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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 |
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| An old birthday card from my pal, Connie (inside) |
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| Outside of Connie's birthday card |
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| Card front...from Jennifer |
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| Coordinating envelope with same colors |
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| And, inside ... same colors and calligraphic hand. |
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| From my dear, Kate.... what style and whimsy she always has. |
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| The "label" on the envelope from Kate |
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| Beautiful "Kate" rendition of a "T".... |
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| Such whimsical attention to detail, Kate B. has. |
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| Kate's LACE letters... |
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| Envelope from Sharon Zeugin... 2007 |
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| Envelope from Liz H. '07 |
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| Pat P. envelope |
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| Paula W. envie '07 |
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| Paula W. envie '06 |
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| I surely had fun creating this card with my hand marbled card.... I found a coordinating envelope which had the same colors in my stash, too! |
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| I used some of the scraps from the paper I marbled and adhered them onto the envelope... I altered view for security purposes of address.... For the lettering, I used my trusty 'ol Parallel pen which if you have a color cartridge inside of it... you can add another color and they blend together so well. |
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| My Aunt Lulu's birthday falls on the FOURTH of JULY every year! She used to think all the hoop la was for her when she was a little girl! |
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| More hand marbled paper ... creating another birthday card.... |
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| Using some of the Barbi Close techniques... I made an envelope and card to match using little "tiles" created from scribbling black marks onto some watercolor paper and spraying with water... and adding a little watercolor |
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| The greatest learning curve or "nuance" to this technique, which I have done in the past, was when Barbi clued us in on how to make the little squares look more "defined". She used a rubber stamp bad to put black on all four sides of the squares. WOW! POP! |
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| One of the sayings inside of a JULY Birthday card! Hope you've enjoyed this as much as I did making them all! |
