This recent job was for a client's Bar Mitzvah.  The self folding envelopes were a beautiful slate gray that were a joy to write on.  The client graciously sent me a photo of the final product with stamps and invites.

Fake addresses.

Here are table numbers I recently finished for a client.  The names on the bottom are mountains and passes in Europe.  What a wonderful idea!  I looked some of them up.  They are beautiful!  Here is a photo of Mont Blanc.  Not the pen, the mountain.

Here is a sign I made for a client who was was throwing a going away party for a co-worker. 

Here are the results of experimenting with a small Brause broad nib.  This is a very different look from pointed pen calligraphy.  Although I love the look of swirls and cursive, after awhile, I'm drawn back to printing letters by hand.  It feels very elemental.

Tree Hanging Table Number

Here's a fun new table number that you can hang up with a ribbon.  Tree not included. :)

Lavender Wedding Envelopes

Here's a new job I just finished for a friend who's getting married in the spring.  I used a simple block letter font.  I love, love, love this beautiful lavender!  Congrats Kristine!

New Year, New Envelopes

 

So where do you put the stamp?

My holiday card 2011

Here is my submission to the Paper Source Holiday Card Contest this year.  I saw the flyer for the contest in the store.  I'm pretty much in there every time I'm near the mall.

I normally don't enjoy crafty/scrapbook hobbies.  But I'm not sure what came over me this year.  Must have been all those colorful powders and stamps.  Or that the winner gets a $50 gift card.  Very clever marketing, I must say.  I spent that much getting all the supplies. 

I love Christmas songs and wanted to incorporate that into my design.  I had the snowflake rubber stamps, so I sang every song I could think of with the word "snow".  I don't know how many times I wrote that phrase over and over until I got just the look I wanted.  ( I'm a tad obsessive).  I created the large white snowflakes using versamark, embossing powder and a heat gun to set it. 

I lined the envelope with vellum and stamped it using versamark.

And here it is. Yay!

Tis the season

 I can't believe it's less than a month away from Christmas.  While laying on my sofa with Thanksgiving food coma, I realized I hadn't started on my cards this year.  Am I the only one who thinks there's always more time than there is?  So here are some attempts at a modern Christmas card.

I love Christmas carols.  They're one of the best parts of this season.

 Cerulean blue is not so Christmas-y.

 Holiday gift tags.

Just goofin around. 

if i were queen

This is a recent job for a client who wanted to have this poem written out so she could frame it for her niece.  It's such a wonderful, clever poem.  It turns out that my client's mother wrote it in the 3rd grade!  I snapped a photo of it in a white frame.  This would look really great in a girl's room. 

Winter Wedding Envelopes

 

Here is a job I just finished for a client.  I love this pale blue, or "bluebell" as The Paper Source calls it.  Perfect for a winter wedding!  This is the first time I've used this style on a wedding envelope, but I love it!  It's so different and I'm thrilled that the bride chose something unique.  I love languages and got a total kick of out of addressing these international envelopes.

Bible Verses

Birth Announcements

Birth Announcement

Hand lettered No. 10 envelopes.  I love this size!  We so rarely use them now.  Not even for bills.  Actually, who even mails their bills anymore?

These are birth announcements I created for a friend who recently had an adorable little boy.  They sent out photo birth announcements from tinyprints, but also decided to do special custom made ones for their closest friends.  What a great idea!

When it came to merging my lettering with indesign, exporting files to pdf and sending them off to the printers, let's just say it took me longer than most.  Many thanks to Alysia at Perfect Press who made sure it was perfectly aligned and print-ready!

Overall, the whole combining-hand-lettering-with-graphic-design was a great learning experience.  CS4 is not my best friend, but we are definitely getting along better than before.

Table Number Signs

New item in my shop.  Table numbers!