Out of the clear, blue sky!!! Great Mail Lately!

Since it IS Valentine's Day, I thought I would POST these first!
Sandy Odom created these for all the lucky members of CCS who
are attending the meeting here in Austin, Texas!  She is the BOMB!

Great little card from my friend, Sue, in Tulsa!

Here's the close up of the Zentangle she created... WOW!
Thanks, SUE! 

This is from one of my students whom I taught privately last summer!
She is a great and fast learner!! "Mamma couldn't be prouder!"
Thanks for thinking of me, Aimee.

I met this gal in Tulsa MANY moons ago when I stayed at her house
for a SWCC Calligraphy conference.... She is so sweet! I just
ran into her at a Retreat in Houston last summer and we connected!
What a surprise to get this in my mail, though!  THANK YOU, Lynda!
I love that little square! Did you make it!?  WITH WHAT?

Close up of the LITTLE square

Out of the blue, in my mailbox yesterday, I get the SWEETEST little note
which made tear up with the words she wrote!
It's nice to be "talked about" and "thought of" in a NICE way!
Thank you, Jeri! 

Beautiful Flourishing and Copperplate by Jeri in the Dallas area!

Of course, my Bud Sandy, keeps outdoing herself and I
received this in the mail yesterday as my VALENTINE for  '13!
I love her work and could look at it all day...

From Sandy... how clever to put it in the form of a HEART!
I think I posted one that was to Kathy G. earlier.. WISHING
it was to me... now I have one of my own! THANKS, Sweet, Sandy!

Envelopes from folks in December 2012

Front of Envelope from Elvia

Back of Envelope from Elvia

To Alison

Close up of the bird in gold... looks better in person ... couldn't get the right reflection

From Elena

From Carol McCall

Another from Carol.... registration for my workshop in February

From Gabi with a beautiful picture of their new baby girl... Sofie Grace

White on Brown.. from Teri... beautiful!

My favorite of the season... from my bud... Sandy... soooo pretty!

more envies from Christmas

This was actually a THANK YOU card!

Christmas Envies

Using the Hot Foil Pen... I put red and green dots all over the name...
which was written with a "spent" red marker. I like their effect when
pretty dried out... couldn't achieve that with a nib... 

The gold used was Dr. Martin's Copperplate Gold.. I love the raised look it has on the paper
You can actually feel it!

Kevin's nephew got married recently.. this is their first Christmas
card as a married couple!

Kind of a weird conjoining of the V and Z... I hope it was
readable by the USPS... we'll see!

Envelope with Trish Trash on it

TRISH TRASH!!!! Were you lucky enough to receive some this Christmas?

One of my students....

It's so nice to see one of my students "practially" using what I taught
her to "make her script her own"... She said she wanted to "Put a
smile on T.T.'s face"... It surely did!  Thanks!

From Juanda

Inside of the card!!!  Thanks Juanda... You are so thoughtful!

Jan, Teri and Sandy.... Thank you's!

It's always nice to get THANK YOU letters in the mail instead of BILLS!
This one was from Jan ... a calligraphy friend in Indiana.... whom I ordered a hot foil pen for!

My Bud, Sandy... again.... another lovely!  And another THANK YOU!
Always makes my day and puts a smile on my face!!!
This was a 12x12 scrapbook paper folded into itself to make an envelope.
The writing was on the inside part of the paper!

From my other bud, Teri!  We just celebrated her birthday in September.

Some more recent envelopes

This was done by one of my Summer Students, Juanda. I showed her
briefly how to do ONE flourish at the Demo during the UT CO OP fair
and she just took of!! Way to go, Juanda!

Created by Juanda... inside card... It looks like an Art Deco Gold Pen
and Prisma Colored pencils... very pretty!

Card created by Juanda... much prettier, even, in person!
If I am right, I think she used the FW acrylic inks that we got at the UT CO OP
art fair where we demo'd together last week.

Envelope by Holly... our current president of the guild.

Created by another one of my summer students... Linda.

Envelope I sent to friend, Yuki... for payment of a Christmas present! 

From Elvia, another one of my Summer Students *Copperplate class* ...
Very cool and detailed ... she said she used the White, mechanical
Fons and Porter Pencil she got..... going crazy with it!  I just use
it for white guidelines on black paper.... LOL!

Back of Elvia's envelope... this is so fun to look at. 
She housed it in a "clearbag" and sent it through the mail.
That way... the PO doesn't make a mess of your envelope.. just
the outside bag/envelope which is housing it.

 

Elvia's Thank you Card ... she's so sweet to thank me for helping
her with the class and other stuff... She was a student of mine
over ten years ago.

Back of Sandy's envelope... cool flourish....

Recent envelopes.. Juanda and Kathy

I loved getting this in the mail from one of my students...
practicing her hand.... This was the envelope....

Outside of Card....

Inside of Card

This arrived with CHECKS... delish!  Kathy is the
treasurer of CCS right now.... Loved this envie!