Chris a la Forest Gump...

My friend Julie asked me to create something fun for her husband Chris's birthday.

I never know where I'm going when I sit down to design whatever I'm working on. People have asked me to make chocolate bars for parties, cards, different kinds of party favors and I've even made a few dvds with photos and music. I sit down with a purpose and somehow when I'm done, it's not at all what I started out to do.

Julie had seen some of my projects and gave me the freedom to come up with my own idea using pictures of Chris. She gave me pictures and told me a little about the things and people Chris liked.

I searched on line for pictures of all the things that Chris liked and tried to photoshop him into different shots, sometimes it just didn't fit, it looked out of place and other times it fit perfectly, you just got to find the right pictures. I even fit Julie into the biking Elvis shots.
When I had all the pictures set up that I wanted, I created a background, kind of like a street art show, and put different frames around the pictures and then Chris standing in front. It was fun to work on and both Chris and Julie loved it. Cool huh!