x6 photo matted on white to create a 5x7 finished look*

baby brother

2009-03-06T11:51:00.001-08:00

I had the wonderful pleasure of creating a baby announcement for a good friend of mine. This is her 2nd little guy, so I wanted to do something special and unique for her as a gift!

*This is a 4x6 photo matted on black to create a 5x7 finished look*

Check out the prices on the left side bar if you're interested in me creating something special for you...for any occasion!

a little bit of sweetness

2009-02-10T20:46:00.000-08:00

I'm helping host a baby shower for my good friend who is expecting her second baby girl. I wanted something simple, but sweet for the invitation, so this is what I came up with.

It is a printed 4x6 photo finished card with white cardstock backing to fit into a 5x7 envelope.

simple, but classic

2009-01-30T10:38:00.001-08:00

A friend called me up last week wondering if I could create a simple, yet classic wedding invite for a friend of hers. I jumped at the chance and created this!

She chose the 4x6 option, and was planning on using either black or white cardstock matting to create the 5x7 look. Usually, I do everything - designing, printing, assembly, with envelopes included, but this time around I was only responsible for the design and she took care of the rest.

If interested in having me create the photo card design only, and you take care of the rest, e-mail me at heidilynneboos@hotmail.com for pricing options.

**I can also create "save-the-date" cards.**

Christmas countdown

2008-12-23T01:01:00.000-08:00

Only 2 more days to Christmas!! This month has felt like it's gone by in such a rush.

My husband and I were able to go on a week long vacation for our 5-year anniversary.

And it has snowed and snowed and snowed here in Portland, Oregon unlike anything that has been seen for almost 40 years!

These two things have made it feel not quite like a "normal" Christmas season.

But, despite the craziness, I was able to enjoy designing a few more Christmas photo cards.

Thanks to my friend, Sarah, for letting me design her card this year!

These next 3 designs were for a very dear friend who has given me the opportunity to design last year's Christmas card and her son's baby announcement. She ended up choosing the first one for this year's Christmas card.

The same dear friend from above shared my love for design to her mom and this will be the second year I have designed her family's Christmas card. I love seeing how much the children grow each year and how big the family keeps getting.
This is our Christmas card. I really wanted a collage theme this year, since we had so many great pictures to choose from thanks to my friend Annie who photographed our family.
Merry Christmas to you and your family and blessings in the New Year.

a little tweek here, a little tweek there

2008-12-15T19:46:00.000-08:00

Here is an example of how I can take a pre-designed card and tweek it to make it look more complete with the picture that you might give me.

I created this particular card last Christmas as a set of designs for a friend to choose from. This isn't the one she chose, but I kept it in my pre-design gallery.

A gal in my MOPS group chose this particular design for her Christmas card this year, but I was able to give it a few extra unique changes to make it work for her family card, such as making subtle changes to the font, color, wording, picture size, and using a different snowflake. This card was printed off 4x6 in size with a deep cranberry colored matting (1/2-inch all around) to make it a 5x7. Sometimes the matting gives it that special unique look.

So, if you ever see something in my pre-design gallery (Christmas cards or other special events), know that I can try to make the changes necessary to make it fit your style.

However, for an additional $10 custom design fee, I can also create something that is unique just for you!

simply Christmas

2008-11-29T23:04:00.001-08:00

Just a fun new holiday card to add to the mix! This one's simple, but makes a fun statement!

Let me know if you'd like to order a pre-designed card for your Christmas greeting this year by e-mailing me at heidilynneboos{at}hotmail{dot}com. Check out my low pricing on the left hand sidebar.

this could be your Christmas card

2008-11-26T14:43:00.000-08:00

I'm in the midst of trying to create a few new Christmas cards...

Here is one that I just completed, but it's not actually our Christmas card, I just used our family picture and names. I'm keeping our family Christmas card a surprise until I get them sent out in the mail.

**Important information: If you are interested in ordering Christmas cards, I need to have your information, picture, and design choice by no later than Tuesday, December 2nd in order for me to get them to you before I leave on Saturday, December 6th. I will be gone for one week and will not be returning until December 13th. Unfortunately I will not be taking any more custom designs due to the small amount of time from now until I will be leaving, so if you are interested please see my pre-designed gallery of Christmas cards (the pre-designs also includes the one I have just posted).

thank you from the little man

2008-11-22T00:13:00.001-08:00

My good friend, Kim, "hired" me to design and create some thank you for the baby gift cards for another friend who just had a baby. This was her second baby, so she wanted a unique and special gift to give to her. I designed a photo card and then backed it with a red cardstock and then attached them to a folded card and bundled up a set of 12.

I also had the pleasure of designing this little man's baby announcement, which I look forward to sharing soon!

holiday cards (with more to come!)

2008-11-10T14:40:00.000-08:00

Whew! What a busy weekend! So much to prepare for! One of the things being our local MOPS group just held our 1st Annual Craft Fair & Bazaar this morning. We had 12 tables set up for 40 women to browse through and do a little early Christmas shopping. I was the coordinator of the event and I think our first one ran smoothly. Hooray! I hope to open it up to other Christmas shoppers outside of MOPS next year. I set up a table to advertise my HB Creative Design photo card business, and so I look forward to seeing what comes of that. I think I have a few women who were interested in holiday cards.

And now I'm moving on to the next project (or should I say projects?)!

I wanted to give you a sampling of the holiday cards I have created for my friend Annie, an amazing photographer. The pictures displayed on each of these cards were taken by her.

I know this is a busy time of year, but I hope to design a few more in the coming week to have as other options for potential customers looking for photo cards. Over the weekend, we finally determined my photo card pricing that will be for the coming holiday season (see left sidebar). I'm slowly growing my business, so I'm sure as the work load grows, I will probably have to adjust my pricing to compensate for that.

**For more pre-designed holiday greetings available, click here.

keeping busy...and loving it!

2008-11-06T00:36:00.000-08:00

This last week I was a little busy creating a couple of photo cards. Here are some fun, new designs for special occasions.

Here is my in-laws' 35th wedding anniversary party invitation...
**This is a 4x6 card with silver matting (thanks to the suggestion of my sister-in-law, Kristen). The colors turned out amazing and look great together!

And a baby shower invite for a friend's sister...
**This is a 4x6 card with white backing. I love the brown and blue together.

Also, If you haven't checked out some of my holiday photo cards that I have created for my friend Annie's photography business, then go here.

I have a baby announcement that I can't wait to share, but it's not quite finished yet. It's super cute!

The greatest thing about all of this creating and keeping busy is that I don't find any of it a burden. I love it too much for it to ever be a chore!

happy birthday papa!

2008-11-04T00:05:00.000-08:00

My dad's 60th birthday is today!! He's definitely not one to shout it out that it's his birthday, but I'm sure he will appreciate the photo card I made him from the grandkids that he will receive in the mail...hopefully today. He loves his grandbabies that's for sure!! Can't wait for him and my mom to come "home" for the holidays!

Happy Birthday Daddy (or Papa as Mikayla would call him)

birthday photo collage

2008-10-01T18:42:00.000-07:00

My son's first birthday was last Sunday. We celebrated with a monkey birthday party, all decked out in bananas! To look back over the year, I put together a month by month photo collage of my sweet boy. Where did the time go?

oh boy, oh boy, it's a girl!

2008-09-13T22:37:00.000-07:00

I have some great friends who are such a support to me in the developing of my photo card business and I appreciate their willingness to spread the word of HB Creative Design. Because of this, I recently had the pleasure of creating a baby announcement to welcome a sweet baby girl to a family with two very charming brothers.

time to monkey around!

2008-09-12T14:38:00.001-07:00

Here is the newest photo card birthday invitation I have created. It is for my son's FIRST birthday at the end of this month. The theme will be monkeys because, these days, that's exactly what he is! Climbing into things (places I never thought he would fit), up things, over things and if I let him, he may just try to swing from the light fixtures. I can't wait to share all of the fun ideas I have swarming around in my head to go along with a monkey birthday extravaganza! Future posts will follow...

announcing baby - it's a girl!

2008-08-28T12:30:00.000-07:00

I have been so thankful that I have been able to use my creative juices on making something special for friends and family. I always seem to be working on some kind of photo card these days, which keeps me busy, but I love it! Currently I am working on my son's 1st birthday invitation. I also have a few other projects I look forward to sharing in the future!

In the meantime...

Here are a few baby girl announcements I have done this past year, adding to the previous set of baby girl announcements I have already shared.

For more samples of baby announcements, see them here.

Because I am working on growing my business, I am creating unique custom made designs for each individual photo card. You are always welcome to choose from the designs I have already created, but I am more than willing to create something special just for YOUR occasion! Please see side bar for my contact information if you have any questions regarding the purchase of photo cards.

baby shower favor idea

2008-08-22T08:31:00.000-07:00

A couple of days ago, I helped host a baby shower for a very good friend of mine who was celebrating the birth of her third child. My other friend whose house we were having the shower at had printed some wallet size photos of the sweet baby with the intentions of using them for the shower invite. When that didn't work out, I decided to try and do something with them as shower favors for the attending guests.

I backed the wallet size photo with white paper and then onto a colored cardstock. I then took some coordinating ribbon and thread it through two punched holes.

On the back, I attached a poem that I adapted to fit the baby's name, including his birthdate at the bottom.
Each guest took home this special little favor to hang on their refrigerator.

baby shower-seeing stars

2008-08-20T16:35:00.000-07:00

I love baby showers! I have been a part of the planning process in my fair share of celebrating the arrival of little ones (first it was wedding showers, now it's babies). I am a big fan of throwing a party! Last summer, I was able to help out with a shower that we had for my sister-in-law. Her sister, but also my good friend, and I were the party planners and together we made a great team. She made all of the food (thank, goodness! that's not always "my thing") and I was in charge of the invites, games, and decor. Score! My favorite part of the party! I thought it would be fun to show off a few pictures of the decorations from that shower. Since I love themes, I investigated a bit and found out that the crib bedding in the nursery was going to be stars with blues, yellows, and greens, I thought it would be fun to go with that.

baby shower invite-created by HB

favors we passed out to the guests-
my friend made the cookies, and I made the tags

we even had stars down to the shapes of the cheese-brilliant idea by my friend
I used silver star confetti and then punched out other stars in coordinating colors...check out the colors of the Hershey Kisses...not bad, huh?

Over the years, I wish that I had taken many more pictures of the simple things at the showers I have helped with, like party favors, invitations, decorations, and more. Not only so I could share them with you, but so I could duplicate it easily if I needed to. But, don't worry, I think if I browsed through my files, I could find some fun things to share that I did take pictures of. I might even try to put together the shower games I have created or used.

photo cards for any occasion

2008-08-12T22:50:00.000-07:00

Here are a handful of photo cards I have created for various occasions and holidays throughout the year. I love that I can create these samples using pictures of my little kiddos!

HAPPY EASTER WISHES

FALL GREETINGS

JUST FOR FUN

THANK YOU

VALENTINE'S DAY

BIRTHDAYS

Thanks to my friend who who let me design her son's 1st birthday photo card invitation.

What can I create for you?

announcing baby- it's a boy!

2008-08-04T00:21:00.000-07:00

Here are a handful of baby boy photo card announcements that I have created for friends and family. Typically, I ask for 1-2 pictures and then I create one of a kind announcements that suits their taste and liking. Since designing photo cards is still a new venture for me, I make everything starting from a blank canvas and just see where my creativity might take me.

This is my sweet nephew who just turned one year old.

**Note: If you haven't seen the first set of baby announcements I've shared, check them out here or holiday greeting photo cards here.

announcing baby-part 1

2008-07-29T14:37:00.000-07:00

My favorite photo cards to create are baby announcements. I just love how sweet the pictures are and how I get to create this beautiful way for the proud parents to show off their newest member of the family. Here are a handful of samples I created for one family to choose from to announce the birth of their baby girl.

*You can try clicking on each picture for an enlarged view.

These last four were the same design with just different color combinations. I love playing with the different colors!

Christmas in July

2008-07-28T14:37:00.001-07:00

I have always enjoyed sending some sort of holiday greeting to family and friends for Christmas. Over the last couple of years in working with photo cards, I have designed a handful of cards for Christmastime, a couple for our family, but a few cards & designs I have created for a friend. It gives me great joy to create something extra special and unique for family and friends to receive during the holiday season! Here are a few samples of things I have done over the last 2 Christmas seasons. There are so many more ideas to put down on paper (er, I mean computer), so I hope to share those creations in the future and maybe for others who would like a fun and unique way to say Merry Christmas for Christmas 2008!

photo card frenzy

2008-07-25T21:30:00.000-07:00

My most recent creative endeavor (among other things I still do just for fun) has been to create photo cards on the computer. I began this new creative discovery while I was pregnant with my first child. I was interested in finding a way I could share with my family and friends the birth of my little girl and came across the fun and creative (not to mention beautiful) idea of photo card announcements. After showing my husband all of the fun ideas that I found to create the announcement, he promptly and confidently said, "I could do that" (who knew?). Together, we created our daughter's birth announcement in April 2006. While looking over my husband's shoulder, I "told" him exactly what I envisioned it to look like and he worked his magic touch on the computer (honestly, I was a little overwhelmed by the amount of program knowledge needed to create such a thing and back then I was somewhat afraid of learning the "ins and outs" of computer "stuff").

Here is that finished product...the first one of many and I have only gained more experience and knowledge about creating these cards, not to mention I've had a whole lot of fun along the way!

To be fair to my second child, I thought I would show you the announcement for our sweet baby boy born September 2007. This one I did by myself!

Now, instead of my husband getting to have all the fun, I took over the keyboard, found the confidence (and the patience to teach myself that aforementioned dreaded computer "stuff") and put my skills to the test. Thanks to my family and friends (and word of mouth), I have created birth announcements, Christmas cards, birthday invitations, and a few other special holidays and events along the way. I see this being my best "creative adventure" yet! (And maybe even business...dare I say that?) I can't wait to show you what I have created so far.

creativity

2008-07-15T14:45:00.001-07:00

I love being creative! Whether it's making a card, creating a scrapbook page, wrapping a gift, organizing a room, or designing a photo card, I enjoy the process! I am a perfectionist by nature. It's something that has always been with me since I was born. Most of the time being a perfectionist is a good thing because I enjoy creating something that is completed to the best of my ability and skill, and in turn LOVING the end product. But sometimes being a perfectionist is not a good thing, particularly when way too much extra time, sweat, and tears are spent into trying to complete the project to the best of my ability and skill...and well, to make it perfect (right now I'm having flashbacks of late nights in college and my teaching days). It makes me feel good to create something for somebody (but also for myself).

God has blessed me with the gift of creativity. I want to share that blessing with others. However, I don't dare claim that I am gifted in all areas of creativity. I don't know how to sew, knit, quilt, or crochet. I don't plan on learning anytime soon. I will choose to stick to the things I know and let others (like my talented seamstress mother) enjoy the pleasures of the fabric and yarn world. If there's every anything I need sewn, my mom is the first person I call. My poor husband...I even claim that I can't sew on a button (well, maybe that's more of an excuse).

I hope you can be inspired by some of the things I have created in the past, present, and hopefully many things to come in the future. I've had a lot of visions for starting my own business in many ways (which you will soon read about), but right now, with 2 kids under 3 years, I can't go as deep into these visions as I would like to, but my hope is that one day I will!

what's in a name?

2008-07-15T14:30:00.000-07:00

HB Creative Design simply stands for...

Heidi Boos Creative Design.

I tried to find a name that would encompass all of the creative things I like to be a part of...from greeting cards to gift wrapping to organizing to photo cards to scrapbooking these are all of the "creative designs" that I enjoy.