Design Feature : Bisou Bon Bon

When Shelby from Bisou Bon Bon requested for patisserie illustration for the header, I get so excited! I love designing anything to do with bakery, except her site is all about natural handcrafted bath and body care!
Took me few days to finish the illustration and I must say I'm happy that she agreed on 1st draft!

Oh, if you have not gotten any Christmas gift yet, there's still time! Head on to Bisou Bon Bon's site and pick your gift!

Business card design

 Facebook timeline cover

Blogspot or Wordpress?

I've been getting few query on designing a template for Wordpress. I feel like it's such a total waste that my knowledge on Wordpress is very little. Not even 0.2%!

I started blogging in 2009 with blogspot as a platform. At that time, Wordpress for me is for a more professional blogging. Unlike me, I blogged just for fun!

Within the 2 years, I started tweaking Blogger codes and changing them myself with the help of the Google :)
And 2 years later, I can proudly say that I'm quite good at tweaking blogs :P

Siblings and friends started to request blog makovers for their blog and of course, I was just happy to help! Photoshop alone can't really let creativity gone wild! So I started to learn Illustrator myself. With the help from the internet again :) With the fulltime job I'm having now, I guess ai does really help me in a lot of ways. I never regretted learning it!

One thing about Wordpress that I know of, is that it is a free blogging platform like Blogger BUT, changing and tweaking the codes are only applicable for the paid account.Unlike Blogger, it is free!

Meaning the only thing you can change is the header. The rests will have to be from the template from the Wordpress itself.

If you want me to design the header, sure I can do that! But not the whole blog.

The bottom line is, I don't do Wordpress BUT if you're looking for a new header for the Wordpress, I would love to assist you :)

Why my price is lower?

At the beginning of my involvement in blog design, I have set on my goal of what kind of style I want for my design. Do I want it to be simple? complicated? average?

Since I'm a full time working and a mother, I had to choose Simple to be my style.

I love simple stuff!

Simple meaning there's not so much work to do plus my knowledge is still limited! :P I'm still learning the coding and using illustrator. That kind  of give me a little constraint on difficult or complicated design.

So how do you tell between complicated and simple design? Let me show you how ..

This is a sample of Simple Design

It's simple yet fabulous! All we need is the best color scheme and few shapes and voila!!

 and this is the not-so-simple blog design

I have not yet mastered my illustration skill so I can't illustrate these character. However, they are available online for you to purchase like istockphoto or shutterstock.

So if you like my design style and looking for something simple yet elegant  for your blog, I would be happy to assist you :)

I will try to update my portfolio from time to time so you could see the design style :)

Looking forward to work with you!!!! XD