My New Blog!

Hi guys! I think it is time for a fresh start! After having this blog for 4 years I have definitely matured a person and my style has changed lots. I am so excited announce my new blog Izzy Butcher Design. I will posting on my new blog from now on, about my inspirations, designs, daily doings, beauty and fashion and of course yummy healthy recipes. Thank-you to all my wonderful followers that have supported me on A Jar of Feathers for the past 4 years.  I hope you can hop over and take a look show your support with a follow. Hope to see you there

Izzy xx

izzybutcher.blogspot.com.au

Movie Cover

At school I've been studying Shakespeare in English and our most recent assessment item was an extended play on a character from Hamlet. So i thought I'd whip out my graphic design skills and blow everyone away with a beautiful hand made title page/cover. (To make up for my dodgy acting ofcorse) I'm still in the film/editing process so you will have to wait and see... But here is my cover :)

I had to learn a few new photoshop skills for this one. I used a bunch of watercolour brushes, and a mixture of text, photography and my own flower illustrations (which I scanned and uploaded then blended with photoshop) Hope you enjoy! 

Izzy xx

Design a Day: Day 8

I have been using photoshop lately, learning how to use the quick selection tool, blending modes and importing brushes like these water colour ones, used in this design. 

This is a little sneak peak of my own branding design that I have been working on.

Hope you enjoy!

Izzy xx

A Design a Day: Day 4

Here is a quick little design I threw together tonight, it does need improving and I will definitely do some more work on it. But I just felt like creating something cute so here it is...

What I learnt today was how to use the path finder for a pattern- just by creating a compound path. 

Enjoy xx

Izzy

Design a Day:Day 3

 I was searching for a tutorial to make a nice background and this caught my eye straight away it was so pretty! I was also so excited to find how easy it was. I also learn a few photoshop skills making the background. 

I found this photo on Pinterest that worked perfectly.

I added a Gaussian blur and an overlay of a pattern i created in illustrator, played around with the blending mode then added a grain. Once i finished the background, I added a quote from my friend that she asked me to do up after seeing yesterdays design. It turned out really well and she loves it! 

Enjoy...

Izzy xx

Current Design Love: Watercolour

How freaking gorgeous is this?! I love everything, the simple font, design.. and the contrast of colourful watercolour is just perfect!!

This gorgeous design element can add a fun pop of colour or create an elegant texture and offers a flowing contrast to strong, simple or bold typography. To incorporate watercolour into computer graphics all you need is some watercolour paints to make up some designs then use a scanner to upload them to your computer and finally add your typography, its really is so simple.

Hope you got some inspiration from today's post!

TAFE Update and My Artwork

I'm now in my second year of TAFE and I cant believe how quick the time has gone!! I promised earlier last year in this post that I would share some of my work so here is a few photos of a Dust Jacket that I'm currently working on. The brief was to combine photography and conceptual ideas to capture the letters A R and T and finish the title of Art is...something?(with relation to the photos) Then create a Duck Jacket using Adobe Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. Here are the results...

 I am so grateful that I got the opportunity to do this course. I'm creating a bunch of designs for my portfolio and I have learnt so much (and it's been super fun). Hope you have enjoyed taking a look at some of my work,

Silver Chevron Nails

Materials:

- scissors

- two colours of nail polish

- sticky tape

Firstly, I painted my first colour. This can be any colour you like but I choose just a shiny clear coat.

Next I cut my tape like the above photo, it's pretty straight forward :)

Once my first coat had dried I carefully placed the two tape pieces in the place I wanted them on my nails.

Then, painted on my silver :)

Remove the tape and your done!!

Enjoy...

Izz xox

Waiting for Spring

It's going to be another rainy weekend here at the barn. I thought I'd share what my weekend will be consisting of with this little GIF I threw together...

- Hundreds of cups of tea in bed

- Dramatic looking out my rainy window

- A friends season on my Laptop

- Imagining I'm in a fairytale adventure

- Painting my nails

- Folding washing

Have a great weekend

Izz xox

Current obsession; making a gif...

I recently found a website that allows you to upload your photos and it makes them into a gif. It's called Picasion. This is my latest one, I used pretty images I've found on the inter-web, to sort of make a collage of me :)

Oh... and I used Picnik to make my photos rounded :)

The website I used to find these inspiring images is called We Heart It. It's my favourite site and you can follow me on it here.

Izz xox

Lovely layers...

These are some of my favourite layered artworks that I am inspired by...

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Knock please

My baby sister recently asked me to make her a sign for her cubby house saying 'please knock'. I wanted to make something very cute and homely. So I used an emroidery style template from frankie's backgrounds...

Then I added some cute text in picnik, note: I kept with the homely theme.

And thats it! She loves it but we still need to get to a printer to print it out, hehe. Everyone is free to use it but for personal use only! Enjoy...

Oceans of Love

Some beautiful pictures from Ocean of Emotion