Waves to Lina & Shannon

Still more waves!

Sent this to Lina for March. Her name worked perfect.

Tried the same with Shannon's but didn't turn out to my liking. I messed up the 2nd n and the o threw things off. Hopefully she likes.

insert that also didn't turn out. 😔

(was trying too hard)

 

Waves to Meg

More ocean themed!

Love how this turned out. Found the letters perfect.

I'm always stuck at the bottom though -- but I need to leave room for the address.

Galaxy glaze pen and metallic w/c

With matching insert.

Before pics

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!)