Design: Luau

I am loving being the Publicity chair for my base's Officers' Spouses' Club! It gives me a chance to use my creativity and passion for creating flyers. The first social of the club's calendar year is coming up and it is a luau! I enjoyed creating this one because it reminded me of my trip to Hawaii earlier this year.

When creating a flyer for a luau there are so many beautiful colors you can use. I searched for fun graphics to use and base my color choices off of. I was lucky to find the hibiscus image with all the colors I love. Pink is my all-time favorite color, but I also love yellow, green and aqua. 

Fonts used
Quicksand
Hawaiian Punk

Design: Thrift Shop

Our Officers' Spouses' Club operates the thrift shop on base. For the month of July the shop was closed so volunteers could work on making some improvements. They are continually doing projects to make the shop better and better. I was asked to create a flyer to promote the reopening of the shop.

Sometimes it is hard to find a background graphic that does not have a watermark on it. I probably saw a whole bunch that I would have loved to use, but I didn't want to pay to use them without the mark on them. I found this one and it works great! It also provided me with a fun, bright, cheery color scheme that would catch some attention.

Fonts used
Little Lord Fontleroy
Quicksand

Design: Cinderella's Closet

The base we are currently stationed at has an awesome resource called Cinderella's Closet. I have not had a reason to use it yet, but they have an amazing collection of formal dresses that folks can borrow for FREE!  Most of the dresses were donated by a Blue Star Families group in New York. There are dresses in every color and every size.

I recently had an opportunity to create an updated flyer for the Cinderella's Closet. Our base's Air Force Ball is coming up and the lady in charge of the Closet wanted to get the word out about the free dresses.

Fonts Used
Cursif
Century
Quicksand

Design: Smoothie Sale

I recently had the opportunity to create a flyer for a booster club smoothie sale. I whipped (or should I say blended?) it up in no time, but I like how it turned out. The colors all remind me of smoothies. And who doesn't love a nice, refreshing smoothie on a hot summer day?

Charles and I were talking about reducing our intake of sugars the other day. We were only talking about it because I know some people who have cut out sugar or are in the process of cutting out sugar. I have no interest in limiting sugars in my life. What can I say? I am a sugar addict. Every morning (pretty much) I drink a Bolthouse Farms Protein Smoothie drink. They taste so delicious, but are loaded with added sugar. Maybe I should drink more homemade fruit smoothies instead... There would still be sugar from the fruit, but that's much better than added sugars.

Fonts used:
Keep Calm Med
Barkants

Design: Food Giveaway

The base we are stationed at is in a rural area and there is a program through the USDA that comes to base and distributes food once a month. It has been in place for many, many years, but over the last couple of years participation had dropped. They were considering stopping the program. I was asked to make a flyer to help promote the program for the military families of this base. I had a lot of fun working on this one and absolutely LOVE how it turned out. It makes me really happy when I see it posted around base.

In previous years, this event was called the USDA Food Drive. However, that name was misleading. Food drives make me think of bringing canned foods to an organization that they will distribute to those in need. This program, on the other hand, distributes food and is not based on income or any other need. In creating the flyer, I was able to re-name it to USDA Food Giveaway.

I used a lot of bright colors to make the flyer fun and interesting. My goal was to catch the eye and attract more interest in the event. 

Fonts used:
Broadway
Century Gothic (this is my go-to font since it's one of my favorites)

 

Design: Favorite Things Party

I enjoy a bit of graphic design (is that the correct term?) by creating flyers for events and parties. A recent flyer I was asked to make is for a Favorite Things Party. Side note: if you have never been to one of these types of parties, they are a lot of fun!

Whenever I make flyers, I search Google images for ideas. Then I have fun re-creating images I find on there. Since all I have to work with is Microsoft Publisher, I am not always able to do all the fun things I could probably do with other programs. But it was free and I am familiar with it.

For the Favorite Things flyer, I saw one very similar on Google, but with different colors and fonts. I love fonts and have downloaded countless ones over the years. It is fun to experiment and try out different options together.

For this flyer, I used the following fonts:
Meganhand
Playdate
Romance Fatal Serif