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Archives for April 2008

Mother’s Day Invites

April 29, 2008

Mother’s Day is quickly approaching and I decided to host a brunch for my mom and my mother-in-law. Here are some pictures of the invitation and the Menu. I was hungry when writing out the menu, it sounds so delicious I want to do a “practice run” this weekend 🙂
The set is done with purple watercolor in my Citadel Script with a splash of teal gauche on mat board backed by pretty paper from Michaels.

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Wedding Guest Book Photo Mat

April 25, 2008

This week I personalized a photo wedding guest book. It is a surprise to the bride and groom done by her sister. I hope they love it! (Please forgive me for the blurry pictures, I had trouble holding the camera steady up high!)

 

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Anniversary Placecards

April 23, 2008

A while back I did some envelope addressing for a 50th Wedding Anniversary and here are the pictures from the place cards. The event is this upcoming weekend and I hope the bride and groom sparkle like they did 50 years ago.


The place cards are from Caspari (3.75/10 pack), the ink is gold speedball done in my Rook alphabet.

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Recreation

April 3, 2008

I would like to say it was restoration work, but in reality I was contracted to recreate the 100 year old photo mat that had been severely damaged by water.
The artist of this piece was not a professional calligrapher but was an artist and my client was restoring many of his pieces for a gift to her husband. We had to cut the mat 3 times to get the exact scale of the custom cut original. I just tried to mimic his writing as best as possible.
Here are some of the pictures, hopefully when the frame arrives I will get a picture of the finished product for your viewing pleasure.

above: a comparison of the original (top) to the new (bottom)

above: a close up of one of the captions, you can see the size difference in the lettering
Because of there was no formal technique to this writing, it was interesting seeing the variation on letters – making it quite difficult to copy in fact.

above: another close up, here the letters had a backward slant to them (oh my!) and despite my left handedness, I have never had a backward slant to my letters much less in my “formal” calligraphy this was so challenging to get that slant!

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Spring Card Exchange

April 2, 2008

 

Kaligrafos is in the middle of their spring card exchange. I completed my very first one and mailed it out a few days ago. It is very simple, I wasn’t quite sure what I was supposed to do.
The paper is yellow card stock, and in the classic copperplate I used a green watercolor for the ink. Oh, and the flower image is the large size of the Tiffany stamps from the post office.
The envelopes (I forgot to take a picture) were handmade in green card stock and I painted grass on the bottom… I think I will make one tonight and add the picture tomorrow so you can see my awesome grass.

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