bday to Barb (SMC)

 This was for an Oct. bday but am posting here b/c ran out of days for Oct.

loved this and how it turned out. Wish I had mimicked the leaves a bit more but oh well.

Love her B cap (and wish I had done a book one too)

Her description said she loved fall colors so this was easy!

back leaf

and a present shape for her bday (although I came up with a better idea later)

book leaves, Angela (SMC Bday)

Had fun with this one.

Book leaves for Book Month (Oct.)

and more book art for her bday.

 

book leaves on red (SMC bday)

Love using my new Mr. Rogers stamps!

had fun with the leaves on this too.

An attempt at BO poetry for this env. but wish I hadn't used "and" just "I wish You happy love". And I wish I would've circled the "love" better.

Initial book cap

more book art

and a fun hat for Halloween!

 

We voted! ;)

We've been doing vote-by-mail for decades and this year, i saw a post that the po was going to classify postage paid env.'s as non-first class mail, thus making it take longer. The post suggested using stamps to make your ballot first class mail, so I did.

AND just to be a little "rebellious" (not the right word but it'll come to me later), I used the lovely Mr. Rogers! (from 2020... give me Mr. Rogers over a crazy-ass uncle ANY day!!)

I hated using stamps for pre-paid postage, however, wanted to ensure our ballots arrive in-time as we mailed them on the 19th and they were received on the 21st!  :)  Yay!

Misc. Halloween...

Sharing some "random" env.'s that aren't my best work but still...

1) This was a practice sheet I converted and added words for each letter.

hard to find words for the last of the alphabet!

For Nat'l. Book Month!

2) a converted env. to Shannon (practice page)

3) Another converted env. to Jessica (I hope this wasn't too complicated for the po!)

Added stickers for her name and hope they stayed on!

Her letter heading

And for Book Month!

And finally, More book art for Book Month:

These are fun b/c of the words I captured ("Halloween" in the ghost) and...

"ghost" in the leaf!

Happy "accidents"!

"Slime" to my oldest

 

And another to my Alex!

Love the "Slime" font!

and on the inside I created the Shining! (was going to send as a separate env. but was running out of stamps)

liner!

Forgot to take a pic of the insert I did in "blood":  Here's Johnny!

Hope he laughs!!

Hall. to Nava

Did this last minute for Nava. (one of the last ones for this year!)

At the beginning of the season, I get all excited and am stoked to create a ton of Halloween-themed envies, then i reach a point where I'm done. This one was it for me.

Decided to use my bat stamps and a book moon. 

Not thrilled with her name (this is where you can tell I'm a bit burnt-out)

Remembered to use my "open if you dare" design!

with int'l. stamp as I wanted to save my leaves (plus, it mimics the moon a bit, yeah?)

L book initial and converted mini env. (again, Halloween words)

wish I had done her name like this on the env. too. (again, i got a little sloppy)

Once again, had fun with the googly eyes!

On her insert too.

Love this one for some reason.