New Juicy Roo Cards for Bambinos

I'm grateful for my relationship with Peta's shop Bambinos on George here in Bathurst. I was surprised to see the card rack half empty after dropping off almost 100 just before Christmas! Its great that she can tell me exactly what customers are asking for. For example..."we need baby shower cards!" Me being child-free and clueless about these things, I always have to ask the obvious questions...."does the baby shower happen before or after the birth of baby?" I'm grateful for Peta's guru knowledge about these things! Here are the first two new shower cards:

New Birthday Card

Here is a very 70s disco-inspired card that will accompany Peta's birthday present. Its always good to test new designs on people! I think she will get a good chuckle out of this mighty 'fro.

New Baby Thankyou Cards

The exceptionally fantastic Janine from Vancouver has always been very supportive of Juicy Roo and she and Aussie hubbie Paul are expecting their first baby! They have commissioned Juicy Roo to do some thank you cards for their new arrival (lets face it we know they'll be getting LOTS of gifts!)...

so here are a couple of ideas:

Photography Challenges

Alas I fear my trusty Canon PowerShot S30 might be on its last legs. Either that or I am a shocker of a photographer. I am experiencing its limitations and its very frustrating. Admittedly I've had it since early 2003 (surreal to think I paid almost 1000 Canadian bucks for it.) But I must say it has been a little gem. Its been dropped many times, knocked off a table by my cat (on purpose!) literally an hour after I bought it, and has been the most faithful travel companion EVER! I knew in the early days that natural lighting conditions were my Canon's best friend. So now that I have built a lightbox, I want to be able to photograph my goodies at all hours of the day, not just when it is gloriously overcast. And so too by problems begin. This pic is the best I can muster so far of a set of Juicy Roo greeting cards  AND I had the help of the levels in Photoshop. I might borrow the office's camera and see if that makes a difference. If it does, I need a new camera. If it doesnt, I might need a BETTER camera. I'll postpone further judgement until I can do some more experiments.

NOTE that very blatant attempt at self promotion. Would anyone believe it is an attempt to see if I know how to create a link? I'm very new to blogging you see.