Recently this amazing Chicago calligrapher (okay she’s my wife) told me she wanted a new website. So we set about creating something. She’s on a purple kick so we used purple for the design.

She wanted something fun and different on the homepage, so I used jQuery to create some cards coming out of some envelopes. It’s just a few layer images, and one moving up and down.

Also there’s a sample page, where the images are enlarged for easier viewing. Again, jQuery came to the rescue, in a way similar to Lightbox – my own design of course.

You can check out the design, or her calligraphy, at gracefulquill.com