Logo designed for contra dance band . . .used on their music bandstands.Two-color fund raiser event invitation with reply card and envelopes.Two-color invitation with reply card and envelopes for fund raising event for natural history museum.Character created for sports bar. Used in menu and logo. Bears and beer, it's a natural, right?Accordian-fold square brochure designed for student recruitment for a Christian high school. See more in next image.Grace Prep Christian High School recruitment brochure.Quarter-page ad designed for barber shop's 5th anniversary and open house. Barber shop looks like a replica of an 1880's style shop.Business card for a barber shop that's styled to look like a shop fromthe 1880's.Logo for family fun kit housed in a metal container.Just Add Family fun kit "recipe" cards for bedtime, mealtime, playtime, and holiday ideas.Full page back cover ad for Christian Parenting Magazine promoting Secret Keeper Girl materials and products.Stationery for Pure Freedom, a Christian ministry for teens.They didn't really serve pine cone martinis, but a green pine cone made a cool looking olive! Fund raising invitation and envelopes for a natural history museum event.Logo designed for EnergyCAP software. Energy tracking, accounting, management and utility bill payment.Rack card-sized brochure designed for natural history museum's Girl Scout outreach program.Fund raising invitation and envelopes for a natural history museum event.Quarterly newsletter for natural history museum.Presentation folder designed for EnergyCAP company that has developed software for energy tracking, accounting, management and utility bill payment.Small customer service brochure, logo, and illustrations for a power company.Interior of small customer service brochure for power company.Terribly clever use of a pine branch to depict a fund-raising dinner for a natural history museum.Logo designed for western clothing and accessories store. They sell very few bells at the store.Business card for western wear and accessories store.Gift certificate for Jim Bell western wear store. Those are authentic cattle brands.An alternative business card design for the Jim Bell western store.2-fold brochure designed for one of the original Bed & Breakfast Inns in Bar Harbor, Maine. The floral design on the front is a piece of wallpaper from one of the rooms.Horizontal logo for Girls 'n Grace, a ministry for moms, daughters, and grandmothers.Heart version of the Girls 'n Grace logo. Used atop the floor displays in retail outlets.Final logo selected for National Association of Home Builder's 20 Club.A fun logo for a wellness center. Typography is often an overlooked solution for logos. Not all wellness centers need a flying, dancing, leaping figure that makes it look like every other wellness center.An 11 x 22" 2-fold brochure about economics and marketing information for National Association of Home Builders.Tallgrass Express String Band CD design that helped launch their new level of recognition and gigs.Logo for a contra dance and music camp in Kansas. Two days of workshops, dance and jams.A fun way to say "music" and "barn dance" by combining the barn and neck of musical instrument.Inspired by my husband, Kerry: "why not make the barn dance logo actually OF a barn dancing?"Two musicians show off their collective talents on banjo, fiddle and voice. Black and white photo scanned and a hand-colored effect added.We were trying to think of some graphic that would say "guru" and "smart person" and thought this little owl did the job. We went a more cartoonish route because who needs to be that serious?An early redesign of a book catalog for the Home Builder Press, a division of National Association of Home Builders.Scratchboard illustrations for an audio children's book with original music by a group in Wisconsin.Scratchboard illustration17 x 22" promotion poster for the Tallgrass Express String BandOriginal illustration created for bank promotion aimed at snowbirds in MinnesotaProbably one of my favorite projects of all times, this Phenology Calendar. It traditionally has an unwieldy amount of text and a dry demeanor. Museum volunteers attached our little anti-phobia remedy onto the cover of each calendar: a chamomile tea bag (go make a cup of tea and calm down!)Original illustration for bank president's retirement party.
CLIENT LIST

Moody Publishers
Girls 'n Grace
National Geographic
Thomas Nelson
Simon & Schuster
Harper Collins
NAHB
Family Life
Group Publishing
NAESP
Pure Freedom
Grace Prep
Emma Chase Cafe
Center for Fine Arts      Photography
Cable Natural History Museum
Energy CAP
North Star Books
Jim Bell & Son Western
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