Bday to Meredith

 Did this for my local friend Meredith. Went out for coffee to celebrate her bday on June 29.

The card is old. Used my new Brody pen for her name.

Watercolor "Grows" (Janet)

Was experimenting with this one using my pp uncial (gouache).

(tape masking and watercolor too)

Inside was a bit darker (not what was intended!)

close up -- love how my lettering turned out!

 

watercolor stripes to Janet (set)

 Lately, I've been creating matching env. & inserts. (And, I've been having so much fun doing so!) It started with me "re-vamping" what I send to Nele: I start out with the quote/lettering piece, then match the env. as best as I can. (sometimes not always the same colors, but same theme)

I decided to let it filter over to Janet, as well as the PTEx folks.

Watercolor stripes & dots w/India ink for the name.

Set together.

Dots & coffee to Valerie

 The whole time I was doing this env., 2 songs were going through my head:  "Valerie" by Steve Winwood, and "Valerie" by the Zutons.

This was a paper sample (from my graphic design days) in which the dotted design was already printed on. I added a few embellishments, and found the coffee stamp perfect, color-wise

Last Scooby stamp.

Leanne gets the last one of these!

She also got this part from the postage sheet.

And (inspired by my P&I letter creations from April), i created a letter to match:

Not the best italic, as my ink is too thin.

Puppet quote to Nele

Earlier this year, I started creating matching inserts & envelopes for Nele and here is another that went out this week.

Puppet theme.

I was so proud of this idea, and excited to send to her.

I hope that she can tell immediately that the red lines are string! (or rather, thread)

It was a bit of a long tricky process, but fun!