Happy Friday! I’ve been working on a lot of new blog and web design projects lately (some of my favorites that I’ve ever created!) and wanted to share a few peeks into what I’ve been up to. Today’s design project was for Audrey, and her cleverly named food blog, Aud Taste. I absolutely loved the bright color palette she wanted and the fact that I got to include some fun lettering in the header. We also included some hand-painted looking details throughout the site — my favorite! You can take a look at some of the final branding materials below. 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend!
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I really like the colour palette of this blog design, I’ll keep it in mind for when I want to change my blog design 🙂
xx Cecil // http://www.wednesday19th.blogspot.com
Woooo! Thank you Cecil! 🙂
Oh, I really like this! The brush lettering is beautiful and I love the pink and yellow details!
Thank you thank you Gina! 🙂
Wow this is beautiful, I love the brush lettering x
http://www.wild-cherrytree.com
Thank you Jessica! 🙂
This is really pretty, I love it, I’m so boring with whitewhitewhite. Urgh
Thank you!! I think all white designs are really beautiful too 🙂
Beautiful work and I love the illustrations. I always love the hand drawn/ hand painted motif and am trying more and more to incorporate that into my own blog, as it’s a huge part of my illustration aesthetic.
Thank you Jennifer! The hand drawn parts are always my favorite, too! 🙂
Yes – as always, you do amazing work Melyssa!
Thank you Kele! <3
So pretty, as always. I love the colors in this one, and the new colors on your own header! 🙂
Thank you so much, Zoe! I hope you have a beautiful Thanksgiving in France! 🙂
Such a fantastic design! You handwriting is gorgeous, the watercolour effect is such a great look!
Tessa / Bramble & Thorn
Thank you so much, Tessa! 🙂
This looks amazing! Great job!
Thank you Lee!! 🙂
Do you own the fonts that you use for your clients work or do they also have to buy them? I’m just curious how that aspect works. 🙂 Beautiful work, as always!
Hey Stacia – I think I might be able to answer your question – when you design something you always have to make sure that your clients buy the font too so that they have the licence to use the font.
That makes sense. Thanks, Rae! 🙂
It usually depends on the license of the font. But a lot of the fonts I use are free, so no one has to buy them. Woo! 🙂
Awesome! Thanks! 🙂
This is gorgeous! When I have the money to do a blog overhaul I’m definitely remembering you.
Thank you Karen! Would love to collaborate 🙂
These are beautiful! I love the combination of print and digital.
http://awayfromthesafeharbor.blogspot.com/2014/11/time-capsuleshells-familiar-shores.html
Thank you Christine! 🙂
cute design! Love the color choices as well.
rae of love from berlin
Thank you Rae! 🙂
I love the process shots! Great job 🙂
Theresa
http://www.underhonesttrees.com
Thank you so much Theresa! *blowing kiss face emoji* 🙂
Your Blog Designs are beautiful.
Kate
http://www.the-little-day-dreamer.blogspot.com
YOU are beautiful! Thank you Kate 🙂
I love it! It’s utterly gorgeous!
evelinkivi.blogspot.com
Aw you’re too sweet! Thanks Evelin! 🙂
Very cool! I love the handwritten banner.
Adia / Adia Sinead
Thank you Adia! 🙂
Loving the color scheme! And I agree, such a clever blog name 🙂 I also kinda like the blogger’s name too -Audrey | Brunch at Audrey’s
Thank you Audrey! haha I like her name too 😉 Her last name is “Plant” which seems so perfect for a food blogger, too!
Lovely! I’m such a fan of your hand lettering 🙂
Thank you so much Simone! It’s one of my favorite parts of any design 🙂
I adore the handwritten part – I’m a designer/illustrator too and am super impressed with how crisp it looks – what do you use to transfer your drawings to digital, if you don’t mind me asking. I currently use a DSLR with as good lighting as I can get, or a scanner at uni. x
Thank you so much, Annie! You’re going to laugh: I use my iPhone. Since blog designs are at 72 DPI and don’t need to be scaled to larger versions, this works fine for that purpose. For larger designs I’d use my scanner. But if you use your iPhone, I just take a photo in bright natural light, then up the brightness/contrast in Photoshop so that deleting the white paper background is easy. Then, I often use a black Color Overlay on top of the text, to give it a more crisp look. You can reduce the opacity of the color overlay if you’d like a bit of the watercolor effect to show through, too. Hope that helps! 🙂
I love the design it’s so cute !!
http://www.miss-siu.blogspot.com
Thank you so much! 🙂
Pinned! It’s beautiful work. Simple– but very feminine and fun at the same time. If I was going to hire someone, you’d have my business 🙂 I like to figure these things out on my own though- it’s certainly harder than it seems!
Thank you so much for the support, Michelle! I so appreciate that. 🙂 And I’m with you — I love figuring things out myself, too! 🙂
awesome design and very- very lovely.this blog is very colorful.I really like it. thanks for share..
Thank you! Glad you like it 🙂
I love what you did with this design! It’s beautiful! 🙂
This is just beautiful. You’re super talented Mel. Pinned this to my “Beautiful Branding” board. 🙂
Tiffany
beautifuldawndesigns.net
Thank you Tiffany! I just popped over to your design site — it’s beautiful! So clean and organized. 🙂