christy 1/60

the christy series is the series that launched my obsession. i had taken enough classes to feel comfortable and was looking for excuses to address envelopes. i had a couple friends to send mail to, but, even back then, i didn't really have much to say. all i wanted to do was make envelopes. so i thought of making them for my niece, who was in college and giving them to her mother to send to her. allison, the mother, was happy to have envelopes as she sometimes had newspaper clippings or messages that she wanted to drop in the mail. it did not take long before i heard from christy that she loved getting the envelopes. then i heard that her friends would stop in at her dorm room to see if she had received any new envelopes. she stuck them on her wall to decorate her room. i believe she even said that once in a while someone would offer to buy one. she kept them all and when i asked her to loan them to me for scanning, she mentioned that she regretted that she did not use a letter opened on them. but...hers will always be highly collectible, even in their raggedy state, because they were the inspiration for the complete obsession with decorated envelopes. she should insure them for a lot. hahaha

i am going to post all the neuland examples first. this one is a lot like others. it has the stacking trick that i use when i see that i am running out of room. i usually stack two letters before i get to the end, so it doesn't scream *boo-boo.* but, i do not like to stack an i, so i stacked the last two letters. it really doesn't bother me that much.

there are tricks to bouncing letters. too. they look better when the first and last letter bounce a little high. and too much bounce is too much. most people raise them too high and sink them too low. it only takes a tiny bit of bounce to say playful.

i'm pretty compulsive about confetti, too. note to self...discuss confetti in a future post