More flower letters (to Nava)

Same as Jean's for this one ( https://snailmailingmadness.blogspot.com/2025/03/letter-flowers.html ).

Did this before Jean's, and you can tell, as I messed up some of the letters. (the first l mainly)

Again, took each letter from her name and made a flower. Love the last e, and the S (funky!), as well as the 2nd "l" -- looks like a side view of a flower.

I also love the butterfly stamp! (wish they still sold these)

It'll be fun to see i I can do the whole alphabet.

Spring to Judy

Did some flower letters for Judy for Spring!

Looks rather plain, but oh well.

 

matching insert

flower matches stamp just a bit.

more close ups

As you can see below, I messed up the J a bit (too long a tail), and instead of just doing black dots over, I tried scraping, but that made a mess. So I still did the black dots, making a trail, and adding on a little bumble bee.

Border Name to Nanski (March)

Took Julie W's Ruling Pens class recently, and she demonstrated a new take on my word borders (bigger lettering and angled). Having so much fun with this idea (more on my Folded Pen blog).

used a ruling pen for the name with green metallic ink and chalk pastels for color

For the insert, used regular green ink and watercolor

i love how I was able to add a matching flower at the end of both.

Letter "flowers"

I cannot find the Pinspo for this (or fellow IG-er), but will update when I do, as their post was the inspo for this idea.

I took each letter from the name and made a flower with it. My x-heights are off, as I didn't take the time to measure, and the mixed inks are accidental, as I used my Pilot Parallel pen (hard to clean between changing inks).

Love the e! Easy name to do.

did pp flower lettering on the back.

For Nava's, the S is kinda fun and I did the e's both ways. (Wish I had done Nava on the back.) -- Messed up the first L, but I like the 2nd.

Also, love the butterfly stamp!

Close ups

J

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n (see what I mean about the x height?)

and another name, but I did this on the letter. (name is Geo)

Love how they all turned out.

Practice G

Ocean theme to Tara

My idea for this was to make a calligram that resembled ocean waves. However, when I showed my hubby, asking for his thoughts, he said it looked like a flower. (see b4 pic below)

Took a poll on IG, and although some felt the same, the ocean waves won.  😏😃

Words are a mix of quotes about the ocean.

Back is a whale's tale with the quote: "If size truly mattered, the shark, not the whale, would rule the waters."

Before pic

enclosures.

I was so bummed, as I have a calendar with sea life, and I was going to make mini env.'s to send to the other participants, but I forgot. Luckily, I remembered for Tara!

Back flap

i love this quote, and I lettered on a piece of practice paper (you can see a blackletter i), that I tried to cover up with flowing lines, to help resemble water. This was my interpretation of water flowing, but obstacles/barriers that get in the way (which, in turn, applies to the quote!)

Ocean to Emily, 5

I didn't want to duplicate any other designs, and I had these sea coral fish postcard stamps, so I decide to try and get a bit creatively decorative for Emily. I just started playing with the letters in her name, and was lucky to come up with a few images that worked.

I knew I was going to do "seaweed" and coral to surround the fish, but for her name, I really didn't have anything to go by, so they're all my own creations (i.e. the E and Y -- no idea if there is any type of plant like that or fish, but who knows?)  😉😁

The only one I'm disappointed in is the m, as I was trying to make that look like the cream coral in the stamp. And the "water drops" above the middle fish are to represent the dot above the i.

My main worry is the po won't recognize the 2 stamps, not only b/c they're part of the design, but also b/c they're postcard stamps (which, amount to $1.12 combined, well over the regular postage cost). SO, I'm noting so on the back.

fishtail on back (or mermaid?)

Before pic

With insert

Says, Under the Sea, and I love how it looks like Ocean waves. However, I wish I had colored in UNDERNEATH with ocean colors! SO, am redoing for one of my journals.

Seahorses to Fran (Ocean theme, 4)

Went a little different for Fran with a yellow env. & Seahorses

Stamp matches, but a little "off" with placement

Backside (ocean waves with pp)

Matching insert.