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This is a recycled Crown Royal bottle, all labels removed, that I turned into a pretty soap dispenser for the bathroom. This is a gift so it is personalized with the initial if their last name, that is etched on the bottle.
Learn how to create personalized greeting cards using GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus. This year I decided to create some cards for my family, friends, co-workers and calligraphy guild members (card exchange).
I created 60 personalized 5″ x 7″ (A7) greeting cards. Each card had a persons (or family’s) name done in authentic calligraphy draped on top of seasonal stock photography and textures. The inside of the cards have greetings also done in authentic calligraphy — around six greetings that are mixed and matched with the cards. All of the lettering was completed with my new designer type that I plan to offer commercially. I also created a couple of stock cards for events that come up throughout the year.
This project workflow consisted of starting in GIMP for processing the background images and the typeface itself, then Inkscape for the layout of each card (outsides & insides), then Scribus for the production of a single 120 page PDF (version 1.4) file that was sent to the print shop. This was a really fun project that anyone can do using completely FREE software. I have two courses that would help you create these from start to finish — Digital Arts Course & my Desktop Publishing Course that are available at gimpmagazine.org/courses
Overall I am really happy with the outcome. The quality of the print job was exceptional. It is unusual to get a completely personalized card with your name on it so everyone has expressed thanks and some have said they look forward to next year. I really love the look of these cards. The printing specifications include:
-5″ x 7″
-Double sided
-Scored & folded
-Full bleed printing (added 1/8″ around – 7.25″ x 10.25″)
-Colour
-FSC Standard Gloss Cover – White – 111lb paper
-Uses standard A7 Envelopes
Contact me if you are interested in having me create a quantity of custom cards for you. Your family photo, custom calligraphy or anything design oriented can be created. Contact me at gimpmagazine.org/contact or create these yourself using GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus!
Cheers & Seasons Greetings
Steve
Week 25 / Sports
52 Weeks of Pix
The USGA Rules and Decisions states:
Rule 6-5. - Ball
"The responsibility for playing the proper ball rests with the player. Each player should put an identification mark on his ball."
This is how I always mark my Callaway Solaire golf ball so it's easily identified as mine! I have a 4 ball match later today and was getting myself & bag prepared. Wish me luck!:)
12 personalized favor tags for the ultimate party thrower. They are perfect for baby showers and kids birthday parties.
Each favor tag is printed on textured 80lb. card stock measuring 2" in diameter. Every tag is hole punched and secured with a stainless steel eyelet and finished with a chocolate ribbon. The ribbon measures 9" once fed through the eyelet.
Left: Personalized Design & Personalized Fit Valentine in Purple Filigree Brocade, styled with a black lace Annabelle bolero & metallic stripe Madame X skirt & veil by Kalico Delafay Millinery
Right: Personalized Fit Valentine in Signature Collection Ivory Satin with an ivory Carmen wrap skirt & veil by Kalico Delafay Millinery
© Gina Barbara Photography
Personalized wedding favors make a wedding unique and memorable. Visit Things Festive Wedding Blog for image credits and product resources.
Personalized Funko Pop!
I'm not a Pop! collector and I'm not planning to buy this but here's my personalized Pop figure. My hair is lessor, but the rest is mostly correct.
I'm usually not one who fancies overly complicated tactical weaponry, so I tried to keep it neat and somewhat simple. Custom parts include the collapsible stock, pistol grip, magazine, hand-guard, flash-hider, iron sight, dust cover and scope. (Also engraved a logo of sorts into the receiver)
Enjoy.
I made this "MP" brooch for a retirement gift. It is forged brass with a stainless steel pin. I was inspired by Alexander Calder's initials brooches.
"J D HANCNCK II FEB 24, 1970 SON"
When I was three years old my parents went to Chicago to visit one of my dad's air force buddies. My dad brought back this personalized token from a museum there. It was certainly not his first gift to me, but nevertheless I think of it as something I have "always" had.
The other side of the token reads, "Museum Science Industry."
The misspelling of our last name is amusing, given what a careful person my dad normally is.
This is one of many curious items collected in JD's House of Miscellany.
wedding cake ordered by the friends of the bride and groom... each layer signifying... they met while playing club volley ball and drinking beer... they are going to peru for their honeymoon and they are moving to south of holland to be farmers in the future ;)
This 2 tier cake has lavender stripes and swags accented with pink jewels. There were lavender crowns on the top tier and the birthday girls name pops off the cake. The cake is pearlized and covered with a sugar crystals for extra sparkle
Personalized sports posters created using YOUR photos, because nothing commemorates a season, a team, or a championship like having something special that your player can display for all friends and family to see. Visit www.frenzy-designs.com to get yours today!
This group paid for an "animal encounter" with the otters. They received personalized time with a zookeeper, plus ways to interact with Piper and Luani, the North American river otters. 1/2
Though personalized art appeared during World War I, and occasionally grew to incorporate the entire aircraft, most pilots carried a saying or a slogan, or a family crest, or squadron symbol. Some were named, but nose art was not common. During World War II, nose art not only saw its true beginnings, but its heyday.
No one knows exactly who started nose art first--it appeared with both the British and the Germans around the first time, with RAF pilots painting Hitler being kicked or skulls and crossbones on their aircraft, while German nose art was usually a personal symbol, named for a girlfriend or adopting a mascot (such as Adolf Galland using Mickey Mouse, something Walt Disney likely didn't approve of). It would be with the Americans, and a lesser extent the Canadians, that nose art truly became common--and started including its most famous forms, which was usually half-naked or completely naked women. This was not always true, but it often was.
The quality of nose art depended on the squadron or wing artist. Some of it was rather crude, while others were equal to the finest pinup artists in the United States, such as Alberto Vargas. For men thousands of miles away from home and lonely, a curvaceous blonde on a B-17 or a P-51 made that loneliness a bit easier. Others thought naked women were a little crude, and just limited themselves to names, or depicted animals, cartoon characters, or patriotic emblems, or caricatures of the Axis dictators they were fighting.
Generally speaking, there was little censorship, with squadron and group commanders rarely intervening on names or pictures; the pilots themselves practiced self-censorship, with profanity almost unknown, and full-frontal nudity nearly nonexistent. After the loss of a B-17 named "Murder Inc.," which the Germans captured and used to make propaganda, the 8th Air Force, at least, set up a nose art committee that reviewed the nose art of aircraft--but even it rarely wielded its veto. For the most part, nose art was limited only by the crew's imagination and the artist's ability. The British tended to stay away from the lurid nudes of the Americans, though the Canadians adopted them as well. (The Axis also did not use nose art in this fashion, and neither did the Soviets, who usually confined themselves to patriotic slogans on their aircraft, such as "For Stalin!" or "In the Spirit of the Motherland!")
When World War II ended, so did nose art, for the most part. In the peacetime, postwar armed forces, the idea of having naked women were wives and children could see it was not something the postwar USAF or Navy wanted, and when it wasn't scrapped, it was painted over. A few units (especially those away from home and family) still allowed it, but it would take Korea to begin a renaissance of nose art.
When the 4th Fighter Group was formed at RAF Debden, UK in September 1942, it already had an impressive pedigree: its three squadrons were formed from the famous "Eagle Squadrons." The Eagle Squadrons were formerly RAF units made up of American volunteers, who joined before Pearl Harbor. (A common myth is that the Eagles fought in the Battle of Britain; they did not get into service until after the Battle was over, though a handful of Americans did fly in the Battle with other RAF squadrons.) This would give the 4th a leg-up on other 8th Air Force fighter squadrons due to their experience--though it would not be until the 4th was equipped with P-51 Mustangs in early 1944 that the unit truly hit its stride.
By the end of the war, the 4th had scored the most combined victories by a USAAF unit in Europe--1052 kills. The "characters" of the 4th included such famous names as Dominic Gentile, John Godfrey, Duane Beeson, and Ralph "Kidd" Hofer. Today, the 4th FG is known as the 4th Fighter Wing, flying F-15E Strike Eagles at Seymour-Johnson AFB, North Carolina.
Because the 4th was drawn from the Eagle Squadrons, it adopted a "fighting eagle" as its mascot--a belligerent bird with boxing gloves. This remains the wing's mascot to this day. This P-51D on display at the Fargo Air Museum in North Dakota carries the 4th's eagle on the fuselage.
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This is an iPhone background image I created using the latest imaging of our place in the Milky Way. The blacked out areas are my phone number and gmail address.
This is a little wedding gift put together for our friends Monique and Peter. There are two personalized towels, a hot water bottle & matching cover, a girlie cosmetic bag, a little softie, some lavender tea bags and a candle & base (not made by me and not shown). I put them all together in this very French market basket.
Our Personalized Flip Flops are a wedding reception must have. Reward your feet by slipping out of your uncomfortable ceremony heels and into these ultra soothing, reception slippers! Fit for all occasions, these fun flippies also make great gifts for year round celebrating!