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| There is nothing like one of Anita's POP UP cards! She's the best! Brightening my day is just what the doctor ordered when I got this in the mail. |
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| Anita's envelope to me... |
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| Birthday card to my sister |
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| Congratulations card envelope to a friend |
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| Birthday card to a friend.... |
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| Some of my Gratitude cards.... Addresses obscured to protect the senders..... |
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| With love.... |
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| and gratitude.... |
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| The names were done with a parallel pen left handed.. (I'm right handed). She has since moved...so this is an defunct address. |
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| They sure added a different, fun look to the whole thing.. TRY IT! |
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| After learning how to make pots with Connie Ferguson at Legacies I in Dallas, 2005, I fell in love with the process. This was one of the cards I made for a friend's birthday! |
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| Watercolors are so fun! |
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| This is my OLD neighbor! |
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| Here are a bunch of envelopes for a Pointed pen exchange.... a few years ago. |
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| Addresses altered for protection |
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| I received this, one day recently, out of the blue from my friend Judy Hovde. |
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| This was on the inside... what a nice surprise! |
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| Copperplate Gold ink on dark envelopes really just pops off the paper! |
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| Less is more when it comes to flourishing here.... |
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| I love the copperplate gold on black envelopes... |
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| Walnut ink and FineTec Gold palette with Copperplate gold ink |
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| More Copperplate Gold ink |
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| I met Heather Matthews Lee in Dallas at legacies back in 2005. We hit it off right away... not sure who we even knew each other, but it didn't matter... we have been friends ever since. |
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| It was great to see her again at IAMPETH in Albuquerque this past July! We reconnected and it was so nice! Julie Gray, one of her best buds, was there as well and I was happy to see her again! Facebook is one thing, but FACE TO FACE is another!  Heather had a lovely necklace on and I admired it. She remembered and included it in her card to me. It just floored me when I opened the card! The necklace says: Love and Be Loved!!! You know, us calligraphers, we need to see and have our letters!!! |
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| Since Anita doesn't have a Facebook account, I thought I would document this post here so perhaps she would see it and how much she means to me! |
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| My dear friend and calligraphy comrade, Anita, penned this envelope with class and grace! |
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| This was the card included inside the most beautiful envelope |
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| Sandy gave me this at lunch... |
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| Dearest Kate, with her whimsical writing blessed me with this in my mailbox this week... |
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| Love my friends.... they're the best! |
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| Here is a piece of black, Strathmore, Artagain paper with paste paper technique using heavy body acrylics to get the texture |
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| After it was completely dry, I sprayed it with Krylon Black and Gold Webbing spray |
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| This is the back of the card. I really like the affects it makes |
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| Here is a very, jewel-toned piece of paste paper... with the black paper as the base.... see the webbing spray affect in the photo below |
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| This is the same piece of paper as above.. I think the lighting was just a little different .. Flash vs. No Flash |
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| Another with just the black webbing spray, NO Gold |
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| This one has both gold and black |
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| This one just has the gold webbing spray The only thing I don't like about the spray is that you have very little, if any control over where the spray goes. Sometimes, the density of the spray is too much or too little and it's hard to actually have " desired placement" of the stuff. |
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| Using Walnut ink with a parallel pen I wrote Juanda and then added some doc martin's Bleedproof white for the accents when it was completely dry |
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| Here is a little closer view |
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| I left the white lines on there to show that it is BEST if you use LINES if you want your lettering to look good. |
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| This was a "left over" wedding invitation from my sister's wedding few years ago. I made quite a few of these "outside covers" with acrylics, a cuttle bug folder and some elbow grease. I thought that was just lovely. The hand created marbled paper for the band adds a nice contrast. |
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| Inside of the card... coordinating colors and the use of some marbled paper I created for accents. |
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| A birthday card sent to Toni... my shared birthday girl... This was done on Tyvek paper.. which is the stuff that you use when you send the USPS envelopes at the Post Office... Very durable... like plastic and not the easiest to write on... You can get some really nice, leather type affects, though just by rubbing some ink or paint on the papera Altered the address for protection |
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| Trudy... THE SURVIVOR! A card of encouragement! Altered the address for protection |
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| Trying out some swash letters that Holly sent me... not real happy with them... |
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| a bookmark inserted into a card for a dear lady: Sharon M. |
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| Sent to Houston with love... using a technique that Barbi Close taught at the latest CCS workshop...using black in and then spritzing it with water. Altered the address for protection |
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| To a friend whom was sick.... altered the address for protection |
