Happy Valentine’s Day! To celebrate, I am sharing with you the cards that my husband, Mike Maihack, and I made for each other.

He drew, colored, and printed this card for me featuring our two kitties, Ash and Misty. It is so cute and he totally picked up their personalities. The inside says “we loves u.”

Scrapbooking is a fun hobby of mine. I love to scrap whenever I can get a chance. Of course, Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to scrap a card for Mike. The inside of the card says “I wake up happy.”

This detail of the “every day” embellishment shows that I hand wrote it, and distressed the edges myself. I even taped the paper onto chip board and cut it out myself. Also, you can see how I drew in the stitch marks around the edge of the pink paper.

I also cut out the hearts from chip board as well, using different paper patterns.

I love scrappin’! It’s a fun way for me to keepsake our photos and memories.

So the time has come to design some new postcards! When I first start on creating any design, I always rely on the good ‘ol internets to find samples of the type of design I am going for. Admittedly, it was hard to find nice samples to go off of, but I like to see samples to come up with ideas for my own. Now that I have created my own promo pieces, I thought I could post them to hopefully help out any other photographers who need some ideas for designing their postcards or ads. The model postcard is to promote myself with models and modeling agencies. I love working with models, they are so easy to photograph for some reason. The other postcard is to promote my portrait side of my work. I plan on passing out around 500 of these at an expo I will be attending at the end of the month. Enjoy!

I love the background I created for this one. Be prepared to see more of that!