What You Can Do

I had never heard this particular quote before, but I know I had to use it as soon as I saw it today.

Two for One (Quotes)

After finishing the first quote, I had enough room for a second. They don't really relate to each other, except that I like them both.

Of course, since I'm writing out quotes from other people, I guess it could be argued that I'm not really thinking for myself. The second one reminds me of "Today is the first day of the rest of your life" but a little more elegantly put in my opinion.

During our Darkest Moments

My latest quote.

Inferior

I saw this quote on Fannie Narte's blog today and had to use it for my quote of the day - thanks Fannie!

Autumn

The blob in the lower left hand corner was supposed to be a leaf, which didn't quite turn out like it was supposed to. But it is just a journal post, after all.

Constitution

Another tribute to Senator Edward M. Kennedy:



I want to mention again that I learned this style of lettering from Martha Lever in her fabulous class, Calligra-fun. Martha is a very talented artist and a great teacher. As I continue to practice, I'm beginning to see a bit of my own style emerge; it's exciting!

Martha is in the process of filming her next class: Italic Calligraphy - The Right Foundation. If it's anything like Calligra-fun, it will be a great class. I'm going to take it; why don't you join me? It should be ready sometime in November.

Memory

Integrity

One of many wonderful quotes by Senator Edward M. Kennedy:

More Calligra-Fun

I love quotes as well as lettering, so I added a quote of the day to my blog (over in the right-hand column), and I'm going to try to put a quote into my journal most days (I won't say every day because I know that's unrealistic).

Anyway, here is the one I did yesterday:





And here is the one I did today:





I had painted the background back when I took Visual Journalism from Pam Carriker. I have a few more pages painted, but now it looks like I need to get busy and paint up some more.

Card to a Friend

I sent this card to a friend last week - I'm hoping that she's received it by now. The flower is watercolor paper that I painted, cut, and stitched to the card. I also did the lettering - I'm really loving this lettering style! Much freer than formal calligraphy.

Calligra-Fun

I was inspired by Martha Lever's wonderful artwork to make this. I stamped the flower, using watercolor markers on the stamp, spritzing it with water, and then stamping on watercolor paper. I lettered the saying with a Pitt Brush pen. The background and the green strip are both watercolor paper that I sprayed with watercolor sprays. And I stitched the flower and the green strip to the background with my sewing machine. FUN!

Calligra-Fun

I have really been enjoying my newest online class - Calligra-Fun with Martha Lever. It is being taught through Creative Workshops. I used to enjoy doing lettering on my paper scrapbook pages, but I'd forgotten just how much I loved it until now. I'm enjoying it almost as much as sewing, and that's saying a lot for me! Anyway, here are some examples of what I've been doing.

First are 2 bookmarks I made. I collaged papers onto the one on the left. The butterfly on the one on the right is my own design (we learned how to do flowers and hearts and suns in the class).



I gave this bookmark to my DH.



This is the anniversary card I gave to my DH; we celebrated 32 years last Wednesday. First is the front of the card.



And here is the inside:



And here is another card I made for a friend.