nancy from oregon sent me some stamps. thanks nancy. your brush lettering is beautiful. i really like that J. also, very good use of neutral colors. and your shadows are just the right amount. very nice the way the lettering is in a block. and the pawprints are adorable.
and the frosting on the cake...nancy sent me some vintage stamps. some i have never seen. so...i will be inspired to do some fun envelopes....as soon as i finish the jobs on my desk. 240 doubles, 40 more silver on purples, 80 casual singles, and most important of all...the invitations to my daughter's wedding. a year in the planning...i could have had them done a month ago, but no, here i am down to the wire and juggling my own job with all the others. i spent a year telling myself i would not let this happen. i have all the lettering done, i just have to make the inner envelopes. i am making them out of onion skin...because i happened to find a stack of 100 sheets in my piles of paper and it seemed like a fun way to use them up. i only have 60 left to make.
then i have to decide which stamps to use. i have a variety of stamps...and yes, i will be posting all the wedding stationery after it has all gone out.
Thanks for the nice comments Jean. Calligraphers are lucky in Oregon as we have a fellow who sells us old stamps at face value for postage. He is a stamp dealer and comes to calligraphy classes once a year and brings "postage" for envelopes/projects... it is great fun and he knows just the type of stamps calligraphers like. I have an embarrassing collection of old stamps. I will likely be sending you more as I appreciate checking your artwork each day! Thank you for all your hard work!
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we could take an inventory and see who has the largest collection. should it be by the number of stamps or the *value*??
ReplyDeletei love how everything is going to be *forever* from now on. that will make it so much easier.
thanks again...