New Year to Janet

 I had a leftover family card, so I thought I'd send to Janet, as I used a funny pic (of my goofy family!)

I also salvaged an env. where the lettering went awry. It's funny, b/c I got the idea to do diff. colored brush metallic markers (Zig), so I did with her name on black paper and cut & pasted over. Not too bad, esp. with the black stamp.

FUn Primary Colors

I did this for The Introverted Post, as they use to have a quarterly issue featuring snail mail. But I don't know what happened this year, as they're not active on IG anymore.  :(

I must say, I LOVE how this turned out. Love the design and primary colors and how I did the address & zip.

I also love the back! It looks so fun and celebratory. Need to keep this in mind for b-day env.'s

 

New Years to Janet and Lina

Tried something different:  Versals.

I use to love hand-drawn letters vs. actual lettering, but have since gotten away from that. However, am venturing more back into it, esp. with Versals.

Messed up my Z for Lina.  :/

Cannot remember which stamps I used (but I wanna say the new Innovations ones).

 

Did hello 2021 on the backs vs Happy New Year.

Cmas Postcards!

So I made this piece initially for our upstairs hallway (get it? Deck the Halls???  -- heehee), but it was the wrong size. I put it back in my pile of Cmas stuff, and when going through it this week, got the idea to convert it into postcards for thank yous!

Original piece, cut up.

They're just a tad smaller than postcard size (4.5 x 5.5) but will still work!

I added embellishments to the front, to try and disguise the lettering, and then fun borders and address lines on the backs.

Close Ups:

I love the swirl part on the left (looks like a fun, funky tree!), but I messed up when trying to cover up the s.  :/

The ink of my Flair pen smeared b/c of the paper (cheap wc).

Wooden circle painted gold.

More smearing.  Grrr.

Love how I was able to disguise the k. Added splatters too. (crimped gold paper for the square)

Abstract Design to Heather (Jan PTEx)

I had designed this env. a few years ago, and decided to send to Heather this month for PTEx.

RW on blk with white 3d puff paint. Metallic watercolors.

Not very good pics. (hard to get the right lighting with metallics)

Backside. I also did a matching insert as a Thank You, as Jean told me this was a military address (SO, I don't know if it's her or a family member, but always good to thank a vet!)

 

More Cmas Thank You's.

Re: Previous post -- this year, I had a few left over Cmas env.'s I created just for fun (that I thought I'd save and use next year) and I created cards to match for Thank You's and sent out!

I also created more for next year.

Decorated env. and card (Love how the card turned out, but the env., not-so-much).

Before pic, with gift tag to match (that I don't like).

Another of the same. Love how it turned out.

And another set, a bit different. Too much red on the env., but oh well. 

Cmas Thank You's

Every year I always want to create a bunch of these to have on-hand, ready to go, but each year, I don't make time. So, I had to quick make some, as i didn't want to send out store-bought ones, esp. since I have my own materials (and I love my homemade ones!)

used a Crayola marker for the name, and wc ink for the tree (thinking they'd match. :/ )

Wish I had scanned in the tree (or could get it back somehow!) as I love how it turned out.

this isn't Cmas themed, as I ran out of stamps. Not sure what stamped I used either, but I'm sure it matched a bit.

This is actually a store-bought thank you card that was plain (a cheap, 10 pack, I think), and I've been adding my own designs in the black space. 3d puff pain and metallic watercolors (looks so much prettier in-person).