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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

fixing mistakes - march stamp

i mentioned making mistakes a couple days ago. this envelope had a bloop on the k-a in kathy. you'd think, if i messed up the first 2 letters, i would ditch it. no. i finished the names and set it aside. then, yesterday. jan had these new stamps. i am going to try to toss out new ideas as soon as new stamps show up. this one is pretty hard edge, not loopy, so i thought i could use the hard edge, angular elements to cover up the blooper in the loops. after i did that, i thought i needed one more element to tie the stamp to the lettering and went with the blue sky and repeated the names, since they were a bit hard to read. it's not a genius idea...but, it's just fine for a quick fix if you are adverse to throwing envelopes away. i guess since jack inspired this topic, i should start sending all the bloopers to him.

and since i had to bump the previous scheduled envelope to make a place for this one, be forewarned that you will be enjoying gingerbread houses well into march.

 then i decided to add some white where the red overlapped the black and i touched up the east and south borders of the red lettering.

2 comments:

  1. No, Jean, Thank you... My blooper bin runneth over.

    Jack

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  2. The worst thing about the blooper box is that some of them have stamps attached and only when I went to mail them did I realize how bad they were
    The self seal stamps don't come off
    Anyway, I do not think this envelope falls into that category. It's perfect

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