desk cleaning - kate's pink flower + finn's black scribble

this was an envelope with the stamp on it. not sure why. nothing new. maybe i owe all y'all another one.

it did not have a black border, i scanned it on a black background.










soooooo...more desk cleaning. had started one for finn and messed it up, but figured it was worth trying a scribble solution. i goofed up the flourish and almost threw it away, but, tried erasing the metallic pen and voila, it erased all the metallic and left a nice color. so i was happy to discover that new technique. the gel pen was one that leaves a colored outline on either side of the glitter. so, you erase the glitter and you get just the color.

then, parting with my last johnnie cash stamp was pretty hard, but finn's been a good little grasshopper and he's gotten a lot of mileage out of johnny.  so, happy end of year.

ellen - banner

this stamp is from the same series as the last one with a flag stamp and the decoration on the envelope is really fast ans scribbly. it's fine with me to just do a quick impression of the stamp. it would be gorgeous to do a very detailed rendering of the banner and put the name in carefully....but, if i don't have time to do that, i'm just fine with a scribble. i like that border across the top, too.

when in doubt scribble

or, when you haven't really worked very hard on learning a particular style, scribble. somehow the juxtaposition of scribbling and blackletter amuses me. And to add to the joke, the stamp is about education.

if i could time travel, i would be tempted to go to a monastery or convent and hang with some scribes and see if i could get them to scribble. imagine a time before scratch pads...when paper or parchment was so precious the thought of doodling did not exist. and yet...maybe they did. historical rumor: i have heard that while we only think of rooms full of scribes being men, there were also convents full of scribes and there were women who were admitted to the guilds of scribes. maybe someone will research this for me and put some comments into the comment section.