Studio Life

We’re excited to announce that our newest photo book for Shutterfly is live and online now!  The theme is called Glad Tidings.  It’s an elegant and sophisticated background for Christmas family photos with a rich color palette and large selection of words and embellishments inspired by the Christmas story.  Here are just a few examples of interior pages that you

You can thank us right now for the toil and tribulation we had to endure in order to provide this post for your holiday inspiration. First, we had to taste-test a vast number of sinfully creamy cheeses, searching for the ideal threesome. Then we had to quickly photograph our perfect symphony of fromage before it oozed all over the platter,

Are you already wrapping presents? Yeah, neither are we. But, here’s a little something that might get you started. Today we are guest bloggers for the C.R. Gibson blog where you can download (for free!) holiday gift tags that we created just for you. Just print, cut, and if you want to add a pop of color, mount them on

So, it’s possible that Cathy asked me to write a few seasonal blog posts and I used it as an excuse to make marshmallows.  Possible… My intermittent craving for homemade marshmallows started when Sharon, who works with me at Kala and is currently taking a two-year baking course at Laney College, brought us some samples of the day’s lesson: Cardamom

Now that the election season is over, we can fInally focus on the kinds of decisions that really matter to the critters at Cathy Heck Studio: Pantone’s Colors of the Year! Can you guess which one is number one for Spring 2013? Drum roll please. You are right! 19-3964 Monaco Blue. How did you know? This is not the Blue-States-vs-Red-States