I haven’t blogged for about a week, and since I have {joyously!} been getting all the materials prepared for Emily’s Atlanta wedding, I don’t have a tutorial prepared. Instead, I thought I’d talk a little bit about the projects I have been working on lately, my recent creations.
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Weddings
Cityscape Illustration Tutorial
Today’s blog post is essentially The Odyssey of illustration-centric blog posts. Like Odysseus, I underestimated how long my quest would take. Unlike Odysseus, I was only down for the count three days creating this Atlanta cityscape illustration.
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Persian-Inspired Gold Foil Wedding Invitations
I am confident that my friends have been avoiding me this month after discovering my zeal for these gold foil wedding invitations. They’re all I have talked about the past couple of weeks — I am utterly and completely in love with them, and I gush about them to anyone who will listen. Luckily for my friends, I have a blog where I can write about this sort of thing, and I’m going to let it all out here!
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How to Heat Emboss
There are a lot of people out there who love stamping, and are very talented when it comes to that art form. To be perfectly honest, I am not usually one of those people. However, I have been working on a gold wedding suite for a beloved Georgia client, and after some Pinteresting I realized that heat embossing on RSVP envelopes would be the perfect way to efficiently {and beautifully!} put the client’s address on her RSVP envelopes.
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Nautical Thermography Invitation Suite
I have been very busy lately putting the finishing touches on invitation suites — which I love! It’s a great feeling to assemble a suite, tuck it safely in its beautifully calligraphed envelope, and know that someone is going to be pleasantly surprised to receive it.
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On Calligraphy Spacing
I am sure that there are a {very} small handful of calligraphers out there blessed with an uncanny ability to space correctly 99% of the time without the aid of a ruler. I am not one of them. No matter what type of calligraphy I am creating, I use some spacing method to ensure that my envelopes turn out perfect. Since it’s a service that my clients are paying for, I would feel uncomfortable not giving them my best work!
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