What I Designed Today: Jesus is the Living Water water bottle labels

Wednesday, January 15, 2025Wednesday, January 15, 2025 by Sparkbark | Leave a comment

*Tifanni Maddox used the “Jesus is the Living Water” water bottle labels at her event!*

Last week, a reader asked for the Jesus is the Living Water water bottle labels and before I had a chance to respond, she’d found them on Flickr (via the original Sparkbark post), printed them out and replied by sharing the following pic of her event.

I may not visit or update this site often but it’s fun to see old work being used and still helpful to people. The older I get the more the little things make me happy. Seeing her picture and the fact she cared enough to share it with me made my day! Well done, Tiffani. I hope you’ll look at my other water bottle labels Armor of God.

Finally! Shareable version of the infamous Ward Mission Plan . . .

Wednesday, December 11, 2024Monday, January 6, 2025 by Sparkbark | 1 Comment

In 2015, I posted about a non-profit client I did some graphic design work for both a ward mission plan and a stake mission plan (links to old posts). Over the years the ward mission plan has generated thousands of requests for an editable version from me for the layout design. I’m excited to announce that today’s the day an easily editable version of the ward mission plan is finally here.

I’ve created a new ward mission plan in Google Slides so that anyone with that free software can modify it for personal use to create a ward mission plan of their own.

A Canva version of the ward mission plan may also be on the way but, for now, this 8.5 x 11″ sized Google Slide will have to do. Since the original was in Adobe InDesign and used custom fonts, the new one uses Cloud fonts that should be universally available in Google Slides.

To download, I’ve created a link that will make you force a copy to your own Google Slides. You”ll see this image after you click:

Happy creating!

Lizabeth

What I designed today: A horizontal funnel to illustrate learner journey retention for Google Cloud

Tuesday, July 18, 2023Tuesday, October 31, 2023 by Sparkbark | Leave a comment

Disclaimer: I’ve been so busy working that most of the “What I designed today” posts are going to be a retrospective! I designed this horizontal funnel a few weeks ago. The funnel was used in executive presentations using Google Slides for Google Cloud Partner Learning & Certification. The intent was to illustrate Google Cloud learner journey progress through a 5-stage funnel. I had a difficult time finding a vector or raster graphic for a horizontal funnel, so I drew one in Adobe Illustrator! I actually drew two versions: a horizontal funnel WITH a gray path and one without. Here’s the original .ai file for Adobe Illustrator for you to copy and tweak or a transparent PNG. Not-so-incidentally, this fits standard Google or PowerPoint Slides perfectly.

SEE BELOW the FUNNEL IMAGE for QUICK DESIGN TUTORIAL on how to use PNG files and keep image sizes low in large presentations and documents.

Design tip: place the entire PNG in your file and crop the image to the part you want to use. If you’re working in PowerPoint, you can compress images to what is shown to keep your file size down. Here’s a handy, quick 1-minute video tutorial on how to save space by compressing images in PowerPoint — makes for easy file sharing and space saving files. It was an old tech tip I shared with colleagues in my last role but still applies for those of you who want to keep file sizes down for sharing without using cloud hyperlinks.

What I Designed Today: Custom Penzey’s Spice Jar Labels

Sunday, March 22, 2015Sunday, October 22, 2023 by Sparkbark | 2 Comments

My trip to Omaha over Spring Break was very fun — and very exhausting. Now I’m back home in Bartlesville and there’s a zillion things I should be doing right now OTHER than making custom spice jar labels. But I went to Penzey’s. And I bought these cute jars with yummy spices (e.g., celery salt that actually smells like celery and salt). It makes complete sense, right?? Right! It just makes me feel better. I’m attaching links to the file as a pdf and png, shown below, but if you’d like the original Illustrator CS5 file, just shoot me an email (the fonts used are Alex Brush and Zebrawood). The PDF could also be edited in Adobe Acrobat. I hope it makes you “feel better” too. Priorities, people.

PDF DOWNLOAD: penzeysspicelabels

This pdf file is set up for HP Restickables (a sticker I highly recommend that is more like a post-it note that you can remove and reposition many times) – it’s from a really old stash and I don’t think anyone sells them anymore, but any basic sticker stock would do! I manually cut out the labels. Yes, I’m insane. Who has time to do such a thing? Certainly not me. But I did cut them out, one by one, and it totally relaxed me. The outline isn’t perfect but I’m seriously happy with them anyway.