It's in the cards for Kendall Snead

It takes a tremendous amount of courage to start over. Kendall Snead went to the College of Charleston on a full ride with the Teaching Fellows Scholarship only to discover that her passion in life was not to become a teacher.

After graduating, she began a career change into graphic design. With the help of her art portfolio, Snead landed an internship at the Design Group, a local marketing and Web design company.

Snead is learning Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign in order to one day be a graphic designer and eventually start her own card company.

She said, "Art is in everything. Entering into the graphic world of art has led me to realize the truth in this. "

Each piece of work Snead makes is handmade and one-of-a-kind. She began her freelance work doing invitations for wedding events and now creates greeting cards that do not contain your typical Hallmark sentiment.

These hysterical greeting cards have an undertone of sarcasm and irony that are able to convey what most greeting cards do not: deep heartfelt emotion masked through images, words and satire.

Snead joked, "I want to make the world a prettier place one craft experiment at a time."

Her background is in studio art with a specialization in oil painting.

The artists who most influence her work include Andy Warhol, John Currin and Georgia O'Keefe.

She said, "I want to be a traveling artist; to go everywhere, try everything and translate it to canvas, paper, whatever I can find. I want to make everything aesthetically pleasing and explore all mediums of art: graphic, paint, pen and paper."

Contact: kendall.snead@gmail.com.

Birth date and place: Jan. 13, Charleston.

Residence: Downtown, 4 years.

Education: Bachelor of Science in early childhood education, minor in studio art.

Career: Intern at the Design Group, assistant manager at the Notso Hostel,

Price Range: $100-$500. Available for commission work.