Postcards - Thank U From The Heart & Heart Felt Thank You

2 more postcards made...

size: 4"h x 6"w each
A friend's son had a heart attack while running and was kept alive by several bystanders and EMT until an ambulance arrived. She asked for postcards to be made to thank them.

Both made on Staples white cardstock. 

Top image: Drew out the funky Thank-U with a ZIG Writer and a red gel pen inner line. Basic script for the rest of the text.  Added hearts with an Outline pen. Lines in the border.

Bottom image: Serif letters with flowers colored with Prisma colored pencils in a green, yellow and pink. Thank you in a script style, A couple hearts and funky border

A Heartfelt Thank U

size: 4"h x 6"w
A friend's son had a heart attack while running and was kept alive by several bystanders and EMT until an ambulance arrived. She asked for postcards to be made to thank them.
On Staples white cardstock drew out the funky letters with a ZIG Writer. Added a Signo Unibal gold gel pen inner line, then colored with ZIG Clean color markers. Punched out a heart shape and outlined it onto the postcard. Adhere the artwork onto a blue lightly textured cardstock.
words: a heartfelt thank u!

Scribbled Lives 2020 - Wk 36 Etigami - Achieve Grapeness

Scribbled Lives 2020 - Wk 36 Etigami - Achieve Grapeness

the popular Japanese art form known as etegami (e= image; tegami= letter) has captured the interest and imagination of artists all over the world. The simplest English definition of etegami may well be “Japanese postcard art.

I created mine as 4" x 6" on white cardstock and only using a #4 Taklon paintbrush, except for the outline detail. Never heard this term. Seems there are a lot of terms I learning this year...

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May/19 - Calligraphy Retro Deco Postcards

I recently took a 2 day workshop with Gemma Black from Tasmania, Australia. You can see what I created in those 2 days by clicking HERE

And our Guild is challenging us to create and mail postcards for our May meeting. So here are the ones I created...

They are all 7"w x 5"h mounted on 110# Neenah white cardstock some with an outer deckled edge and some with an inner deckled edge created with a rotary cutter. I created a couple a few weeks later and forgot which layer to deckle - sigh! They are nice and stiff...

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Calligraphy Postcards

At our last Guild Pot Luck (June 13/16) we created postcards - thanks Kerri for a fun evening.

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I'm using one of the newest design element stamps from Quietfire Design "Crackle Background" - loving it...