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well, hello there!

Welcome to the Chocolate Cactus blogsite.  A little of this and a little of that, all rolled into one big ball of goodness.  Here you will be able to read the latest, see recent works and read random babbles all in one place.  You're one lucky duck.

With nine years of design experience and an accomplished marketing background, owner and creative director Jodi Bell prefers a straightforward, personalized approach to her design work. "Everything I design is done with marketing in mind," states this former designer for a Houston-based magazine. It is her philosophy that "Standout designs equal effective marketing". The result is that the marketing and branding process is made infinitely easier for her clients. Jodi's portfolio reveals her love of typography and clean, no-frills designs. It is this that makes her designs standout creations that market themselves. 


Chocolate Cactus offers a variety of design work. Jodi's talents include creating complete identities to collateral materials and logo designs. Aside from logos, one of her specialties is custom one-of-a-kind announcements and wedding invitations. Because her clean, fresh designs appeal to a wide variety of industries, her client list includes not only photographers worldwide but also boutiques, auto manufacturers and just about everything in between.

Jodi has a special affinity for her photographer clients, most likely because she's a photographer herself, having won accolades and recognition for her photographic work. A self-professed font queen, Jodi lives in the Houston, Texas area with her husband and four sons. She continues the hunt for clean, fabulous typography...over 3,500 fonts and counting.

Monthly Archives: November 2007

Birth/Holiday Card combos!

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Chocolate, Camera, Action!

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New products and a welcome

Welcome to my new Typepad blog!  This one is more versatile, so I decided to transition over.  Starting later today, I will be posting here permanently. Just some quick news: I recently released a set of 5×5 folded birth announcements (not trifolds) called "Simply Illustrated". They can be found below – they are not on...

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NEW – “Simply Illustrated” birth announcements

This is something I have been wanting to do for a while – create super simple, super cute announcements with simple illustrations, and here they are! These are designed as 5×5 folded cards (NOT trifolds), and come as layered psd files at 300 resolution. Main colors are editable (so most of these are universal for...

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Gobble Gobble, Wobble Wobble.

That’s what I’ll be doing this week after eating lots ‘o’ turkey. Just a note to let you all know that I will be off Wednesday afternoon (will be working that morning) through Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday spending time with my family. All emails received during that time will be answered Monday of next...

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Blog Contest – Start Clicking!

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