Here are 4 ideas that I tried on the stained glass madonna stamps. Cathy's is pitiful. Deep regrets as well as another apology to Cathy for my ongoing inability to do decent envelopes for her.
Cindy's is a perfect example of how much better it was to use straight lines rather than the wavy lines from yesterday on the *clothesline* style.
Susan's looked so nice when it was just white pencil. The white gel pen that I did over the top of the pencil is sad and clunky. Apologies to Susan. That stamp is quite large which makes it tricky. Putting it at the bottom was not a solution. The proportions on Cindy's are better. Having a larger address looks better.
The two different sizes on Susan and Mashman is really distracting. Grrrr.
And, deep deep multiple level regrets on Sharen's. I'm fine with the idea. A nicer result could have happened if I spent a lot more time and burned through a lot more envelopes - but that's not going to happen. I have a bunch of free envelopes and I can't even make myself burn through the free-bees. I wonder how wealthy I would have to be to give no thought to using multiple envelopes to get to a final design that was pleasing. Feel free to mail me a lottery ticket and write your name on it. If *we* win, *we* will split it 50/50 - and I won't go back on that promise because I have announced it here.
Clearly, that was my silly side talking -- I am not asking for people to send me lottery tickets. Kate was so kind to send me her orphan madonna stamps. This is not an *ask* - but, anyone who has orphan stamps that are not inspiring them - send them to me. As I've been saying for nearly 15 years, I never met a stamp I didn't like.
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