March to Riley and Nicky --- w.c.wire font

I really do try to save the sources and give credit for the things I find that inspire the envelopes I send out and blog. This time, when I did an image search - it flashed a line on the screen that said something like - this image has not been posted enough times to find it. So - I can't give anyone credit. I gave it the name of w.c.wire - because the shapes look like wire and the color part looks like water color and I actually got my watercolors out.

You may refer back to this if any of the upcoming envelopes look like something you'd like to try.

Before I run the envelopes where I used this style - we will look at the two that I did right after Mary's that ran yesterday. After I saw that my quickly done grid of flowers was not precise enough, I thought of doing just one big flower on each envelope.

I'm about 75% happy with how these turned out. The lettering would probably be very disappointing if I used it on envelopes to my calligraphy friends. But Riley and Nicky are not calligraphers so they probably do not scrutinize the lettering. 

When Patty mentioned that my lettering has changed - it started me thinking about all the other changes that have happened over the past 10 years. We still have some very talented calligraphers participating in the exchanges - but we've lost quite a few. Some of our new exchangers have some interest in calligraphy but some are on the third branch of a 3-pronged spectrum.

What's that? I guess you will have to remember to read the blog tomorrow.

The more I looked at these two - the more I liked some of the subtle details. I like the way the U-shaped flower repeats the shape of the donkey legs on the stamp while the more pointy shapes of the flower and the overall shape of the flower coordinates with the shape of the piñata....which is a ??? shape. There is a word for shapes that radiate out from the center. Maybe it's radial? I don't know and I'm not going to start looking for the names of shapes.

Instead, I am going to get all verklempt and reminisce about the time I wrote that I did not know what the name of a flat football shape is. It's an oval - but it has pointed ends. Finnbadger kindly sent me an email or left a comment telling me that the shape is a lens.  It has been so comforting to have people help me out with questions.