I love embracing a design project for a family member. And when the family member provides artwork for me to incorporate, all the better. Did you know that when a musician signs years' worth of CD liner notes, the signature can become streamlined, calligraphic, and then ornamented? My daughter is such a musician, a trombonist who needed a new, snazzy business card. It was her brilliant idea to use her CD signature combo. Here are the parts, then the whole:

Emily's signature as it has evolved since she started signing checks, further made graceful by years of signing CD's~

The jazzy trombone ornament, complete with notes~

This stroke was done by me, selected by Emily to use as a design element along with her own~

A section of my stroke was assigned the color red in PhotoShop, then given a gradation~

I put everything together in PhotoShop, added a bit of gold to the bell of the trombone, and then ganged up the cards in InDesign. I chose to x-out all her information, but you may go to her website to find out more about her and even learn how to order one of those CD's!: www.emilyasher.com