This is the envelope that contained the checkerboard madness envelope that you saw yesterday. The style is from Thomas Danbo. I ran a blurb about him in a post when I saw some amazingly large wooden trolls that he had constructed. He designed this font for his own use. It took a while to find all 26 letters off his website. I hope he doesn't mind if I imitate his lettering. I had a lot of fun and wish I had done something more with the envelope. I got this far and then couldn't decide what to add.
I was talking to my pen pal, Marji, and she told me that her friend Mary had been visiting and Mary said she had a fun, new source for envelope ideas that she had found on Pinterest to show Marji. It turned out to be.... Jean Wilson. Marji enjoyed bringing out some of the original envelopes by JW that she had received over the years. I asked Marji for Mary's address and said I would drop something in the mail for her. I tossed this off quickly - using the Sharpie Creative markers - and for something that took about 3 minutes - I like it. Maybe I should be spending less time on my envelopes to have results that please. Somehow lines and dots are enough. Maybe I should do all the March envelopes using only lines and dots.
I really like that Danbo lettering! It kind of makes me think of trolls. There is a town in Wisconsin called Mt. Horeb that was settled by the Swiss and is known as troll town because they have many wooden trolls scattered around the town. Here's a link if you're interested..
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I love the way Mary's lettering coordinates so nicely with the stamp! Very nice!